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refreshing on the whole, but will leave you wanting more, a lot more.

The full crew of the Enterprise D appear in the film, but as I've said they all seem a little different than before. Wolf has had his facial appearance changed; Data is the comedy relief due to an implant of a emotion chip and comes across embarrassingly as a robotic clown throughout the film. Where as Riker, Troi, La Forge and Crusher have their own pieces of the film, but don't really do anything different to that of the TV show. As the focal point is on Picard this is his film and he has more screen time than the others, Patrick Stewart is awesome in the role as Picard as we see the Captain go through the complete range of emotions from the first time that we see him on the Holodeck to the last scene of the film. Stewart being a Shakespearian actor is given his own moment to show what he can do and this is not only one of the highlights but also allows the potential the character still has for the franchise to be seen.

The man who wants to get back to the Nexus is Dr Tolian Soran, played by Malcolm McDowell. The casting of McDowell in the role is a great piece of casting on its own, however even after the story is laid out as to who the character that McDowell plays is, you cannot help but feel that he is not giving the role everything and tends to be just delivering his lines to get off set. Again this is down to the writing as the character of Soran is dark in nature but also quiet when I would have expected the man to be loud, brash and totally mental. However the character is rather quieter than I expected him to be considering he is the link throughout the film.

For the most part the Enterprise D looks amazing on the big screen and really has been pride of place in any shots, I say most part as a big chunk of Star Trek III has been re-cycled, and although the sequence involving the demise of the Enterprise D and the landing of the saucer section on Veridian III is a highlight, and extremely impressive to watch, you just cannot help but get the feeling that a ship that lasted several seasons on TV gets wiped out far too easily at the first opportunity in the film.

There are a number of sub-plots in the film and some of these will leave the audience wondering what that meant as there were scenes that got removed from the film, so some comments by the cast won't actually tie up with anything at all. According to the DVD the most obvious one will be the torture of Geordi La forge by Soran.

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