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Star Trek The Next Generation - Season 6 (2004)
Front Cover Actor
Patrick Stewart
Jonathan Frakes
Movie Details
Studio PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT (UK)
Language English
Audience Rating PG
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
As the sixth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation went into production, everyone knew that attentions would soon be permanently divided by the debut of Deep Space Nine. Sure enough that meant crossovers ("Birthright"), guest stars and references back and forth. The sense of baton-passing drew the TNG family closer, however. Directorial debuts begun in Season 5 allowed for repeat group-huddle ownership of several shows. Jonathan Frakes bettered "The Quality of Life" by "The Chase", which finally offered an explanation why most races in the Trek universe are humanoid with knobbly foreheads. Patrick Stewart crowbarred a Western into the franchise in "A Fistful of Datas". LeVar Burton introduced the far more exciting Riker clone Thomas in "Second Chances". But here we still find that inability to follow through a good idea, since it was intended for Tom to replace Will. Barclay outstayed his welcome with a lacklustre "Ship in a Bottle" (despite a hammy cameo from Stephanie Beacham) after he'd injected creepiness into "Realm of Fear". The same happened with Q and the painfully weak "True Q" contrasted by the philosophically challenging "Tapestry", where Picard faced the decisions of his youth.

Yet ultimately the year provided more memorable moments than either year 5 did or year 7 would. There was the fun of a pint-sized Starfleet in "Rascals", the shocking comment on political torture in "Chain of Command", the endless Matrix-like guessing game of reality in "Frame of Mind", and even a jokey genre nod often called "Die Hard Picard" instead of "Starship Mine". The two biggest attention-drawing moments came via stellar cameos. There was the bittersweet sight of James Doohan revisiting the original Enterprise Bridge on "Relics", then a quick contribution by Stephen Hawking in the cliff-hanger "Descent". Both were attempts at keeping TNG the connoisseur's Trek incarnation of choice. --Paul Tonks
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 347
Collection Status In Collection
Links IMDB
Product Details
Format DVD
Region Region 2
Release Date 2002
Subtitles Danish; Dutch; English for the hearing impaired; French; German; Italian; Norwegian; Spanish; Swedish
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1
Extra Features
Mission Overview . Cast and crew discussions about the production of Season Six. Selected Crew Analysis . Year Six. Examines how the characters in Season Six have evolved throughout the series. Departmental Briefing . Year Six. Behind the scenes look at the production of the key episodes in Season Six, including in depth interviews with production crew. Departmental Briefing . Provides background information on some of the unusual characters and situations the crew and cast are faced with. Chronicles from the Final Frontier . Anecdotes and amusing comments about episodes and events during filming of the Sixth Season.