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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

What I can say? They all are great! Some are better than others, but still is very enjoyable, why there is so mixed reviews about it? I can understand some specific complains, but that dosen't make it bad.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Generations is one of my favorites. Frequently underrated, imo. I honestly might place it above First Contact but I love all of Gene's children equally.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Generations is a fun movie, but I demand an edit where Picard uses the Nexus to go back and save his nephew from burning to death and then uses his foreknowledge to defeat Soren easily.

Why is it okay to go back to save millions of Veridians but not to save Remy and then the Veridians by extension? Either way you're messing with the timeline. Soren already won.

[–] Anticorp 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just watched First Contact again a few days ago, and I honestly don't understand why it is the highest rated TNG movie. I didn't think it was very good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It is the best of a bad bunch. The TOS movies inspired the TNG movies. The TNG movies inspired a lull in the movies (no call for a DS9 or Voyager or Enterprise movie) that had to be filled with a reboot.

[–] chronicledmonocle 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I honestly think Generations gets hated on more than it should because the Enterprise D is destroyed. People love that ship.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I thought the crossover element of Generations really brought it down. The original cast had a far better farewell in Star Trek VI, and I don’t think the writers of Generations had enough to say about Kirk’s character to justify the tortured story logic that brought him in.

Give me a Kirkless cut and I’ll be so much happier. All the pure TNG elements work fine for me, McDowell is great, and the D looks beautiful with cinematic lighting.

[–] directive0 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It was cool how they killed off Kirk though. He died as he lived; on the bridge!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] directive0 3 points 2 months ago

Adjacent to the bridge. Close enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Now see, if they’d had Jokester Data drop that pun right before the credits rolled, I’d have forgiven the whole thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I found the crossover kind of neutral. I don't think it made the film much better or worse. I think a nice thing could have been some sort of Nimoy cameo at the end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

My sad take is that I felt like I noticed a shift in the opinions of fandom after that infamous Red Letter Media review in 2012. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love those reviews and think they're hilarious, but a lot of Redditors (and Lemmy-ers) seemed to look at the Plinkett character as someone worth emulating instead of despising.