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Nitpicks on "Star Trek: Nemesis"
Dec. 16th, 2002 01:49 pmNote: Accidently had "disallow comments" set. It's been fixed now.
Okay. Saw the new Star Trek movie friday night. Overall, on a scale of 1 to 10, I'll rate it a four. Some comments.
The script really came across as a weird mix of Star Trek II and Star Trek IV. Didn't quite work.
Admiral Janeway?? Gak. Picard saves the Federation how many times and is still a captain, while Janeway manages to pilot a lost ship back after 5 years and gets promoted to Admiral. Unless he's turned down promotions, in which case why is he still commanding a ship??
Rule of thumb - most military organizations, (or quasi-military in Starfleet's case), will accept it when someone tells them that they're not ready for increased responsibility, will never dream of offering that person that responsibility again - ever. Or trouble them with any further responsibility. One's carrer is usually over if you turn down a promotion.
Picard, trying to cripple the enemy ship, steers a seriously damaged Enterprise into a low-speed collision with the enemy ship, plowing into the enemy ship. What does the enemy ship do? Back up in full reverse. Why does this work? Because for some reason, the Enterprise is just sitting there motionless in space! Gee, I didn't know the Enterprise had dropped anchor and couldn't be moved..........
Front of the bridge gets a direct hit though the main screen. Bridge is opened into space, throwing Ensign Expendable out into space and the wonders of explosive decompression. However, everyone else manages to hang on long enough to activate an emergency force field to seal the breech. That being done, they then take a few minutes to repair things on the bridge before going back into battle with this gaping hole in the front of the bridge. Gee, seems like spending the time transfering the bridge crew to the emergency bridge would have been better spent, rather than trusting your entire command staff to a single force field on a ship that is already significantly damaged in most of it's systems. (Mind you, this happens before Picard does his "Chicken" run on the other ship.)
(Side note: Never read a "Honor Harrington" book while waiting for a Trek movie to start. I kept wondering during this scene why Starfleet never developed a skinsuit......)
At the end of the movie, Riker, (now happily married to Troi), *finally* accepts command of a ship and leaves Enterprise. See above rant about what happens to people who keep turning down promotions. We know that Riker turned down promotions and his own command twice during the series, why the heck was he offered a third chance to command? For that matterm why was he offered a second chance to command, *and* left as second-in-command of Starfleet's flagship?? Starfleet's reaction should have been "Oh, gee, we're so sorry we bothered you with the oportunity to command your own starship. We certainly *won't* trouble you with that problem - or promotion - ever again. Oh, and hope you like a Commander's retirement pay....."
One side note: They find and assemble Data's prototype, "B-4". My first reaction on hearing the name was wondering if he was going to disappear 48 hours after being turned on.......
Okay. Saw the new Star Trek movie friday night. Overall, on a scale of 1 to 10, I'll rate it a four. Some comments.
The script really came across as a weird mix of Star Trek II and Star Trek IV. Didn't quite work.
Admiral Janeway?? Gak. Picard saves the Federation how many times and is still a captain, while Janeway manages to pilot a lost ship back after 5 years and gets promoted to Admiral. Unless he's turned down promotions, in which case why is he still commanding a ship??
Rule of thumb - most military organizations, (or quasi-military in Starfleet's case), will accept it when someone tells them that they're not ready for increased responsibility, will never dream of offering that person that responsibility again - ever. Or trouble them with any further responsibility. One's carrer is usually over if you turn down a promotion.
Picard, trying to cripple the enemy ship, steers a seriously damaged Enterprise into a low-speed collision with the enemy ship, plowing into the enemy ship. What does the enemy ship do? Back up in full reverse. Why does this work? Because for some reason, the Enterprise is just sitting there motionless in space! Gee, I didn't know the Enterprise had dropped anchor and couldn't be moved..........
Front of the bridge gets a direct hit though the main screen. Bridge is opened into space, throwing Ensign Expendable out into space and the wonders of explosive decompression. However, everyone else manages to hang on long enough to activate an emergency force field to seal the breech. That being done, they then take a few minutes to repair things on the bridge before going back into battle with this gaping hole in the front of the bridge. Gee, seems like spending the time transfering the bridge crew to the emergency bridge would have been better spent, rather than trusting your entire command staff to a single force field on a ship that is already significantly damaged in most of it's systems. (Mind you, this happens before Picard does his "Chicken" run on the other ship.)
(Side note: Never read a "Honor Harrington" book while waiting for a Trek movie to start. I kept wondering during this scene why Starfleet never developed a skinsuit......)
At the end of the movie, Riker, (now happily married to Troi), *finally* accepts command of a ship and leaves Enterprise. See above rant about what happens to people who keep turning down promotions. We know that Riker turned down promotions and his own command twice during the series, why the heck was he offered a third chance to command? For that matterm why was he offered a second chance to command, *and* left as second-in-command of Starfleet's flagship?? Starfleet's reaction should have been "Oh, gee, we're so sorry we bothered you with the oportunity to command your own starship. We certainly *won't* trouble you with that problem - or promotion - ever again. Oh, and hope you like a Commander's retirement pay....."
One side note: They find and assemble Data's prototype, "B-4". My first reaction on hearing the name was wondering if he was going to disappear 48 hours after being turned on.......
