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The Star Trek movie that just sort of.... exists.

posted 8 years ago by M_Exchange
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It's the joke of the entire canon. It's mind-blowing that this film came out after my two all-time favorite Trek movies (Generations and First Contact).
Ironically, I remember the day when I saw it in Detroit in '98 vividly, but I've forgotten almost everything about the movie itself even though I've now seen it three times. I remember that I was visiting friends in Michigan, and I couldn't even remember plot details or anything. I just wound up saying that it's like a long, bad episode of The Next Generation.
Even the bad ones from the original run (1-6) had memorable moments. This thing is just... there.
And I think that we can all agree that even Nemesis is more memorable because a) Data dies and b) we saw Tom Hardy before he was TOM HARDY.

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[–] ShallowAl69 8 years ago

First Contact is not only thee worst Star Trek film EVER made.

It's also thee WORST film ever made.

In my opinion.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Hahahaha I was thinking the exact same thing .... bump.

[–] strntz (12736) 7 years ago

And I think that we can all agree that even Nemesis is more memorable because .. Data dies ...

Certainly memorable.

I'm ambivalent about a few of the movies because of the penchant of killing off the characters. I loved Wrath of Khan but hate when Spock dies. BUT, Kirk gets Spock back!!...... but at the expense of his son.... who dies... Then we lose Data in Nemesis. At least Data being an artificial life form (and his O'Reilly Auto Parts B-4 service replacement head being available) has the possibility of being fully restored by his clever download of his Katra into the aftermarket head.

[–] Volley (3434) 6 years ago

I do like this movie. It gives us the only official glimpse of the TNG-crew during the later stages of the Dominion War, the war which nearly resulted in the major power from the Gamma Quadrant overwhelming the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans.

In the official canon, the Son'a are allied with the Dominion, providing them with Ketracel White, a substance that the millions of Jem'hadar soldiers of the Dominion require. This probably explains how the Son'a were able to have the resources to construct the massive Collector--a huge vessel, many times larger than the Enterprise-E.

Though I think it would have been much better received had the movie actually been about a major escalation or battle of the Dominion War, and as a plus it would have got more people into watching Deep Space Nine.

[–] TexasJack (12516) 6 years ago

It's not bad, it just seems to me more like a two-part episode of the show than a movie.