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The one where Picard meets Kirk and they ride horses together before fighting a Human Alien trying to get into heaven.Star Trek Generations is the seventh movie in the Star Trek film series, released in 1994. This is the first movie featuring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Billed as a Crossover (Cross Through?) with Star Trek: The Original Series, although the main TOS representative, apart from the last adventure, is given The Cameo for this one.It's shortly after the end of the Next Generation TV series, which ended its run just before this film was released. Our baddie is Dr. Soran (Malcolm McDowell), a Mad Scientist with a malicious agenda reaching back seventy-eight years to when he was "saved" from the Nexus by Kirk, who then disappeared into it himself and was presumed dead. Soran now plans to blow up a couple of suns to get back into the Nexus, but Picard gets Kirk to leave the Nexus and join him for a bridge-dropping climax. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: This was supposed to be the overarching theme of the movie ("Time is the fire in which we burn"). | |
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For the Funnyz | |
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For the Funnyz: Data spontaneously decides to shove Doctor Crusher into the holodeck ocean when she unintentionally implies to him that it would be funny. None of the Enterprise crew are amused. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Done as only Patrick Stewart can deliver. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: The 2nd theatrical trailer shows the destruction of the Enterprise-D. | |
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Simple Solution Won't Work | |
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Simple Solution Won't Work: Using a tractor beam to rescue the transport ships from the ribbon might have been simple enough had the tractor beam not been on hold until Tuesday. In addition, detonating a few photon torpedoes to weaken the ribbon's hold on the Enterprise could have worked if the Enterprise had any torpedoes. When Picard pieces together Soran's plan, he wonders why Soran doesn't simply fly into the Nexus, to which Data tells him "Our records show that every ship which has approached the ribbon has either been destroyed or severely damaged.". | |
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Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony | |
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Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony: The bottle-breaking version is used with the Enterprise-B, except the bottle is thrown at the ship instead of just smashed against it. This leads to the hilarious mental image of a dude in a spacesuit trying to pitch the bottle at the ship without missing. | |
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Kirk Summation | |
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Kirk Summation: Picard allows himself to be exchanged for Geordi as a hostage in an effort to talk Soran down from blowing up another star. Soran sees right through this attempt and confidently tells Picard it won't work, though he does momentarily take pause when Picard brings up his dead wife and child. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: Kirk and Picard do not save the universe, nor anything close. | |
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Multiple Endings | |
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Multiple Endings: The videogame adaptation provides two endings: one which follows that which is seen in the film, and another where you track down Soran before he gets to Veridian III and defeat his starship in battle, circumventing both the destruction of the Enterprise D and also the death of Captain Kirk, who under this scenario does not appear in the plot at all and presumably remains entirely at peace within the Nexus. Needless to say, if you complete the game and get the second ending, then you've created an Alternate Continuity. And even if you don't defeat Soran in orbit, after Kirk manages to interfere with the probe, Picard chases Soran back up to the orbiting Enterprise's battle section, where he attempts to launch one last probe before the ship explodes. Meaning the game will end in a way that differs from the movie, no matter how it progresses. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: Perhaps as a Take That! to all the fans on the wrong side of the "who's the better captain" debate, Kirk literally rides a circle around Picard, who has been established as no slouch of a rider himself. | |
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The Movie | |
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The Movie: Of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Except that Executive Meddling demanded a crossover with TOS because they didn't want to risk giving TNG its own entire movie right away. | |
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The Roast | |
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The Roast: It wouldn't be TNG without a scene where Worf gets emasculated again. His 'promotion' ceremony is carried out in the style of a condemned sailor being forced to walk the plank, with Riker reading off a scroll of charges. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: During the battle, B'Etor gives the order to "Fire at will." There is an immediate cut to the bridge of the Enterprise, currently commanded by Commander Will Riker. | |
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Dare to Be Badass | |
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Dare to Be Badass: Kirk advises this of Harriman: When Kirk is feeling empty in the Nexus because he hasn't made a difference since he left Starfleet. | |
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Closest Thing We Got | |
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Closest Thing We Got: "You and you, you've just become nurses. Let's go." | |
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Family of Choice | |
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Family of Choice: The film managed to get thumbs up from Siskel & Ebert on the basis of the familial relationship of the characters alone. | |
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Like Father, Like Son | |
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Like Father Like Daughter: Demora Sulu is helmsman on the Enterprise-B. | |
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Personality Chip | |
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Personality Chip: The B plot of the movie is Data having an emotion chip implanted in his computer brain. | |
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Genre Deconstruction | |
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Genre Deconstruction: The series never dwelt on it much, but this movie shows just how terrifying the life-and-death misadventures of the Enterprise would actually be to the children aboard. | |
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Back for the Dead | |
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Back for the Dead: Kirk, sort of. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: The Next Gen portion of the movie takes place 78 years after the launching of the Enterprise B — there were 78 original aired episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series (counting its sole two part story as one episode). The Next Generation is said in the series bible to start 78 years after the original series era (Star Trek IV, the latest film at the time is set in 2286. Next Gen begins in 2364). Picard throwing a lavish party on a holographic 19th century naval ship. As you'll remember, Roddenberry pitched the original as Horatio Hornblower in space (way back in 1965). When Kirk dies, a prominent part of his torso uniform is red. | |
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Prisoner Exchange | |
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Prisoner Exchange: Picard offers himself to the Duras sisters as a hostage in exchange for Geordi. They accept. | |
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Was It Really Worth It? | |
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Was It Really Worth It?: In the Nexus, Kirk laments that his years of service to Starfleet only seemed to earn him an empty house, noting the relationships he missed because he was too busy being captain. He changes his tune when he sees the Nexus for what it really is. | |
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Worf Had the Flu | |
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Worf Had the Flu: The Enterprise-B would likely have had a much easier time rescuing the two refugee ships caught in the Nexus ribbon if not for the fact that it was missing its tractor beams, torpedoes, most of its crew, and who knows what else. All to arrive or be installed on Tuesday, apparently. | |
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Initiation Ceremony | |
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Initiation Ceremony: Worf has been promoted to Lieutenant Commander, so the crew holds a ceremony on the holodeck. He is made to walk the plank on an old sailing vessel (Enterprize) and leap up to snag a period hat. After he is successful, Riker ensures he gets dunked by ordering the computer "Remove plank." Picard admonishes him, "It's retract plank." In mock apology, Riker leans over the side and shouts, "Sorry!" | |
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Critical Staffing Shortage | |
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Critical Staffing Shortage: The Enterprise-B is launched with a skeleton crew for a press run, so when the call comes in for them to yank some ships out of a Negative Space Wedgie, they wind up with no medical personnel and so few engineering personnel that Kirk has to make a Heroic Sacrifice to save them from certain doom. | |
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Open Mouth, Insert Foot | |
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Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Harriman gushes over the TOS crew, remarking how he read about them in grade school. Kirk is unamused. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: Soran. | |
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Horse Jump | |
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Horse Jump: One that, according to Kirk, "scared the hell out of [him] each time". The fact that it doesn't this time forces Kirk to accept that it's not real, and he can't really be happy in the Nexus. | |
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Real Award, Fictional Character | |
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Real Award, Fictional Character: Apparently one of Picard's ancestors (also named Picard) won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Nobody by that name has won it yet. | |
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Five-Second Foreshadowing | |
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Five-Second Foreshadowing: When Dr. Soran checks on his sun-killer missile after Picard messes with it, the viewscreen says that the missile's locking clamps are still engaged. Soran gets an Oh, Crap! look on his face as he and the audience realize that something bad is going to happen when the missile tries to launch. He has just enough time to close his eyes and Face Death with Dignity before the whole thing explodes, killing him. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: According to Memory Alpha, Harriman’s personnel file from one of the Trek video games says he has "a wife named Sloane and a son named Ferris who both live in Chicago, as well as interests in 20th century Italian sports automobiles." | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: Having been obsessed with death, and with escaping it for so long, when Soran is finally confronted with it he elects to close his eyes and stand his ground rather than do any more futile running or protesting. In his final moments, Kirk doesn't lament his fate. He's glad to have been given the chance to help, and his last words are of wonder, not trepidation. | |
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The Constant | |
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The Constant: Guinan and Soran. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Data finally understands the joke he heard during the "Farpoint mission" seven years ago, but it was told off-screen, and the joke is never explained to the viewer. | |
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ForceFieldCage | |
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Force Field Cage: Inverted. Instead of restraining Picard, Soran has actually sequestered himself inside a giant forcefield dome. Picard beats it by slipping under a rock arch that the forcefield was resting on. | |
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*Click* Hello | |
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*Click* Hello: Soran does this to Admiral Kirk during the battle on Veridian III. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Manipulative Bastard: Doctor Soran, who plays everyone for his own ends. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: With Captain Kirk's help, Picard is able to prevent Soran from destroying the Veridian system and killing its millions of inhabitants including the crew of the Enterprise-D, at the cost of Kirk's life, and the destruction of the Enterprise-D. | |
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Spoiler Title | |
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Spoiler Title: The soundtrack release was delayed a month, because one of the tracks was called "Kirk's Death". | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: The Trope Namer itself. Ironically, Kirk's death was a reshoot from one that was poorly received by test groups, where he just takes a disruptor blast to the back and dies. In fact, it doesn't just literally apply to James T. Kirk; in the way we've defined this trope, the deaths of Robert and Rene Picard in a sudden fire at their home are examples too. Also, the Enterprise-D herself, being taken out by a ship that by all rights shouldn't have posed a threat to the flagship of the Federation. It's justified, given that the enemy ship is able to fire through the Enterprise's shields, inflicting far more damage than normal, but it's still a weak-ass opponent that takes her down. | |
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Alternate Continuity | |
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The videogame adaptation provides two endings: one which follows that which is seen in the film, and another where you track down Soran before he gets to Veridian III and defeat his starship in battle, circumventing both the destruction of the Enterprise D and also the death of Captain Kirk, who under this scenario does not appear in the plot at all and presumably remains entirely at peace within the Nexus. Needless to say, if you complete the game and get the second ending, then you've created an Alternate Continuity. | |
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Human Popsicle | |
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Scotty witnesses Kirk's death, despite the TNG episode "Relics" showing him as a Human Popsicle who immediately assumes Kirk is the one who found him. Moore and Braga said that they were well aware of the continuity issue, but just couldn't resist seeing Scotty in action one last time. Becomes Fridge Brilliance if you figure that Scotty made that assumption in "Relics" because he doesn't believe Kirk died that day. (This is, for the record, the interpretation that William Shatner went with in his expanded universe series.) | |
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Stock Footage | |
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Stock Footage Some shots of the Klingon Bird-Of-Prey are recycled from Star Trek VI, including the one where it explodes. The Enterprise-B at warp is actually the Excelsior coming to save the ''Enterprise''-A. At least three shots of the Enterprise-D are taken from the TV series. | |
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Comedic Sociopathy | |
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Comedic Sociopathy: Lampshaded then deconstructed. While Worf was getting dropped into the ocean (in the holodeck...) as "reward" for promotion to Lieutenant Commander... | |
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Laughing Mad | |
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Data, while on the Amargosa Observatory. He slowly acts more and more strange before having a Laughing Mad breakdown and crashing. He woke back up, but continued in a Heroic BSoD until he was beamed back to the Enterprise-D. | |
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Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome | |
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Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Kirk. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Robert and Rene were... burned to death in a fire." "Their shields are operating on a modulation of 257.4!" "We're five minutes from a warp core breach! There is nothing I can do!" | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: Seeing the massive gouge through mountains and a forest that the Enterprise caused during its crash in wide shot. | |
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Trash the Set | |
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Trash the Set: The Enterprise being destroyed. A lot of the sequences showing the ship breaking up as it crash lands were given added realism by production crew actually taking a sledgehammer to the sets which had served the television show so well for seven years. In the final scene the bridge set is only barely recognizable. Before you get too angry about this, bear in mind that the sets would have been trashed regardless, in order to make way for the sets of Star Trek: Voyager. At least this way we got to see the sets destroyed in action, rather than them just being dumped in some Los Angeles scrapyard. Aside from the need for space for the sets of Voyager, the TNG television sets were not built for the higher definition found on film. This was why the film was shot with darkened lighting over its television episodes because the set's flaws would be too apparent in the movie. | |
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Tears of Awe | |
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Tears of Awe: Scotty sarcastically pretends to have done this when Captain Kirk gives the order to take the new Enterprise out of space dock. | |
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Appeal to Novelty | |
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Appeal to Novelty: Many of the more infamous storytelling decisions were made in an attempt to be more "unexpected" and "unconventional," but frequently forgetting that Tropes Are Tools and Tropes Are Not Bad. | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Soran, to Kirk. | |
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Fake-Out Opening | |
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Fake-Out Opening: Not exactly the opening, but the scene following the 23rd-century prologue shows an 18th-century sailing ship with the caption "78 years later". It turns out to be a holodeck simulation. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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Crazy-Prepared: Averted with the launch of the Enterprise-B. The Enterprise is short staffed with no medical personnel assigned to the ship yet, nor does she have critical equipment like tractor beams or photon torpedos, leading to Kirk's disappearance within the Nexus. note Harriman reflects how Starfleet insisted he take the Enterprise out for a trip around the solar system without critical personnel or equipment, and regrets not standing up to them and refusing to do so. | |
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Bond One-Liner | |
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Bond One-Liner: An intended one. Soran remarking that Geordi's "heart wasn't in" telling him the information they needed was a reference to a torture technique used in a deleted scene. Since the scene wasn't in the movie, the remark sounds out of place. | |
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Abandon Ship | |
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Abandon Ship In the prologue, the Enterprise-B is beaming aboard the passengers of two refugee ships caught in a Negative Space Wedgie. Subverted in that many of them don't want to leave. The Enterprise-D in the film's climax. Downplayed in that they simply evacuated everybody into the part of the ship that wasn't about to explode and separated it. | |
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Consulting Mister Puppet | |
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Consulting Mister Puppet: Data talking to "Mr. Tricorder". | |
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Happy Ending Override | |
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Happy Ending Override: The film acts as this for both Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and TNG's finale, "All Good Things...". The former ends with Kirk and his crew metaphorically Riding into the Sunset and what appears to be a well-earned retirement, while the latter has an And the Adventure Continues feel, with an implication that the crew's adventures may continue for decades into the future. By the end of this film, Kirk is dead and the Enterprise-D is destroyed, both within a few months to a year of the last time we saw them. It also does this for another TNG episode, "Family", which ended with Picard making peace with his brother, and his nephew, Rene seemingly thinking of a possible future in Starfleet. They both end up dying off-screen just prior to the start of the 24th century segment of the film. | |
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Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress | |
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Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: Worf has a Gravitational Cognizance moment after Riker says, "Computer, remove the plank." | |
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Improbable Infant Survival | |
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Improbable Infant Survival: Spot. Can't have the cat die after all. | |
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Lotus-Eater Machine | |
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Lotus-Eater Machine: The Nexus. | |
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Call to Agriculture | |
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Call to Agriculture: In the Nexus, Kirk was found chopping wood and frying eggs at his old house in the mountains. | |
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NietzscheWannabe | |
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Nietzsche Wannabe: Soran explains to Picard: "You know, there was a time when I wouldn't hurt a fly. Then the Borg came, and they showed me that if there is one constant in this whole universe, it's death. Afterwards, I began to realize that it didn't really matter. We're all going to die sometime. It's just a question of how and when." Soran saw the Nexus as the way to escape death forever, regardless of his species having lifespans on the order of centuries. | |
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction | |
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: While in the Nexus, Kirk jumps a horse across a chasm in a reconstruction of his old homestead. Then he turns around and does it again. When Picard catches up with him, he admits that every time he did that before, he was terrified of falling in. But here in the Nexus, there's no risk, no fear... | |
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No True Scotsman | |
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Earlier, Scotty refers to the Enterprise-B as "a damn fine ship". That's hilarious, considering he spent the previous 8 years (movies 3 through 6) insulting the Excelsior, which is the same ship class. It's due to the fact that Scotty at the time was not pleased with the Excelsior being touted as a better ship than the Enterprise. An Excelsior-class ship named Enterprise, however... | |
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Hero of Another Story | |
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Hero of Another Story: Captain Harriman, though this doesn't begin to become apparent until he overcomes his nervousness at having Captain Kirk aboard and steps up as The Captain. note Expanded universe novels set after the launch of the Enterprise-B have Harriman becoming a well respected Starfleet Captain and Admiral after leaving the Enterprise in 2311. . | |
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Hand Signals | |
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Hand Signals: Lursa signals her Klingon crew not to attack Soran when he starts shoving them around. | |
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg | |
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Two examples: The first is Downplayed and non-villainous, and occurs when the Enterprise is trying to rescue two El-Aurian transports from the energy ribbon. After the first one is destroyed and the inexperienced Captain Harriman realizes that he has no idea what to do, he swallows his pride and asks the veteran Captain Kirk for help, which he's practically jumping to provide. The second is played much straighter and scarier. After Soran KO's Geordi, he holds Data at phaserpoint. Data, whose recently-installed emotion chip is malfunctioning, is overcome by fear and begging for his life. | |
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Really 700 Years Old | |
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Really 700 Years Old: As members of the extremely long-lived El-Aurian race, both Guinan and Soran qualify for this trope. | |
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Distress Call | |
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Harriman, when the Enterprise-B's shakedown is interrupted by a Distress Call. | |
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Rebuilt Set | |
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Rebuilt Set: The Enterprise-D bridge now has noticeably more workstations than it (usually) did on television. And by the end of the movie, most of them have blown up. | |
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Star Killing | |
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Star Killing: Soran's trilithium-armed probes. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: Take a closer look at Kirk's house in the Nexus, and you'll find a Klingon bat'leth hanging decoratively on a wall. Exactly how he got that (assuming that this is a faithful recreation of his past) is worth pondering over. Did he salvage Kruge's from the HMS Bounty as a war trophy? Did Azetbur give it to him as a gift after the peace talks? Viewers will never know. | |
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Plot Hole | |
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Plot Hole: After Geordi is abducted and subsequently rescued, Dr. Crusher mentions removing a nanoprobe from him, which is literally the first and last time this has ever been mentioned. It's an inexplicably-retained artifact of Soran torturing Geordi for information, the nanoprobe being used to stop his heart (hence the "his heart just wasn't in it" line from Soran). It's retained in the novelization. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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The Enterprise B receives a distress call from two starships caught in an "energy ribbon". When it responds, it is caught too, and a famous Star Trek figure Captain James T. Kirk performs a Heroic Sacrifice to save the ship. | |
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Gilligan Cut | |
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Gilligan Cut: A deleted opening scene had Kirk skydiving, echoing his mid-life crisis in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Chekov reminds him that they're scheduled to look over the new Enterprise. Kirk states emphatically, "I'm not going," and of course this would have led to the bottle smashing on the ship and Kirk arriving. | |
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Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! | |
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Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Demora provides a damage report on a hull breach on the Enterprise-B after they escape the ribbon — and realizes that Kirk was in one of the damaged sections. (Specifically, deck 15, section 21-A.) Picard and Data figure out that Soran is going to destroy the Veridian star to change the energy ribbon's course to the third planet...and then Data reports that the fourth planet hosts a preindustrial civilization that will also be destroyed. | |
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The Only One | |
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The Enterprise-B is (once again) the only ship in range to rescue the ships trapped in the Nexus, despite being inside the Sol system, one of the most densely populated and traveled systems of the Federation and the headquarters of Starfleet. This is particularly ridiculous because this is her shakedown cruise, which means Earth is at the moment defended by a ship which isn't even carrying torpedoes. | |
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Techno Babble | |
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Techno Babble: Rather than use their full arsenal, the Enterprise resort to technobabble to destroy the Klingon ship. | |
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Shut Up, Kirk! | |
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Shut Up, Kirk!: When Picard tries to convince Soran not to destroy Veridian 3, on the grounds that he'd be doing what was done to his family by the Borg, Soran replies "Nice try." | |
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Big Bad Ensemble | |
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Big Bad Ensemble: Soran and the Duras sisters. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: The poor teddy bear survives in the novelization, but they make up for it by having the girl carrying an armful of stuffed animals and only letting her bring one. | |
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Orphaned Punchline | |
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Orphaned Punchline: We don't hear the rest of the joke that Data finally "got". A Ferengi in a gorilla suit would be quite a sight, though. (Most likely, it's a variation of Henny Youngman's "That's my wife!" joke.) | |
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Rocketless Reentry | |
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Rocketless Reentry: The film would have originally opened with Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov orbital skydiving just because they're bored. | |
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Remember the New Guy? | |
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Remember the New Guy?: Kirk's ultimate fantasy world in the Nexus involves the one true love of his life... who we've naturally never heard of before despite Yeoman Rand, Carol Marcus, or even Edith Keeler now being quite viable options for that role. The novelization justifies this with the detail that Kirk has actually used the Nexus to relive all of his old relationships, including various weddings to Carol and at least once saving Edith Keller without compromising history, and what Picard walked in on was just his latest fantasy rather than his most defining one. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: The Enterprise-D is destroyed and the bridge is thoroughly trashed because the models and sets were built for television and didn't have the necessary amount of detail to look good on movie screens — the sets that didn't end up getting completely destroyed were refitted into the sets for Star Trek: Voyager after production had wrapped — as well as the fact that that six-foot model of the ship was an unwieldy monstrosity. The producers wanted to be able to start from scratch should they get another movie. | |
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I Like Those Odds | |
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I Like Those Odds: Discussed by Kirk. | |
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Armor-Piercing Question | |
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Armor-Piercing Question: El-Aurians are "a race of listeners". Well, Dr. Soran shows what happens when they use their powers of observation for evil, as he expertly manipulates Picard in a quietly malicious manner. | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation: By DC Comics. | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Soran. His all-consuming desire is to return to the Nexus, where the family he lost will exist (and so will he) for all eternity. To get there, he'll kill entire solar systems, inhabited or not, to shift the Nexus' course in such a way that entering it is nothing less than a sure thing. | |
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Explosive Instrumentation | |
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Explosive Instrumentation: Several bridge consoles explode during the attack on the Enterprise. One Red Shirt gets blown halfway across the bridge, and several more are taken to Sickbay. | |
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The Dark Side Will Make You Forget | |
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The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: Soran. "Nice try." | |
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Stepford Smiler | |
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Stepford Smiler: Kirk in the Nexus is still deeply depressed, but is trying so hard to put everything right again. The book only adds to it by changing his fantasy every time he gets too happy, because he knows then it can’t be real. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: As far as we can tell, Geordi still has that camera in his VISOR and no one even knows about it. Luckily, this doesn't cause many problems given his switch to prosthetic eyes in the next film (The Expanded Universe explains the switch as being the result of said bugging, with Starfleet deeming the VISOR a security risk). And, of course, the only ones who knew about it in the first place are all dead by the end of the movie, anyway. Lursa's child—first mentioned in Firstborn— is not mentioned at all. It's unknown if he was even born. | |
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Protagonist-Centered Morality | |
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Protagonist-Centered Morality: Picard has the mother of all Reset Buttons, and uses it to go right back where he was albeit with Kirk. He could have gone a few days back, and apprehended Soran when he was still on the ship. Or gone even further back and prevented the death of his brother's family. | |
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Unnecessary Combat Roll | |
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Furthermore, he escapes from Engineering by doing the Epic Geordi Maneuver, previously seen in "The Best of Both Worlds" - this time it's a lot more justified as the door was actually at waist-height when he started his roll. | |
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Apocalypse How | |
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Apocalypse How: Soran causes Stellar Physical Annihilation (Class X-2) in the Amargosa system and the Veridian system...but the Veridian system gets reversed thanks to Picard and Kirk. | |
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Arc Number | |
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Arc Number: Scotty manages to save 47 people. 47 is an arc number in all the modern Star Trek series. | |
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Exact Time to Failure | |
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Exact Time to Failure While the Enterprise-B is inside the energy ribbon, a bridge officer says, "45 seconds to structural collapse." After the Enterprise-D is damaged by the Klingon attack, Geordi tells the bridge that "We're five minutes from a warp core breach." A few minutes later, Commander Data says that there's one minute to warp core breach — albeit it's subverted in the latter instance, as the core actually explodes in less than half that amount of time. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: | |
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Outliving One's Offspring | |
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Outliving One's Offspring: A major part of the reason that Soran wanted to return to the Nexus was that there he could be reunited with his children who were killed by the Borg. | |
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Schrödinger's Butterfly | |
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Schrödinger's Butterfly: Captain Picard and Dr. Soran, the villain, enter the Nexus, a dimension of eternal pleasure that shapes itself to your desires. Picard is told by a mental projection of Guinan that he can use it to travel anywhere in time, and so he goes back right before Soran blew up the sun that destroyed the planet they were on and the Enterprise. It's entirely plausible that Picard never did leave the Nexus, and that he still exists there to continue his voyages in his own perfect reality. And if he did really travel through time and stopped Soran, whether the Soran that entered the Nexus in the alternate timeline is actually still there. In fact, see the Star Trek Wild Mass Guessing page for more interpretation of this. | |
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene | |
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The entire sequence in the Nexus. Outside the Nexus, there is also the scene in which Picard is talking to Deanna about the death of Robert and René. | |
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Big Bad | |
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The second is played much straighter and scarier. After Soran KO's Geordi, he holds Data at phaserpoint. Data, whose recently-installed emotion chip is malfunctioning, is overcome by fear and begging for his life. | |
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Big "YES!" | |
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After the Klingon Bird-of-Prey is destroyed, Data (who is under the influence of the emotion chip) does this gesture and gives a Big "YES!". | |
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Mass "Oh, Crap!" | |
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Mass "Oh, Crap!": When their Bird of Prey suddenly cloaks and their shields drop, the Klingons are all openly alarmed. When the Enterprise fires at their now-defenseless ship, they can only stare in silent horror. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: Picard tries to appeal to Soran by telling him that what he's attempting to do is no different than what the Borg did to his home world. It almost causes Soran to reconsider his actions. | |
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Changing Clothes Is a Free Action | |
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Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: One of the most subtle examples on record. At the beginning of the film, the main cast is wearing their ST:TNG-era uniforms, with the black shoulders and colored torso. Then a few Red Shirts in the background are seen with the updated ST:DS9 color scheme with the black torso and colored shoulders. Then Data starts wearing it. And then Riker, and Geordi, and finally Picard (though he changes back into his TNG uniform in the end). In at least one case with Riker his uniform literally changes between two scenes where he couldn't possibly have had time to do so in real life. See the entry under Show Accuracy/Toy Accuracy in trivia for a possible explanation for all this uniform madness. Troi, Worf, and Crusher meanwhile wear the TNG TV uniforms for the entire film. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: He’s much more cynical about it this time, but Kirk feels A Million Is a Statistic initially much in the same way he did when Edith vs millions of death was the Sadistic Choice. Kirk remarked in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier that he knew he would die alone. Specifically, after taking a near-fatal fall off a mountain in Yosemite during a camping trip with McCoy and Spock, he tells McCoy that he felt confident he would survive because both of them were with him. He adds, darkly, "I've always known... I'll die alone." When he "dies" on the Enterprise-B, he's the only guy in the room. His actual death could be argued the same, since Picard was the only other person around and he was too late to actually prevent it. The novelization of the movie actually mentions the callback at Yosemite. This could even be argued to bookend a "Kirk trilogy" of V, VI, and Generations, in which Kirk plays Peter Pan at the end of VI, receives unending exploration within the Nexus, but finally accepts his fate as a man. While aboard the observatory, Data mentions the Farpoint mission - which was the subject of the TNG series premiere. A vital clue comes about because of the offscreen actions of the ubiquitous Starship Bozeman, frequently mentioned in the series. The empty house, and the empty chair; the feeling that Kirk is alone with only his job making him worth anything, comes back from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. In the book, Kirk goes through multiple Nexus fantasies, moving from each one when it’s too happy for him to tolerate, in a reference to “The Paradise Syndrome� where he under amnesia admitted he feels like he doesn’t deserve to be happy. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
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This Is Gonna Suck: Riker roaring out "ALL HANDS, BRACE FOR IMPACT!" as the Enterprise-D's saucer section prepares to hit land. This was going to be a bumpy ride. | |
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Long-Lived | |
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Soran, a Long-Lived El-Aurian, rambling about aging and the passage of time to Picard, a human that Soran could easily expect to outlive by centuries under normal circumstances. | |
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Ye Goode Olde Days | |
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Ye Goode Olde Days: Picard, in his stuffy naval uniform, gets wistfully sentimental about life on the bounding main. Riker begs to differ: "Bad food, brutal discipline, no women." (And you know which one is the deal-breaker for Number One.) | |
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More Expendable Than You | |
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More Expendable Than You: Scotty comes up with a plan to break the Enterprise free from the energy ribbon, but it will require someone to manually reconfigure the deflector. Harriman initially volunteers and places Kirk in command. For a moment, Kirk sits in the chair, commanding the Enterprise once more. Then that moment passes, and he realizes this isn't his chair, recalling Harriman before he can reach the turbolift and going in his place, because Harriman belongs on the bridge of his ship. | |
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Heaven | |
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Heaven: The Nexus. It's not explicitly Heaven... but it is functionally. It's essentially a Happy Place in physical space that can give you your heart's deepest desire, free of any Aesoptinum fees. | |
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*Crack!* "Oh, My Back!" | |
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*Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": In the book, a Continuity Nod to “The Deadly Years� has Kirk trying valiantly to ignore that his back hurts, because he doesn’t want to deal with the fact that he’s getting on in years. | |
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Killed Mid-Sentence | |
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Killed Mid-Sentence: According to Bill Shatner, the "Oh my..." is the sound of Kirk glimpsing the ultimate unknown. But he dies before he can describe what he's seeing. | |
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Living Memory | |
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Living Memory: The echo of Guinan in the Nexus. | |
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Magic Countdown | |
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Magic Countdown: For once, inverted; just before the saucer separation Data announces that they're a minute away from the warp core breach. However, it actually explodes just 25 seconds later, meaning the saucer doesn't have time to get clear of the blast and is severely damaged, leading to it crashing on the planet below. | |
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One-Hit Kill | |
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One-Hit Kill: Once the Klingon ship's shields are down, the Enterprise destroys it in one shot. | |
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Continuity Overlap | |
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Continuity Overlap: This one's an interesting case. The film was released during the third season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and while there are no mentions of the station, characters are wearing the jumpsuit uniforms created for DS9. However, as detailed under Show Accuracy/Toy Accuracy, the usage of the jumpsuits was a last-minute decision, making this an unintentional overlap. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Worf's lighthearted promotional ceremony is broken up by Picard being visibly devastated by receiving news that his nephew and brother were killed in a fire.. Data acting up and telling jokes (much to Geordi's increasing irritation), until he suffers the android equivalent of a seizure and keels over. Picard having a sorrowful conversation with Deanna about the deaths of Robert and René comes to a sudden end when the Amargosa star goes boom. | |
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Amicable Exes | |
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Amicable Exes: In the book, Kirk and Carol have finally got to a friendly place. He still tries to get with her one last time though, but she kindly rejects him, as while they love each other, she knows he’s trying to run away from his problems; far too Married to the Job to settle down, Hates Being Alone and feeling his age. | |
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Defector from Paradise | |
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Defector from Paradise: We have the case of Jean-Luc Picard and Captain Kirk attempting to escape the Nexus. Kirk is reluctant to leave the Nexus at first, but soon realized that the ability to make a difference in the real world was more important to him than anything the Nexus could offer. The tipping point is when he jumps a ravine with his horse, one he jumped numerous times in the real world, only to realize here that the element of danger which made it feel exciting when it was real is absent since he knows he's in the Nexus. | |
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Red Shirt | |
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When Kirk dies, a prominent part of his torso uniform is red. | |
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Worth It | |
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Worth It: Kirk's opinion of his last adventure with Picard. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Harriman, when the Enterprise-B's shakedown is interrupted by a Distress Call. Worf, when Riker "removes" the plank from under him. Data, when he realizes that the Enterprise saucer section is out of control and headed toward the surface of a nearby planet. Actually, more precisely, it's "Ohhh, shit!" Klingon equivalent: "WE ARE CLOAKING! OUR SHIELDS ARE DOWN!". Cue the Enterprise firing a photon torpedo... Soran, when he realizes what Picard's done with the missile controls. Geordi, when it's clear that the Enterprise is screwed. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Scotty and Chekov good-naturedly rag on Kirk after Harriman insisted that Kirk give the order to take the ship out, amid patronizing applause. | |
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Omnicidal Maniac | |
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Omnicidal Maniac: Soran doesn't care if he has to kill all life in the Veridian system, so long as he can return to the Nexus and be reunited with his family. | |
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Tap on the Head | |
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Tap on the Head: During the crash on Veridian 3, Deanna is knocked out when she is thrown from her seat. Played fairly realistically, as she is only unconsious for a few seconds and seems disoriented when she first awakens, having to be pinned to her seat by Data to keep her safe for the rest of the sequence. | |
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Enhance Button | |
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Enhance Button: While looking through Geordi's visor, the Klingon sisters use one to see the Enterprise's shield frequency. | |
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Epic Launch Sequence | |
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Epic Launch Sequence: Of the Enterprise-B, which Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov attend as honored guests. | |
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Going Down with the Ship | |
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Going Down with the Ship: Downplayed when they evacuate the stardrive section of the Enterprise. With Picard planetside and Riker, Data, Troi, and Worf on the Bridge, Geordi is the highest-ranking officer belowdecks. He's the last one to escape Engineering and the last one to evacuate the stardrive. | |
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No OSHA Compliance | |
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No OSHA Compliance: Played with. In the deflector room of the Enterprise-B when Kirk is climbing down the ladder we can see what appears to be some kind of deep shaft. It hasn't got any guard rails around it to stop people from falling in... but what it does have is a hilariously small "Caution" sticker on the wall right next to it. | |
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Executive Meddling | |
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Executive Meddling: Happens in-universe to the Enterprise-B: the ship is deployed incomplete, missing key systems and crew for its shakedown cruise, and without other ships around to assist, so that Starfleet can show it off to the press. Meddling confirmed in an comic that takes place after the movie. | |
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The Final Temptation | |
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The Final Temptation: Both Kirk and Picard are given their fondest desires being fulfilled in the Nexus, only to not work when Picard realizes that millions were sacrificed in the process of his being in the Nexus, and Kirk realizes that it doesn't give him the same thrill of danger that he normally gets in the real world. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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Demoted to Extra: Beverly Crusher. | |
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Stopped Numbering Sequels | |
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Stopped Numbering Sequels: This is the first movie in the series since Star Trek: The Motion Picture that doesn't feature a number in the titlenote Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was originally released as Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, but was renamed Star Trek II with the release of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.. Justified because this is the first Next Generation movie (even though there was some crossover with TOS) and none of the rest that followed had numbers either. New DVDs, however, now list the Next Generation films by number, ie. Star Trek VII: Generations. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: "Oh, shit!" If any character other than Data (previously the Emotionless Guy) had delivered this line, it wouldn't have been as profound. | |
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Deader than Dead | |
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Deader than Dead: The effects of the Amargosa and Veridian stars imploding is to atomize everything in their respective systems, including Veridian III. This is also the result of a warp core breach - the entire stardrive section of the Enterprise-D is completely obliterated. | |
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Fist Pump | |
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Fist Pump: After the Klingon Bird-of-Prey is destroyed, Data (who is under the influence of the emotion chip) does this gesture and gives a Big "YES!". There's an extra in the background who also does a fist pump just before Data does it, then (out of universe) tries to hide the fact that he did it in order to not ruin Data's moment. | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: The Enterprise has significantly more firepower than the Bird of Prey, but only fires a single phaser burst before launching the torpedo that destroys their attacker. Somewhat justified, as their evasive action turns their tail to the Bird of Prey, while most of their weapons are mounted on the ship's bow. | |
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Break Them by Talking | |
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Break Them by Talking: If you ever wondered what would happen if an El-Aurian used their keen insight against someone instead of counseling them - look out. Soran gets off a nasty one when with Geordi. When he asks why Geordi doesn't get prosthetic eyes instead of a VISOR to look "more normal": note Geordi actually does get artificial eyes for the next film. | |
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Indy Hat Roll | |
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Indy Hat Roll: When there's a coolant leak in the warp core reactor, the Enterprise engineering crew evacuates the area. Geordi La Forge is the last person out, rolling under the descending door just before it closes. | |
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First Time Feeling | |
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First Time Feeling: When Data's emotion chip is first installed, he experiences emotions more strongly than the humans around him. Eventually the chip overloads and his emotions become so intense that he collapses, switching rapidly from one to the next, wide-eyed the entire time. | |
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Unwanted Rescue | |
| Star Trek: Generations / int_c07adb60 | comment |
Unwanted Rescue: Soran's rescue from the Nexus. The others are like this, too, but Soran is the most vocal. | |
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Outrun the Fireball | |
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Outrun the Fireball: An unusual instance, in that it's the Enterprise-D's saucer that's trying to outrun the stardrive section before the warp core goes critical. Also subverted in that the saucer doesn't outrun the fireball — the explosion's shockwave destroys the saucer's impulse engines and knocks it sharply out of orbit, causing it to crash onto the planet below. Played straight earlier with the supernova, though it wasn't the case of outrunning it safely, it was outrunning it safely and making sure the Away Team was on board before it destroyed the space station it was at. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Soran, a Long-Lived El-Aurian, rambling about aging and the passage of time to Picard, a human that Soran could easily expect to outlive by centuries under normal circumstances. Earlier, Scotty refers to the Enterprise-B as "a damn fine ship". That's hilarious, considering he spent the previous 8 years (movies 3 through 6) insulting the Excelsior, which is the same ship class. It's due to the fact that Scotty at the time was not pleased with the Excelsior being touted as a better ship than the Enterprise. An Excelsior-class ship named Enterprise, however... | |
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Turn Off the Camera | |
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Turn Off the Camera: Kirk to a reporter on the Enterprise-B. | |
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Big Damn Movie | |
| Star Trek: Generations / int_c5d36037 | comment |
Big Damn Movie: Captain Kirk dies, entire star systems are in danger of being destroyed, the Enterprise-D is destroyed and crashes, Picard loses his family and Data gets emotions. YMMV over the movie's quality, but events are certainly a step up from the average episode. | |
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Compliment Backfire | |
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Compliment Backfire: After calling Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov "living legends", Captain Harriman adds "I remember reading about your missions when I was in grade school.", leaving Kirk less than amused. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out The "present day" is 78 years after the start of the film with Kirk, Scotty and Chekhov — the same number as TOS episodes (counting the two-part "The Menagerie" as one episode). Data at one point mentions "reversing the polarity" amongst a sea of Techno Babble. | |
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Legacy Character | |
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Legacy Character: The Enterprise. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
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Series Continuity Error: Scotty witnesses Kirk's death, despite the TNG episode "Relics" showing him as a Human Popsicle who immediately assumes Kirk is the one who found him. Moore and Braga said that they were well aware of the continuity issue, but just couldn't resist seeing Scotty in action one last time. Becomes Fridge Brilliance if you figure that Scotty made that assumption in "Relics" because he doesn't believe Kirk died that day. (This is, for the record, the interpretation that William Shatner went with in his expanded universe series.) Trilithium resin was introduced back in "Starship Mine", as an unstable byproduct of the warp core which could be used as explosive material. Here, the substance is trilithium, and the crew treat it as a new discovery and its purpose is completely different. | |
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Reverse Polarity | |
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Reverse Polarity: When Data needs to open a magnetically sealed door, he reverses its polarity by attenuating his axial servo. | |
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Negative Space Wedgie | |
| Star Trek: Generations / int_cd3527d9 | comment |
Negative Space Wedgie: The "ribbon" of "temporal energy" that takes its victims to "the Nexus". | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
| Star Trek: Generations / int_cda501da | comment |
Killed Off for Real: Lursa and B'Etor finally get what's coming to them. | |
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Dude, Not Funny! | |
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Dude, Not Funny!: In-universe. At the beginning of the film, the officers are having a promotion party for Worf on the holodeck, where they're on an 18th-century naval ship. They make Worf walk to the end of the plank and jump for his new rank insignia, then Riker orders the computer to "remove the plank." The plank disappears, dropping Worf into the sea, and Riker jokes that he meant to say, "retract". After Crusher attempts to explain the humor to Data, he pushes her overboard. This serves as the catalyst for Data to have Geordi install his emotion chip, as if he cannot grasp a concept like humor, he will never be human. Though ironically, a good deal of viewers find it very funny, so that Geordi comes off as a humorless priss. | |
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Nightmare Face | |
| Star Trek: Generations / int_cf48c17 | comment |
Nightmare Face: When Data's emotion chip overloads, they went so far as to stretch his eyeballs. | |
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Coming in Hot | |
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Coming in Hot: The saucer section of the Enterprise after the stardrive section explodes. | |
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Did I Mention It's Christmas? | |
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Did I Mention It's Christmas?: The first place Captain Picard enters into in the Nexus is his family house celebrating Christmas with his family, until he realizes with Guinan's presence in the room that he is in the Nexus, and she helps him find Captain Kirk, who is also in the Nexus in whatever fantasy life he's living. | |
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Refusing Paradise | |
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Refusing Paradise: Picard and Kirk decide to leave the Nexus together in order to stop Soran. Although Kirk is reluctant at first, he soon realizes the ability to make a difference is more important to him than anything the Nexus could offer. He also finds the Nexus lacks one critical element: for all its realism, there's no risk. | |
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"Eureka!" Moment | |
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"Eureka!" Moment: It's subtle, but when Data mentions the Bozeman making a "minor course correction" after the destruction of Amargosa (because the star's implosion altered gravity throughout the sector), Picard starts to figure out what Soran's plan is. Shatner shows some subtle acting in the film, when he wears an astonished look on his face after leaping over a stream with his horse.note He noted that he was scared every time he jumped that creek, until now, because it wasn't real. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: The TNG crew make quite the ceremony of Worf's rank promotion. | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: After Soran is beamed up by his Klingon allies, he punches one of the Duras sisters in the face on her own bridge. For the Klingons this could amount to a challenge to a Duel to the Death, but the fact that they need him for their own plan allows him to get away with it. She just snarks that he better have intended that as part of a mating ritual. | |
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Fake Shemp | |
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Fake Shemp: Shots of Picard standing over Kirk's grave did not actually feature Patrick Stewart, but rather Dennis Tracy. Tracy acted as Stewart's stand-in and appeared earlier in the film as an unnamed Bolian waiter in Ten Forward. | |
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale | |
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Worf states that Soran's rocket will take eleven seconds to hit the sun. Considering that he shoots it from an M Class planet, which are more-or-less the same as Earth, it would have to be traveling faster than light to make that kind of time. However, it's been established well before this film that there are probes the size of Soran's missile with warp drives, which he could have acquired. On the subject of distance, the probe might have traveled faster than light, but it still would have taken eight or however many light minutes away the planet was before you could actually see the change in light. This is made more infuriating by the fact that once the rocket launches, it's visible in the sky for most of that time. The Nexus moves through space at the speed of plot. It clearly moves slower than light, given the Enterprise-B's ability to keep pace with it while using their transporters. Yet it somehow gets from one solar system to another in a matter of hours (it would have to pass near the Amargosa system to be affected by the missing star, then reaches the Veridian system shortly after the Enterprise-D does), instead of taking longer than the lifespans of everyone save Soran and Guinan. The Enterprise-B is (once again) the only ship in range to rescue the ships trapped in the Nexus, despite being inside the Sol system, one of the most densely populated and traveled systems of the Federation and the headquarters of Starfleet. This is particularly ridiculous because this is her shakedown cruise, which means Earth is at the moment defended by a ship which isn't even carrying torpedoes. Spectacularly averted with the crash of the Enterprise D saucer section. As befitting the crash landing of such a massive object, the saucer crashes and crashes and crashes... | |
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Waxing Lyrical | |
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Waxing Lyrical: Soren's "Time is the fire in which we burn" is a repeated phrase in Delmore Schwartz's poem "Calmy We Walk Through This April's Day", which Picard undoubtedly is familiar with. | |
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The Future Is Noir | |
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The Future Is Noir: Very noticeably so, compared to the way the exact same USS Enterprise sets appeared on the TNG television series. The set designer on this movie knew that the sets had been built for the considerably lower resolution of television, and that they'd never stand up to the scrutiny of a cinema screen. The solution? Turn off all the lights, so the audience can't see the joins. This is a rather common technique, and is one big reason why a lot of Sci-Fi shows have dark sets. And in this case, they only had to do it for a single movie, since the sequel traded up to the 1701-E with movie quality sets. | |
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Foul First Drink | |
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Foul First Drink: Data drinks his first bit of alcohol. With his new emotion chip installed, he gags on every sip and hates it, describing the drink as revolting. He still asks for more. | |
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Kicked Upstairs | |
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Kicked Upstairs: Kirk is perturbed at having to order the Enterprise-B to move. Everyone on the bridge applauds patronizingly. He later warns Picard not to accept any promotions. | |
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Year Outside, Hour Inside | |
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Year Outside, Hour Inside: The Nexus is Exactly What It Says on the Tin - a nexus for all points in time, thus time is meaningless. So, no matter how much "time" is spent within the Nexus, no time actually passes, so anyone exiting the Nexus hasn't aged at all. | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: When Guinan's echo in the Nexus guides Picard to Kirk, Kirk doesn't seem too shocked to see a stranger in a vaguely Starfleet-style uniform approach his cabin. | |
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Reset Button | |
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Reset Button: The Nexus can act as one, which allows the film to show the failure of Picard to save the day. Subverted in the case of the Enterprise, whose destruction is not undone at the end of the movie. | |
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Spinoff Sendoff | |
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Spinoff Sendoff: The movie can be thought of as one for the TNG movies. | |
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Hand Wave | |
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Hand Wave: When Kirk was in love with Antonia. According to the film, he temporarily retired from Starfleet at some point between Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and returned to Starfleet once they split up. | |
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A Million Is a Statistic | |
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He’s much more cynical about it this time, but Kirk feels A Million Is a Statistic initially much in the same way he did when Edith vs millions of death was the Sadistic Choice. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: The book has Kirk finally cross it when he has to retire, having exhausted all his ploys and tricks to keep his command, but feeling just too old to carry on (and even then Kirk’s bio adds on that he wants another ship not in Starfleet, right before he dies). It’s also there in the movie, telling Picard he’s had enough of the universe fucking him over, and wants to stay in his fantasies where he can make up for the mistakes he feels he’s made. | |
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Avoid the Dreaded G Rating | |
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Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: Data says "Oh shit" to avoid a G rating. This is one of the last Star Trek films to receive the PG rating, as nearly every film since Star Trek: First Contact has been rated PG-13 (Insurrection, the one released after that would be the final one to receive a PG rating). | |
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Continuity Snarl | |
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Continuity Snarl: This film establishes that Kirk died (at least presumably) in 2293 during the launch of the Enterprise-B. However, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Relics," in which Scotty is rescued from being trapped inside a transporter buffer for 75 years, Scotty believes Kirk to still be alive even though from his point of view, he witnessed Kirk's death only one year earlier.note This was due to the fact that the roles played by Scotty and Chekov were originally meant for Spock and McCoy, and were changed at the last minute because Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley weren't able to appear. Expanded media has since suggested that Scotty either held out hope that Kirk was still alive or was simply disorientated after getting out of the transporter buffer after so long and briefly forgot that Kirk was gone. After being given an emotion chip, Data says he now gets a joke Geordi told him off screen during their very first mission together. We never hear the whole joke, but it apparently involved a Ferengi in a gorilla suit. This is strange, since the Federation didn't really know anything about the Ferengi until some time after that mission. They had met them at least twice before, but never learned who they were in those encounters. (They do know the Ferengi are very short, so that might have been the basis for the joke, and it wouldn't offend any other races.) | |
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Gangsta Style | |
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Gangsta Style: Soran's gun tilts its shooty-part on the side, and he likes to twist his hand to the side to compensate? note Although there is a scope built into the side which he seems to aim through at long range. Some modern "hybrid" scopes, incorporating both magnifying scope and red dot sight, actually do require a shooter to tilt their weapon to the side to use the red dot part. | |
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Made of Explodium | |
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Made of Explodium: This film has the biggest exploding console plague in Star Trek history: Firstly, the Enterprise-B navigation officer gets nailed early on in the film as the Nexus buffets the ship, so Scotty takes over for him. Then in the film's big battle scene, the Enterprise-D's helm officer is injured by an explosion, necessitating Troi taking her place for the rest of the fight and the subsequent crash-landing. Shortly thereafter, a solid hit from the Duras sisters' bird-of-prey leads to the entire rear row of consoles (behind Worf) on the Enterprise's bridge blowing up, injuring or killing at least half a dozen officers.note This one is at least partly justified by one of the sisters' order shortly thereafter to "target their bridge", so it may have been a deliberately close hit as they strafed. | |
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A Glitch in the Matrix | |
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A Glitch in the Matrix: A variant. Kirk knows that the Nexus isn't real, but he's content to stick with it because it offers a chance for him to live the life he missed out on. However, when he jumps his horse over a ravine and feels nothing for it, he realizes that he can never appreciate the Nexus because it lacks a defining element of fear. | |
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While You Were in Diapers | |
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While You Were in Diapers: Kirk to Picard, although not quite about him. note While Picard is older than many Starfleet captains, Kirk entered service approximately 50 years before Picard was born. If both Picard and at least one of his parents were born when their own parents were in their twenties, it works. | |
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Like You Would Really Do It | |
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Like You Would Really Do It: Subverted with the destruction of the Enterprise-D. With Picard being able to rewind time, it seems to the viewer like he might be able to save the ship the second time around, but the ship is still destroyed, most likely due to Picard not knowing about its destruction until afterwards, when he gets picked up from Kirk's grave. | |
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Breakfast in Bed | |
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Breakfast in Bed: Kirk's Nexus fantasy has him bringing a breakfast of Ktarian eggs to Antonia in bed. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Data, while on the Amargosa Observatory. He slowly acts more and more strange before having a Laughing Mad breakdown and crashing. He woke back up, but continued in a Heroic BSoD until he was beamed back to the Enterprise-D. A somewhat more subtle example; When Picard orders Riker to investigate the observatory, Riker starts asking a question. Picard cuts him off with a curt, "Make it so!" and then a very harsh, "Just do it!" Deanna in particular gets a troubled look as he storms off the bridge. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: The holodeck computer parses Riker's "Computer, remove the plank" order as "remove plank from simulation". Picard calls him out on that. The novelization makes it clear that this is a very intentional exploitation of this trope by Riker. | |
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Late to the Punchline | |
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Late to the Punchline: Thanks to his new emotion chip, Data finally gets a joke from the Farpoint mission, which was in the Pilot, seven years ago. This particular joke is never heard in the actual pilot, incidentally. | |
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Evil Brit | |
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Evil Brit: Soran (although technically not British, as he was an alien), played by Malcolm McDowell. | |
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Traveling at the Speed of Plot | |
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The Nexus moves through space at the speed of plot. It clearly moves slower than light, given the Enterprise-B's ability to keep pace with it while using their transporters. Yet it somehow gets from one solar system to another in a matter of hours (it would have to pass near the Amargosa system to be affected by the missing star, then reaches the Veridian system shortly after the Enterprise-D does), instead of taking longer than the lifespans of everyone save Soran and Guinan. | |
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Never Found the Body | |
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Never Found the Body: When Harriman, Scotty, and Chekov reach the area where Kirk was last working, they find a massive hull breach contained by a force field and no sign of Kirk. Given that the area was just blasted by an energy tendril, it's reasonable that they would assume that Kirk was either vaporized or blown out into space, and that No One Could Survive That!. They couldn't have figured on Kirk ending up in another dimensional realm. | |
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A Way Out of a Cave-In | |
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A Way Out of a Cave-In: Trapped on one side of a huge Force Field while Soran is working on his sun-killer weapon, Picard notices at the bottom of the field there is a small gap between an archway and the ground. He tosses a couple rocks at the field which bounce off, then tosses one at the archway. It passes through, so Picard sets to work widening the space so he can crawl through. | |
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Big-Lipped Alligator Moment | |
| Star Trek: Generations / int_f6e10f3e | comment |
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In-universe, even. Data scanning for lifeforms. And singing. With the controls providing instrumentation. The crew is visibly thrown by this. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Quite a bit of the Enterprise-B's equipment and essential crew will not be available until next Tuesday, much to Captain Kirk's compounding frustration and Captain Harriman's embarrassment when a crisis breaks out. | |
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Humans Are Ugly | |
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Humans Are Ugly: Lursa and B'Etor cringe when the first thing they see upon activating their bugging of LaForge's VISOR is Dr. Crusher. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: Soran's plan to divert the Nexus makes sense at first, but promptly falls apart later. In order to actually get inside, he has to destroy the Veridian star so the Nexus hits the planet instead of a near-miss. Problem is, the timing of this is such that there would be no appreciable change in gravity since the sun is still largely intact and thus a massive gravitational body. The Nexus suddenly altering course to hit the planet would never happen. It would have made more sense to destroy the star then have the Nexus hit a planet in another solar system. The effects of the destruction of the Veridian star are observed far too quickly on the planet; due to the speed of light, it should take several minutes for the missile's detonation to be visible on the planet, rather than only a few seconds. Averted with the crash of the saucer, which takes a full minute and 14 seconds from first contacting the planet, as befitting such an enormous mass. But played straight with the saucer crashing at all. Energy is needed to leave any actual orbit (else it's not an orbit) and worse, Deanna is ordered to take the saucer out of orbit. Even IF the saucer had to crash land, it should have taken hours to days. | |
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