Spock and Data was also a standout scene, and the encounter that Trek geeks had been eagerly awaiting for years.
What is your favourite moment from a Star Trek episode or movie you consider bad or mediocre?
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I will and have defended "THRESHOLD" because it was a good horror story, and was a good character piece for Tom.
Another reason why Insurrection should have been the last TNG movie.
Manage a Troi is considered a mediocre episode at best... but the scene with Wes emerging from the turbolift in that snazzy red uniform remains a favorite of mine to this day.
My wife says the movie should have ended with that scene.
It truly was a touching scene. You can't help but feel the joy along with him. I confess to shedding a single man tear every time I watch that scene. LeVar totally nails it here.
It truly was a touching scene. You can't help but feel the joy along with him. I confess to shedding a single man tear every time I watch that scene. LeVar totally nails it here.
True, but people were expecting more and feeling underwhelmed... Looking back, I think the treatment of Sela as a cartoon, in amongst a few other scenes, may have clouded my judgement. The actual Spock/Picard scene was solid, and fits into TUC very nicely.
Fantastic find, thanks! The soliloquy at the halfway mark, especially with that lighting, is as enthralling as the interview preceding it.
I'm glad he brought it up, the nature of filming the show and how they can't always do retakes and so on...
The general fuzziness of the source material (videotape), this was surely 1969 -- even if the topical nature of "Turnabout Intruder" is a greater giveaway that this was at the tail end of season 3, if not post-finale? It's not quite 70s-enough to really puke up the brown and orange shag, even if his sportcoat makes me think "Surely that's 1973."
It's pretty awesome Shatner was vying FOR it to be made. Especially as it would be so easy to go over the top, and he didn't. He went more OTT in that interview!
--- note to self: Look at the youtube title BEFORE guessing dates. The title reveals it is definitely a clip from 1969. Woops. I'm amazed at how stinking long that horrible brown plaid jacket remained in style... especially as it's 1969 when everything was technicolor explosions everywhere (which I don't say in a bad way, TOS managed to sell palettes that could easily have misfired and look "busy", yet don't and look very stylized and professional, balancing so much...)
Well, the review has a great exemple I totally forgot about with the Doctor's "wake up" joke...
Movies stand out easier for me than episodes. 13 versus 800 & Counting.
I don't have the time or energy right now to think through that much TV.
TFF
Kirk: "I need my pain!"
GEN
Data: "Yes! I hate this! It is revolting!"
Guinian: "Would you like more?"
Data: "Please!"
INS
Picard: "300 years and you never learned how to the swim?"
Anji: "I just haven't gotten around to it."
NEM
Picard: "Now excuse me, while I'll be down in the gym."
ID
Kirk and Pike in the bar. That entire scene as Pike tells Kirk he's given command of the Enterprise again and he wants to make Kirk his First Officer.
I don't have the time or energy right now to think through that much TV.
TFF
Kirk: "I need my pain!"
GEN
Data: "Yes! I hate this! It is revolting!"
Guinian: "Would you like more?"
Data: "Please!"
INS
Picard: "300 years and you never learned how to the swim?"
Anji: "I just haven't gotten around to it."
NEM
Picard: "Now excuse me, while I'll be down in the gym."
ID
Kirk and Pike in the bar. That entire scene as Pike tells Kirk he's given command of the Enterprise again and he wants to make Kirk his First Officer.
"Please Captain, not in front of the Klingons."
Season 2 of PIC was hot garbage, but Raffi's flashback scene with Elnor in "Mercy" was a shockingly good bit of character work. I couldn’t condone Raffi’s manipulation of Elnor, but it was so very easy to see why she would once everything was laid out - Seven wasn’t just leaving, she was going out into the black with the Rangers, hunting the kind of people who wanted to cut her up for parts. And then Elnor wanted to leave too - and again, not just leave, but go back to Vashti, back into active danger with the Qowat Milat. Raffi just wanted to keep the people she loved safe (even if selfishly), and then it turned out that she put Elnor in the path of a bullet by doing so. And! I loved Elnor calling Raffi out on her own emotional dishonesty in that scene, not least because it meant at least one writer that season decided he deserved better than to be written as an idiot man-child.
It was like someone decided to stop playing a game of Star Trek Mad Libs and actually give a shit about the characters. And it still probably just came about because they were obligated to give Evagora a certain number of scenes to fill his contract.
It was like someone decided to stop playing a game of Star Trek Mad Libs and actually give a shit about the characters. And it still probably just came about because they were obligated to give Evagora a certain number of scenes to fill his contract.
The Q and Picard stuff in the PIC S2 finale
The Klingon battle and anything with Epsilon IX is the only stuff I really like from TMP.
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