Product Details

• Actors: LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden
• Directors: LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Gabrielle Beaumont, Robert Becker, Cliff Bole
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: March 2, 1999
• Run Time: 46 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000003K5S
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #346,318 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worf has a REALLY nasty bad day, February 21, 2000

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Kayla Rigney "To save one life is to save the... (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 163: Parallels [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Parallels is arguably the most enjoyable "alternate reality" episode of all time. From its inception, one of the underlying messages of TNG is "anything and everything is possible." Parallels takes this to the extreme. I really enjoyed the way the normally unflappable Worf becomes increasingly baffled when confronted by weird gifts, ever-changing realities and the truly awesome (frightening?) discovery that he's suddenly married to Deanna Troi -- a fact he doesn't remember and probably never even consciously considered. The storyline shifts very quickly between realities and is downright surreal. I loved every minute of it. Non-TNG viewers might find Parallels confusing, but fans will definitely appreciate it. A lot.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great "what if?" episode!, May 7, 2001

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Joe White (Layton, Utah United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 163: Parallels [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Two things make "Parallels" great:

1. It's a Worf episode. You can't go wrong there.

2. It features parallel (or alternate) realities. Trek has almost always been successful with this type of episode. Remember classic Trek's "Mirror, Mirror"? Or TNG's "Yesterday's Enterprise"? You get the idea.

It's fun to see our favorite characters in new roles. As Worf bounces around from reality to reality (he hit one of those time warp/quantum flux space anomalies that seem so common in Trek), we see an Enterprise where Captain Picard was lost to the Borg, Riker is now the Captain and Worf is Riker's first officer. We see a reality where Wesley Crusher is the chief security/tactical officer. Another reality has a Cardassian flight control officer and the Federation is at war with the Bajorans! And in yet another reality, Worf is married to Troi! Fun all around!

Usually, this type of episode would feature Riker or Picard or Data as the central character bouncing through parallel universe to parallel universe. But this time it is Worf. It isn't that Worf doesn't get his own stories (only Picard and Data had more in TNG's seven year run), it's just that Worf stories are generally tied into Klingon politics or raising his son Alexander. It's nice that we get to see Worf as the central character in an episode dealing with time and space rather than the interworkings of Klingon politics.

Strong episode and one of TNG's best. It is a darn, fun episode, too. Worf as first officer...what could have been...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The only TNG episode worth buying., June 30, 2001

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William B. Anderson (GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 163: Parallels [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I'm not a THG fan, but this episode is as good as best from any of the shows. Worf keeps shifting from parallel universe to universe. The differences are at first subtle, then more and more pronounced. The only way it could have been better is if Worf had stayed in a universe where Riker was captain.