STAR TREK: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection (4 Films) - now on DVD and Blu-ray

Connect to Facebook/Twitter, recommend via email and much more.

---

—> See Link to our Blu-ray Review (below)

Now available!

Paramount Home Entertainment released Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection (plus "Evolutions" Bonus Disc) on DVD and Blu-ray, September 22nd. Both are 5-Disc sets, available for $69.99 SRP (Blu-ray), and $48.99 (DVD).

Welcome aboard Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection, the quintessential sci-fi box set starring the U.S.S. Enterprise's Next Generation crew. Join Captain Jean-Luc Picard, William T. Riker, Data, Geordi LaForge, Worf, Dr. Crusher and Deanna Trai on four voyages in the iconic STAR TREK theatrical franchise. The films have been remastered in high definition with brilliant picture quality and 5.1 Dolby TrueHD.

The box set includes the following Star Trek films:
"Generations"
"First Contact"
"Insurrection"
"Nemesis"
Bonus Disc: EVOLUTIONS (Disc 5)

Bonus Features include: (BD & DVD)
• Audio Commentaries
• Featurettes
• Storyboards
• Picture galleries
• Trailers

From the EVOLUTIONS bonus disc:
(HD = Blu-ray edition)
"The Evolution of the Enterprise" (HD)
"Villiains of Star Trek" (HD)
"I Love the Star Trek Movies" (HD)
"Farewell to Star Trek: The Experience" (HD)
"Klingon Encounter" (HD)
"Borg Invasion 4D" (HD)
"Charting the Final Frontier" (HD)
BD-Live: "Star Trek I.Q."
Library Computer (exclusive to Blu-ray)

STAR TREK: The Next Generation Collection (4-Films) — Explore further:
—> Blu-ray Review by John J. Puccio
(and additional DVDTOWN Staff) »
EXCERPT: Like a lot of people, as a longtime fan of the original "Star Trek" television and movie series, I found myself reluctant to embrace the "New Generation" crew. It was hard to think of anybody but Shatner, Nimoy, and the gang piloting the Enterprise. But the newer team of Stewart, Frakes, and company grew on me, and they soon, too, became family. So, now it's good to have their four motion pictures on disc in Blu-ray high definition video and audio. The movies have never looked or sounded better.

As with any set of movies, there are bound to be some among them a person will like or dislike more than others. The "Star Trek" purist will have to have all of them in any case. Let's just say it's good to have the "Next Generation" films in high-definition picture and sound, no matter if you're a fan.

AMONG THE EXTRAS...
In addition to the four main movie discs, the set includes a high-definition bonus disc called "Star Trek: Evolutions." It contains seven recently made featurettes, totaling about seventy-seven minutes, covering the whole "Star Trek" universe, with comments from producers, directors, writers, actors, and fans. The titles and timings are "The Evolution of the Enterprise" (HD), fourteen minutes; "Villains of Star Trek" (HD), fourteen minutes; "I Love the Star Trek Movies" (HD), four minutes; "Farewell to Star Trek: The Experience" (HD), twenty-eight minutes; "Klingon Encounter" (HD), three minutes; "Borg Invasion 4D" (HD), five minutes; and "Charting the Final Frontier" (HD), which takes the viewer on an interactive journey through Federation Space and all of the "Star Trek" movies.

An attractive cardboard box encloses the five discs, which themselves are housed in separate, super-slim cases. A clear-plastic slipcover fits over the box to complete the package.

(Click thru the Link above for the full and extensive review of all four films, gobs of bonus features, and the A/V quality of each film's presentation)

To Boldly Go... Again

Paramount Pictures has produced eleven STAR TREK feature films, the most recent released in May 2009 with a twelfth in development, possibly to be released in 2011, which will celebrate the Star Trek franchise's forty-fifth anniversary. The first six films continue the adventures of the The Original Series cast; the seventh, Generations was designed as a transition from that cast to The Next Generation; the next three, 8–10, were exclusively Next Generation.

Although North American and UK releases of the films were no longer numbered following the sixth film, European releases continued numbering the films up until Nemesis. The eleventh film, titled STAR TREK (2009), is a prequel-reboot, of TOS, set prior to Captain Kirk's graduation from Starfleet Academy and promotion to the rank of Captain. The 2009 film is the highest-earning and best-reviewed of the series so far. Due to its success, a twelfth film is currently in its early stages of production.

Film Synopsis:
GENERATIONS (1994)
Captains Kirk and Picard save a planet from destruction
An energy ribbon cuts a swath through the galaxy on the day of the maiden voyage of the newly commissioned Enterprise-B, and Kirk is presumed killed in an encounter with it. 78 years later, Picard and his crew race against time to stop Tolian Soren, a scientist intent on deflecting it into a planet to gain immortality inside it.

Stardate: the 23rd Century: Retired Starfleet officers James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Montgomery Scott (James Doohan) and Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) are guests of honor aboard the newly christened Enterprise-B. A test run takes an unexpected turn, however, when the starship encounters two vessels trapped inside the Nexus, a mysterious energy ribbon. During a perilous rescue attempt, Kirk is swept out into space. Seven decades later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of Enterprise-D rescue an El Aurain physicist named Soran (Malcolm McDowell). Unbeknownst to Picard, Soran harbors a deadly plan that includes the destruction of the Enterprise and millions of lives. Now Picard's only hope for a future rests within the Nexus... and a legendary captain from the past.

FIRST CONTACT (1996)
Resistance is futile
The crew of the Enterprise-E pursues the Borg back in time as they threaten to prevent first contact between Humans and Vulcans, thus destroying the Federation before its founding.

After an epic battle against the Borg (cybernetically-enhanced life forms) Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise follow the Borg Sphere back into the 21st century to prevent the Borg from contaminating Earth's timeline and preventing Earth's first contact. Picard and the crew must work together to battle the Borg Queen before she assimilates all of mankind and changes history forever.

INSURRECTION (1998)
The Battle for Paradise has begun
The crew of the Enterprise aids a rebellion on the Baku homeworld against Picard's superior officer, Admiral Dougherty, who wants to relocate the Baku to gain possession of the medicinal cosmic radiation that floods their planet.

From the beginning of the Federation, the Prime Directive was clear: no Starfleet expedition may interfere with the natural development of other civilizations. But now Picard is confronted with orders that undermine that decree. If he obeys, 600 peaceful residents of Ba'ku will be forcibly removed from their remarkable world, all for the reportedly greater good of millions who will benefit from Ba'ku's fountain-of-youth-like powers. If he disobeys, he will risk his starship, his career, his life. But for Picard, there's really only one choice. He must rebel against Starfleet... and lead the insurrection to preserve paradise.

NEMESIS (2002)
A Generation's Final Journey Begins
Captain Picard confronts the villainous new Reman leader Shinzon, a younger genetic clone of himself who kidnaps Picard to replenish his own DNA and uses an earlier prototype of Data to spy on the Enterprise while plotting to destroy Earth.

Set a course for a galaxy of unparalleled action and adventure as Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his starship crew battle a chilling new adversary... that just happens to hold a shocking link to Picard!

In the wake of a joyful wedding between Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Troi (Marina Sirtis), Picard receives another reason to celebrate: the Romulans want peace and the captain will be the Federation's emissary. But as the Enterprise heads toward the Romulan Empire, a brilliant villain awaits - harboring a diabolical plan of destruction and an unimaginable secret that will give Picard his most fearsome challenge.

Co-starring Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden and introducing Tom Hardy as Picard's deadly foe, Star Trek: Nemesis is "Exciting! An inventive twist - plus the unexpected - shoot sparks of surprise throughout the picture" (Gene Shalit, Today).

Coming November 17...
—> New 2009 STAR TREK beaming with special content on DVD & Blu-ray » The $375 million worldwide sensation beams up to a single and 2-Disc DVD, and 3-Disc Blu-ray (with Digital Copy).

---

Please Note - More details:
Be sure to check out the full details under related releases.

For other releases:
DVD & Blu-ray release calendar »

---

Connect to Facebook/Twitter, recommend via email and much more.

---

---