When I saw it in the cinema it was scary but had genuine laugh out loud moments. I loved it then and love it now.

And no, Worf’s line about the Moon obscuring their warp signature doesn’t explain how they missed a 700 meter long, 26 or 24 deck starship in the system!

So, somehow, despite years of detecting ships in orbit of planets from some distance away, the Vulcans failed to spot a Sovereign class ship or the firing of four quantum torpedoes which were all *right next to* the thing that generated the warp signature that prompted their visit to Earth?!

This is sure to be fun, informative, entertaining and fascinating. And I’m in it! Raging impostor syndrome but looking forward to it nonetheless! Hope to see many of you there.

Thanks guys!

I love that this high budget sci-fi action adventure movie has a climax involving Patrick Stewart climbing and hanging from very recognisable Dyson vacuum cleaner hoses! In the cinema I laughed because they didn’t even disguise the attachment end!

Another bit that annoys scientist Jason: ‘organic’ is not synonymous with ‘living’. Clothing and carpet fibres are organic material that should also have been dissolved. (And yes, years of seeing ‘organic food’ labels in supermarkets also annoys the crap out of me!)

Ok, maybe the missiles of tje future had more power but if that was so they are a) grossly overpowered for a warhead delivery system and b) would have needed stronger tankage than the Titan had.

It reflects the genuine historical irony that the first manned peaceful exploration of space did indeed use repurposed nuke launchers, but they were at the limit of their payload getting a tiny spacecraft into orbit. Something like the Phoenix would have needed a launcher more like a Saturn V.

As a space nut it always bothered me that they used what is recognisably a Titan missile, because I know that thing didn’t have the capacity to get the Phoenix into orbit. Not are the spark throwers under the engines used on a rocket of that type.

It’s so clumsy and contrived that he has to pick up the phaser and swing it around to smash something that’s behind him! Why not have him stay where he was and hurl it on his first ‘no’? It doesn’t help that the model of the D that Lily picks up very visibly was not broken in the smash either.

This scene is the one part where I think the writing and direction just fail. Picard’s stuff about the Brog invading and assimilating entire worlds while Starfleet falls back bears no resemblance to any Borg storyline we’ve seen, and his big ‘NOOOOO’ and smashing the display cabinet is pure narm.

I wasn’t keen on the E when I saw the first pictures of it in the publicity and tie-in stuff but seeing it properly on screen I loved it.

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Thanks Lucy! 🥰

Oh lord, yes! Even with the shields compromised (ignoring the obvious fix they'd used so often before), a galaxy class ship with multiple phaser banks with direct line of sight in any orientation should have been able to rain fire down on one Bird of Prey and take it out easily!

Contrast with every first appearance of the Enterprise E in the next three movies being a gorgeous 'sweeping across the screen' shot accompanied by the main theme....

They had a thing for meaningless deaths in that era. Yar and Jadzia seems to be a misogynistic reaction to an actress pushing back on some shoddy treatment, but that they tried it with Kirk really does beggar belief. Dying in a dangerous effort to get a vital thing to save the world is way better.

And who is this Antonia person anyway?!

One thing that always jumps out at me when I watch this movie: the instant tanning effect of Veridian III! Stewart especially but noticeably Shatner and McDowell too are much more bronzed than in any of the studio sequences.