XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
      
   On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:58:47 +0100, Jaxtraw wrote:   
      
   > Personally I've nothing against space battles a la Nemesis. In fact, I   
   > rather applaud that they attempted for once to do a really good one in Trek.   
      
   I thought it (Nemesis space battle) turned out pretty well, but the   
   problem was that we have already seen the Enterprise get demolished in   
   a movie.   
      
   ST:II: seriously banged up; almost destroyed.   
   ST:III: Completely destroyed.   
   ST:VII: Ent. B gouged pretty feircly.   
   ST:VII: Ent. D crash-landed; basically destroyed.   
      
   So by the time Picard decided to ram Shinzon, we'd already "been   
   there, done that." Yawn.   
      
   > It had it's moments. The ramming sequence was a nice idea and nicely   
   > executed. Unfortunately, like the rest of the script it makes Picard look   
   > like a fuckwit, since he seems to have given no thought to what to do   
   > *after* he's crashed the Enterprise into Shinzon's death star.   
      
   Actually, that isn't hard to take.  His goal, all else be damned, was   
   to stop Shinzon from wiping out Earth.   
      
   What I couldn't swallow was what you already described... turning   
   Picard into a total and complete loser. We know Picard well enough   
   that looking death in the face would not turn him into a vegetable,   
   and yet a vegetable is precisely what Data saved at the end of the   
   sequence.   
      
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