Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete First Season

Much as I have enjoyed viewing the Season 1 episodes, I would enjoy them more if they looked better. On DVD, many episodes or scenes within episodes suffer from one or more ills: washed out colors, erratic brightness and contrast, distracting digital artifacts. I recommend renting Season 1 (or checking it out at the public library) instead of buying it. Maybe Paramount will remaster Season 1 when the studio prepares it for distrubtion on Blu-Ray. I hope so because at higher resolution, these episodes will look even rougher.

I had Seasons 4-7 for a couple of years and I finally broke down and bought season 1. It was really great to see how "green" the crew was and the opening with Picard's dialog. A lot of people, like myself, have overlooked the first three seasons as a settling in period for the characters. But when I looked at season one I was glad I had purchased it. What thrilling time to see this crew pull together. It was like seeing old friends for the first time in years. The newness and freshness of the characters survives the years in this first season DVD.
I plan on getting seasons 2 & 3.

On July 29, 2008, I discover that the illustration on the ads for STTNG Season 1, 2, and 3 has a close box yet you can still get these sets in one day. On May of 2008, I order Season One and the picture show the open box with all seven DVD's.

This may sound silly but I also purchase "Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country" a few months ago and what I got was two disc with no display on either one of the disc and no extra material that I have with my other Star Trek Movie Collection. It is also stamp on the back Made in Mexico.

I am only concern that when I get the 2nd and 3rd seasons of STTNG that it will be like the movie. This could be the reason why they show a close box. If anyone can check this out please let us all know.

Enough has been written about the series and the set, so I'm not going to add any more. But am I crazy, or has the price of these sets gone up quite a bit in the last month or two? I bought all seven episodes at Sam's for $47 each about two months ago, but was going to return them after I saw them here (I thought) for about $36 each. I didn't get around to looking again and ordering until a week or so ago, and then they were (here on Amazon) either $45 or $52 depending on the episode. Now they're ALL higher. Just seems odd to me. But a great series (even with some of the campy first series episodes). Leadership doesn't have a much better example than Jean-Luc Picard.

It is very inspiring adventure exploration for any age. Very educational and imaginative. Wonderful entertatinment feature. You won't get tired to enjoy the story over and over again.