• Xariphon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m really torn on whether or not I think The Inner Light should’ve had more of an effect on him.

    The crux of the issue is that in his actual life he was a career guy who never made time for a family.

    So, on the one hand, living that life could’ve fulfilled his dream and made it so he could dedicate himself to being Starfleet with no regrets. In a real way, he got to have both.

    But on the other hand, if he dismisses that entire life as a hallucination and doesn’t embrace how it felt, it could make his longing-for-a-life-he-never-had that much worse.

    Seeing as we never saw him have a complete breakdown over it, and only mentioned it later on in First Contact that he had any regrets about being the last Picard, I can only assume the former was true. (Leaving aside Generations. Why are the odd-numbered Trek films always so goddamn weird?)

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        1 year ago

        If you don’t appreciate The Motion Picture as a movie screen sized hours long version of a TV episode and opportunity for the first real beauty shots of the Enterprise, then you are no real Trekkie. :P

        Maybe it’s because I went to see it when it came out as a kid and it following the success of Star Wars simply blew me away. Best opening and intro of a retcon ever (the Klingons of course). Of course I like Wrath of Khan more, but I will defend the first movie every time as a masterpiece too.