On Tuesday, 24 December 2002 02:38:51 UTC+10, Scott Dubin  wrote:   
   > Since I haven't seen anyone else pointing out the plot holes in this   
   > dumb, dumb, film, I guess I'll do it myself.  It's not like I've   
   > memorised the movie or anything so I'll probably miss stuff, but.   
   >   
   > 1)  The Enterprise is sent to Romulan space because its the "nearest   
   > ship," even though theres no immediate crisis.  They would logically   
   > send the best diplomats, not any other Starship nearby.  That's not   
   > the plot hole, however.  The villian somehow magically knows Picard is   
   > coming, even though choosing the Enterprise for the mission was a   
   > completly random decision by Janeway or whoever?   
   >   
   > 2)  Aside from the logic of randomly detecting Data's brother from   
   > whatever random planet it was on, how the heck did the villian know   
   > they'd find Data's brother?  Space is a pretty big place.  You'd have   
   > to know what ship was being assigned, their starting location, the   
   > path they'd take, and you'd have to set it up way in advance.   
   >   
   > 3)  The Romulan homeworld has no ships?  Did they have a small   
   > animation budget or something?  Worf says, "Let's raise sheilds" after   
   > sitting there for eighteen hours waiting for the Romulan ship to   
   > arrive?   
   >   
   > 4)  The bad guys kidnap Picard, cloak their ship, and just lets the   
   > Enterpise stay there in the center of the Romulan empire.  The crew   
   > just kinda hangs around twiddling their thumbs.  Oh, I forgot, the   
   > Romulans only have 3 ships.   
   >   
   > 5)  The Romulan military randomly decides they'd like to be ruled by   
   > their former slaves, the Remans?  I mean, a military coup makes sense,   
   > but put the Remans in charge.  I mean, the military woman killed the   
   > senate... the Remans had nothing to do with it!   
   >   
   > 6)  The romulans and Remans come togethor to put a crazy human guy in   
   > charge of the Empire?  "You know what we need, some crazy human guy to   
   > lead our empire.  Any can he be the evil twin clone of some federation   
   > hero, so they can have a big climactic confrontation?  Maybe he can be   
   > really spooky and hang out in a dark, death star type throne room?"   
   > Naturally, the entire universe revolves around Picard.  From the borg   
   > to the Romulans, everyone needs an evil Picard.   
   >   
   > 7)  The military decides to turn on the Picard clone guy, and they do   
   > with 2 little little ships, that look like klingon ships, so I thought   
   > at first they were imitating the next generation episode where the   
   > Klingon ships decloaked in Romulan space and save the Enterprise at a   
   > convinient plot moment.   
   >   
   > 8)  So the slow countdown sequence to the firing of the Superweapon   
   > had begun (James Bond style.)  And instead of doing the obvious thing   
   > and sending over a taskforce, Picard decides to go alone?  Because he   
   > has such a great chance of singlehandidly defeating all the Remans on   
   > the enemy ship?   
   >   
   > 9)  So, the bad guys have to wait till the Enterpise reaches some   
   > "rift' to attack, because their communications would be down?  What   
   > good is that?  The Enterprise already knew they were going to be   
   > attacked, because the evil clone wanted to kill Picard and the   
   > Enterprise would have had plenty of time to warn them about the   
   > Superweapon along the way before the rift.   
   >   
   > Hmm, that was a lot.  Who can possibly take Star Trek seriously   
   > anymore?  The writers certainly don't.   
      
   I saw other glaring flaw. Why not overload a phaser next to the device and use   
   the single use teleporter to get away? That way no one needed to die.   
      
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