INS isn't even in my Bottom 3 or 4.
It's in my bottom 3, above Into Darkness and Nemesis respectively. With the Shatnerverse novels making Generations tolerable for me, those are the 3 Trek movies that I actively dislike.
with you on this. It’s a wonderful bit of drama and performance and in one sense I love it, but as Trek it depresses me and wish it had been different. I want the optimism!
I'm fine with In the Pale Moonlight in this context. Section 31 on the other hand...
I don't feel like many fans who prefer the TNG approach would like TOS that much if it wasn't grandfathered in. The optimism was there but it had to be earned, not given away freely. And sometimes the episodes ended a bit down.
I can only speak for myself, but I loved TOS reruns years before TNG started, and was/am all in on the TNG optimism (especially as the real world seems to suck more and more).
For better or worse, Insurrection is like a TNG 2 parter put on the big screen. It's my preferred of the four TNG movies because it actually feels like a continuation of it's parent show and is true to the characters of it.
They were idiots in the show as well?
Eh, it's Star Trek. A Starfleet officer is the master of many trades.
If Miles can infiltrate the mob...
Pretty sure Kirk, Archer and probably Burnham would do more or less what Sisko did. Picard and Freeman probably wouldn’t. I can just picture Picards impassioned speech to the Romulans and Freeman is too by the book.
The only one I can’t figure is Janeway. I could honestly see her doing either.
I agree on Archer, Picard and Freeman (and the inconsistently written Janeway), but disagree on Kirk and Burnham. Early "mutiny because you won't shoot at the Klingons" may have, but not latter "true believer" Starfleet captain Burnham. I thing Kirk would go ahead with the subterfuge (a'la Enterprise Incident), but I think he'd be wily enough to keep Garak on a tighter leash, plus if he had Spock handy I'd bet the Romulan would've never realized that it was a faaaaaaake.
I will say that Enterprise could've used a theme similar to it (U2's Beautiful Day springs to mind), but I also think that it should've had a different theme for every season to suit the different tones they were going for. Where My Heart Will Take Me just annoyed me a bit during the first season but it became comically jarring during the events of the last two seasons.
Jarring during season 3 I get, but surely it was most appropriate in season 4, with all the prelude to the Federation stuff...
Isn't that a general problem of Star Trek? That most of those Starfleet (bridge) officers are really impossibly talented and versatile? They're generally great at science, engineering, diplomacy if the situation requires it, have very good survival skills, are good fighters, can go undercover on espionage missions, etc... and of course also that they're often only trying to fulfil their their regular assignments (e.g. exploration or being a starfleet liaison officer) and somehow always end up in the very center of crucial events with quadrant-spanning consequences.
It's almost like we're sending our best and brightest to the frontier...
Then half of them go nuts after they make admiral for some reason.
