On the Directors Edition commentary for TWOK, Nick Meyer comments about how the TV versions are basically the directors cut seen on the DVD.

Is this true or was he mistaken? I've watched TWOK many times on the 2002 DVD and have only seen chunks of it on TV.

I'd love to get a HD version of it.

How does Farscape hold up today? I randomly caught an episode or two of it back in the 90's and always thought it looked interesting. Wondering if it is worth checking out today if you don't have any nostalgia for it?

DuracellEnergizer said:

 

AntcuFaalb said:

I finally finished all of TNG last night, including all four movies.

Now I'm depressed. :-(

I haven't seen a single episode since the early 90s and only two of the movies, so I'm in the dark here. Why are they depressing?

 

Whoa! You watch like 9 movies a week, and you've never bothered to check out all the Star Trek movies?

DuracellEnergizer said:

I should clarify - I've seen only two ST films focusing on the TNG characters (Generations and First Contact). Outside of those two, I've seen the first six films with the original series' characters.

Yeah, you made it pretty clear you were talking about the TNG movies the first time.

Why haven't you seen Generations or First Contact. They're both fun movies, hell of a lot better than that film in theaters right now. Having Kirk make an appearance in Generations was a little silly, but overall I really liked the Nexsus concept, even though the writers failed to strictly define the rules of how it works and kept making it do things you felt it shouldn't be able to do. And I can't complain about freakin' Malcolm McDowell as an ST villain.

And First Contact will always be one of my favorite Star Trek films. I hated the introduction of the Borg Queen and wish that had never become a thing, but overall I really like this movie.

I thought Insurrection was entertaining, but it didn't do a whole lot. And Nemesis felt like pretty much the bottom of the barrel, until J. J. Abrams came along and showed that the barrel, was indeed, much deeper than we thought.

CP3S said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I've seen only two ST films focusing on the TNG characters (Generations and First Contact)

Why haven't you seen Generations or First Contact.

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

Ah, gotcha. Not sure how I misread that.

But seriously, Insurrection and Nemesis are both far better than the J. J. stuff. Insurrection actually has a story, which is something I noticed movies don't necessarily have to have anymore. Nemesis had somethings I liked about it, more I didn't, you're not missing anything.

So does anyone know if the current television version of TWOK is the same as the directors cut DVD?

CP3S said:

Ah, gotcha. Not sure how I misread that.

But seriously, Insurrection and Nemesis are both far better than the J. J. stuff. Insurrection actually has a story, which is something I noticed movies don't necessarily have to have anymore. Nemesis had somethings I liked about it, more I didn't, you're not missing anything.

As a person who watched part of Insurrection, I remain unconvinced.

Which part did you watch and how much?

It was a lower stakes, smaller scale story, which I appreciate. It had some neat prime directive dilemmas, and some good character moments. In some ways it felt more like a long high budget episode of TNG. If you enjoy TNG, then there is no reason not to watch it. It had a nifty space battle too that was more tactical and not all about explosions.

All in all, I feel it captured what TNG was all about far better than any of the other TNG movies. Or perhaps more accurately, it was the only TNG movie to come close to capturing what the TV show was all about.