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* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: Granted the movie was about letting go of past failures and moving on with your life but Picard seemed rather subdued in the fact that ''the Enterprise'' was destroyed in his brief absence. He even picked up a priceless artifact he got from a friend [[Continuity Nod|during the series]] that was completely ruined and set it aside like it meant nothing.
** Of course, he does so because he's focused on finding his family album. These two things combined add up to making the point that it is people and loved ones who are important, not things.
* [[Continuity Lock Out]]: A problem plaguing the modern Trek franchises, there's so much backstory to the TNG plotline that, as [[SF Debris]] puts it, [[Up to Eleven|"the backstory has backstory"]].
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: Geordi's reaction to Data's impromptu tossing overboard of Dr. Crusher... [[Actually Pretty Funny|except it was absolutely hilarious for the audience]].
* [[Fan Dumb]]: The whole ''Why are they wearing two kinds of uniform'' nitpick completely fails when you remember that, for the whole of season 3, the Enterprise D crew were wearing both the old and new TNG variant. Starfleet has form in this area.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Kirk's surprise that Sulu had a daughter is funnier considering George Takei came out as gay.
** After meeting her, Chekov comments that "I was never that young" and Kirk says "no, you were younger". [[Star Trek (
** Guinan's description of the Nexus as "like being inside joy" has gotten funnier since Whoopi Goldberg has co-hosted ''[[The View]]'' with Joy Behar.
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Soran.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: It's a bit of a stretch to call anything in this movie "magnificent," but Soran is a pretty audacious guy. He's not afraid to get down and dirty to enact his plan, which includes manipulating Klingons to help him blow up ''stars''.
* [[Narm Charm]]: Data singing about life forms.
** The expressions of the entire bridge crew behind him take it from odd and charming to absolutely hilarious.
* [[Padding]]: In spades.
* [[The Problem
* [[Tear Jerker]]: Despite the fact that the final battle between Soran, Kirk and Picard was a [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|Missed Moment of Awesome]], Kirk's last words, set to some really sorrowful music are still very moving.
** Data's reaction to finding out Spot survived the crash.
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** On the other hand, they couldn't just do that all willy-nilly. That probably would have made it worse. It was no doubt the best the writers could do.
** Shatner himself co-wrote [[Expanded Universe|a series of novels]] that assumed he [[Death Is Cheap|recovered from death]], got back together with Scotty, and the two commandeered a mothballed Constitution ship for themselves. It's very long-running and has Kirk meet up with Picard again more than once to confront fan-favorite elements like the Mirror Universe.
** There was some serious [[Executive Meddling]] involved, though: the screenwriters (Brannon Braga and Ronald D Moore) were told from the outset that a) the movie had to be a [[Star Trek:
*** [[What Could Have Been|It could have been worse.]] Originally a lot of the higher-ups wanted a movie about the two Enterprise crews ''fighting'' each other. It was only once all efforts to find a way to have ''Enterprise-A'' versus ''Enterprise-D'' without either crew winding up looking villainous were exhausted that they decided to go with the Kirk-helps-Picard plot. Shatner even describes these early treatments in one of his autobiographical novels as being [[Fanservice|like every original series versus Next Gen online argument made into a movie]].
* [[Visual Effects of Awesome]]: The ''Enterprise-D'' gets some CGI treatment in this movie. The scene where the ship warps away from the Amargosa shock wave is ''gorgeous''.
** Plus the destruction of the ''Enterprise-D'': first a saucer separation, followed shortly by the stardrive explosion, followed by the explosion's shockwave sending the saucer into the planet's atmosphere, culminating in several minutes of the saucer crash-landing onto the planet below. Even if you loved the good ol' ''Enterprise-D'', you have to admit the destruction SFX were ''really'' well done.
*** By far the best bit? A lot of the film, including that iconic scene destroying the Enterprise D, was shot with ''very little 3D animation''. The ship in the final crash was a scale model.
*** The one scene that got the most hype was the newly revealed Astrogation room. And it does look amazing.
**** And more amazing for the fact that it was the ''scaled back'' version of the one the designers wanted to build.
* [[Wall Banger]]: Enough for [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}/Wall Banger|a page of their own]].
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