C3PX said:

zombie84 said:

This has to do mainly with the bottom line that FC is a film with very good drama, acting and characters. It doesn't mesh well with the series, which is his main point, but the ST continuity is so constricted that I find the ones that deviate the most are the best because of this--they give a chance to re-invent and go with what works best for the drama, rather than honoring a million references in the hundreds of episodes that pre-date it.

His biggest gripes seemed to be about Picard's character, which is a very valid point. He is WAY out of character in all the films. Instead of the Earl Grey sipping, classic listening, diplomacy over violence, intellect over muscle character he is in the TV series, they have turned him into an action hero. And there are actually less than a handful of Borg episodes in the entire run of The Next Generation (I think there are six Borg episodes, if you count two part episodes as two episodes, and only four episodes if you don't), so you don't really have to dig through a whole lot of material to see how silly it is that Picard has suddenly grown an intense desire for revenge on the Borg after only a few years earlier he made a concious decision that it would be wrong to introduce a virus into the collective that would wipe them out.

This was done on Patrick Stewarts urging that Picard be a swashbuckler in the films. Why do they listen to actors remember star trek V.

They basically turned him into a Kirk like character. Maybe it was the influence of Kirk in Generations, but that would be quite a stretch, or his experience being borged changed him as a person.

Actually as a cadet if i remember Picard was like Kirk, even a bit like Kirk from the new movie. Fighting Nausicans in bars and remancing women.