Boimler, we're going to need your spread open legs and anus.
Nope.Where do you start with this one? It's getting worse people. It really feels like the screenwriters suddenly panicked, realising that there's only two episodes left and that the fanbase actually demands some kind of conclusion, logic, character or pacing be damned, not that they've cared about these essential elements to storytelling in the first place.
So many plot exposition dumps, complete and utter head scratchers all over the shop.... what? how? why? That doesn't make sense. Oh, it's alright, they're back on the Enterprise.
And I'm actually not slagging this episode in terms of pacing: it actually goes somewhere, as daft as that journey is, which is in such stark contrast to what had preceded it. Looks great, music and the cut is working. But the contrivances are really too long to list, as well as the character beats not making one bit of sense, and nostalgia can only go so far. So so poor.
Boimler could be promoted all the way up to fleet admiral, and I will never get that cursed image out of my mind.Boimler, we're going to need your spread open legs and anus.
No, I just have high standards.Your first time with a mystery box?![]()
Or those meddling kids from the Voyager-A, and their slime creature too.There's only one hope now....THE USS CERRITOS!
I just realized. One episode left. I'm really going to miss this show. I really wish that we could have gotten this much sooner. I'll miss the old crew and the D all over again. But so glad we got it again..
Nope.
Boimler could be promoted all the way up to fleet admiral, and I will never get that cursed image out of my mind.
Unfortunately it's a big yep. I was so looking forward to this season based on early reviews from youtubers whose opinions I've respected prior to this, along with my own love of TNG and the hopes that they'd give them a great send off. Nostalgia is a powerful weapon. The band back together. If I were a betting man (which I am) I'll guarantee you that so many Star Trek fans will watch this again in a few years time and go, "what was I thinking?"
No. I will still love this season
Posting in what will become a legendary thread:
WOW. What an episode. Don’t have anything new to say that hasn’t already been discussed but this might just be the best Star Trek episode in 24 years.
As you say, nostalgia is a powerful weapon. This episode would have gotten a 2 or a 3 tops from me without the Enterprise D, but even I was pulled in by that, and so it got more than it was deserved based upon my genuine love for the glory days of TNG and all that was within it.Unfortunately it's a big yep. I was so looking forward to this season based on early reviews from youtubers whose opinions I've respected prior to this, along with my own love of TNG and the hopes that they'd give them a great send off. Nostalgia is a powerful weapon. The band back together. If I were a betting man (which I am) I'll guarantee you that so many Star Trek fans will watch this again in a few years time and go, "what was I thinking?"
I loved seeing the Enterprise again; I genuinely did, to a certain extent. It was a hollow experience ultimately though because it's not like when Kirk saw the Enterprise in TMP. It doesn't have that impact because there's people dying now, right now, and we all know why. Get on with it.
And if I listed my other grievances with the episode we'd be here awhile. So poor.
The drop became the ocean.When they revealed and entered 1701-D I cried enough tears to fill all the plotholes.
10/10 - 100% pure Fanservice and I love it.
He did say in E1 that he has to pee more!Just after Geordi say "lights", and everyone stands looking towards the front of the bridge, Riker wanders over to check out the toilet door!
They probably have a rule, general order 47, that says: When you see a Borg ship, run to your nearest Captain and tell them.She runs to something, not away. And she seemed to be doing proper telepath counsellor stuff.
I should give them a 3 out of 10 for bringing the Borg in, and the cheesy writing, but here is your 10.
Grumbles something about predictable writers, while tears are running down the checks.
Riker "She's beautiful." Yes indeed.
As you say, nostalgia is a powerful weapon. This episode would have gotten a 2 or a 3 tops from me without the Enterprise D, but even I was pulled in by that, and so it got more than it was deserved based upon my genuine love for the glory days of TNG and all that was within it.
As we've seen, though, nostalgia is a funny thing. Give it 5 years, and a few people might say "meh, the last season was kind of shit." Give them 10 years, a whole slew of new series, and suddenly people will long for the days of Picard season 3 and its touch of home. It's cyclical.
For some people, reliving the best days of TNG with a new threat was more than enough to make this the best Star Trek they've ever watched, and that's perfectly okay. You won't feel that way, I won't feel that way, and others won't, but that's the beauty of it: we can dislike the direction the series took, and it doesn't really affect us outside of the normal fan issues we have with such things.
Look at all of the happy people, though. Look at how happy so many here are, how much it moved them, how many it brought to tears, and that's not even counting the series finale.
So in the end it won't really matter. Just take the best you can from it and let the rest go (outside of discussion, of course, otherwise there'd be no point in reruns).
As you say, nostalgia is a powerful weapon. This episode would have gotten a 2 or a 3 tops from me without the Enterprise D, but even I was pulled in by that, and so it got more than it was deserved based upon my genuine love for the glory days of TNG and all that was within it.
As we've seen, though, nostalgia is a funny thing. Give it 5 years, and a few people might say "meh, the last season was kind of shit." Give them 10 years, a whole slew of new series, and suddenly people will long for the days of Picard season 3 and its touch of home. It's cyclical.
For some people, reliving the best days of TNG with a new threat was more than enough to make this the best Star Trek they've ever watched, and that's perfectly okay. You won't feel that way, I won't feel that way, and others won't, but that's the beauty of it: we can dislike the direction the series took, and it doesn't really affect us outside of the normal fan issues we have with such things.
Look at all of the happy people, though. Look at how happy so many here are, how much it moved them, how many it brought to tears, and that's not even counting the series finale.
So in the end it won't really matter. Just take the best you can from it and let the rest go (outside of discussion, of course, otherwise there'd be no point in reruns).
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