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May be the best Star Trek series ever...
This DVD collection seems totally overpriced and should only be of serious purchase from those folks with the bread. And as of this writing, that means paying nearly $[ ] per season, which is just ridiculous. At half of that price, and for collectors and those who adore the show, it would be a bargain, but until Paramount lowers the price, it's a pass. Even though the series as a whole, which I will go into, may just be the best overall Star Trek TV series ever. <
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>In the beginning, there was Star Trek. IN COLOR and on NBC, if I recall, I'll never forget my first initiation into the Star Trek universe. The original 60's version may, in many areas, still be the best Trek TV series, but in retrospect, while the original Star Trek was light years ahead of its time, and in that temporal respect, better than its later reincarnations (Star Trek: The Next Generation, ST:Deep Space Nine, ST: Voyager, and ST: Enterprise), Next Generation was a worthy rival, and so was Voyager. <
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>I totally diss "Deep Space Nine" and "Enterprise" as dark space soap operas, and in very little ways, did either of these series live up to and deliver upon Star Trek's creator, Gene Roddenberry's original "vision." Both Deep Space Nine and Enterprise rarely ever dealt with mindblowing ideas, and explorations of same, instead dwelling on pathetic "character development" of unimaginative characters, and boring melodrama. <
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>Star Trek: Voyager was as good as Next Generation, if not even better in a lot of ways with better production design, story ideas, sets, and lots of special effects. While Next Generation and Voyager share a lot in common given the general quality of both, both try as hard as they might to stick to the original idea of Star Trek and Gene's initial vision, exploring strange new worlds, seeking new life, and going where no one has gone before. <
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>Voyager is very similar to Next Generation. And that is generally a very good thing. In Voyager however, we have the captain of the ship a female, a black Vulcan, a Native American "number One," and a "hologram" medical doctor, the latter of which resembles the concept of "Data" from ST:TNG. Voyager's female captain is as strong and believable as Kirk or Picard before her. Feminists rejoice! And the few main surrounding characters around "Kat" Janeway, more than rival those around Captain Jean Luc of Next Generation. The holographic "doctor" is as interesting as Data was from ST:TNG, and develops throughout the seven years just like Data. But Voyager's strength's go beyond Next Generation as, in mid-later seasons, a transformed quasi-Borg/semi-human "Seven of Nine" character helped to revitalize the whole show, and lead to deeper and deeper idea-driven episodes after the series began to lag, cosmic idea-wise after the first few years. <
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>The general, underlying idea of Voyager, is probably more true to Gene Roddenberry's original visions than any of the Star Trek series. And that's where the real value here is. The starship Voyager is, after all, in the very beginning, thrust into the opposite side of the galaxy, where there are so many unknowns, and creative story ideas to be had. While Voyager still holds up remarkably well to this day, one can only wonder at where this series might've gone under Roddenberry's control. For while Next Generation's original greatness seemed to fade in and out after Gene's death, Voyager kept up a consistency of quality not seen in ST:NG. <
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>Star Trek: Voyager, like the original 60's version, and Next Generation, has its fair share of quite boring, bad episodes. And the character "Neelix" can be tiresome, but he makes for good comic relief at least. As in Next Gen, the "holodeck" functions often created episodes totally un-space or sci-fi idea related, but more often than not however, this show delivered several dozen of some of the best true sci-fi episodic "TV" shows the small tube has ever offered. While one many complain or nitpick about all things "Star Trek" (like, why do so many alien species, even on the other end of the galaxy, appear so human, or why alien technology is so similar to human, or why, why, why, why, why), I'm not one to nitpick here. If and until Paramount and the PTB offer this at a reasonable prive, while I can't really recommend purchase here (unless you're rich), I suggest all of my fellow trekkers check reruns of this on TV if possible, and tape them, and watch them (or fast forward during the boring episodes), with a keen eye towards a possible future buy. <
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>It is a shame that this series in full is so overly-priced and out of reach I would guess for most Trek collectors. The wealth of ideas explored here (despite the continual ST techno babble - "try rephasing the protoplasmic, warp core EM spatial/temporal, stellar geometric gig-a-quad geotetris overrides"), are many and varied. <
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>Slightly better than Next Generation, in my opinion, this incarnation of Star Trek is and was just about as good as anything "Star Trek" related goes, including the feature films. The special effects in some episodes are truly outstanding. And while I did not really go for the final two part episode's series ending, in between that and the first two parter which began the series, there is a LOT to like here. And if you can afford it, there are enough episodes which hold up up to repeated viewings to justify the high price. One just might want to wait for a price drop. <
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>There are only 3 good ST series in my view, the original, Next Generation, and Voyager. Deep Space Nine and Enterprise are crap in comparison, and not worth the time or expense of any true sci-fi fan, for me at any rate. While the original series will always be the original, and while Next Generation expanded for the most part on one man's genius visions, Star Trek: Voyager had as many, if not more truly special episodes as anything before, or after it. And with a lot better sets, gizmos, and great big screen special effects. <
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>And while Janeway herself is more than okay, Seven of Nine and Kes provide often needed eye-candy relief, when, often, the series begins to stray from the original idea of what Star Trek was supposed to be all about. Kudos in this area also to the specific and great episodes dealing with thought-inspiring ideas, and not just silly holodeck adventures or character-heavy episodes where the series often lost its way at times. Overall, and for the most part, I think the great bird of the galaxy (Roddenberry) probably would've approved, very much so of Voyager. It's too bad that the Voyager cast and storyline never got the Next Generation big screen attempts, but so it goes. <
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>While the original, Next Gen and Voyager may be all dead projects for any further small or big screen attempts, Voyager will always remain as one of three of the five series, which seemed to get it right more often than not. And when it did get it right, the episodes were indeed and will forever be truly visionary sci-fi magic.

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Too highly priced!
No actual stores sell ANY Startrek Series anymore because they marked them up so high in price, no one is buying them. I asked the Best Buy guy, and he said they sat on the shelf, and no one bought them, so they got rid of them. <
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>Why they are $98 is crazy. Maybe if they lowered the price to $49 a season, they would actually MOVE their stock. <
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>I swear, were they not like $56 a few weeks ago? I was coming to buy one, then saw $98 and was like "um, no."

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