Season 4 of
Star Trek: The Next Generation joins the first three seasons of the series on DVD September 3, 2002. Paramount Home Entertainment will deliver the collectible seven-disc box set featuring all 26 episodes from Season 4, as well as bonus material created especially for the DVD release.
Building on the excellence of Season 3, Season 4 opened with the conclusion of the fine cliffhanger, "The Best of Both Worlds," and ended with the powerful Klingon civil war of "Redemption." The season also spotlighted such returning characters as Worf's paramour K'Ehleyr, Picard's Risa partner-in-crime Vash and Data's duplicitous brother Lore. Viewers were also introduced to Tasha Yar's mysterious half-Romulan daughter Sela (played by Tasha herself, Denise Crosby). In the midst of all these reappearances and introductions, the season featured at least one good-bye: Wesley Crusher departed for Starfleet Academy after a poignant final mission with Captain Picard.
The seven discs break down as follows:
The Specials Features break down as follows:
- Mission Overview: Old and new cast interviews on the major changes in season four.
- Selected Crew Analysis: An in-depth look at the growth of continuing characters.
- Departmental Briefing — Year Four Production: A behind-the-scenes look at certain episodes from the production crew's point of view.
- New Life and New Civilizations
- Chronicles From The Final Frontier
DVDs are presented in the original full-frame version and the audio is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and English Dolby Surround. The DVDs are sub-titled in English and closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired.
The Season Four box set carries no suggested retail price but is expected to be priced by retailers for their customers at under $100. It is not rated in the U.S. by the Motion Picture Association of America and is rated G in Canada. The total running time of the seven discs is approximately 21 hours.
SYNOPSES
Disc 1: In "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II," Commander Riker must choose between saving Captain Picard and saving humanity when the Borg use the kidnapped captain as part of their plan to destroy Earth. "Family" finds Enterprise crewmembers reuniting with family as Picard comes face to face with his jealous brother, while "Brothers" follows Data, as he is summoned home by his elderly creator only to clash with his evil brother, Lore. In "Suddenly Human," Picard risks war when he refuses to return a human boy to the alien father who raised him, and may even have abused him.
Disc 2: In "Remember Me," Wesley's experiment with warp fields results in the mysterious disappearance of the crew, while "Legacy" follows a rescue mission that leads the crew to the birthplace of their late comrade Tasha Yar, where they encounter her mysterious sister. "Reunion" finds Picard as the chosen mediator in a Klingon power struggle, and "Future Imperfect" follows Riker, who awakens in sickbay after an Away Team mission fails, only to discover that sixteen years have passed and he now commands the Enterprise.
Disc 3: In "Final Mission," Wesley accompanies Picard on a last mission after being accepted to Starfleet Academy, only to find himself struggling to keep the captain alive. "The Loss" finds Counselor Troi resigning her post after mysteriously losing her empathetic powers. In "Data's Day," a friend's impending wedding compounds Data's confusion about the nuances of human feelings, while "The Wounded" follows Picard, who must stop a renegade Federation starship which is making unprovoked attacks on a former enemy's ship.
Disc 4: In "Devil's Due," Picard fights to save a terrorized planet from a powerful woman who claims to be the devil, while "Clues" finds the crew shocked to discover that Data is lying to them. In "First Contact," Riker is critically wounded during a first contact mission and mistaken for a hostile alien, while "Galaxy's Child" finds Enterprise becoming a surrogate mother to a huge alien creature after Picard is forced to destroy its real mother.
Disc 5: In "Night Terrors," the crew of the Enterprise is plagued by unexplained paranoia and hallucinations while trapped in a rift in space. "Identity Crisis" finds Dr. Crusher racing against time to locate a parasite that threatens to transform Geordi into an alien creature. In "The Nth Degree," a crewmember is endowed with super human intelligence by an alien probe and threatens the fate of Enterprise. In "QPid," the mischievous Q turns Picard into Robin Hood and sends him on a quest designed to force him to prove his love for an old flame.
Disc 6: In "The Drumhead," a search for a spy aboard Enterprise turns into a witch hunt in which Picard is implicated as a traitor, while "Half a Life" finds Picard risking war when he offers asylum to a visiting scientist who wishes to escape the ritual suicide mandated by his society. In "The Host," Dr. Crusher's love is put to the test when she falls for an alien who exists in different "host bodies" in order to survive, and "The Mind's Eye" finds Geordi kidnapped by Romulan forces, who turn him into a killing machine.
Disc 7: "In Theory" has Data experimenting with love by pursuing a romantic relationship with a fellow crew member, while "Redemption, Part I" finds the Klingon Empire threatened with a civil war, as Worf's loyalties are torn between the Federation and his people.
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