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Originally Posted by Jeyl

Given that this was Moore and Braga's first theatrical film, they were open to a TON of suggestions. Any time someone came to them with a suggestion, they latched onto it. Listening to Jery Taylor's suggestions did not help. For starters, the film does open with an action scene involving the rescue of the El-Aurian refugees. Having an action scene where the Enterprise comes in to save the day would have done a lot to show how things have progressed in the future. For the audience, the new Enterprise is commanded by a competent Captain, the crew are experienced at what they're doing and they manage to save everyone on the station instead of a just Soran. But that's too predictable.

So instead, we have a very out of place sequence involving a promotional ceremony for Worf... on an Earth boat. A ceremony that we have never seen in Star Trek before or since. So instead of showing our new Star Trek heroes in a competent, professional and heroic light, we see them act like a bunch of doofus arrogant pin heads who can't even run a ceremony properly And to top it off, by the time they arrive to the station that was under attack by Romulans, everyone is dead except for the main villain who the crew rescues.

And these are the heroes who the marketing proclaimed would take on the "torch of adventure" from the original series crew.

The promotional ceremony is also a great example of how poorly Generations handled its budget. They crafted and tailored all those sailor outfits for the entire cast for this one scene (and a bit on the bridge) yet for their actual starfleet uniforms that they would spend the rest of the movie in, they elected to only tailor new uniforms for Picard and Data and had everyone else either wear their TNG show uniforms or borrow uniforms from DS9. The latter one being quite hilarious since you can tell the DS9 uniforms did not fit the actors at all. And they did this because they thought the zippers on the TNG uniforms would look goofy.

JC on a cracker. Any other silly things you want to complain about? Fonts, perhaps?