Creators/Executive Producers:
Gene Roddenberry (TOS, TNG), Rick Berman (TNG, DS9, Voyager), Michael Piller (TNG, DS9), Ira Steven Behr (DS9), Jeri Taylor (Voyager), Kenneth Biller (Voyager), Brannon Braga (Enterprise)
Cast:
The Original Series:
William Shatner ………. Captain James Tiberius Kirk
Leonard Nimoy ………. Lieutenant Commander Spock
DeForest Kelley ………. Doctor Leonard McCoy
James Doohan ………. Lietenant Commander Montgomery Scott
Walter Koenig ………. Ensign Pavel Chekov
Nichelle Nichols ………. Lieutenant Uhara
George Takei ………. Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu
The Next Generation:
Patrick Stewart ………. Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes ………. Commander William Thomas Riker
LeVar Burton ………. Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge
Michael Dorn ………. Lieutenant Worf
Gates McFadden ………. Doctor Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis ………. Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner ………. Lietenant Commander Data
Wil Wheaton ………. Ensign Wesley Crusher
Diana Muldaur ………. Doctor Katherine Pulaski
Colm Meaney ………. Chief Miles O’Brien
Whoopi Goldberg ………. Guinan
Deep Space Nine:
Avery Brooks ………. Captain Benjamin Sisko
Rene Auberjonois ………. Constable Odo
Michael Dorn ………. Lieutenant-Commander Worf
Terry Farrell ………. Lieutenant-Commander Jadzia Dax
Colm Meaney ………. Chief Miles O’Brien
Armin Shimmerman ………. Quark
Alexander Siddig ………. Doctor Julian Bashir
Nana Visitor ………. Colonel Kira Nerys
Marc Alaimo ………. Gul Dukat
Aron Eisenberg ………. Nog
Max Grodénchik ………. Rom
Penny Johnson ………. Kasidy Yates
Andrew Robinson ………. Garak
Voyager:
Kate Mulgrew ………. Captain Kathryn Janeway
Robert Beltran ………. Commander Chakotay
Roxann Biggs-Dawson ………. Chief Engineer B’Elanna Torres
Robert Duncan McNeill ………. Lieutenant Tom Paris
Ethan Phillips ………. Neelix
Robert Picardo ………. The Doctor
Tim Russ ………. Lieutenant-Commander Tuvok
Jeri Ryan ………. Seven of Nine
Garrett Wang ………. Ensign Harry Kim
Enterprise:
Scott Bakula ………. Captain Jonathan Archer
Jolene Blalock ………. Subcommander T’Pol
John Billingsley ………. Doctor Phlox
Dominic Keating ………. Lieutenant Malcolm Reed
Anthony Montgomery ………. Ensign Travis Mayweather
Linda Park ………. Ensign Hoshi Sato
Connor Trinneer ………. Commander Charles Tucker III
The Klingons:
Charlie Brill ………. Arne Darvin
Jon Colicos ………. Kor
J.G. Hertzler ………. Martok
Barbara March ………. Lursa
Patrick Massett ………. Duras
Robert O’Reilly ………. Gowron
Tony Todd ………. Kurn
Gwynyth Walsh ………. B’Etor
The Show:
By now you know the drill. Fans vote, and we get this collection of episodes from all five shows. And of course, there’s episodes that were represented on previous collections. I understand the need to get a so-called “accurate” Top Ten (in quotes because I refuse to believe that the Voyager episode belongs here) based on votes, but can’t we just make a notation for those episodes previously represented and put some “lucky losers” in instead?
Yeah, I know, wait for “part 2” of the Collectives. You know they’ll pump that out soon enough.
Episodes:
Disc One:
‘Star Trek: Enterprise’, Broken Bow (Episode 721)
Guest Star: Tiny Lister (Zeus) as Klaang
So much wasted potential, this retcon series was. This was the pilot episode for Enterprise, and actually it wasn’t bad, setting up the backstory and adding some dangling plot threads that would be picked up later.
Anyways, after the First Contact as seen in the movie “Star Trek: First Contact”, the Humans have been brought along ever so slowly by the Vulcans, but they’ve finally created a starship they can fly off into space with. But of course the launch has a few complications, like a Klingon crash-landing in Oklahoma, where presumably they still don’t take kindly to strangers. Or maybe that was Beaumont, Texas. So anyways Captain Jonathan Archer has to assemble his senior crew quickly, and the Vulcans also give him T’Pol as an advisor. Their first mission – return the Klingon to the Empire.
‘Star Trek: The Original Series’, Errand of Mercy (Episode 027)
Kirk and the Enterprise square off against Kor and his Klingons over the planet Organia, but the natives are not what they appear to be. You know, back then, that was probably pretty original. Nowadays, the “things are not exactly as they appear to be” theme is pretty cliche, especially with all the Wolf/Bruckheimer procedurals running around.
‘Star Trek: The Original Series’, The Trouble With Tribbles (Episode 042)
The Enterprise is ordered to protect a shipment of grain on Deep Space Station K-7. The crew then learns that there is an even bigger danger that awaits them – Tribbles, who apparently don’t like Klingons, and vice-versa. Well, the Klingons DID declare war on the Tribbles.
Disc Two:
‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’, A Matter of Honor (Episode 134)
As part of an officer exchange program, Riker is placed on board a Klingon vessel, and faces a stiff challenge when the Klingons discover a bacteria eating away at the hull of the ship and blame the Enterprise.
‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’, Sins of the Father (Episode 165)
As part of the officer exchange program seen in A Matter of Honor, the Klingon Kurn arrives on the Enterprise, and oh by the way, he’s Worf’s brother, and our father Mogh may have aided the Romulans, so can you come with me to Q’onoS to defend his honor?
‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’, Redemption, Part I (Episode 200)
Guest Star: Denise Crosby as Sela
This was the finale for season four, and with the success of the cliffhanger “The Best of Both Worlds” from Season Three, they decided to do it again.
As a result of Worf killing Duras (who killed his “mate”. Worf seems to issues with keeping his lovers alive), Gowron is now the leader of the Klingon High Council, but the Duras family is understandably not all that happy about it, which leads to civil war, and Worf resigning his Starfleet commission.
‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’, Redemption, Part II (Episode 201)
Guest Star: Denise Crosby as Sela
And this is the season premiere that concludes the cliffhanger. We get the payoff as to why the Romulan Sela looks like Tasha Yar (she’s actually the daughter of an alternate timeline Yar who went back in time with the Enterprise C). The Romulans, you see, have been helping the House of Duras, and when Picard exposes this, the civil war ends and Worf returns to his duties on the Enterprise – presumably Picard managed to lose Worf’s resignation papers.
Disc Three:
‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’, The Way of the Warrior (Episode 473s-4)
I always maintain that Deep Space Nine was the best show of the bunch, mostly because they left Ira Stephen Behr and Ron Moore alone to do their thing (although Moore has written his fair share of crap – see below). Heck, they pretty much ignored it over the last three movies – and that’s just fine with me. Anyways, this episode gives this show a closer connection to the Klingons, and since TNG had wrapped up, the powers that be decided that they wanted to Michael Dorn wear prosthetics for four more years and moved Worf over to DS9.
The Klingons have decided to “assist” the Federation against the Dominion, although curiously this means that they’re going to invade Cardassia. Sisko can’t get the Klingons to tell him what’s up, so he gets Starfleet to send Worf over to see if he can find out. Long story short, the crisis is averted, Worf’s family loses his honour, and Sisko invents a position so that Worf can stay on.
‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’, The Sword of Kahless (Episode 481)
As it turns out, Curzon Dax was a friend of the Klingons, and Kor (now with ridges on his forehead) convinces Dax (now hot and female) to accompany him on a quest to find the Sword of Kahless, and of course Worf gets taken along for the ride.
Disc Four:
‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’, Trials and Tribble-ations (Episode 503)
OK this was in the Time Travel Collective, but if you’re gonna have the original Tribbles episode, you have to have this one as well. What I said in that review was this:
“And here we have what was considered one of the best Trek episodes, EVER, as Sisko and company have to head back in time to stop a Klingon from changing history. His target? The NCC-1701 – the U.S.S. Enterprise. From the use of footage from The Trouble With Tribbles to the attention to detail done for the sets to the fun use of comedy in parts (like Worf’s non-explanation of the Klingon forehead – something that wouldn’t get resolved until Enterprise), this was just awesome all around.”
I realize now that “resolved” wasn’t a great word – retconned is a better one. And speaking of which, why the hell isn’t THAT episode in this collection?
‘Star Trek: Voyager’, Barge of the Dead (Episode 223)
B’Elanna decides to go to Klingon Hell to save her mother. Um, yeah.
I should point out that this craptastic episode was written by Ron D. Moore, just so you don’t think that I blame everything on Braga. It’s probably on here because they just had to have a Voyager episode in the set to “prove” how much the “fans” “loved” that series. Although curiously, there wasn’t an Enterprise episode in the Time Travel set, and certainly there was more time travel nonsense there than in Voyager.
The DVD:
Video:
(Presented in Fullscreen format)
Except for Broken Bow, you get glorious Fullscreen. I believe that the Enterprise episode is 1.72:1 Widescreen. The Voyager episode was filmed in widescreen, but for some reason they decided not to show it as such here.
Audio:
(English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, English 2.0)
Same as the DVD sets.
Special Features:
Text Commentaries by Michael and Denise Okuda are available for three episodes: Broken Bow, The Trouble with Tribbles, Sins of the Father, The Sword of Kahless and Trials and Tribble-ations. Fun stuff.
There is also audio commentary by Rick Berman and the Braga for Broken Bow
Packaging:
Similar to the other “Fan Collective” releases, we get a holofoil slipcase, this time with Worf on the front. The discs are stored in individual trays, held together similar to the Trek season sets from DS9 onward.
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