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Tom Paris and B’elanna Torres had some godawful “I’ve always loved you!” moment on Voyager when they were trapped in open space and their air was about to run out.
Amusingly, on Next Generation, there were two seperate occasions where Dr. Crusher and Picard were faced with imminent death. In both situations Dr. Crusher said something like, “Jean-Luc, there’s something I want to tell you in case we don’t get out of this,” but both times they were abruptly rescued and she never actually got to tell him anything.
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We know, via the last episode, that they marry and divorce.
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The future portrayed in All Good Things… was an alternate timeline.
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I don’t agree that it was even that, though it certainly was not the definite future of the Enterprise-D crew; it directly contradicts everything from after the first TNG movie. At any rate, I think the future Picard saw in the series finale was no more than a hallucination or illusion arranged by Q. It is self-contradictory otherwise.
I don’t remember the future shown in All Good Things… being so wildly different that it would be a hallucination or illusion. The Federation’s non-existence in The City on the Edge of Forever, the Klingon-Federation war in Yesterday’s Enterprise, the Klingon-Cardassian Union in the *Crossover * et al, the year of hell in Year of Hell, and the temporal clusterfuck that was *Enterprise *were all more extreme in their divergence than it was and they’re all accepted as alternate timelines or parallel universes.
Was there even anything in All Good Things… that directly contradicted Generations? If not, the point of divergence could have been as simple as the Enterprise-D not being destroyed in orbit of Veridian III.
There was a TV series on the Holocaust about 20 years ago, and two of the characters, a doctor and his former patient, are being led to their execution. The doctor says he always thought his companion was a good patient. The patient responds by saying something like thank you, I always tried to follow your advice, watched my diet, etc. The doctor cuts him off and says “No, I meant you always paid your bill on tme.”
On Get Smart Agent 86 proposed to Agent 99 when he thought they were both about to be killed by the bad guys. Afterwards he wanted to just forget the whole thing, since they had survived, but 99 believed the proposal and accepted it, so they ended up getting married.
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On Get Smart Agent 86 proposed to Agent 99 when he thought they were both about to be killed by the bad guys. Afterwards he wanted to just forget the whole thing, since they had survived, but 99 believed the proposal and accepted it, so they ended up getting married.
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“Peachy, I’m heartily ashamed for gettin’ you killed instead of going home rich like you deserved to, on account of me bein’ so bleedin’ high and bloody mighty. Can you forgive me?”
“That I can and that I do, Danny, free and full and without let or hindrance.”
“Everything’s all right then.”
And, and I should add, a favorite such scene. The two characters who are to be executed at the end of Breaker Morant silently hold hands as they’re walking out on the field. Just before the fatal volley, Morant shouts to the firing squad, “Shoot straight, you bastards! Don’t make a mess of it!”
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And, and I should add, a favorite such scene. The two characters who are to be executed at the end of Breaker Morant silently hold hands as they’re walking out on the field. Just before the fatal volley, Morant shouts to the firing squad, “Shoot straight, you bastards! Don’t make a mess of it!”
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Gah! I was JUST NOW coming to post that one! More poignant to realize that, to Morant, up until that point, everything his judge, jury, and executioners had done was a ‘mess’.
