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Just watched this last night and it truly is a presentation the film deserves.
Love what they've done with it and the extra scenes really add to the story. A massively underrated film.
I didn't appreciate it as a 13 year old back in 1979 when I saw it at the cinema. In fact I thought it was boring. (It wasn't Star Wars..)
Now I consider it an epic and beautifully paced film. A film I just savour watching it. Much like I do with 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Some really nice in depth extras as well to delve into. All together a really essential package.
They sort of look better (although they're a bit over-designed, with bits and pieces everywhere) but I'd much prefer to be wearing TMP uniforms if I was stuck on a starship for months at a time! Give me a lovely comfy short sleeve shirt over a constrictive turtleneck under a button-up tunic any day of the week! :)
Never change, Riker.
I think Spock was alluding to his regret over what happened with Gorkon and how he essentially forced his shipmates into a situation that initially went sideways. So by TNG, he’s trying to avoid making that mistake again by forming an underground movement rather than using the same official channels.
In fact the references to TUC I think were written in by Nimoy himself. The two parter came out a few weeks before the film and he slipped it in the episode partly because it would be a way to promote his film.
Talk about a one two punch at the end there.
Brent spiner :))
S4
1. Reunion
2. Brothers
3. Family
4. Data's Day
5. Future Imperfect
S5
1. Ethics
2. The Outcast
3. The Inner Light
4. The First Duty
5. I, Borg
S5 was a little weaker than 3-4, but it certainly had it's share of standouts. S6 so far is back on top form.
As of Episode 5, Deep Space Nine is pretty decent. I've heard it takes a while to get really good, like TNG, but the first season doesn't seem like it's gonna be as torturous.
Apparently my love of the holodeck episodes is atypical...
DS9’s first season is weak but decent and has necessary world building. I think it really takes off starting with S2 once they’ve figured out the characters better, and from then on it just build and builds into a better show.
"An abysmal place, Earth. Oh, don't get me wrong. 1,000 years ago it had character. Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, Watergate. Now it's just mind-numbingly dull."
1. Chain of Command Part II
2. Tapestry
3. Rightful Heir
4. Ship In a Bottle
5. Relics (discussion below)
Descent (TNG 6×26/7×01)
1. Duet
2. Dax
3. Progress
4. Q-Less
5. Emissary
DS9 S2
If you already enjoy DS9 by its first season, then it’s gonna be smooth sailing from there. The opening trilogy of episodes was the show attempting for more serialized approach which will become more evident in later seasons that they stop using “to be continued”.
Also, I think this clip is a really great demonstration of the chemistry the cast has:
Nareel: "Religiously."
This show has some great dialogue.
With Dax in S1, they were trying to write her as a wise old sage that Sisko would confide in. But they didn’t know how to work with that until they loosened up her character as fun loving that gambles and fights, yet still the “old man” Sisko comes to for guidance.
Ep 9 was great they have done tremendous job at making
Ep 10 Season Finale I really love the production on this series, good episode this show is the best new Trek by far.
1. All Good Things
2. Preemptive Strike
3. The Pegasus
4. Lower Decks
5. Parallels
Definitely a weaker season than 3-6, but it had it's share of classics for sure. AGT was a fantastic finale.
As for Generations...
Quite enjoyed the HMS Enterprise scene. Nice to see Worf promoted, and it's really not beyond the pale that Riker would fuck with Worf a bit (he looks pretty cool in the DS9 style outfit). The reaction to Data doing exactly the same action to Beverly was really contrived though. It's obviously only like that to facilitate the emotion chip, which is...not so great. The Farpoint reference was cute and "oh shit" worked alright. The Stellar Cartography scene was decent too. Everything else was a misfire that made Data painful to watch.
The destruction of the E-D was the other really good sequence of the film. Especially the crash. Tense and cinematic. By the way, the bridge looked great. Shame it's gone, but I'm looking forward to seeing the E.
Soran was no great Trek villain, but McDowell does play him very well ("time is the fire in which we burn" was a pretty good line). The Nexus is incredibly underdeveloped as to what it actually is (You can time travel in addition to the fantasy?), and the plot holes it creates in regards to Picard choosing to go back when he does instead of various earlier points (the space station, to Robert and Rene, even back to the B, etc) are problematic.
Speaking of Picard and his family, I don't object to the idea of them dying in principle and Stewart does alright with it, but incineration is pretty brutal. I wish his Nexus fantasy was a little more character based than just referencing Stewart's Christmas Carol, neat as it is. Beverly as his wife? Something archeology related maybe?
And of course, there's Kirk. I'll be blunt, they botched it. He's in the film for the first 15 minutes and then totally disappears until the last 20 minutes. I certainly don't mind Kirk's ever present loneliness figuring into his Nexus dreamworld, but why a character we've never seen or heard of before, especially when they're fine with just having her appear as a silhouette? Why not Carol or David, or even a TOS flame? And the Enterprise not showing up at all is bollocks. Six films repeatedly showing how empty Kirk feels when he's not on the Enterprise bridge, and it's not in his fantasy? I know they couldn't get Nimoy or Kelley back, but it's weird they're not there either. It's a shame, because I actually think that scene with Kirk in the Nexus is really good and fitting for his arc - but the aforementioned absences make it feel incomplete.
Kirk and Picard interacting is of course very cool, but him dying to a falling bridge like that really soured things. Shatner does his best with the last lines, but it still feels shitty. There's a little bit of pathos in Kirk's death prediction from TFF coming true in a sense (No Spock or McCoy, 80 years out of time, barely knows Picard), but again, it's just not satisfying. Now, not every death needs to be big and heroic obviously. Maybe an anti-climax could've worked for Kirk. But not this. Not with with villain Kirk has no connection to, in a plot where Kirk is totally inessential (he isn't even Picard's first choice to fight Soran!) and has minimal screentime. Picard leaving his body on Veridion III instead of bringing it back to Earth was a really weird choice on his part too. Will Spock, McCoy or Scotty ever know he wasn't dead at all?
It's all just so frustrating. Kirk has become one of my favourite characters ever over five seasons and seven movies, and after the amazing culmination of TUC this is an underwhelming coda. I don't think the concept here was doomed to fail at all. It was the execution that dropped the ball.
At least the last scene with Picard and Riker is good
4/10
The writers even admitted that the best possible story for Kirk and Picard was unfortunately already done with “Yesterday’s Enterprise”.