Amph [NERRRD] Observations, rhetorical questions, comments & 55 Years of Star Trek (General Thread)

Insurrection was a huge, steaming pile of franchise-murdering mediocrity and production failure that blew every opportunity afforded it by it's predecessors and contemporaries.

It failed as an entry in the franchise. It failed as a Star Trek film. It failed as a TNG film. It failed as a film.

 

Yeah, it should have either supported the franchise as a whole via the Dominion War (and possibly had an effect on Voyager as well, maybe via Q) or supported the TNG film franchise by drawing ties to Generations and FC (ala 2-3-4, or even an epilogue approach like 6).

At the very least, they should have been true to the TNG characters and not, more or less, force them into embarrassing scenes because they couldn't be bothered to give them anything to do.

 

Precisely. One of the worst offenders. Crusher, in general, has a "Why am I even here?" role in the film (I think Gates even commented as much on that).

 

Season 2 Gag Reel:



We now know what molecules are safe to eat.

 

I saw this one in the theatres and ironically, just before that scene, my date wondered aloud if the planet would make their boobs more firm

 

I do like the ide aof linking the two- other than Trelane acting similar to Q himself, despite Trelane being a child and Q being an adult.

 

Last night I caught one of the screenings in NYC of Best of Both Worlds. Very fun to see it on the big screen. They edited together as one continuous movie (no TBC or recap though it still had the fade in/outs for the commercial breaks, which is odd considering they already went through the trouble of acquiring the original film assets, surely they could have smoothed those parts over like Stargate did?).

Seeing it like this, with an audience, it's interesting to see what parts come across as corny or invoke a good unintentional chuckle that never did before in normal viewing conditions (Worf's "He IS a Borg" line is one example, as is the Admiral's peculiar "Just an old man's fantasies" line).

Sound was amazing- the music in particular, as well as the main theme during the titles and the SWOOSH! of the ship. Picture quality was good but not great (mostly having to do with projection the BD video source, no doubt), remaining full screen like the BDs.

The extra content was interesting and funny, though i wish they hadn' aied the trailer for the BOBW BD and the BTS doc before the film, as you basically ended up seeing 85% of the movie before you even got to the movie.

Patrick Stewart has several great comments in the doc, and Elizabeth Dennehy still being able to recite one of her Borg stat speech lines verbatim (and played over the actual footage) was also rather memorable. Most of the cast get at least one comment in there (though it stated we were watching the "One Night Only Edition" so perhaps an extended version is on the BD with the other cast). Also the director and Behr, as well as Ron Jones (who had some particularly fascinating incite into the Borg theme music) and Seth MacFarlane (whose mostly there for a few "pro-fan" comments and to segueway into the Ron ones/music segment due to the Family Guy/RJ/BOBW connection).

Afterwards they aired the gag reel (which was hilarious- poor Dorn has the worst line flub...) and a preview for the 4th season (the [review focuses on the "Family"-theme of the season, highlighting episodes connected to it. I hate the narration approach to the BD sets, though- way too cheery and goofy with a "And who can forget the episode..." structure. I get that it's the same guy (I think) who narrated all the TNG movie trailers, but he's using a completely different tone here compared to the dramatic tone that made those trailers so memorable. It just undercuts the impact of the boxset previews unnecessarily.

And, yes, there were a couple folks in TNG uniforms attending. So, fun overall.