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Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Fourth Season
Actor: Star Trek Next Generation
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Retail Price (not our price): $69.98
Release Date: 2002-09-03
Theatrical Release Date: 1991
Studio: Paramount
Run Time: 1182 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Discs: 7


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
Season 4 of Star Trek: The Next Generation seemed like the year of family. After quickly resolving the breathtaking cliffhanger of "The Best of Both Worlds," the show took pains to show some of what the Federation was fighting for. We meet Picard's brother, Data's father, Tasha's sister, and Worf's adoptive human parents, plus an old flame with a surprise son in tow. The Klingon heritage subplot that begins here and builds to the cliffhanger finale ("Redemption") would continue to the show's end and through into Worf's reappearance in Deep Space Nine. The year also explored the implications of Data, Lwaxana Troi, Geordi, and Dr. Crusher being in love, while Miles O'Brien (given a first name at last) married Keiko. There were old friends revisited: the ubiquitous Q in a hilarious Robin Hood romp ("Qpid"), perennial screwup Reg Barclay ("Nth Degree"), and even the mysterious Traveler from season 1's "Where No One Has Gone Before" (played by Eric Menyuk, who was nearly cast as Data). There were new races introduced who would have an important bearing on Trek's destiny: the Cardassians and the Trill. Most of all, though, there were the one-off stories that impressed: "Clues," with its memory-loss mystery; "Night Terrors," with some genuine frights; and "Identity Crisis," with possibly the only time Trek technology really helped Geordi solve a puzzle. Then right at the end, reinforcing the year's familial theme, Denise Crosby returned as her own half-Romulan daughter! --Paul Tonks

2) Description
26 episodes on 7 discs: The Best of Both Worlds Part II, Family, Brothers, Suddenly Human, Remember Me, Legacy, Reunion, Future Imperfect, Final Mission, The Loss, Data's Day, The Wounded, Devil's Due, Clues, First Contact, Galaxy's Child, Night Terrors, Identity Crisis, The Nth Degree, QPid, The Drumhead, Half a Life, The Host, The Mind's Eye, In Theory, Redemption Part I.

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) One of the best 2 seasons!   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I haven't actually started watching this season yet- my trek nerd fiance and I are still in season 3. He has said numerous times that seasons 3 and 4 are the best, and so far season 3 is much better than 1 and 2 were, so I suspect this will be accurate... Anyway, if you already have the first 3 seasons, you should buy this one to complete the collection, it would look funny to have seasons 1-3 and 5-7 but not 4, you know? :)

2) Make it so!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
It is Star Trek! and hey, it is green! haha. speaking of green, they have a new collectors edition out of Star Trek TNG that looks awesome!

3) A sober accessment - mixed bag   [Rating: 3 out of 5]
I disagree with the previous reviews attesting to the greatness of season 4. To the contrary, I find season 4 a mixed bag. About half the episodes are good with convincing story lines. The other half are largely stupid, corny and outlandish stories with poor scripts that should have been rejected for better ones. You almost get the feeling that some of these scripts were written by teenagers. This same scenario plagues the entire NG series. I remember when NG originally aired back in 88-94. I often found myself turning the channel to something else - except when a good episode was on. This could've and should've been better.

4) Blown Away   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Season 4 of ST:TNG blew me away. I can think of only one episode out of the entire season that I found a bit lacking. This show just gets better and better with each subsequent season. The writing is top-notch, the acting keeps improving, the rapport of the crew gets perpetually stronger...and such character development! Picard deals with the repercussions of having been one of the Borg; Troi finds out what it would be like to no longer have her empathic abilities; Dr. Crusher falls in love with an alien; LaForge BECOMES an alien; Riker almost dies while studying an alien planet; Data explores human romance and love; Wesley finally goes to Starfleet Academy; Worf loses his mate and gains a son; and Tasha Yar returns as...a Romulan???I can only hope season 5 is just as good as season 4!

5) I loooove Star Trek: TNG   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This was the show that I loved most of Star Trek (other than the occasional love of Kirk or Spock) but TNG really opened Star Trek back up to the world... I wish this show was even now still in action but all things must come to an end I suppose. But I do enjoy having my DVDs to watch on occasion.