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* [[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 with 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 If anything, it was probably hamstrung by an horribly outdated game engine: work on the game began in 1995, but it wasn't released until 1998, so the sprite based graphics and 2.5d gameplay meant it was simply outclassed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.
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** 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: The Original Series|TOS]]/[[Star Trek: The 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).
*** [[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.
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