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Any dialogue that refers to this scene has actually been kept in the film!

It is refreshing to see a film with decent extras, and although the Deleted Scenes are the most significant of the lot as this contains the holy grail of the alternate ending of the film itself which when watched still comes to the same outcome as the one in the final print anyway, the others consist of commentaries and a veritable number of featurettes that do Star Trek some justice and attempt to sell the film with how it was made. The level of detail that these small bite sized documentaries go into are in my opinion surprisingly granular.

Bottom line is that the story could have been a lot better than what has been scripted out and filmed. It seems like the producers are really trying to milk everything from the character of Kirk and pass it onto the cast of the Next Generation. Unfortunately the film fails on quite a few levels. For example Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise B should have had more screen time and had a decent back story as to how the three members of the Original Series came to be part of the Enterprise B launch. This part of the film feels rushed and unexplained, which is a shame as this was the main selling point of the film itself. Thirdly, the Next Generation crew don't look comfortable in the roles at all and look on edge throughout, fair enough there is a lot more scope to give more emotion and drama, but all the characters are a little different to the TV show. Lastly the ending of the film (which I won't go into) seems to have been solely written to remove a certain character from the Star Trek Universe and it seems that event is being used to draw a line with the past.

With any crossover movies there is always going to be a certain amount of flak in what will happen and the fairness of time in the characters screen time, well this is a good example of what shouldn't be done. The main problems with this film are the Producers of the film. Rick Berman who wrote the film with Ronald Moore and Brannon Braga are attempting to compete with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in attempting to make new and fresh Trek and in my mind were taking the opportunity to have both the old and the new meet in such a way that it was going to hurt a lot of people. This is just a good example as they went on to create the Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise shows which overall didn't really deliver the potential they had on paper. Oh and by the way, this was an odd numbered film, the curse strikes again!

Roll on the new film!

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