I've always felt disappointed with the films: They start out really nice... for 10 minutes, then they're slow and boring for 70 minutes, and then the eagerly anticipated conclusion is squashed into a pitiful 8 minute cut at the end.
What would I make for a final TNG film?
I'd call it 'Star Trek XII: The Last Outpost' in honor of the pilot.
At the beginning, Picard has a dream, where Q appears and tells that there will be an imminent test of his character.
I'd have the story involve the Romulans, perhaps an old outpost along the neutral zone is apparently destroyed and they are the suspects. But it turns out that the station has been altered somehow, appearing semi biological now.
But then comes an unexpected invitation for the Enterprise to head to Romulus for diplomatic discussions. The Romulans tell how they have developed wormhole technology, and have created a stable passage into unchartered realms, into the Andromeda Galaxy, or something equally disconcerting.
Some powerful beings come through the wormhole and 'absorb' the Romulan space-time laboratory located on one of their territorial worlds, and one made a run against the Earth outpost. Let these be humanoids which use advanced nanotechnology to 'restructure' their environment to give it organic properties. Unlike the Borg, these are not cyborgs -- quite the opposite, they're purely biological, appearing like the Roswellian almond eyed aliens.
The Romulans tell they want help to stop the hostile aliens coming through lest this turn into an invasion threatening half the quadrant.
Also there can be a small group of these aliens who want peace, who have face-to-face interaction with Picard et al as guests on his ship.
All three races want the alien craft which absorbed/restructured the earth outpost, so they can cut it up and examine it to discern its strengths and weaknesses.
So all three empires pull together: Klingons, UFP and RSE assemble fleets to make a strike. There can be many clashes of ego, over which race is commanding this strike, whose territory this is, suspicions of ulterior motives with some renegade Klingon Commander wanting to opportunistically carry out an aerial bombing of Romulus etc. Let it get messy -- strategically, politically and domestically.
Then Picard untangles all the mess, and the result is 'good relations' between UFP and Romulus, and they have this unclosable gateway into the new galaxy to explore.
And Picard can close the film with his famous closing quote from Series 1: "Let's see what's out there." and they all go off exploring their new land.
What would I make for a final TNG film?
I'd call it 'Star Trek XII: The Last Outpost' in honor of the pilot.
At the beginning, Picard has a dream, where Q appears and tells that there will be an imminent test of his character.
I'd have the story involve the Romulans, perhaps an old outpost along the neutral zone is apparently destroyed and they are the suspects. But it turns out that the station has been altered somehow, appearing semi biological now.
But then comes an unexpected invitation for the Enterprise to head to Romulus for diplomatic discussions. The Romulans tell how they have developed wormhole technology, and have created a stable passage into unchartered realms, into the Andromeda Galaxy, or something equally disconcerting.
Some powerful beings come through the wormhole and 'absorb' the Romulan space-time laboratory located on one of their territorial worlds, and one made a run against the Earth outpost. Let these be humanoids which use advanced nanotechnology to 'restructure' their environment to give it organic properties. Unlike the Borg, these are not cyborgs -- quite the opposite, they're purely biological, appearing like the Roswellian almond eyed aliens.
The Romulans tell they want help to stop the hostile aliens coming through lest this turn into an invasion threatening half the quadrant.
Also there can be a small group of these aliens who want peace, who have face-to-face interaction with Picard et al as guests on his ship.
All three races want the alien craft which absorbed/restructured the earth outpost, so they can cut it up and examine it to discern its strengths and weaknesses.
So all three empires pull together: Klingons, UFP and RSE assemble fleets to make a strike. There can be many clashes of ego, over which race is commanding this strike, whose territory this is, suspicions of ulterior motives with some renegade Klingon Commander wanting to opportunistically carry out an aerial bombing of Romulus etc. Let it get messy -- strategically, politically and domestically.
Then Picard untangles all the mess, and the result is 'good relations' between UFP and Romulus, and they have this unclosable gateway into the new galaxy to explore.
And Picard can close the film with his famous closing quote from Series 1: "Let's see what's out there." and they all go off exploring their new land.
