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* [[Back for the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Kirk}}, sort of.
* [[Big Damn Movie]]: {{spoiler|Kirk}} dies, entire star systems are in danger of being destroyed, {{spoiler|the Enterprise-D is destroyed and crashes}}, Picard loses his family and Data gets emotions. YMMV over the movie's quality, but events are certainly a step up from the average episode.
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* [[Break Them by Talking]]: If you ever wondered what would happen if an El-Aurian used their keen insight against someone instead of counseling them - look out. Exemplified by Soran tearing Picard down by repeatedly discussing waning time and fire.
* [[Call Back]]: Shortly after the D12 is destroyed, the movie cuts to Geordi in engineering examining an open panel and in the middle of a conversation about the damage the ship's taken. He turns around and communicates with the bridge, only to be cut off as the panel he's just walked away from [[Explosive Instrumentation|explodes]] and engineering rapidly degenerates from being a mess to being an outright hazardous environment. As he's ushering everyone out, Geordi tells the bridge that they're a few minutes away from a warp-core breach he can't stop. This scene mirrors one from the episode "Yesterday's Enterprise", where the ship was fatally damaged fighting Klingons in an alternate timeline.
** Also, while examining Soran's space station, Data reminds Geordi of a joke Geordi told Riker at Farpoint Station. As noted in [[Late to the Punchline]], Farpoint Station was the setting for the pilot episode of ''The Next Generation''.
* [[Call to Agriculture]]: In the Nexus, Kirk was found chopping wood and frying eggs at a farm.
* [[Changing Clothes Is a Free Action]]: One of the most subtle examples on record. At the beginning of the film, the main cast is wearing their ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''-era uniforms, with the black shoulders and colored torso. Then a few [[Red Shirt
** See the entry under [[Show Accuracy, Toy Accuracy]] in the trivia section for a possible explanation for all this uniform madness.
* [[Closest Thing We Got]]: "You and you, you've just become nurses. Let's go."
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* [[The Movie]]: Of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. Except that [[Executive Meddling]] demanded a crossover with ''The Original Series'' because they didn't want to risk giving ''The Next Generation'' its own entire movie right away.
* [[Multiple Endings]]: The videogame adaptation provides two endings: one which follows that which is seen in the film, and another where {{spoiler|you track down Soran ''before'' he gets to Veridian III and defeat his starship in battle, circumventing both the destruction of the ''Enterprise''-D and also the death of Captain Kirk, who under this scenario does not appear in the plot at all and presumably remains entirely at peace within the Nexus}}. Needless to say, if you complete the game and get the second ending, then you've created an [[Alternate Continuity]].
* [[Mythology Gag]]: The ''Next Generation'' portion of the movie takes place 78 years after the launching of the ''Enterprise-B''
* [[Negative Space Wedgie]]: The "ribbon" of "temporal energy" that takes its victims to "the Nexus".
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: Kirk and Picard do not save the universe, nor anything close.
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** Soran, when he realizes what Picard's done with the missile controls.
* [[Orphaned Punchline]]: We don't hear the rest of the joke that Data finally "got". A Ferengi in a gorilla suit would be quite a sight, though.
* [[Outrun the Fireball]]: An unusual instance, in that it's the ''Enterprise''-D's saucer that's trying to outrun the stardrive section before it explodes. Also subverted in that the saucer ''doesn't'' outrun the
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9hg0uMwUrI Oh, shit!]'' If any character other than Data (who had just acquired his emotion chip) had delivered this line, it wouldn't have been as profound.
* [[Rebuilt Set]]: The ''Enterprise''-D bridge now has noticeably more workstations than it ([[Alternate Universe|usually]]) did on television.
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* [[Series Continuity Error]]: Scotty witnesses Kirk's death, despite an earlier ''The Next Generation'' episode showing him as a [[Human Popsicle]], who immediately assumes Kirk is the one who woke him up. Moore and Braga said that they were well aware of the continuity issue, but just couldn't resist seeing Scotty in action one last time.
** Becomes [[Fridge Brilliance]] if you figure that Scotty made that assumption in "Relics" because he [[Never Found the Body|doesn't believe]] Kirk died that day.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The "present day" is 78 years after the start of the film with Kirk, Scotty and
** Data at one point mentions "[[Doctor Who|reversing the polarity]]" amongst a sea of [[Techno Babble]].
* [[Star-Killing]]: Soran's trilithium-armed probes.
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