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Star Trek: The Next Generation's third year was an important development in syndicated television. After two shaky years, Paramount nonetheless decided the franchise still had plenty to do. Their confidence was bolstered by two significant factors. First, cast uncertainties were finally settled: Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher) was back for good; Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar) regretted her ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis

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 ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis

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 ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis

The fifth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation saw some of the very best of all 178 shows. "Darmok" had the feel of a "classic Trek" episode, dealing with language as metaphor. "The First Duty" challenged Wesley Crusher's loyalties. The season closer "Time's Arrow" (which concluded in year 6) ranks as one of the best TNG cliffhangers, and treats fans to canon-changing story lines and ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, Brent Spiner, Whoopi Goldberg

In Independence Day, a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. Independence Day is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch
Directed By: Roland Emmerich

OK, let's get all the disclaimers out of the way first. Despite its colourful (if crude) animation, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is in no way meant for kids. It is chock full of profanity that might even make Quentin Tarantino blanch and has blasphemous references to God, Satan, Saddam Hussein (who's sleeping with Satan, literally) and Canada. It's rife with scatological humour, ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, Isaac Hayes, Jesse Howell
Directed By: Trey Parker

Manufacturer: Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Pamela Anderson, Robert Joy, Regina Hall, Kevin Hart, Christopher McDonald
Directed By: Craig Mazin

In 1987, some 20 years after the original series had ended, Star Trek: the Next Generation was launched into a decade renowned for its materialistic greed, but also for its hesitant steps towards a more unified world order. Creator Gene Roddenberry revised his vision of humanity's future accordingly, shifting the Trek timeline 80 years on and reinventing the new Starship Enterprise ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis

Even-numbered Star Trek movies tend to be better, and this one (number eight in the popular series) is no exception--an intelligently handled plot involving the galaxy-conquering Borg and their attempt to invade Earth's past, alter history, and "assimilate" the entire human race. Time travel, a dazzling new Enterprise, and capable direction by Next Generation alumnus Jonathan Frakes ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Directed By: Jonathan Frakes

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Walter Koenig, William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner
Directed By: David Carson