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   From: steven.davisNOSPAM@BABYblueyonder.co.uk   
      
   Mark Moore wrote:   
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   > What the fuck?!   
   My thoughts exactly, but for different reasons it seems.   
      
   > The series finale sucked so bad! Troi said Trip would die.   
   Which I had no idea about and it brought a great sense of tension to the   
   episode.   
      
   > Then, when   
   > it seemed like Trip would die, he didn't, so we had hope. Then he got   
   > seriously injured, and they cut to a commercial break, and he died   
   > before they came back from break!   
   If you will watch commercials in TV, you have got to expect them to ruin the   
   flow to some extent.   
   Go and get Tivo or something.   
      
   >   
   > The main plot of this episode, rescuing Shran's hitherto unmentioned   
   > daughter, was weak.   
   Nah, was ok. Blue skin was always a good character.   
      
   >   
   > The framing story wasn't better.   
   >   
   > Why bother recreating the Enterprise-D at all if they couldn't get the   
   > details right.   
   Looked ok to me (non fanatic here).   
      
   > And what's this shit about Riker being ready to talk to Captain   
   > Picard? Riker didn't actually decide to break his silence until after   
   > he'd been on the Pegasus, and the Enterprise was trapped in the   
   > asteroid.   
   I didn't really give a shit about what Riker was going to do, and I don't   
   really remember the TNG ep either, which made it slightly confusin.   
      
   >   
   > We didn't even get to see the founding of the Federation. Archer's all   
   > ready to give his big speech, and then Riker's like "Hyuck! Computer,   
   > end program."   
   Amen. Now we agree fully.   
      
   This was what ruined the episode, I loved the rest of it, but then the   
   holodeck was closed and I expected to hear a great speech about sacrifice,   
   understanding differences, exploration, and the WHOLE FUCKING REASON THEY   
   WENT INTO SPACE/WHY HUMANDS SHOULD GET ALONG ON PLANET EARTH that it had   
   been building upto (and would be 10 times better that the retarded shit in   
   the previous episode).   
   Instead I get some BULLSHIT with the 3 enterprises, which seems to kinda   
   MISS THE FUCKING POINT to me.   
      
   I was fully expecting after the holodeck fade out, to a fade in to the   
   speech.   
      
   >   
   > Why did Frakes and Sirtis ever agree to do this?   
   They were ok, not great, but ok.   
   Made me pine a little for TNG actually :-/   
   The episode didn't need to be 6 years in the future anyway, that did just   
   seem like a gimic.   
      
   Perhaps they were signed up to do a lookback holodeck episode before   
   cancellation was known about, that would make sense.   
      
   My rating out of five before the end would have been a 4.5, at the end in   
   was a 0, in consideration, I expect a 2.5 or so.   
      
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   > Mark   
      
   For the record I liked the theme song () and thought the entire   
   series was of variable quality (from dogshit like the transporter wheelchair   
   bottle show, to glorious fun in the alternate universe), but 50 times better   
   than all the cheap reality TV that gets shat over the airways these days.   
      
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