Star Trek: The Original Series
Obsession
©1989 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.
Episode:  47     Airdate:  December 15, 1967
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Family
©1990 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.
Episode:  78     Airdate:  October 1, 1990
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
The Adversary
©1995 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.
Episode:  72     Airdate:  June 19, 1995
Star Trek: Voyager
Caretaker
©1995 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.
Episode:  1 & 2     Airdate:  January 16, 1995

Catalog Number LV15340-3
Format Extended Play CLV
Table of Contents
Running Time 235 minutes
Side Chapters Running Time
1 11 51min 11sec
2 8 46min 16sec
3 7 46min 14sec
5 8 43min 40sec
6 9 46min 12sec
43 236min 33sec
Pressing Location Pioneer Video Manufacturing
Retail Price $99.98
Issued September 10, 1996

Dolby Surround

Star Trek: The Original Series
Obsession
Directed by Ralph Senensky
Written by Art Wallace
Produced by Gene L. Coon
Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry
Starring William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
DeForest Kelley
Guest Star Stephen Brooks
Stardate 3619.2
While assigned to a routine planetary exploration, Captain Kirk and his party encounter a vampire cloud creature that thrives on red blood corpuscles - with deadly results.

It turns out that Kirk, eleven years earlier, while on the U.S.S. Farragut assignment, had hesitated when confronted by the same creature and failed to fire his phaser in time to save the ship's captain. Haunted by his guilt, Kirk seizes the opportunity to set things right by destroying the creature.

When Kirk's attempts to destroy the cloud result in the deaths of several crew members and delay the Enterprise's mission to deliver an urgently needed vaccine, McCoy and Spock suspect him of pursuing an out-of-control obsession.

But to Kirk, it's not an obsession. He has an intuition - a "captain's intuition" - that while the costs may be great, he must pursue the creature wherever it takes him, and destroy it.


This episode is Mono.


Star Trek: The Next Generation
Family
Directed by Les Landau
Written by Ronald D. Moore
Premise by Susanne Lambdin and Bryan Stewart
Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry
Starring Patrick Stewart
Jonathan Frakes
Also Starring LeVar Burton
Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden
Marina Sirtis
Brent Spiner
Wil Wheaton
Guest Star Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan
Stardate 44012.3
Captain Jean-Luc Picard has always taken great pride in his distinguished career as a Starfleet officer. But after being captured by the Borg and used to help destroy 39 Federation starships and their crews, Picard now considers himself a failure.

During his physical and psychological rehabilitation, Picard returns to his home in LaBarre, France, where his older brother, Robert, still tends the family vineyard. Always resentful of Picard's stellar achievements and unmitigated pride, Robert enjoys seeing Picard brought down to Earth.

Picard's loss of confidence becomes all too clear when he is offered a position to head a scientific project and seriously considers leaving Starfleet to take the job. Seeing Picard fail to own up to his feelings, Robert seizes the opportunity to attack Picard's façade of perfection - and forces him to confront the truth about himself.


Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
The Adversary
Directed by Alexander Singer
Written by Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Executive Producer Rick Berman
Starring Avery Brooks
Also Starring René Auberjonois
Siddig El Fadil
Terry Farrell
Cirroc Lofton
Colm Meaney
Armin Shimerman
Nana Visitor
Stardate 48959.1
When Benjamin Sisko receives his promotion to the rank of captain, little does he know that he's about to receive the full test of that rank. Captain Sisko's first assignment is to take his ship, the Defiant, near the Tzenkethi border to make certain a recent coup doesn't spread into aggressive acts against the Federation colonies. En route, Sisko learns that somebody has sabotaged virtually all of the ship's systems.

It turns out that a Changeling is on board, using its power to assume any form while it controls the ship. Cloaked, armed and headed for an innocent Tzenkethi settlement, the Changeling has programmed the Defiant to provoke a war.

While Sisko leads a systematic search for the Changeling, the Defiant nears its target. Faced with the toughest decision of his life, Sisko elects to arm the ship's self-destruct mechanism rather than start a war. When the crew supports his decision - in spite of the fact that they may die - Sisko's stature as captain is proven.


Star Trek: Voyager
Caretaker
Directed by Winrich Kolbe
Teleplay by Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor
Story by Rick Berman, Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor
Executive Producers Rick Berman & Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor
Starring Kate Mulgrew
Also Starring Robert Beltran
Roxann Biggs-Dawson
Jennifer Lein
Robert Duncan McNeill
Ethan Phillips
Robert Picardo
Tim Russ
Garrett Wang
Stardate 48315.6
Captain Kathryn Janeway is assigned to go after a rebel Maquis ship that disappeared into "The Badlands." But the Voyager is struck by the same violent force that hit the Maquis, sending it all the way across the Galaxy. There they are confronted by a huge, mysterious craft - the Array - operated by a single, very powerful alien, "The Caretaker."

Janeway, together with the Maquis rebels, tries to convince the Caretaker to return them to Federation territory. But he is preoccupied with his responsibility to protect the people of a nearby planet, the Ocampa. It turns out the Caretaker is dying and doesn't have time for Janeway's request. Instead, he asks her to destroy the Array after his death - otherwise the ruthless Kazon will use it against the helpless Ocampa.

Captain Janeway is confronted with a serious dilemma: if she uses the Array to go home, it will mean certain death for the Ocampa. But if she destroys the Array, her ship and crew will be stranded - and it'll take more than 70 years to get home!


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