I agree that Dracula may have influenced that subplot, I'm just saying that without Ron Perlman dressed as Nosferatu we probably wouldn't have noticed!
Wow, you are saying they are actually fighting in the walls of the ship? Interesting idea.
It's the hole the remans punched in when they boarded possibly, (shock troops and all that, and they didn't beam in because beaming straight to the bridge or engineering would have been their thing) and I always assumed it was somewhere at the bottom of the ship or by the massive deuterium tanks starships tend to have. Theres no up in space, and it's definitely an engineering deck not a crew area, so why would the gravity be aligned or even turned on there? The regent was sucked out into starlight...literally burned in the sun as it were since we can now see the Dracula/Nosferatu stuff...after Jonathan (frakes as Harker) beats him for what he did to his wife (can go all patriarchy about that, but given that Dracula is already subversive about that and the Riker Troi relationship is already established and not rolling in that kind of thing...I will give Riker avenging his wife a strong pass on applying gender politics on this occasion. Ymmv)
I won't lie, it didn't make sense until a few minutes after the scene, but it does make sense. It was just shot in a way that leans too much on the bottomless pit trope instead of making it clear. The big giveaway is is all the running and sliding through the Jeffries tubes during the fight.
Now I could be wrong, and I don't forgive other flaws (the Argo scenes in particular) and I don't think I have managed to sit through it since the first time I saw it on Dvd (their marketing campaign failed to sell it to a long time trek fan that enterprise had finally turned away from the franchise but would have returned for a good Tng movie) but have watched it in pieces.
Odd how not many people notice the Arthur references, or don't mention them. Shinzons death is an obvious Mordred reference. It's one of the things that really stops Data's death working, as it's all over the place thematically. Camelot, Picard's crew of highly idealised Knights really does end here though. And with it a fair chunk of what people insist on calling 'genes dream'
After this, enterprise descends into post 9/11 gritty military stuff, and it became harder not to see it as a bit of an Sg1 clone.
Picard should have died as Stewart wanted (did him and Spiner toss a coin for the death scene?) and Riker should have become captain of the enterprise instead of Titan as a result. Picard's sacrifice would give weight to a peace with the Romulans in precisely the way Data's wouldn't.
Heck...I am not a fan of the idea, But Sela would have made sense as a morgaine like figure with personal stakes behind Shinzons whole Genesis. Maybe that's how their idea started.
as I said, I am not really pro the idea, popular in some quarters though it is, storyline wise...that sort of thing would help.
