Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete First Season

This series is great! I love seeing the development of the actors as they begin to fill and develop their roles in this first season. There just aren't shows this good on TV any more!

My husband wanted this for his birthday, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I found it on Amazon & bought it for him for Father's day. He LOVES it!!!

I Am Very Happy With All The TNG Tv Series I Have From Season One To Season Five Thanks Bill

We ordered the 1st and 2nd seasons and are just working on the 1st. It has been lots of fun to be reminded how our favorite characters looked early in their time on the series--with Picard being the only one who changed very little over time. When we originally watched it, of course, we were stuck with commercials--much better without!

Watching many of these episodes, it is amazing (and fortunate) that the show lasted beyond one season. While only a few of the episodes fall into the flat-out terrible category, most of them are extremely ho-hum and only a minority would rank as even average in comparison to the standard set in later seasons. The show comes up short in nearly every category - bad acting, lame stories, one-dimensional characters, awful writing, corny music, excessive preachiness and comically bad special effects. In many of the episodes, any actual appeal comes simply from laughing at the hilarious B-movie (or C-movie!) cheesiness of it all.

TNG was not an arc-based show at this point, and most viewers not obsessed with completeness can safely skip ahead to later seasons. There are several episodes that I would characterize as worth watching - "Justice" (because it is so hilariously awful), "Conspiracy" (the best of the season), "Datalore", "Heart of Glory", "The Arsenal of Freedom", "Encounter at Farpoint" (primarily for the second half, though the first 45 minutes provide plenty of unintentional laughs) - and a handful of others that are decent.

The show would improve quite a bit in the (much-maligned) second season and really hit its stride in season 3. Unless you are a completist or really big on nostalgia, the premiere season can be skipped.