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[FUBAR-BDHR]

Lack of lightning is the first thing.  Nexus hitting the Earth hasn't resulted in paradise is the second. 

[General Battuta]

That movie was so terrible that I would prefer not to compare anything cool to it.

That includes auroras and the ISS.

[NGTM-1R]

I have a confession to make.

I LIKED GENERATIONS AND THE BOOKS SHATNER WROTE BASED ON IT.

[Goober5000]

I liked the first part of Generations, the Enterprise-B part, right up until Deck 15 got struck by lightning. :-/

I also like the Shatnerverse novels.

[General Battuta]

I liked the Shatnerverse novels. Actually, I liked them a lot. I think he works well with the Reeves-Stevens, who are crazy epic at Star Trek books.

But anyone who likes Generations is a nutter. I mean, Guinan says, "You can go back to anywhere (anywhen, too, I think) you choose." And Picard goes back to...a few minutes ago on the surface of Veridian III?

Go back Ten-Forward after the observatory rescue and PUNCH SORAN IN THE FACE

I mean srsly now

[SpardaSon21]

Wow, I had totally forgotten about Generations.  I thought you were talking about the subspace nexus in Nexus: The Jupiter Incident when I saw the title.

[Colonol Dekker]

Me too.
 
I like Malcolm/Tolwyn in any film. His gun was awesome, as was the Nova missile. As were the first five minutes.
 
 
Shame it'll never ever happen now that Spock blew up Romulus and went back in time then miners killed Kirks dad altering history.

[Mefustae]

Shame it'll never ever happen now that Spo-

NO.

[Snail]

Discontinuity please.

[Wobble73]

So did the occupants of the ISS get any special powers (ala Fantastic Four)? 

[headdie]

So did the occupants of the ISS get any special powers (ala Fantastic Four)? 

there is goint to be a record number of women onboard any time now

[Kopachris]

That movie was so terrible that I would prefer not to compare anything cool to it.

That includes auroras and the ISS.

I have a confession to make.

I LIKED GENERATIONS AND THE BOOKS SHATNER WROTE BASED ON IT.

But anyone who likes Generations is a nutter. I mean, Guinan says, "You can go back to anywhere (anywhen, too, I think) you choose." And Picard goes back to...a few minutes ago on the surface of Veridian III?

Go back Ten-Forward after the observatory rescue and PUNCH SORAN IN THE FACE

I mean srsly now

Conclusion: Generations is so bad that it's good?

On topic: The Nexus isn't green, and it's hiding somewhere else in our solar system.

[Flipside]

Generations was a fumbled baton-pass, that's why Next Gen movies stumbled along for a few paces and eventually tripped over.

The original plan was for the Enterprise-D and the Enterprise-B to get into a fight with each other, but no-one could think of a situation where two Starfleet vessels would fire on each other (they could get away with it in DS9). Thing is Star Trek isn't really big-screen material, there have been more dodgy ST movies, in my opinion, than good ones.

As a movie, the latest movie works, it was exciting, it was fun, it was thrilling, it was also over-exposed, but you can't have everything. The only way the movie could suceed, however, was by throwing out everything 'Star Trek', the Federation is barely mentioned as anything other than a target, in fact, the entire mentality of the Star Trek universe is barely given a nod between the explosions. The truth is that, in my opinion, it's was removing those beliefs that made the new Star Trek such a good movie, but it is the existence of those beliefs that makes it such a good series.

[Vrets]

Wrath of Khan was the only ST movie I liked; the rest were bupkiss.

The "new" ST was horrible; loud, stupid, pointless. I sat through it to be sociable.

[karajorma]

You didn't like The Voyage Home? Or Undiscovered Country?

Heathen! BURN HIM!

[Flipside]

I think that, for the latest film, if you went to the cinema with illusions of it being Star Trek in any manner other than purely cosmetic, then you were destined for dissapointment, if, however, you were (a) forewarned and (b) just really going out to enjoy a movie, and not being overly bothered which, it was enjoyable enough

[karajorma]

I think the last Trek film seriously suffered from the same flaw that Plinkett goes on and on about in his Star Wars reviews. The battle scenes are so dense that they simply become a light show. You can't actually follow what's going on cause it's all about cramming so many special effects into view that they forget that the whole point of special effects is to allow the viewer to better understand what is going on in the scene.

Ironically in the TV show and earlier movies it cost so much to do effects that we saw them used sparingly in order to do this.

[Flipside]

I'll agree, that was a problem, the thing is, using a shakycam effect creates motion blur, and motion blur on lights with a lens flare just results in a big white smudge, which is approximately what 20% of the film consisted of.

[NGTM-1R]

I think the last Trek film seriously suffered from the same flaw that Plinkett goes on and on about in his Star Wars reviews. The battle scenes are so dense that they simply become a light show. You can't actually follow what's going on cause it's all about cramming so many special effects into view that they forget that the whole point of special effects is to allow the viewer to better understand what is going on in the scene.

You know a lot of people want to level that charge at recent movies, but the only one that actually did the task overload thing in my experience was Revenge of the Fallen. Star Trek was actually quite far from it.

And Flipside needs a new prescription.