I'm also a fan of Discovery's take on this trope: Everyone is going to die unless we do something immediately, but let's monologue and/or argue for five on-screen minutes first.
Literally everything about the Ba’ku-Son’a conflict falls apart at the slightest scrutiny.
I know some of the other Trek movies have this problem, but this goes especially for Insurrection: it felt like a mediocre TNG TV episode stretched out way too long. Much like a Son'a skin treatment. Also, there was just something about it that felt like a re-hash of an actual TNG episode, but I can't pin down which one.
I will contend that Generations takes the cake as the worst TNG movie. Obviously, the goal of this film was to get Kirk and Picard on the screen at the same time. Everything else in this film is a contrivance to make this happen, and it's not even good science fiction to get us there. To add grevious insult to injury, we get tragically little screen time between Malcom McDowell and Patrick Stewart and their poorly crafted motivations in the film's "climax". This casting choice should have surpassed Wrath of Kahn by a light year for scenery chewing awesomeness, but is instead overshadowed by Capt. Kirk barely accomplishing anything instead.
Also, in a moment of "let's double-down on fan-service", Picard Season 3 has a nod to Generations. There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment when the gang is on the Daystrom Institute space station. A sealed room is marked as containing the remains of Capt. Kirk, probably of interest since he went MIA only to turn up decades later in Picard's logs as having returned from the Nexus.
Jellico: Hot damn, even their jokes are efficient. I like this crew.
Don't know where that comes from, but I think it has to do with the institutionalized authoritative power that comes with the job. Both are positions that can be abused, and can negatively impact people's lives.
On the other hand, my past landlords were nowhere near as helpful about noise complaints, as the police. So there's that.
I'm all for it.
Janeway: beam Ensign Smartypants back on board. I want to have a little chat about attending staff meetings in uniform.
This guy gets a gig where he plays an instrument. That only has one note. That you don't even have to play in time, or with any particular sense of rhythm. For man-period induced deathmatches and Vulcan speed-dating ceremonies.
OP's deduction is quite logical.
Here's another one. Although their EU cookie compliance workflow is kind of bonkers to use.
Yup. If you want me off the ship that badly, you're gonna have to come down here and push.
I bet the pizza was served cold by the time it got there.
Capt. Jellico approves.
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Sisko is about ready to commit a war crime in that last panel.
Someone needs to reach out to eli_handle_b and make that happen.
Best I can do for now:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_rY6gn7GNM
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLcl8jkbLXM
While I know this is done for humor's sake, I really love this critique.
Similar to the Bechdel Test, this comesvery close to perfectly illustrating the Mako Mori Test:
The requirements of the Mako Mori test are that a film or television show has at least one female character and that this character has an independent plot arc and that the character or her arc does not simply exist to support a male character's plot arc.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mako_Mori_test
I would love to see what the fan edit looks like. I (re)watched it just last week and the theatrical cut is... a mess, to put it gently. There's almost too much going on, with not enough focus on the elements that make the story tick. But there's lots to work with here that would make a very high-production-value 50 minute Trek episode.
Scotty and Uhura's flirting was cute, but it doesn't go anywhere so it's dead weight film-wise. But without it, the characters have even less to say in an already crowded story. It's just sad.
One moment that stuck out to me was the bar fight. Kirk just tosses a Catian stripper, over his head, into a literal "pool" table and she's rendered dead/unconscious floating face down in the water. Either she has bones like a baby bird or Kirk is on 'roids. I can't make sense of that edit unless there was a longer fight that got chopped down somehow. It makes zero sense.
It's also worth mentioning that 17 million scovilles (17,000,000 SHU) is way off the top of the chart by an order of magnitude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale
Gag or not, this may not be for human consumption.
Player: Yikes. I think I have a perk or something to move quickly through the muck....
DM: Okay, but first... the difficult terrain would like a word.
I love how much this fits her character. Leaving the collective and rehabilitating to "normal" life, emotional development was core to her character over Voyager's arc. So a late "teenage angst" arc would only make sense, even if it didn't exactly fit the age of the character.
Then again, we kinda/sorta get this in Picard, just without the goth aesthetic.
Indeed. "StarTrek+" is rapidly becoming my favorite streaming service.
Oh man, that's really close. And no callback to that episode either. Picard or Worf remarking that "they must have gotten the idea from our own logs" would have been way better foreshadowing for the (b)admiral's involvement. It would have also changed the tone to be more Trek thematic, as it would say something deeper about unintended consequences through so much cultural contact.