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Originally Posted by dammage79
If they do a third Star Trek film, I'm kind of hoping to see more Klingons and a couple really well done space battles. I think that's been missing in the first two. Every ship the enterprise has come across has been far too overpowering to make a great battle scene.
At least in the rest of the original movies it was the enterprise vs a bird of prey, war bird, reliant, D7 and so on making for a balanced battle and could really get into it. Ever since Star trek Nemesis, the enemy's ship has been some brutal over powering killing machine. No fun IMO. Hell, even a borg cube is better than some of these monsters they put on screen in the last two.
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there really hasn't been a good tense space battle in the Star Trek Galaxy since Wrath of Kahn. The two battles had amazing tension, and the ships looked battered and bruised and beaten up.
In Star Trek III the search for Spock, there was a brief battle between the Enterprise and a BOP, but it wasn't really a battle.
In Star Trek 6 the undiscovered country, I loved the final battle between the Enterprise, the BOP that could fire while cloaked (surely not) but it wasn't a overwhelming space battle but a chess match in space.
In Generations I hated that battle because frankly they used the footage from Star Trek 6. But second, it was the flagship of the federation against and obsolete Bird of Prey. yeah I get it, the sisters had the shield frequencies, but apparently the Enterprise was designed by the Wright brothers who's idea of armoring was to wrap toilet paper around a ships skeleton. In modern technology terms this would be equivalent to a WW2 mustang taking down the Nimitz with its machine gun.
First contact featured the most epic space battle of all of the movies as we finally saw Star Fleet in action against a single borg cube. Now up until this point the Borg were known for their adaptive technology, but they forgot this technology at home as Star Fleet chipped away at the Borg, then Picard comes on and takes out a technology based on redundant systems and self repairing technology by firing a couple of Torpedo's into the Borg Kitchen hitting a microwave oven and destroying the entire cube, which the entire Star Fleet had only been able to minorly damage to that point.
Star Trek Insurrection the most ######ed movie of the bunch actually mixed the genres of Star Trek and Wing Commander as suddenly a star ship that required a thousand men and woman to fly and fight could be controlled by a single microsoft side winder joystick. I know that money doesn't exist in the star trek universe, but somewhere some senator should be able to put two and two together and come to the conclusion that if massive star ships could be flown by one dude with a joystick the federation would become safer for people wearing red shirts because they wouldn't need to go into space.
Oh and that Nemisis starbattle was every bit as stupid as the movie, the only thing that was missing was Pete Mitchell at the controls of the Enterprise whispering "I'm going to jam on the brakes and he'll fly right by us". Let alone the small design flaw that you have a ultimate weapon based around deadly radiation that turns people into coal, and you have an exposed conduit on the main bridge as a light source?