You assume Picard was just going to shoot the thing and blow up with it, rather than try to disarm it. Why? He had plenty of time to turn it off, change where it was aiming, whatever. There is nothing on the screen, nor in the screenplay, that indicates that Picard is going over there to die.
Really? And where did Picard say “I’m going to go over there and shoot the swirly green energy thing!”?
Data had no choice but to go for broke because shooting it was about all you could do in three seconds. Picard, if he hadn’t just stood there like an imbecile, could have tried something different, more “subtle,” and less destructive.
I could swear that the main Reman sounded like Vin Diesel. It would have been a better movie if an armor clad voyager or defiant had came to the rescue.
Since a photon torpedo is a matter/antimatter warhead, I doubt it. I understand that replicating antimatter is a no-no.
A few other nits:
“We have the same eyes, the same heart…” Um, no you don’t… you have an artificial heart! (Picky, picky, picky…)
How can something “disrupt organic tissue at the subatomic level”? It seems to me that at the subatomic level, or even the atomic level, it’s not organic tissue anymore… just carbon and whatnot. Organicity begins with molecules.
and… there was another major one that I don’t recall at the instant.
Be that as it may, I enjoyed this outing and I don’t quite grasp the excoriations it’s receiving. I certainly don’t think it was the best… rather put it around the low half of the even numbers… but still even-numbered.
No assumption, when Picard went to where the beam was, he reached for his weapon which we had been knocked away in an earlier scene. The shot of his weapon on the floor was the setup for when he got to the beam and couldn’t fire on it the way that data did. He was prepared to take his own life to save that of his crew, i.e. the needs of the many out weigh those of the few.
You know, this isn’t the first time that Data tried to sacrifice himself and Picard turned him down. Remember in Generations Data wanted to be traded for Geordi. There’s no telling how long Data’s been begging the Captain to let himself get killed.
The only worse Trek movie than this one was ST5… and even that had the small value of the Yosemite scenes. Also, Data’s death had absolutly no emotional impact. It could have been done much better.
…Because the Magic Reset Button ™ was glaringly obvious. “Data’s dead. No, he’s retarded!” It’s like they stole the endings to ST2 and ST3 and crammed them in the same movie.
Just saw it today and quickly scanned all these posts, so I’m not sure if anyone mentioned this: Doesn’t Riker mention a “something-Kirk-Epsilon” maneuver on the bridge? I swear I heard Kirk’s name.
I’m with the few, the proud, the ones who actually enjoyed this flick. Then again, I rarely pick apart movies or worry overmuch about their verisimilitude, especially with science fiction and fantasy. All I really ask of a movie is that it entertain me, and this one did.
Plus I can never get enough of Jean-Luc, and I liked all the “nature vs. nurture” stuff where we see him question who he might have become had he suffered severe deprevation and abuse. It’s an interesting question for any of us… and a timeless one with no easy answer: how much of who we are is genetic, and how much do our experiences shape us?
Why did Picard just sit there with a stupid look on his face saying nothing after his clone died? And why did Data not say a word when he beamed Picard back to the Enterprise and blew himself up? That moment carried incredible emotional weight, and they chose to have everybody stay mute. What a shame.
