Christian Bradshaw
I think choosing David Carson as director was the biggest mistake, unless you leave out the space battles and fights (he directed season 3 episode 'Yesterday's Enterprise' which was a great story, until the battle scene which puts the kick-ass Enterprise-D to shame, just like in this film). Good acting with horrible direction...watch only once before deciding to buy.
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*n *s
This movie is sincere, entertaining, and at times beautiful. I didn't like it very much when it came out, but I better appreciate its well orchestrated themes now that I'm older. Kirk's death remains a disappointment, I wish he'd had an ambiguous fate in some unexpected, positive Nexus aftereffect worthy of Trek's greatest character. Two generations collide... sort of... and two aging Captains must escape a space-ripping dreamland offering them illusions of the lives they could have had. Kirk's confusion leaves the viewer wondering if this Nexus-Kirk might be an illusion himself. But the movie is strong enough that audiences had little choice but to accept Kirk's abrupt ending. Great scenes throughout, some that will bring tears (including Kirk talking to his dog who had passed away years before), some obligatory movie moments like Data using a colorful metaphor, and a heartbroken scientist villain who wants to step out of time and join his slain family in illusion form in the time-defying Nexus. "Time is the fire in which we burn," Soran, the crazed scientist, tells a stunned Picard early in the movie. The Delmore Schwartz quote is meant to be haunting in the movie's context. And it is. Look past the gratuitous silver screen scenes and enjoy an exuberant but melancholy Trek adventure.
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Brian Swanson
Good story. Director made a critical mistake with the lighting being green and dark. The way the Enterprise shields were defeated in the movie can't happen. I guess the writers didn't read the tng technical manual. Of course they had to find a way to destroy the ship so Voyager could use the sets.
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