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* [[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 (Filmfilm)|Come 2009, everyone is younger,]] [[Anton Yelchin|but Chekov in particular stands out.]]
** 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.
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* [[Narm Charm]]: Data singing about life forms.
* [[Padding]]: In spades.
* [[The Problem Withwith Licensed Games]]: The video game adaptation isn't ''bad'', exactly. Its just very distinctly... ''average''. If anything, it was probably hamstrung by an horribly outdated game engine: work on the game began in 1995, but it wasn't released until 1998, so the sprite based graphics and 2.5d gameplay meant it was simply outclassed by the games around it.
* [[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: theThe Original Series|TOS]]/[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation|TNG]] crossover, b) said crossover had to be an original-cast prologue and a Kirk-cameo ending, c) there had to be a comical subplot (which is Data getting his emotion chip). Braga and Moore both admitted on the [[DVD Commentary]] that despite all this, what they wrote ''still'' wasn't up to scratch (both blame being over-stretched from having to also write the Next Gen finale "All Good Things" at the same time).
* [[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.
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