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by Nitride
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Original message modified Jun 16, 2004 @ 15:08:
Topic: All Good Things - blah
I really didn't like All Good Things. It meandered all over the place with these "new" endpoints for all the characters that kinda sorta gave us an answer to what *may* happen down the road.

Of course, the series was not going away forever, it was merely transforming into a film franchise. The future story lines and "Warp 13" were so out of place it was comical. But the fans explain it away so that it makes some kind of sense (because the writers certainly didn't make anything that makes sense).

So how does a medical doctor become the captain of a starship anyway? Night school? Affirmative Action? Warp 13 if the big bubble starship that looks like some leftover prop from TOS! Bwahahahaha!

The best tv series-to-movie transition was with The X-Files. We ended the season with an open story arc, got a movie that continued right where we left of (largely) in the arc, filled in a LOT of details and so on, and we got back to the series picking up right where the movie left off. Brilliant!

The first TNG movie was oddly paced; Enterprise B with an inept Captain (how did he get to be Captain if he can't handle a non-combat crisis?), Guinan somehow central to the whole movie as nothing more than a anthropomorphic transporter to let the story jump from one place to another with seeming continuity.

First Contact is right next to Star Trek II in my list of top movies. At least it was interesting to watch, unlike Insurrection or Nemesis and especially All Good Things.

Picard coming unglued as he sought revenge against the Borg was awesome (Captain Ahab of the Future), oh yeah and he was fighting to preserve the future and stuff (Time Travel as plot-crutch, now the entire basis of the fourth Star Trek series). You can tell when writers aren't trying very hard when time travel is introduced to solve whatever problem the characters/story has in it.

All other Star Trek TNG movies never reached the level of First Contact because they were filled with wishy-washy limp-wristed story lines. Nemesis wouldn't even have happened if Enterprise had waited a week or so based on the rapid deterioration of Picard's clone.
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