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From: rae@unicus.UUCP (Clith de T'nir a.k.a. Reid Ellis)
Newsgroups: ont.sf-lovers
Subject: Star Trek: the Next Generation
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Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 15:59:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: unicus.1034
Posted: Fri Oct  2 15:59:00 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 5-Oct-87 07:09:18 EDT
Reply-To: rae@unicus.UUCP (Clith de T'nir a.k.a. Reid Ellis)
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Keywords: star trek the next generation

Well, they can lose the psychic.  I'm sorry, but the way they portrayed
her ESP etc, it just doesn't mesh with the Star Trek universe.  It's too
much the plot device.  "Hum, we have no idea what's going on.  Lt., what
are *you* experiencing?"  When Spock used it, he has class.  Having it
as a desperate measure is fine.  But a crew member whose only function
is to be psychic?  Uh-uh.

Lt. Yaaa [or whatever] needs better writing.  There's the bare plot-
thread of a character there, buried under all that bad writing.  Make
her better, or else lose her.

The movie was supposed to be filmed in HDTV, and it showed.  There were
a few scenes where matte lines screamed to be noticed.  It looks like
filming on film at 30 frames/s and then transferring to video is still
the best way to go.  Ah well.  If it had been filmed and then xferred to
video, it would have helped in a number of rough spots..

'Q' -- His "cruel smile" was wayyy too overdone.  And why didn't he show
up as something more interesting than yet-another-post-nuclear
character?  Like, say, in a uniform from the old TV series?  Or even
better, Kirk's uniform from ST4?  Or maybe Kruge's uniform.  Then the
Klingon character would have had a chance to fill us in on some
historical background..  Bah.

Now the good stuff:

Captain Picard:  Yah.  Good stuff.  I can live with this.  He's cool.
He knows when he's being handled a load of crap, and he can deal with
his own limitations.  "I'm not good with children.  However, I am
supposed to have an air of congeniality.  See to it that I do." [ok, so
it's a rough paraphrase..]

Lt. Data: [I *think* he was a Lt.  I can't remember everyone's rank just
yet.]  I like him.  I don't care, I still like him.  "You may not have
pointed ears, but you SOUND like a Vulcan."  Yeah.

McCoy's cameo:  Well done, althought the makeup was a *bit* much.  But
what do you expect for a 137 year-old admiral?  It gave a sense of
continuity.

The Klingon, Lt. Kov-or-something-like-that:  Good idea for a
character.  So are bumby-Klingons the only extant version?  Were all
those 60's klingons half-breeds, or what?  I was worried they'd just
have a Klingon-looking yacm [yet another crew member].  But "Sir, I am a
Klingon!  I cannot leave my commander to fight while I run away with the
women and children!"  Yowza.  I wonder if the Klingon-Federation merging
will be touched on in later episodes?  And I like the Klingon touch on
his uniform.  Isn't that strictly out of the sixties-klingons?

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Why am I posting to ont.sf-lovers?  We don't get rec.*!
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Reid Ellis
rae@unicus.com