Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Fifth Season
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Patrick Stewart Director: Chip Chalmers, Cliff Bole, Corey Allen, David Carson, Jonathan Frakes Brand: Paramount DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled) Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 1183 minutes DVD Release Date: 2002-11-05 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Paramount |
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Movie Reviews of Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Fifth Season
Movie Review: Some bumps in the road but otherwise a great season
Summary: 5 Stars
At this point in the series the show had been running smoothly for several years and had built up a serious following. Thus, the result is a season with consistently solid writing, the usual high standard of acting and some wonderfully innovative special effects pices (no longer does the viewer sit there cursing tyhe series for not having a bigger budget like seasons 1 and 2).Arguably fifth season was the apex of the series, where everything was running smoothly and week after week the show was churning out classics. Whie I personally don't believe this is the best year (I prefer season 3,4 and 6), fifth season has many episodes which rank in any Trekkers top twenty (sadly I have one).
Redemption II opens things with a relative bang and thankfully puts to an end the lengthy Klingon civil war saga. Warf's family name is cleared and he rejoins the crew of the Enterprise (I think everyone knew this would happen anyway).
Darmok, the season's second episode is undoubtedly one of the show's best moments. Patrick Stewart turns in a virtuso performance alongside Paul Winfield (remember him in Terminator?). Some of the season's other high points are, Cause and Effect in which the Enterprise gets caught in a time loop only to find Frasier at the other end, The Game, a Wesley Crusher comeback special, I Borg, an exploration in humanity with a lone Borg, and The Next Phase, arguably Geordi's best episode to himself (Booby Trap is up there).
Then we have the peabody winning 'The Inner Light' which is certainly one of the show's most touching and well written episodes.
Unfortunately there are a few episodes that suffer from the old "Shakka when the walls fell syndrome" ... The Masterpiece Society is as banal as any episode and Violation is another clunker but these are only minor bumps int he road.
A fine effort of a season with an intelligent and savvy cliffhanger.