Patrick Stewart ad-libbed "The Welcome to the Enterprise" line. THAT was a perfect acknowledgement of both the importance of the Enterprise herself, his pride in her and how she's a metaphor for 'family'.
The mission was like the Millennium Falcon raiding the second Death Star, in and out. I was expecting Data to yell "Woo-Hoo!" after clearing the blast radius!
The funny thing is both the actor and Worf are still more capable than so many others half their age. Dorn is a practitioner of Asian martial arts and has a vegan diet. The guy looks like hes 40 (71 real).
Jack and Picard smiling as the Enterprise shows up overhead right after Jack just got done telling the Borg Queen that he is not alone. "And....that's my Mom here to pick us up. Nice meeting you. Bye!"
@@gamiensrule - As proved in the post-credits where he's moving into his new quarters and he puts out a model of the Galaxy class. I think he learned to appreciate his father's ship.
This is not redemption for her, this is justice. She had to take the helm in a situation that was far from ideal even in the proper procedure for a saucer landing after the Saucer got kicked in the ass after not making it to minimum safe distance from the core breach. Troi basically pulled off a *_dead stick_* landing in a vessel not really built for it, and she managed to do it with low casualties and without totalling the spaceframe as the Enterprise-D's resurrection here shows. It is wholly unfair to disparage Troi for her performance at starship piloting in that situation.
lets just say after what Paramount saw what Terry Matlas did to this final Season of Picard they and Terry decided to renew and show Alex Kurtzman and let him learn the lessons from Terry Matlas's production of the final season of Star Trek Picard how a real Star Trek show and storyboard plot with this many seasons should be done and i bet CBS would most likely agree too.
Who do you think gave Terry his job? Just because Kurtzman has made some bad choices doesn’t mean he’s not capable of learning and making better choices.
@@keirfarnum6811 Kurtzman was set aside, and Matalas was given this, thinking it was a stinker that could not be saved. Kurtzman will now push him down a hole so deep, he will never be seen again.
The ending of this video where all the crew are once again together onboard the enterprise, and picard welcomes jack to the enterprise, bought a tear to my eye, and it brought the ship i grew up back to life and where it should be
This season really gave me the closure I didn’t know I needed. I’m so many ways. I turned 40 in 2023, and realized it had been 30 years since I was this excited about the TNG crew. I respected the commitment towards the cast and characters to do RIGHT by them. Including the Enterprise-D. This has become a standard repeating watching for me since its release
You perfectly captured all of us TNG fans sentiment. "All Good Things" was a great way to end the show, but "Generations" was not how 1701-D should have ended. Season 3 perfectly gave us who grew up with these characters and ship the ending that it earned.
Seven said, "We did it," when she realized her assimilated crew wasn't going to kill her. Did anyone else hear a callback to ST Voyager: Endgame, when Janeway said the same thing?
Ever since this season premired, I have been telling all of my friends this is the Trek you want to watch. The young men and women who grew up on DS9, VOY ENT and most specifically TNG, they got what us TOS oldies got 40 years ago. TNG got not only their Voyage Home moment, but the got their most deserved Undiscovered Country moment. And hell, Terry Matalas even threw us old TOS fans a few bones as well. A proper Constitution Class, The Enterprise A, CAPT FIng KIRK, The HMS Bounty and Water Koenig as the Federation President Anton Chekov, This series went a long way to right the wrongs of the past few years and took major steps to heal the fandom as a whole. MORE TERRY TREK PLEASE!
Not only that but a Scotty-Dyson sphere moment "Scotty: The Enterprise? I should have known. I bet Jim Kirk himself hauled the old girl out of mothballs to come looking for me." The old girl the Enterprise-D rises from the ashes like the Great Bird of the Galaxy to face down and defeat her old foe, the Borg, who first made her run and hide, but now runs and hides from her.
Seven WOULD understand .... and JLP would probably understand a lil more than Seven (as their assimilations were different) ... but what Sidney and all those Starfleet officers experienced ... yeah, that's a LOT of therapy from people that really won't understand what they endured.
I think this was the very moment Seven became really a Starfleet captain: leading her people to the (final) battle and motherly conforting Sidney at the end... exactly the Janeway way!
@@kfures3469 Remember the conversation between Seven and Picard before he beamed her down to deal with her adoptive son, Icheb's murderer. How they mentioned how hard it was at times getting over what the Borg had done with them and yet it was still with them all the time.
I missed this. The way (now) Captain 7 hugs and consoles lieutenant La Forge there was actually brilliant and why she is now a Captain. They developed a rapport previously in the season. 7 knows all too well what the collective could make a person do and La Forge is inexplicitly beside herself over what she was about to do to her direct superior and confidant. Meeting her at an emotional level like that was akin to the deep friendship Picard and Data often went to for each other in the TNG series. When you break this season down, it is truly a masterpiece even if you put the fan service/nostalgia aside. Thank You Terry!
And they said this woman couldn't act back when they introduced her and that she was only eye candy. HA!!! Yes - she still looks DAMN FINE. But she has CHOPS!
We should all take a moment to thank the USS Syracuse, for whatever sacrifice she made, that allowed her stardrive to provide the crucial remaining piece to save Jack, the crew, the fleet, Earth, and the Federation. Three cheers for the "Entercuse"
I bet nothing happened to the Syracuse. Geordi probably just swiped it from a storage field somewhere, which is why only he knew the enterprise was rebuilt lol
He didn’t mention Sto Vo Kor. Originally, the rumors were that someone in the TNG crew wouldn’t survive. If someone had to go, Worf would make sense, since Klingons seek out an honorable death in battle.
@@VincentPascual Worf should've been the one to beam over to the Scimitar in Nemesis and sacrifice himself. Not only would he have died an honorable death, but also would've gotten out of Riker and Troi's Betazoid wedding ceremony as he was reluctant to follow the tradition of appearing naked😄
@@AndrewChapmandid you actually watch the movie? lol ... the transporter wasn't supposed to work to beam Picard over to the Scimitar. and then the transporters fried after Picard went. Data didn't even transport over to the Scimitar; he flung himself over through the vacuum of space. Worf could not have done such a thing.
@@dhinton1 Jeez, I was just having a joke. And you missed my point entirely. Just meant Worf could've gone in Picard's place as he's always on about dying an honorable Klingon death. And he was dreading the thought of appearing naked at Riker and Troi's wedding ceremony on Betazed anyway, so this would've gotten him out of it.
The moment when Riker says “I love you, Imzadi… we’ll be waiting… me and our boy”…!😭 I thought… I really thought they were gonna… and I never even really liked Riker all that much! Just goes to show what can be done when the writing is impeccable, and the acting is top tier! I’m sooooo glad that the Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Superhero genres are *****FINALLY***** getting their time to shine! Because it’s ABOUT DAMN TIME!!!!
This was the first time I was able to understand what Will and Deanna had said in that moment. (I don't have access to the original source, thus have to piece everything together via YT videos.)
This was amazing. Seeing these beloved people save the universe one more time was everything I hoped it would be. Maybe Terry Matalas should write the upcoming "Star Wars" films...?
This season was as perfect as we are gonna get in a star trek season. It takes events and characters from every Star Trek series. It is truly worth of being called the end of a Generation and a start of a New Generation.
Worf - the true soldier - knows when to catch a couple of ZZs. Rest assured, he'd be back up if he needed to be in a nano-second. But he knows the after-action reports are gonna be HELL... And BORING... might as well take the opportunity while you've got it!
“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it and he's as happy as a worm in an apple - asleep.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Or alternately, he's just like Seven was when she joined the Voyager crew. Broken and in need of a mentor. Kind of interesting that in joining the Ent-G crew in his current capacity is an almost direct parallel in how Janeway mentored Seven and led her to heal emotionally.
All the characters' reactions to each other, when they walk back onto the bridge after the rescue, feel so genuine, but in its own way, the way Worf exhaustedly slumps into the chair is the most real to me.
I think it's subtle, but amazing, that she probably sensed his despair but that despair was what helped her pinpoint where they were. Hope was present in that darkest moment.
@@ArthurS1175 I wept when I saw Generations in theaters and the Enterprise D was destroyed. But I was always puzzled by the fact Star Fleet left the saucer section intact on Veridian III when in the Next Generation technical manual it stated that in the event that the saucer section crash landed on a planet surface, the crew was to be rescued and the saucer section was to be destroyed in order to prevent it from falling into enemy hands. 🤔
@@robertadams7318 Well, they wound up recovering it instead, so that's just as good. It probably also helped that the "enemy" in this case got taken out before the ship crash-landed.
The "Good Old Lady" still has what it takes when it comes to saving the galaxy and humanity. But after that, a few questions arise for me here, which concern the period after the destruction of the Borg cube and the decommissioning of the Enterprise-D in the Fleet Museum a year later. Did Picard take command of the fleet? Was there anyone left of the Admiralty? Was the Enterprise-D the interim flagship at the time? And will Captain Riker finally regain his long-deserved admiral rank and Data his old commander rank? And how many ships were badly damaged or destroyed during this whole action? In short: what happened in the one year after that? Are there already answers to all these questions?
The Titan was rechristened as the Enterprise-G, and there had to be more involved than just a relabeling. Perhaps refits and upgrades were in order. And overseen by Seven as its new captain and as someone who knows a lot about upgrading a starship (from her time on Voyager). And Seven didn’t give her first official act of command until a year later. She could’ve been in advanced captain’s training for a year (think Ro and her advanced tactical training in “Preemptive Strike”). Or she was on a well-deserved break. And on that break, she reconnected with Voyager’s crew. In the same year, Raffi probably got to rebuild her relationship with her family before taking up the Number One role.
Like to think Enterprise-D resumed her role as Flagship of the Federation for that year. Likely the intended Enterprise-G was being built but was destroyed by the fleet after it went Borg (and any Starship being constructed near Earth). That leaves Starfleet a dilemma, Enterprise-F’s replacement which they either postponed Enterprise-F’s decommissioning and built another Starship from Scratch or find a nearly completed new Starship/existing one and rename it. Well Titan-A was a bit nicked (can’t find the right term) and with repairs and upgrades, they choose rechristening an existing Ship for the option.
@@MarioLabot As an old destroyer sailor I would have termed the time Titan-A spent in the yards as "Repair and Overhaul" where older and less capable systems are either renewed or simply replaced with newer and better. Another, less formal way or terming it would be "She was in the body and fender shop."
The TNG movie we needed, deserved, and want. This was good. Flaws? Sure, yeah, whatever, but I'll take this over JJTrek or season 1 picard. Or Disco. LeVar and McFadden nail it.
Plus, they really stuck it to Lucasfilm. Star Wars fans had to watch in horror as their beloved heroes were deconstructed and killed off. Star Trek fans got to watch Picard and the crew take the Enterprise-D to save the Federation. Again.
I watched this series before becoming a father and it brought so much depth to the whole of the story. This is the best television moment in Star Trek history.
I love when the Enterprise swoops in at 1:37 to save the away team. Although for a ship that's 2,000 ft/600 meters long, the perspective feels "off"... one would think the ship would look much larger overhead. I generally liked the slower movement of the starships in the original Star Trek movies and TNG. That said, I could get used to the Enterprise D having a wider array of maneuvers.
I figure that (a) the Megacube is just really, really big; (b) Data v3's at the helm, and; (c) this is how the ship can move when you don't have to worry about G-forces liquifying the crew in other areas of the ship.
That set of four notes is a Jerry Goldsmith "signature", he put that into The Motion Picture, The Final Frontier, First Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis, and I'm sure I've heard it sneaked into other pieces he did, cos I'm sure I've heard it in the Stargate (movie, that is) score too...
fun bit of character development i missed at first, the only way Deanna was able to find Riker was because he finally allowed himself to fully feel his grief for their lost kid, few emotions are as strong as grief and him finally opening up to that saved him, worf, jack and jean-luc
I haven't seen this series but what I really like about this scene that is different from the older shows. The mission is over and nobody is throwing rank and just sitting wherever. It kinda shows they really have become a family rather than just a very good crew.
Most of the original bridge crew in their original positions from Season One of TNG. Notable exceptions include Dr. Crusher being in Sickbay along with Tasha Yar not at tactical. It was these seven officers that encountered the Borg thanks to Q throwing them into their path. Six of these officers recaptured their assimilated captain and all seven beat the Borg for the first time. On a different Enterprise, these seven preserved their timeline from a grim future. It was these seven, the Magnificent Seven of Starfleet Legend, that faced the Borg one last time on THEIR Enterprise and THEIR terms. Starfleet should have an award of valor for EVERYTHING the crew of the Enterprise-D did to protect the Alpha Quadrant.
This kind of reminds me of the ending of the Voyager series where Voyager emerges out of the Borg ship as it is destroyed upon entry into the Alpha Quadrant. Great to see the 1701-D getting to play out a similar scene - especially since our first viewing of a Borg cube was on The Next Generation.
These scenes show so much. The Old "fat" girl as a galaxy class that still can put out a ounch if needed oldschool-way aswell as the phoenix rising from the ashes of fire leaving the cube. Smybolic yet stylish
Enterprise D: "You scraped me off the surface of Veridian III, put me back together, and brought me out of mothballs, all for THIS? Oh hell no. I'm done with this shit. Let's go, Syracuse, you're with me... quite literally, apparently."
We always knew the galaxy could do more and be truly bad ass. Tng and ds9 always made em out to be fairly lumbering bulks. All it took was a giddy soong robot with free reign to do what he wanted to it to find out it's a star trek millennium falcon.
STNG is my favorite ST series. ❤ I am 65 this year. I needed to see the Borg Flagship disintegrate. I know disclosure is coming in my lifetime. ❤Everyone♥️ Only our bodies age. ❤
The last time an Enterprise bridge was (re)introduced in the last two episodes of a show's season, it led to SNW. I really hope they manage to do the same thing here.
Still think Geordi, not knowing Beverly's familiarity with weapons should have been at OPS, could've issued Commands from there. There was a scene I think with Enterprise C, Tasha transfers to "C", Riker is injured, Picard jumps over the railing to take over OPS in the midst of combat.
The consoles have always been configurable anyway, so they can control whatever from any position. And a reminder -- we first saw LaForge in Season 1 at the helm. So this was fitting.
