1. Killing Data was just lame He was pretty much the only reason In watched Star Trek. I have to even wonder why Data thought it was so important that Data sacrifice himself to save Picard.
Brent Spiner indicated during pre-production that he did not want to play Data anymore because of typecasting issues and the fact that his increasing age would be too hard to disguise (since Data does not age). He felt the character should be killed off in an appropriate manner. I don't know if this was what he had in mind, but they did kill him off.
2. B4 - Great now if we have more movies we get to see the worst parts of Data from the first couple seasons of Star Trek.
Despite the door being left wide open, I severely doubt we will ever see it happen. But then again, money talks.
3. Gee what a surprise the greatest danger in the movie is another techno-babble form of radiation.
Yeah, it's about as original as the Enterprise getting another butt-whooping in every movie since ST VI.
4. The self destruct is disabled? Huh? The Enterprise is fueled via anti-matter. How do you disable that when all you need to do is let the stuff out all at once and let it react.
Don't you just hate those overly redundant safety systems that always interfere with common sense??
5. Hasnt anyone in ST ever heard of a grenade? I could have taken both parties in the phaser fight with two grenades.
Remember, the screenplay was written by John Logan (who wrote Gladiator). He probably still had his head stuck in Roman times...
6. I understand why B4 was left to be found by the Enterprise. He was to steal data. Are you telling me that every Starfleet ship contains a complete list of battle for Starfleet including the location of every ship?
Didn't you know this was standard protocol? It's been brought up before in other movies going back to ST:TMP and even in a few of the various television episodes (although at least Voyager's information was somewhat dated).
7. The Remans build a ship more powerful than anything in the Alpha Quadrant and no one knows about it?
Well, you know... Secret race, secret ship...
I think they had the potential to do so much more with the movie and the characters. I think if Paramount was smart, they would release a director's cut DVD when it comes out so we can all benefit with a much better script. I am willing to bet that most of the good stuff wound up on the floor. The franchise is in dire need of a major hit and I am not sure it can do it with the current writing/production staff.
The whole franchise has strayed away from the epic sense that Roddenberry gave everything to the 2-minute soundbyte we see today. There's a lot always going on in the galaxy and it would be nice to see a movie that was truely epic in scope but original in story. [/end hallucination]
