Bottle Throw!!!

[RobertScorpio]

The opening credits of Generations, as we all know, has that bottle flying through space, and eventually smashing into the ENTERPRISE B...but usually, when a ship in commisioned like that, the honor comes from the person who BREAKS the bottle across the bow, or whatever...

It isn't shown..but what dignitary do you think would have been the person so honored? Kirk, before he came onto the bridge?? Perhaps Christopher Pike, wheel chair and all, was allowed to visit from Talos 4??

WHO threw the bottle???

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Cyke101]

It was Carol Marcus, knowing full well that a precise hit to the bow with a bottle of champagne would weaken the structural integrity of that deck. Then she herself harnessed the power of the Nexus, used two El-Aurian ships as bait to lure the Enterprise-B, and planted the necessary controls for Kirk to access by the weakened bulkhead.

 

[Plecostomus]

It was Carol Marcus, knowing full well that a precise hit to the bow with a bottle of champagne would weaken the structural integrity of that deck. Then she herself harnessed the power of the Nexus, used two El-Aurian ships as bait to lure the Enterprise-B, and planted the necessary controls for Kirk to access by the weakened bulkhead.

I thought I told you to stop revealing the plot of my fan-fictions!


Humor aside, how would they have launched it in the first place?

 

[RobertScorpio]

It was Carol Marcus, knowing full well that a precise hit to the bow with a bottle of champagne would weaken the structural integrity of that deck. Then she herself harnessed the power of the Nexus, used two El-Aurian ships as bait to lure the Enterprise-B, and planted the necessary controls for Kirk to access by the weakened bulkhead.

I thought I told you to stop revealing the plot of my fan-fictions!


Humor aside, how would they have launched it in the first place?

You should proceed with your fanfic and let us know..I'll read it!!!

Rob
Scorpio

 

[TheGodBen]

It was Carol Marcus, knowing full well that a precise hit to the bow with a bottle of champagne would weaken the structural integrity of that deck. Then she herself harnessed the power of the Nexus, used two El-Aurian ships as bait to lure the Enterprise-B, and planted the necessary controls for Kirk to access by the weakened bulkhead.

It's not Kirk's fault that he didn't pay her alimony, she didn't even tell him about David!

 

[RobertScorpio]

It was Carol Marcus, knowing full well that a precise hit to the bow with a bottle of champagne would weaken the structural integrity of that deck. Then she herself harnessed the power of the Nexus, used two El-Aurian ships as bait to lure the Enterprise-B, and planted the necessary controls for Kirk to access by the weakened bulkhead.

It's not Kirk's fault that he didn't pay her alimony, she didn't even tell him about David!

Dude, i am TOTALLY down with that..good point!!!

Rob
Scorpio

 

[AdmiralGarak]

Joking aside, the dignitary who threw/shot the bottle is pretty obvious. James T. Kirk.

 

[Seven of Five]

Wizards did it.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Joking aside, the dignitary who threw/shot the bottle is pretty obvious. James T. Kirk.

I'm with you...Would have been neat-oh if they had filmed that...I could really have seen that being the case..though..Harry Mudd gets a close second place!!!

Rob
Scorpio

 

[JNG]

It was Carol Marcus, knowing full well that a precise hit to the bow with a bottle of champagne would weaken the structural integrity of that deck. Then she herself harnessed the power of the Nexus, used two El-Aurian ships as bait to lure the Enterprise-B, and planted the necessary controls for Kirk to access by the weakened bulkhead.

Add several more incredibly unlikely pieces of BS involving little-seen characters, the Borg, Q, and people showing up in the wrong eras and encountering mostly people they already know over and over throughout the galaxy and you'll have Pocket Books eating out of your hand. []

 

[cardinal biggles]

Rick Berman, Ron Moore and Brannon Braga threw it together. They felt it was a great way to symbolize their love of Gene, Kirk, TOS, and the fans.

 

[trevanian]

Rick Berman, Ron Moore and Brannon Braga threw it together. They felt it was a great way to symbolize their love of Gene, Kirk, TOS, and the fans.

I thought the symbolism involving the fans and such involved an extended middle finger, myself.

But hey, if the bottle is green, then I guess Scotty threw it.

 

[Kryton]

Couldda been the ridiculous skydive (or is that spacedive?) sequence they shot but didn't use. Thankfully. I think I still have a bunch of those clips around somewhere.

 

[TheGodBen]

Couldda been the ridiculous skydive (or is that spacedive?) sequence they shot but didn't use. Thankfully. I think I still have a bunch of those clips around somewhere.

Crappy Skydive Clip

The fact that this clip is interspersed with clips of the bottle in space suggests that this may be the case.

On a side note, I only saw this clip for the first time today. What were they thinking?!!

 

[RobertScorpio]

Couldda been the ridiculous skydive (or is that spacedive?) sequence they shot but didn't use. Thankfully. I think I still have a bunch of those clips around somewhere.

Crappy Skydive Clip

The fact that this clip is interspersed with clips of the bottle in space suggests that this may be the case.

On a side note, I only saw this clip for the first time today. What were they thinking?!!

Well, sorry, I liked it..and I think it would have been great...

Rob

 

[Cyke101]

It was Carol Marcus, knowing full well that a precise hit to the bow with a bottle of champagne would weaken the structural integrity of that deck. Then she herself harnessed the power of the Nexus, used two El-Aurian ships as bait to lure the Enterprise-B, and planted the necessary controls for Kirk to access by the weakened bulkhead.

Add several more incredibly unlikely pieces of BS involving little-seen characters, the Borg, Q, and people showing up in the wrong eras and encountering mostly people they already know over and over throughout the galaxy and you'll have Pocket Books eating out of your hand. []

Hey, for all we know, Carol Marcus managed to disable all the other ships within a three light year radius thus ensuring that the undermanned, unprepared Enterprise-B would be Starfleet's only hope.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Hmmm... Some guy in a spacesuit.

 

[RoJoHen]

Couldda been the ridiculous skydive (or is that spacedive?) sequence they shot but didn't use. Thankfully. I think I still have a bunch of those clips around somewhere.

Crappy Skydive Clip

The fact that this clip is interspersed with clips of the bottle in space suggests that this may be the case.

On a side note, I only saw this clip for the first time today. What were they thinking?!!

I had heard of this scene, but this is also the first I've seen it either. What the hell was the point of that?!

 

[Kryton]

It was supposed to show Kirk's frustrations with aging even further (since the theme was addressed in TWOK). He had, presumably, taken to a lot of various risks since then (think of it as the El Capitan follow-up to TFF). Which is why his "death" aboard the ENT-B was supposed to be seen as "doing what he loved", which was dealing with life and death situations and, if possible, saving the day, no matter what.

It ended up adding way too much time to the story and it never really managed to properly communicate what they were going for, so they slashed it bigtime (thankfully...it still ain't great but it would have been a LOT worse if they'd kept that AND the Picard blubbering like a pussy-boy crap).

 

[Semah]

Couldda been the ridiculous skydive (or is that spacedive?) sequence they shot but didn't use. Thankfully. I think I still have a bunch of those clips around somewhere.

Crappy Skydive Clip

The fact that this clip is interspersed with clips of the bottle in space suggests that this may be the case.

On a side note, I only saw this clip for the first time today. What were they thinking?!!

Well, sorry, I liked it..and I think it would have been great...

Rob

Had they gone with that scene, it would have seemed like Chekov and Scotty led Kirk to his death against his will.