Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Second Season
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Brent Spiner, Patrick Stewart 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, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 999 minutes DVD Release Date: 2002-05-07 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Paramount |
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Movie Reviews of Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Second Season
Movie Review: Mellow, bottle show filled season
Summary: 3 Stars
To add to what others have said, season two is notorious among many fans for not only its season-ending bottle show, but its abundance of them throughout. Bottle shows, as some call them, are shows in which the "action" takes place entirely on the ship (sickbay epsisodes, Wesley Crusher episodes, Holodeck stuff, Lwaxana Troi garbage, etc.). Besides, I was never big on whatever one wants to think of as the politics of TNG, especially in the first two seasons; I just don't like the feeling of being preached at by what I think of as [a] 24th century socialist(s). It's just too in your face in seasons one and two; later on the material lightens up, for goodness sakes. Maybe I'm being a bit critical here, but why critique something if it's no good? This is a great series, and season 2, in my opinion, lays bare a lot of the struggles of the show's growing pains. In fact, it's a wonder that season two even lasted the shortened 22 episodes that it did. What it had against it was the continuing writer's strike, a further depleted field of writers as a result of the restrictions placed on the staffers (resulting in writers leaving and coming by week), and a big budget limit. Still, after all this, they found ways to make some of these interesting. "Where Silence Has Lease," "The Measure of A Man," and "A Matter of Honor" are clearly the best. "Q Who?" as others have mentioned, is a rare gem in this mix too as it introduces us to the Borg.The disasters include "Shades of Gray," "Peak Performance," "Samaritan Snare," "The Dauphin," "Manhunt," "The Schizoid Man," and "The Outrageous Okona," as these shows tended to be uninteresting or infamously anti-climactic. The crew gets Geordi back from the Pakleds, a dim-witted nonsense race introduced while they were looking for a "threat race," in "Samaritan Snare" with a fireworks show, which allegedly "scares" them. "Manhunt" is about a terrorist plot but was unfortuantely wasted on Lwaxana Troi. "Peak Performance" has too many subplots and a too deliberately shaky main plot to be interesting. What could be more uninteresting than a self absorbed, slap-happy master strategist who plays video games overseeing a war simulation between Picard and Riker? And watch too--at the outset of the contest, both Picard (in the Enterprise) and Riker (in the Hathaway) execute a number of maneuvers before it strikes Riker to open fire. When they show the external shot of Riker's ship opening fire, both the Hathaway and the Enterprise are in the same spots as before the maneuvers, and the Enterprise is sitting still! The Ferengi interrupt the nonsense (someone had to), and the fiasco is resolved with a ruse that's laughable.
Several races are introduced in season 2 as well, most of which thankfully never resurfaced. The Pakleds and Zackdorns are easily the most annoying and awkwardly drawn-up species to ever grace Star Trek. The Borg, of course, came back in "The Best of Both Worlds" and "Descent." The encounters with them, however, in TNG never even come close to the intensity and explosiveness of the encounters with them in Voyager. Anyway, The Romulans reappear here in "Contagion" as well, and it's certainly good to see them. I began wondering what happened to them and even the Klingons after the Pakleds and Zackdorns.
Whether to complete the library while waiting for Voyager (or DS9) I think season 2 is a worthwhile purchase, even if to underscore any appreciation for how far the show came by the later seasons.