Almost forgot to mention that I loved the 4-wheeling scene! Perhaps because it was so unexpected.
The TNG eppisode Ensign Ro comes to mind, as well as a borg eppisode of TNG who’s name escapes me at the moment. Both times shuttlecraft were used get past shields to allow a boarding party to transport.
Answered in the post that you are responding to.
I don’t have the technical manual, so I don’t know how the heck the shields are supposed to work, or how much energy they take. But surely in the middle of a starship vs. starship combat one would be more concerned about shields than lights? They had just gotten shields (barely) back up, and without them they were pretty much screwed.
Keep in mind that the majority of the fire in this firefight missed the target completely.
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…which is kinda strange, since the episode was Preemptive Strike, though understandable since it fetured Lieutenant (recently promoted from Ensign) Ro.
I’m sorry, I thought it was clear that I meant that small craft are not generally useful for their firepower. I was responding to Incubus, who was asking why Shinzin didn’t deploy all those Scorpions.
Well, why didn’t picard send out a fleet of shuttles and have them fire their phasers? And why was the Fed Fleet 7 whole ships? And why didn’t they show up to be cannon fodder as well? Didnt they learn from DS9 we love gigantic fleet battles? I want my station seiges, dangit!!!
He wanted to destory Earth because he was technically Human but he couldn’t be human. He was raised to hate anything that wasn’t Him or With Him. And I imagine, he had a certain self-disgust.
I liked the flick a lot. I cried at the end. Of all the ST:TNG movies and eps my husband has made me sit through, I liked this one the best. And in the end, I even conceded that Picard was a better captain than Kirk.
Because the helmsman was an ensign that had been onboard for a few months or maybe a couple of years, versus a close friend that they had been to hell and back with for over 15 years. Picard would have been upset about all of his casualties, but he would not have mourned for them the same way he did for Data.
They were quite a distance away from Romulus at that point. Remember that the Scimitar had been chasing the Enterprise ever since it had broke orbit.
And for the record, I enjoyed it. Not as good as WOK, but not the worst by far.
Pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? 
An ok episode… i mean movie.
Hated
- Lack of concern for the Prime Directive on a Pre Warp world.
- The Nosferatu Aliens.
- Shinzon’s requirement for Picard’s Blood (I mean DNA) The overdub of Beverley expalining Shinzon needs His DNA didn’t fix the original line. (You’ll notice she mouths the word Blood) I mean why would he need all of Picard’s DNA, why not ask for some skin or some other sample. And The Blood line is equally bad in that aside from type blood is blood, he could have found a type O doner and sucked him dry. See the Nosferatu thing wasn’t a coincidence.
- Impulse being so fricken Slow
- Troi has the bridge?!?!?!?
- Physics gets a back seat
- Super Data shot as he flies to the Reman vessel
7a) An alien vessel would be a Scorpion class?!?! Did Scorpions get seeded throughout the galaxy too? - Search for Spock ending with B4… Data’s slow brother.
Things I liked
- Patrick Stewarts Performance
- Shirzon’s performance
- Some cute moments of humour
- The Death of the Senate
- The Reman Vessel
- The Space Battle
- The touching tribute to Data (Before the Search for Spock ending)
7b) The fact Riker couldn’t recall the Song… after all it was 15 years later and he doesn’t watch his own reruns… unless of course a plant puts spikes into him
- The Shots of the Damaged Enterprise… (By the way anyone warn the crew in the forward decks that they would be used as a battering ram)
Something else struck me… Mini Picard stated Picard was not 2 metres tall as he hoped… How big have humans become by the 24th century that would warrent that kind of belief?
2 metres is the hieght of your average Doorway. How freaking tall would Riker have been. I mean They have been to the past and they didn’t seem to tower over the humans of the 22nd century or 21st.
Isn’t 2 meters just six feet? Isn’t that close to average now?
no 2 meters are 6.56168 Feet If you look at the relative size of Picard to others he meets if he were 6 1/2 feet tall… how big would the others be?
How could the word “Lor” not be used in this movie at all?
How could early industrial dune buggies keep up with the federation dune buggies?
How could they not let LeForge have some sort of emotion after the death of his best friend?
Why did Picard, after using his super human strength to pull down part of the wall to impale Shinzon, just stand there? There was a minute left in the count down he needed to do something instead of just stealing from LotR.
When the bad guys beamed over why weren’t force field errected around them?
How could they not have data-gump do Pop goes the Weasle at the end instead of Blue Skies?
How could they not end the movie with Picard walking out of the room with Data-Gump and then have Data-Gump do the Lor facial twitch and then sing Blue Skies?
Some of your complaints are okay, but these two are just wrong:
There was an episode at the end of TNG where Troi took the test to become Commander specifically so she could take the bridge. If you think she shouldn’t, well, then you’re just sexist. And that was one of the coolest shots ever. So step down.
I regarded that as humor in reference to the ship crashing in one of the movies when she had the helm. It was funny.
I have question about the cloaking devises. Why hasn’t the Federation figure out the technology to trace ships that are cloaked? Because then it wouldn’t be interesting anymore?
They have repeatedly. Geordie even mentioned some of the methods when they were scanning for the cloaked ship.
Not sexist… Troi has proven her incompetence in crisis command situations before. She succeeded only by luck and the competence of others. As for the test she took it so many times
she just ran out of options to screw it up.
And coolest shot?!?!? Crap on a crutch that was so cheeseball I wanted to sing the theme from Superman as he went sailing across. My eye sockets bled because my eyes were rolling back so far.
Hell if he used a shuttle he could just as easily rammed the bridge of the Remen vessel and destroyed the device as he did firing on it.
I liked it. And I thought most of the nitpicks that were posted here were actually explainable, going back to the different TNG episodes.
Although I would have liked to have seen Denise Crosby as the Romulan daughter of Tasha Yar. She could have been part of the reason that they tried to duplicate Picard. Just because they didn’t age him 30 years to be Picard’s age doesn’t mean that they didn’t age him at least once before so that he would reach an age old enough to learn, then dump him in the mines. It doesn’t really say at what age he was dumped on Remus, does it?