20th Aniv. TNG Box Set Details + Special Features Preview September 18, 2007
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Merchandise, TNG , trackbackThe Star Trek: The Next Generation – Complete Series Box Set
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PRESS RELEASE:
20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LANDMARK SERIES TO BE CELEBRATED WITH A DEFINITIVE COLLECTION OF ALL SEVEN SEASONS
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION Complete Series
Embarking on DVD October 2, 2007, 49-Disc Collector’s Box Set Includes All 176 Episodes, All-New Special Features, Exclusive Poster and Special Collector’s Packaging
HOLLYWOOD — Called "one of the greatest television shows of all time” (TV Guide), STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION takes it to the next level on DVD, celebrating its 20th anniversary with an extraordinary DVD collection of all seven of the series’ groundbreaking seasons in one collectible box set on October 2, 2007, from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. Featuring one of the most endearing ensemble casts in television history, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION took fans on the remarkable continuing voyages of the starship Enterprise with captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), Commander William T. Riker (Jonathan Frakes), Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner), Lieutenant Worf (Michael Dorn), Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) and Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton). The definitive DVD collection features all 176 classic episodes from the series’ 1987-1994 run along with all-new special features including "The Next Generation’s Impact: 20 Years Later,” "The Next Generation’s Legacy: 2007” and "Star Trek Visual Effects Magic: A Roundtable Discussion.” The collection is encased in an incredible collector’s packaging and includes an exclusive poster. Each season also includes additional bonus features exploring memorable missions, crew profiles, behind-the-scenes and much, much more.STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION Complete Series will be available for the suggested retail price of $440.00 [$304 on Amazon
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION Complete Series is presented in full screen with English Stereo and English subtitles. The collection includes the following:
Season 1: 7 discs/25 episodes
Special features:
o The Beginning
o Selected Crew Analysis
o The Making of a Legend
o Memorable Missions
Season 2: 6 discs/22 episodes
Special features:
o Mission Overview Year Two
o Selected Crew Analysis
o Starfleet Archives
o Departmental Analysis
o Memorable Missions
o Profile: Penny Juday
Season 3: 7 discs/26 episodes
Special features:
o
o Selected Crew Analysis
o Departmental Briefing: Production
o Departmental Briefing: Memorable Missions
Season 4: 7 discs/26 episodes
Special features:
o
o Selected Crew Analysis
o Departmental Briefing: Production
o New Life and New Civilizations
o Chronicles from the Final Frontier
Season 5: 7 discs/26 episodes
Special features:
o
o Select Crew Analysis: Year Five
o Departmental Briefing: Production
o Departmental Briefing: Visual Effects
o Departmental Briefing: Set Decoration
o Memorable Missions
o A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry
Season 6: 7 discs/26 episodes
Special features:
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o Bold New Directions
o Departmental Briefing: Production
o Departmental Briefing Profile: Dan Curry
o Special Crew Profile: Lt. Cmdr. Data
o Star Trek Nemesis trailer
o Star Trek: Deep Space Nine trailer
Season 7: 7 discs/25 episodes
Special features:
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o A Captain’s Tribute
o Departmental Briefing: Production
o Starfleet Moments and Memories
o The Making of "All Good Things…”
o Star Trek: Deep Space Nine DVD preview
Special Features Disc:
o The Next Generation’s Impact: 20 Years Later
o The Next Generation’s Legacy: 2007
o Star Trek Visual Effects Magic: A Roundtable Discussion
o Select Historical Data 1
o Inside The Star Trek Archive
o Intergalactic Guest Stars
o Alien Speak
o Select Historical Data 2
o Inside Starfleet Academy Archives: Sets and Props
o Special Profiles
o Dressing The Future
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Well, I just bought the sealed set of all seven individual season for $250, so I don’t feel as bad. Although this takes up a lot less shelf space
FIRST??!!
Damn it!!!
$440.00 Wow…I may have to get a paper route…
$440 is too much money.
thats a lot of Money for a kid..but at least I get to go to the premeire!!
It’s $300 on amazon.
Oh well…in that case…maybe I can pimp out Gramdma…
#6. I’d trade spots with you in a heartbeat James! One Trek 2008 premiere is worth full sets of TNG, Ds9, Voyager and Enterprise all rolled into one!
Can’t part with my TOS though. lol
Anyway, once this super set hits the stores, I bet the older season sets will drop in price.
They just had to make it green.
I can’t look at green packaging or green nebulas or green ANYTHING in Trek anymore without it reminding me of that damn Nemesis movie. lol
Green like $
BOHICA.
Man, it’s good to see DeLancie and Wheaton again! I’m tempted to buy this just for the special features…although that poster sounds intriguing, too. Anyone got any idea what it looks like? $300-$440 is a bit much for my wallet, though…so maybe we’re looking at Christmas gift? :-)
Twenty years of TNG… TV Guide’s got it right. It IS one of the greatest shows of all time!
wow… I gotta start saving up for that
I will definitely get the complete series for Christmas.
Q! What sort of childish nonsense is this? $440 for an overblown box sense?! I think you’ve lost your omnipotent mind! And Wesley! You’ll just have to find another way to afford Tommy Bahama shirts. Now, get off my bridge, both of you!
set sted sense
D’oh!
It looks cool, but I’ve got a kid on the way, guys. You gotta bring these prices to family budget range.
I think it sound very interesting, and since I dont have the individual seasons of TNG on DVD (but I do have them all on VHS), I’m considering it! I’m glad they kept the original special features on AND added new ones!
The only down-side is that not all the special features are truly new, several of them were available on the Best Buy Bonus Disks, so this will decrease the value of those :-(
Re: #10
Yeah, they even stuck a Nemesis trailer in the season 6 disk. Paramount is relentless!
Does anyone know if or when DS9 and Voyager might be re-released? I’ve been waiting to but the shows on amazon.com but I’m waiting to see if they will get the slimmed down treatment.
Canadians get screwed again….
I’ll pass thank you. I think the original tng box sets were way too much money. and still over priced
#21. How so?
I can’t see paying $300+ for just one more disc of bonus features. I do like that it is getting physically slimmed, but that still doesn’t make it worth $300 to me, especially with the alternatives available here: http://www.rixgrafix.com/index_015.htm
Kinda pointless even getting this set because its just a matter of time until the whole series in remastered in HD and re-re-released again. I’ll just wait it out………..
#9, older TNG sets have already dropped. Costco was blowing them out for 40 bucks here in Canada but I think they’re sold out unless they bring in more. First rule of Costco: If you see it, buy it, tomorrow may be too late.
The Loonie is riding high at 98 cents US. How does that screw Canadians #21? Are they charging too much here like they do with Christmas ornaments and books?
I’m still saving for the TOS remastereds for cryin’ out loud. Hey Paramount , howzabout spacing these out a little bit. I think that you have become obsessed with the smell of money. I think that as regulars here at Trekmovie.com and as obviously the greatest collection of Trek fans in the universe WE SHOULD ALL GET COMPLIMENTARY BOX SETS OF ALL TREK RELEASES FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS. Even the blu ray folks would think that’s a fair deal
Hey Fry’s Electronics is selling each season for $36.99 US
There won’t be an HD set for YEARS.
I bet Delancie’s pissed he never got to be in any of the movies, I know I am!
That looks awesome! I want it!
Hey, wait a minute… did de Lancie just flip me off?
http://img468.imageshack.us/my.php?image=delanciegf5.png
The editing for this promo clip is so bad……in the first part where we see John de Lancie snap his fingers AND THEY CUT AWAY before coming back to him for the payoff punchline! Are you kidding me? de Lancie’s comedic timing is always so perfect that to chop the rhythm of how he played and delivered that scene is criminal! Schmucks!!!!
Justin, that’s hilarious!!
“Screw ya’ll fer not puttin’ me in the movies! On second thought, thanks fer keepin’ me out of Nemesis.”
20#, DS9 has already been re-released in a set, all 7 series in one box, in Australia; so I would assume it has already happened elsewhere as well.
Here in the U.S., I bought each of the individual TNG box sets (season by season) when they were first offered. The price on this offering is REASONABLE. It might not seem inexpensive, but seven seasons’ of TNG — that’s a good price!
Then again, I’m waiting for the announcement that CBS-D will be remastering/doing new f/x for TNG. It’s only a matter of time, imho.
Of course, it’ll only be offered on HD-DVD. And the price tag will be outrageous in comparison to this set. ;-)
Viking!!!
BOHICA – Bend Over, Here it Comes AGAIN!!!
yeah baybee, yeah!
=h=
I don’t see anything here to tempt me, given that I already have the original DVD release. The features on those discs were pretty poor IMHO, and although a short featurette with John DeLancie and Wil Wheaton would be interesting to watch, I’m not willing to pay to see it.
Expect a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray version in 2 years, then another one with replaced FX in another year, then 2 years after that a new version on SuperMegaMiniDisc, then after that the complete series on a waffle.
Why don’t they go the whole hog and have all the Trek series avaialble in one huge mammoth block that comes with its own fork-lift truck to carry it?
I might just wait and get the super delux edition in 2017. 18 editions after this 1
#34, Nope. Region 1 still only has the massive sets for DS9 and Voyager, which I might pick up anyway in the near future.
I was just hoping to have something that took up less space on my shelf.
#38, that’s what i’m afraid of: They come out with some crazy ultimate set with all of the series up to Enterprise. Amazon.com had put together something like this a year or so ago.
This price is ridiculous. The complete X-Files boxset is much larger (nine seasons and a movie), and is seventy-four dollars less at Amazon. Paramount loses another sale to its bizarre pricing schemes.
$304 for a 49-disc set seems like a pretty good deal to me, especially since I don’t have any of TNG on DVD already. Think I’ll have to pick this one up.
$304 for 7 seasons is ridiculously high. It should be closer to $200. Anything over $30 for a season for a 20 year old show is ridiculous.
$43/season is very reasonable and competitive to today’s prices on other season sets. Especially, considering they were originally over $100.
I love this show & came of age with it in my college years but $304.00 dollars to replace all of my old VHS tapes of the show is unacceptable.
This is about money, folks…paramount wanting to make more of it!!!
What I meant is that Canadians get screwed with higher prices compared even if our dollars are almost equal…
The hard-core Trekkers, the ones who are willing to pay hundreds of dollars for a 20 year old show that’s on TV every day, already have their boxsets. Paramount needs to capture the segment that is not hard core, but might make an impulse purchase. Over $300 won’t hit it; they should be shooting for ~200-250. I think there’s an elasticity issue here, and that Paramount really would make more money if they lowered the price on this thing.
The complete BTVS set has 40 discs covering eight seasons, at $24 per season. The complete X-Files has 66 discs and is $230, or $26 per season plus a free movie. The new Twin Peaks set is $65, or $33 per season plus the pilot for free. The Heroes season set, which is brand new, is $40. Yet somehow Paramount thinks they can charge $44 per season in a boxed set of a legacy show. This is out of line with the industry standard for pricing.
what are the special extras this set has that the seperate sets dont?
is it the special features disc?
Ironically, if these are not brand-new remasters then they may actually be of inferior picture quality to the original DVD sets (depending on whether they burned these discs from a analogue or digital storage medium and on the passage of time since the originals were made).
I’d say forget the “special features”, which are trifling and you will watch only once. Assess this on whether you have TNG on DVD already. If not, this *might* be a bit cheaper (and space-saving) than accumulating all the old single-season sets.
But if you’ve already got it on DVD, then you’ve already got it on DVD. Full stop.
I’m not even a huge fan of TNG, but that set is really tempting…
No way, no how. Listen, Paramount, I already bought all seven seasons of TNG on DVD at full price. Unless you’re offering a TNG-style *working* holodeck along with this purchase, count me out.
I hate how geeks are exploited by the DVD people! Don’t they know we are by nature completists?!! Seriously, like how many versions of the TNG DVD’s have been released now? We had the original releases (£80 each here in the UK, which is $160) Then the slimline budget version, there was those collectible DVD/Magazine things, a ‘Borg Cube’ version, the Fan Collectives, and now this? Give it a rest Paramount.
Oceanhopper said:
“Ironically, if these are not brand-new remasters then they may actually be of inferior picture quality to the original DVD sets (depending on whether they burned these discs from a analogue or digital storage medium and on the passage of time since the originals were made).”
I … what? DVD is digital. They could pick up any existing TNG set from Wal-Mart and use _that_ as the video master for the new set. They could use grab the series from a torrent site. It would look exactly the same as the original DVD sets did on the day of their release. But if the discs are “burned,” then you’re really getting ripped off, as all professionally-made DVD Video discs are stamped, not burned.
tl;dr: This set is a rip-off for a number of reasons, you don’t need to make any up.
Wasn’t there a HD test made of one the of the TNG episodes done by CBS-D or the TOS restoration group? I don’t know if there were new effects added, but I do remember reading somewhere that they have done this test recently on one episode.
I don’t mind waiting for the HD set. By the time they remaster them or what not, my brain will have been washed enough that seeing all the episodes again will be a new fresh experience , like watching these new TOS-R episodes. Love it , Love it
wow, I have to agree with most folks here, seems like a rip-off targeted at poor salivating Star Trek fans with too much disposable income. We should all wait for the remastered version with new digital effects, maybe then it’ll be a little more worth it. Horta says he wouldn’t even buy it with the money he stole from my wallet.
Hey, wait a minute! Rotten thieving Hortas!
#13 “Man, it’s good to see … Wheaton again!”
Congratulations, SAX! You just typed out a sentence which has never in the history of human communication appeared before! ;)
“$300-$440 is a bit much for my wallet, though…so maybe we’re looking at Christmas gift?”
Say no more, my friend. You got it. Just give me your real name, a daytime phone number, your mailing address, and credit card number. Hohoho!
-Secret Santa
Again your comments are scandelous and libelous. I am pursuant in the representation of one Mr. Horta. Such grievious attacks on his stony good name shall not go without proper legal advisementation.
On another matter, I shall look into a class action suit to demand that Paramount give myself and my esteemed trekmovie.com friends free box sets in reparation for their mental anguish caused by the high prices and confusing nature of all these DVD release announcements.
In the immortal words of Mr. Mugatu: Growll !! (something like a cougar sound)
#52:
Not convinced. I agree markings on a DVD degrade only at the rate the material itself degrades, which is a hell of a lot better than magnetic storage media like video, but the DVDs sold in the shops will not have been first-generation copies straight off the film master. Inevitably there were at least some intermediate copies and when ever you copy data from one place to another, there is the risk of loss of info. Now if one is ultra-precise and meticulous, one could make a copy from one DVD to another that was so good the loss would be one bit in a million. But when you need to make 1,000,000 copies in time for a release date, fit a certain number of episodes onto one disc, and with factory equipment that has seen a lot of use, I am sure they reach a point where they have to say, “That’s an acceptable compromise” and accept a certain loss of data in the copying process because they feel it is so small it is not noticable.
#55 Who the hell gets your crimbo pressies?! I want friends / relatives like yours, no more bloody socks, DVD’s!!!!!
Oceanhopper, what are you on about. Do you even know how DVDs are authored? Doesn’t look like it.
Jeeze trekmovie people, having trouble finding any real news about the movie?
Get to work!
Re 55:
Lame as usual, Shattie!
But I’m just glad you haven’t tried to hijack this thread…yet! ;-)
Hitch, my brutha, I gotta pay you a visit in Hitchworld one evening when I ain’t quite so sober…..LOL :D
Re 59: Are they even reauthoring these discs? It looks like they’re just reprinting the original season sets and throwing in an extras disc.
Even if they are reauthoring, I have reauthored plenty of my store-bought DVDs on a clunky computer with a generic DVD burner. Sha1sum shows them to be bit-perfect with the master on my hard drive. If I can do it, I’m pretty sure Paramount can, too. There’s no reason to believe, as some say, that these will be inferior in quality to the original season sets.
Re: 59
The answer is Yes, actually.
But thank you for your opinion, which amused me.
no deleted scenes? no thanks.
It’s £112 on Amazon UK which seems a pretty good price for 133 hours of television. Certainly when you compare it to what the old VHS tapes were for two episodes, about £12.99 and that was in 1992 – at that price the whole series would be well over £1156! So it’s 10 times cheaper than 15 years ago – bargain.
Only problem is if they decide to release an HD version in a year or two. I’d be annoyed about that if I got this set.
I’ll say I wouldn’t want to buy this. I’ve seen from the original box sets that episodes look terrible on HD screens. They need to be cleaned up and encoded at a lower compression rate or something.