jim-jean-ben
Lieutenant Junior Grade
Bringing them back in the later seasons would have been cool. Perhaps Rene gets a tour of the ship in readiness to enter Starfleet Academy.
Should Robert/Rene have died?
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I thought it was an unnecessary and cruel plot device, used simply for shock purposes. Or am I being too harsh?
Had no impact on me one way or the other.
It was an effective way to have Picard consider his own mortality during the film, but ultimately it was a shame that it left his family with no legacy. It certainly makes 'Family' more bittersweet.
Perhaps in the future, where McCoy lived to at least 137, I imagine Picard is still in the prime of life, so has plenty of time for a new legacy when he settles down.
Perhaps in the future, where McCoy lived to at least 137, I imagine Picard is still in the prime of life, so has plenty of time for a new legacy when he settles down.
It was an effective way to have Picard start second guessing his choices to forgo family to devote his life to military, but it seemed to me like an easy cheap way to do it.
No I don't think you are being too harsh.
Edited to add:
Someone else mentioned in a post down the page a bit, how could such a thing happen in the 24th century. Perhaps because Robert was such a Luddite (is that the correct term), he wouldn't even have the equivalent of even 20th century fire safety equipment like, I don't know, alarms and sprinklers.
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I thought it sucked.
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Maybe Armus was one of the script writers on Generations. That would actually explain a lot.
Armus the scriptwriter said:Have a family Picard? Well not any more!
Kirk, hero to millions? I'll drop a bridge on ya!
Enterprise D, loved by many? BOOM, by the Klingon equivalent of a Yugo!
And Lursa and Betor someone out there might like you two, too, so BOOM!
And let's torture Geordie through his grille
And some green bloody Romulans!
jim-jean-ben
Lieutenant Junior Grade
Haha....this the same fool with poor social comprehension who in TNZ lambasted me for holding an opinion..haha....so i'm allowed to comment now, am I? haha.
This isn't TNZ, and I wouldn't be dragging any dirty laundry from there into here, since that's a quick way of getting banned.
Agreed. Having his brother and nephew die in the most horrific way possible (and I'm still trying to figure out how in the 24th century something like that could even happen) just so Picard can contemplate mortality, and then just forget about it once he meets Kirk? Yeah, no.
jim-jean-ben
Lieutenant Junior Grade
well yeah...cos calling people out in life is never on, eh? 
well yeah...cos calling people out in life is never on, eh?
Bringing issues from another board into THIS board is frowned upon. Just giving you some good advice; take it or leave it.
well yeah...cos calling people out in life is never on, eh?
I don't know the history here. But it seems if you have a beef with someone from TNZ, you should probably keep it in TNZ.
Though it is weird, because we don't see too many brand new posters in TNZ.
Since Robert was something of a technophobe, perhaps the estate had no fire suppression system.
But you would think there would still be emergency services that could have transported there in minutes.
Don't ask me, I never go there, it's sector forbidden!
Or simply beamed them out?
Was Robert cooking a 24th-century version of Meth that interfered with transporters?
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