Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption [Blu-ray]

Let the movie edits continue
Although this wasn't the strongest season finale/season 5 premiere, if your a fan of the Klingons and would like to sit down for an uninterrupted hour and a half you can't go wrong with this. I'm a fan of the BD releases in these movie edited two part episodes. I'll pick it up along with tng season 4 and hopefully we will see edits for the final two of Times Arrow and Descent. Keep them coming CBS and please continue with Deep Space Nine.

Great A/V, good extras, weak edit.
It's likely that most fans interested in this release have already seen "Redemption", the two-part cliffhanger that bridged TNG's fourth and fifth season. In short, this politically-charged story centers around Worf's desire to clear his family name, the possibility of a Klingon civil war and the reveal of a mysterious woman that resembles a former Enterprise crew member. As a two-part episode, it's quite good. Most "Top 10 TNG Episode" lists won't mention it, but it's definitely an above average story that fans should enjoy revisiting.

This new "feature-length edit", like the one created for the Blu-ray release of "The Best of Both Worlds", is a little weak. Both halves are simply mushed together with no real transition...and though some time has passed between the events of Parts I and II, you wouldn't know it by the way the two scenes are suddenly cut together. I'll definitely watch it "the traditional way" in the future; like "BOBW", some things just can't be...

Fascinating Look at Klingon Culture
While I have purchased Seasons One, Two, and Three of 'The Next Generation,' Season One of 'Enterprise,' and 'Best of Both Worlds' on Blu-Ray from Amazon, I did not purchase Season Four of 'TNG' or 'Redemption' from Amazon. I typically pre-order, which I forgot to do this time. I randomly found them at Target for the same prices Amazon was offering($59.99 and $12.99), however Target gave me Season Four for $49.99 for buying them together. This is not something I would chance again because I've always preferred Amazon and its reliability.

"Redemption" was not favorite two-part episode from 'The Next Generation,' however it's still a great story and offers a more fascinating look inside Klingon culture and politics. The extras on the set include interviews with Michael Dorn (Worf), Robert O'Reilly (Gowron), Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar/Sela), and Gwyneth Walsh (B'Etor). In the interests of consistency, since CBS Digital is handling the remaster of the upcoming release of Season...

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