Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6 was released on VHS in the UK in a two-episode-per-tape format by CIC Video in 1993-1994. The release was deleted on 1 January 1998.
Releases[]
- Dates in italics are approximations based on release frequency, where no exact date is available. UK products are normally released on a Monday.
From 1988 onward (starting with the Next Generation rentals), the UK CIC Video releases had served as the template for all Star Trek tape releases in the rest of Europe, Australasia (it being a PAL territory as well), and Japan (despite being a NTSC territory), with local branches of CIC Video responsible for either subtitling or dubbing in the language of the target market, as well as optionally adapting sleeve cover art to local tastes. The later Netherlands/Flanders video case sleeve cover art for example, was virtually indistinguishable from their UK counterparts, save for the ratings and text imprint language of the episode summaries/disclaimers on the back cover art, whereas some European countries, such as the Nordics, sometimes sported redesigned sleeve cover art.
Rental release[]
Along with the 1993-94 retail issues, a four-episode-per-tape release took place somewhere in mid-1990s, albeit exclusive to Blockbuster Video (UK) only. This release did not take account of season divisions, and so the volume containing the last episodes of a season would sometimes also include the first episodes of the next. These rental reissues differed in this respect from the retail releases by containing four episodes instead of two as what they called "Rental Exclusives". Obviously not intended for retail sale, some copies did turn up in the second hand market after all, among others through the UK Blockbuster Video rental chain itself[1], after the VHS/DVD rental circuit ceased to exist a couple of years later.
| Volume Number | Catalogue Number | Cover | Episodes | Certificate | Release Date |
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| 32 | VHB 2972 | 
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| 33 | VHB 2973 | 
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| 34 | VHB 2974 | 
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| 35 | VHB 2975 | 
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| 36 | VHB 2976 | 
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| 37 | VHB 2977 | 
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| 38 | VHB 2978 | 
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CIC Video[]
At this point, CIC had dropped the "New Stars. New Stories. New Worlds to Explore." tagline from the cover sleeves of its TNG VHS releases.
| Volume Number | Catalogue Number | Cover | Episodes | Certificate | Release Date |
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| 64 | VHR 2668 |  ASIN B000057N6H |
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26 April 1993 | |
| 65 | VHR 2704 |  ASIN B0F84WKZZ3 |
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| 66 | VHR 2722 |  ASIN B0F85BBK48 |
17 May 1993 | ||
| 67 | VHR 2725 |  ASIN B000057N6K |
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| 68 | VHR 2726 |  ASIN B000057N6L |
7 June 1993 | ||
| 69 | VHR 2727 |  ASIN B000057N6M |
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| 70 | VHR 2728 |  ASIN B000057N6N |
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6 September 1993 | |
| 71 | VHR 2729 |  ASIN B00004RVJB |
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18 October 1993 | |
| 72 | VHR 2730 |  ASIN B00004RVJ3 |
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| 73 | VHR 2731 |  ASIN B000057N6O |
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22 November 1993 | |
| 74 | VHR 2732 |  ASIN B000057N6P |
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| 75 | VHR 2737 |  ASIN B00004RVJ4 |
10 January 1994 | ||
| 76 | VHR 2738 |  ASIN B000057N6Q |
Other releases featuring TNG Season 6 episodes[]
| Volume/Set | Catalogue Number | Cover | Episodes | Certificate[3] | Release Date |
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| Star Trek: The Next Generation - Borg Box, Tape 3 | VHR 2989 |  ASIN B00004CPRJ |
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5 December 1994 |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation - Q Continuum, Tape 3 | VHR 2990 |  ASIN B00004CPR |
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| Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Full Length TV Movies, Volume 5 | VHR 4105 |  ASIN B00004CQA4 |
13 March 1995 | ||
| Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Full Length TV Movies, Volume 6 | VHR 4106 |  ASIN B00004CQAX |
27 March 1995 | ||
| Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Full Length TV Movies, Volume 7 | VHR 4107 |  ASIN B00004CQB2 |
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10 April 1995 | |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Full Length TV Movies, Volume 8 | VHR 4108 |  ASIN B00004CQGF |
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24 April 1995 | |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation - Data Box, Tape 3 | VHR 4222 |  ASIN B00004RX6G |
6 November 1995 | ||
| Star Trek - Crossovers Set, Tape 3 | VHR 4223 |  ASIN B00005421I |
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| Star Trek: The Next Generation - 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition, Tape 2 | VHR 4553 |  ASIN B0033GOIF6 |
29 September 1997 |
External links[]
- Original release VHS sleeve gallery at TrekCore
- Re-release VHS sleeve gallery at TrekCore
- Star Trek VHS: A Trekollections Curveball (Part I) at Some Kind of Star Trek
Footnotes[]
- ↑ Rental copies had the distinct advantage over their retail counterparts in that they were much sturdier; confronted with intensive use, the rental copies were manufactured with much thicker tapes than the retail copies were, which improved their longevity substantially.
- ↑ Also includes "The Inner Light" and "Time's Arrow" from TNG Season 5.
- ↑ In the case of sets, the certificate is over the set as a whole (unless stated otherwise).
- ↑ In feature-length form with "Time's Arrow"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 In feature-length form.
- ↑ In feature-length form with "Descent, Part II"
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