Items #1 and #3 I can comment on. My Comment on #3 is actually in defense of
Generations - well, to a point. I honestly feel that (until JJ took over, anyway) those in charge of the Post-Gene Trek era would try from time to time to bring back some Gene "feel" to Trek... such as a theme (Dax's lesbian kiss scene, as one) or an item (in this case the uniforms).
As stated, Spock (Lenard Nemoy) did get asked and did pretty much say "go to hell" (poor script). As did Sulu (George Takei) (Sulu had his own thing to do at the time and George felt it wouldn't be right for his character to be there). McCoy (DeForest Kelley) was too ill at the time. The Spock/Sulu lines were split up between Demora Sulu and Scotty; and Chekov filled in for McCoy (rewatch the film and picture McCoy as Chekov... Its almost like they didn't even try to hide it). AFAIK they didn't even ask Uhura.
See, Gene was very military on many aspects of Trek. Taken from life experience. Can not be helped. While "not everyone got the memo about the uniforms" seems logical; it isn't. It is in fact
very military. In the real world, old uniforms get replaced by new ones rather frequently. There's a decision WAY up top that says a perfectly good uniform is not so good anymore and needs to be replaced. After some debate a new one is chosen, and a start date issued for when the service will see the new duds. After sufficient time has passed, and everyone should have a new uniform, a date is set to stop issuing the old ones (typically, they just stop making them and the surplus is distributed until exhausted). Finally, an order is passed with a date that says when you can wear the old uniform for the last time, usually with some leeway given (like a day or two). Honestly, its one of the few parts of
Generations that made sense to me. The overnight change on DS9, however, did not.
Also - Scotty and his team
did not use transparent aluminum to build the whale tank. They didn't have the time to wait for it to be made before going after George and Gracie. They traded TA tech for the material that they used - Plexiglas. Dr. Nichols himself said it would take years just to study the matrix. Scotty had just a couple of days. Just my final 2cp on the interesting review of
Generations.
I don't have time to get into the
Nemisis reviews - I can assume more of the same kind of things though. I'll dive in later, and comment on anything relevant.
I have to agree with this guy and he is right about the Bird of Prey scene and couldn't the Enterprise D detect it cloaked as the A did.
Spock and McCoy (ok OT break here - Why does Chrome know how to spell Spock? Sulu and Scotty get red squiggly lines but not Spock? Really? Fascinating.) have to hot-wire a photon torpedo to sniff out the exhaust from the bird (OT again - I always loved that they had to make a torpedo track bird farts. I mean, really, that is what it is doing...). Once it hits, it is pretty simple to "Target that explosion and fire!".
Unless you are talking about the energy surge WAY earlier in the movie.
The way I see it is Ent-D is set up to detect, or at least try to detect, the best, top-of-the-line cloaks available to the Klingons and Romulans (there it is again... Chrome knows what a Klingon is but not what Klingons or Romulans are... strange). The Duras family is on the outs with all the other Klingons, so they most likely will not have access to those top of the line ships (proven in the movie). Can the Ent-D detect the older cloaks? Sure. Is it expecting, and therefore set up for detecting, an older cloak? Nope. Question answered.
The Czar
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