A better Kirk Nexus fantasy?

[DonIago]

Well, that would have been an interesting Nexus-vision...

 

[JonnyQuest037]

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[DonIago]

Wow, I've never seen the British Office before and I knew who the American counterparts of those characters were just by how they're dressed.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Maybe the Nexus is controlled by a mind that seeks to domesticate all who enter. Giving them the so-called perfect life. Yes, with individual variations based upon their real lives/life experiences, but the same concept.

 

[Dukhat]

Yeah but if thats all they wanted, there are so many easier ways.

There's even supposedly a script out there where Picard summoned Kirk on the holodeck for advice...

Yeah, I remember that idea. And honestly I think that would have been worse that what we actually got.

I think the producers of Generations focused way too much on bringing Picard and Kirk together rather than having a better story in which they are both players in the plot in their respective time periods, but never actually meeting. Say, a mystery is presented in the 23rd century which finally gets resolved in the 24th, without any contrived ‘meeting of two captains.’

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Maybe Picard visits Kirk's grave and tells him that it's resolved, then places some flowers or salutes the tombstone, or something.

Then maybe Q barges in, saying, "Tell him yourself", and makes their meeting so.

 

[DonIago]

Or after Picard beams away Kirk's decaying hand bursts from his grave.

Star Trek: The Zombie Generation begins.

 

[Dukhat]

Maybe Picard visits Kirk's grave and tells him that it's resolved, then places some flowers or salutes the tombstone, or something.

Then maybe Q barges in, saying, "Tell him yourself", and makes their meeting so.

Your first paragraph sounds great. The second, not so much.

 

[Jedman67]

They should both be back in Starfleet Academy, when Picard and Kirk were [fill in the blank]

 

[trekshark]

. But what fantasy does the Nexus give him? Retirement. The one thing he hated more than anything.

So they had to give him the thing he hated most, which was the exact opposite of how the Nexus was described.

Well it gave Picard multiple kids, something he also hated. So I guess it was consistent at least.

 

[DonIago]

I think his experiences with Wesley and in "Disaster" and "The Inner Light" softened his stance on kids, and as noted, at the time he entered the Nexus Picard was feeling a certain obligation to continue the family line (thank god I don't personally have those kinds of feelings).