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The Best Star Trek Boxed Set Done By Paramount...
Paramount has a rather annoying habit of, at times, releasing boxed sets of Star Trek episodes that have one or two previously unreleased episodes coupled with two or three that have been out on tape for years. At the time the Time Travel Collection came out the Voyager and DS9 episodes had not yet been released individually while the Original Series and Next Generation episodes had been available for years. At the time I found this practice somewhat offensive, but it did not stop me from buying the set. In retrospect, the set is a nice collection and worth getting if you do not own all four episodes.

All four episodes in the set are quite good. The Original Series, Next Generation and Deep Space Nine episodes are all classics of their respective series. The Voyager, while not the best time travel episode ever done for that series (or even that season), is, nonetheless, a solid addition. Each episode also provides a nice perspective of the Star Trek view of time travel: each tackles time travel (and its ramifications) in a different way. As a set of four, they fit together well to show a good cross-section of what has made - and continues to make - Star Trek such a wonderful series as well as providing four first-rate 'hours' of science fiction.

If you're not a rabid collector of Star Trek tapes (unlike me), but do like the series, I definitely recommend getting this set. "The City on the Edge of Forever" (Original Series) and "The Visitor" (Deep Space Nine) alone are worth having in even a casual fan's collection. However, if you own any of the three episodes independently, I recommend buying the remainder separately as well.

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A Lot Of Choices
There have been so many good time travel stories over the years in all of the Star Trek series, that it is really difficult to narrow them down to only the limited number that were included in this four tape set. Since it is presented as a "collection," you might expect to see a virtual videography of your many favorite time travel episodes. Instead, the editors settled on four popular episodes - one from each the four series. For the most part, they made some good choices. From the original Star Trek, there is "The City On The Edge Of Forever," considered by many to be one of the best Star Trek episodes of all time. From The Next Generation, there is "Yesterday's Enterprise," a celebrated episode from that series. "The Visitor" is a well known episode from Deep Space Nine. Still, there were so many other episodes that we might have chosen. "Time And Again," an early episode from Voyager, was probably not the best selection. Subsequent seasons of Voyager have produced at least two or three time travel episodes that are far superior. "Trials And Tribble-ations" would be a better time travel episode from Deep Space Nine. Next Generation and the original Star Trek, of course, produced so many time travel stories that it is difficult to choose one. For example, while City On The Edge Of Forever is indeed legendary, we also love "Tomorrow Is Yesterday," "Assignment Earth" and "All Our Yesterdays." And what about the motion pictures? Star Trek 4 and 8 are arguably the best time travel stories of all. The problem here is with the word "collection." What you really get is more of a "sampling" than a collection. Nevertheless, with the exception of the Voyager episode, you do get some pretty good stuff. We just wish there was more.