The most disappointing Trek Movie..
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Yeah, that's the Real Life™ answer but what's the in universe answer? It's plausible for Best of Both Worlds to only send one. Maybe the one in First Contact was bigger/stronger (and had the sphere with the Queen)... but after Data's betrayal and Janeway's agitations in voyager, you'd think the Queen would be fairly upset and itching for revenge.
yeah, well now you get to the difficulties inherent in introducing a too-powerful villain into a show.
Either you can't use them very often, because having them be defeated repeatedly by a less powerful foe has plausibility issues, OR you still use them a lot but make them less powerful and take away what made them cool in the first place.
The trick with the Borg would have been, that like any colonies, you can splatter a million of them and they really don't care, they just keep on coming. Once they "personalized" them they sowed the seeds for their undermining. The individual cubes shouldn't have mattered, but that you kill one and here comes another...that's terrifying.
See if they had kept them more insect-like in thinking, the 1 cube at a time almost makes sense: Each cube is a colony of "ants" (Borg) and every so often on of them comes sniffing the Federation's way. What we've seen so far would be the weaker colonies. When the big colonies, the "root" colonies eventually take notice, then we're (the Federation) are just good and f**ked.
I didn't appreciate the "death of Captain Kirk" theme in Generations, and Nemesis was a real disappointment as a final installment in the TNG story.
It's tough to admit, but ST:TMP is the movie that disappointed me the most. When I first heard of the ST revival I was so excited. My brother got to see the movie first, and he gave me a less than stellar opinion of it. Nonetheless, I watched it a few days later and I actually fell asleep during the endless views of V'Ger's interior. That accompanying monotonous Jerry Goldsmith music score didn't help me stay awake either. I woke up angry that the movie was so deathly void of action. The first words out of my mouth were "C'mon, Star Trek." Thankfully, the later ST movies made up for this initial disappointment.
Yah, the franchise would never to a comedy episode about furry little...
er...
...Well, they never would do a funny episode about '20's gangst...
...Never mind.
...but the franchise would do an episode where Kirk and Spock dance out of step (and slightly out of focus, too).
my remark was sarcasm directed at the idea that a wildly successful comedy was a "low point"
The Final Frontier was not my least favourite, but it was the most disappointing. It started out with a really cool look at the 23rd century life (rocket boots, marshmallow dispensers, bag dinner) and the way the characters are different than people today, but still the same at the core.
Then it descended into religious allegory and trio focus. Biggest letdown ever.
Then it descended into religious allegory and trio focus. Biggest letdown ever.
um well yeah sometimes. (TVH, APOTA, TWT, many Ferengi episodes, etc.)
Other times it's romance. Just depends.
One day you'll post something interesting.
Until that day, we'll have to wade through stuff like this.
I've heard that Freiberger made that comment to Margaret Armen about ST being "tits in space". If it's true, then I can partially understand how he totally screwed up the 3rd season episodes. Ugh!
The humour is an integral part of what made TOS successful. It didn't take itself too seriously. And the great thing about Star Trek is that any kind of story can be told within it's framework.
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