TMP
1) Increase pacing or reduce runtime
before filming stage. (I recognize and accept the f/x scenes were showing off the ship as a character and to cash in on "The Star Wars Fad" (though at least TMP didn't have any pointless robots whizzing around like in Star Wars)
2) Agreed, add some more humor. TWOK had more humor... TSFS had more humor... all of which felt integral to the plot and not slapping it in the audience's face.
3) Needed the actual VGER ship exterior to properly show off the scale and size of the threat (it's easily the best thing about the director's cut DVD)
TWOK
1) agreed and great point
2)
Give Uhura and Sulu some character moments in the film to match what Scotty and Chekov got. I'd be good with leaving in the idea of Sulu getting his own command as long as that incredibly stilted dialogue gets a rewrite ("Any chance to go aboard the Enterprise, however briefly, is always an exercise in nostalgia." - WHO TALKS LIKE THAT?!?").
Apart from people in the 23rd century? What was Sulu supposed to be saying, stuff such as "Captain, like I want to see all the new tech and then stop by the lounge to get some merch! Angels and ministers of grace, defend us indeed...
Otherwise, agreed.
3) I disagree with Kirk/Khan meeting. That would be expected/cliché. I'd say, fix the continuity issue where Chekov instantly recognized Khan and not as "the inwenter of the nucwear wessels in Leningrad"...
TSFS
Ditto, all 3 counts.
TVH
Ditto, all 3 counts. and, yeah, Saavik w/Spock in 20th century Earth would have added more humor... how much of it wouldn't end up so dated, however...
TFF
1) Agreed. A large glowing ball of light that can show projections of humanoid faces feels like an anticlimax. Hearing voices, coupled with Sybok's ability to hypnotize people, would have been more compelling in some ways, but there would be other problems when they reach the fabled land. and I liked the rock monster in concept, which wouldn't work nearly as well if it's just due to Sybok hearing voices...
2) Different tangent for me as I liked the literal brother angle and McCoy was also acting weird enough and not knowing what was going on that he probably couldn't find his way around
all of Spock's memories, which would be a lot more given his age...
I'd say, TFF should have been a serious film from start to finish. Paramount wanted the stupid ha-ha comedy because of TVH and if it wasn't forced in that one, in TFF virtually none of it feels natural and manages to do more to make the crew look utterly stupid. The fact the movie gets serious in the second half is actually very refreshing and it improves immensely as a result.
3) Effects, certainly, but as much as TFF feels like an episode of TOS, it's just too jarring to show a bar that had a Human, Klingon, and Romulan walking into it (with the punchline of the joke involving a burp and 6' anthropomorphic lioness with three b00bies walking around the beer mugs as opposed to anything deeper regarding the plot, the three hostages have absolutely zero bearing on the story and are nothing more than an afterthought the moment Captain Chekov arrives.)
TUC
Ditto, all 3 counts.
GEN
1) pre-credits bit with Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov as intended
2) original Kirk ending. It's a tragedy of Shakespearean depth. Yes, audiences hated it. Yes, audiences wanted something different. Yes, the replacement death scene is about as cliché and lame as anything could get. If one is going to kill a legend, do it with something big or not at all. Tragedy or otherwise, it's hard to argue that Kirk's original death wasn't big. What we got was one big dripping cliché.
3) Tighten up rough edges with the plot (reduce Xmas In The Nexus yawnfest, make Guinan a little more consistent, force the writers to remember what they did with Data's emotion chip since they scuppered continuity both after
and before this movie was written!!!!!)
FC
1) No forcefield windows for ersatz dramatic scene
2) no comedy relief
3) no time travel as that bit alone created so many massive plotholes
4) bring in Deep Space 9/Defiant crew properly
5) Awesomely acted or not, I can't get it out of my head that the Queen is antithetical to the Borg's core concept (or any Borg concept)
6) How many more times are we treated like inattentive baboons where they say "We have one or two shots at best" and nearly dozen shots later do the Borg finally adapt
7) Why only one cube for a subsequent invasion? To adapt means they bring in 2 cubes and be done with it. Like, duh...
8) even 'first contact' with the Vulcans is too fanwanky and inward-set, far more so than anything GEN had done
9) make Picard give a damn about his crew since, you know, they put their asses on the line for him and here he is saying "oh they're better off dead" after ripping them apart to see a comm badge after shooting them with hologramatic bullets--
10) really, a safety switch in a holodeck? Well, TNG never had consistency with how holodeck 'matter' is constructed or used apart from "it can't leave the holodeck" (apart from the time that Wesley lobbed that holodeck snowball that had the virus that almost killed the crew in that tacky season 1 episode)
11) ditch the "John Maclane in space" routine
12)--
Okay, I'd otherwise be here all evening rightfully ragging on that flick when I could be out scoring for illegal drugs and "escorts"
INS
1) Don't let Worf de-age before they get to the briar patch
2) of all 8,999,934,367,357,892,378,932,789,432 plot holes in this film, the most glaring one is that "Nemesis" is quick to unintentionally answer the unaddressed question that should never have had to have been postulated because doing so would disintegrate the movie and, oops, it did: the whole movie was based on a false or inaccurate premise regarding the metamagic radiationrainbow. Geordi still has implants, so leaving the planet or bottling and distributing the metamagic radiationrainbow would have been absolutely and utterly pointless.
3) why not, I suppose, ILM could have finished the bluescreen effects in the Collector's self destruct/relative cliché chamber.
4) no singing
5) John Maclane is back
6) movie needed Picard/Anij nude love scene
7) the baku and sona being the same species inadvertently ends up making the goodies (baku) being the actual baddies - but regardless, they all make up at the end (which would have been better if they knew in this movie that the metamagic radiationrainbow wouldn't have worked)
8) make the Earth historical references a bit more accurate
9) Ditch the song (it's so bad, I'll mention it twice)
10) Get rid of the waiter jacket outfits the senior staff wear
11)--
Um, time for me to join Bender in making a casino on the moon...
NEM
1) Add wig to picture of young Picard
2) Redo some plot points as it's too contrived to be even remotely believable that little slave boy Anakin - er, I mean Shintzon and I think I put in a typo in his name, one too many "n"'s - can somehow remove his shackles and build the biggest most dope badassery bodacious borg-sized spaceship where no Reman or Romulan or Klingon or Federation or TFF's God could have noticed...
3) get rid of the pointless dune buggy (and bizarrely lit chase sequence)
4) bottomless pit in the Enterprise? That makes NCC1701-A's 99 decks plausible by comparison...
5) the movie tries way too hard to cop TWOK's feel, even stealing from TSTS at the end due to Data's big pus-filled cliché of a non-death.
6) Who wrote this pitiful hack of a movie anyway?
7) Troi has new magical powers that were said to be beyond her scope of abilities in TNG. That and she used them on Hellboy. That's two sins right there!
8) When all else fails, make a completely nonsensical excuse to waddle over to Earth to blow it up, despite taking into account the villain wanting to go there is already known for being a total nutter - as with everything else, it's all just slopped in and with no narrative-driven reason, and it's actually worse than how I slop my review writings together. Now, that's
bad.
9) Show more of the USS Titan instead of 4 hours of deleted scenes of Wesley and Guinan and others thrown in for no reason
10) Reduce the length of the movie. Start the movie at at the timestamp when the Enterprise rams the Scimitar and end the movie once the ram is complete. Save peeps a lot of time, especially as there are two massive problems with the follow-up separation scene:
a) no "beep beep beep" noise as
Enteprise goes into reverse gear
b) for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction - there's nothing really there that allows
Enterprise to back away like that in the first place. Not even a thruster steam like what was done in "Booby Trap". Having Picard go out, bend over, and "vent gas" at
Scimitar would have been at least a visual cue, pathetic as that would be. Oh well, at least this isn't as epic as Star Wars when it comes to saying "Little Bunny Fufu to you, pesky laws of physics".
11) If they're keeping the stupid waiter outfits that will show dirt and stains like there's no rest of the day (never mind no
tomorrow), have them serve some hors d'oeuvres (made with real horse) or pu pu platters (made with real pu pu) to guests or something...
12) Amazing at how quick the Romulans reform into goodies, along with everything else that subplot felt hollow as well
13)--
ST2009
1) make it a movie about the characters, not the catchphrases and superficial mannerisms with any underlining meanings stripped away because aiming for nostalgia as the only reason to make a movie isn't going to have any lasting value, or potentially even initial value
2) Build the ship in outer space, where it's plausible
3) Nix product placement ads
4) this movie isn't going to date well
5) even if you go see it with a date
6) All the pointless in-jokes, don't exacxtly work with the veneer of catchphrases when it comes to appeasing the new fresh audiences they want to capture. Is there a target audience? Like "Family Guy", in jokes without a plot isn't a plot.
7) If you want to see where ST2009 got influenced the most by, look up 1995's "The Brady Bunch Movie". It's the same structure: Pinch scenes of numerous prior shows, string them into a slightly different format, phone in every catchphrase or moment (Davy Jones, football hits the nose, glass horse broken by throwing the ball inside the house, etc) and bring back original cast members as cameos for the theater audience to apparently be surprised over.
STID
1) No magic blood
2) Kirk and Khan's alliance feels too forced, especially by the time they're flying through space at the
3) "USS Vengeance" is not only antithetical to what Starfleet is, it's a bit much of a giveaway that Admiral Robocopin1979fashionsuit there is doing an extra doublecross of his own
4) nix the "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN" role reversal
5) magic blood, seriously... this is freakin' 2013.
6) See #8 from ST2009 above
STB
None I can think of or remember, actually... including the use of pop culture music as that took me by pleasant surprise given the handling/writing over its inclusion and usage
