As we press to break the single month blogging record I decided that this was as good a time as any to make some headway on the Star Trek The Next Generation Blu-ray movie collection. This is the first movie occurring shortly after the seventh and final season of Star Trek TNG aired on television. It is the only movie to have both Captain Kirk and Captain Picard. Pretty much the whole crew from the series is in this first movie and very little seems to have changed as far as the ship and crew are concerned. That is until they crash the ship at the end of the movie. Don't worry they get a new one for the next movie I am told.
This adventure takes place in space. Specifically aboard the USS Enterprise. Data, the ship's android, installs the emotion chip his father made for him and has to master his new found emotions when the chip becomes fused into his neural cortex. Meanwhile, a madman is trying to reroute a strange electromagnetic band towards an M-class planet in an attempt to get back to a place called the Nexus. The Nexus is a place where time doesn't matter and pleasure is the only emotion you feel. It's like a heroin coma almost.
Picard fails at stopping the crazed man from entering the Nexus and is sucked in with him. Inside the Nexus they find Captain Kirk, alive and well. Picard manages to convince Kirk that the Nexus isn't real and that they need to escape it to save the world. Together Kirk and Picard exit the nexus before they entered in some sort of crazy nexus time traveling feat. Then they manage to fight off the crazed man to stop the destruction of the M class planet before it ever happened. I would like to say it ends with everyone living happily ever after but it doesn't. Captain Kirk pays the ultimate price and delivers one of the best dying speeches ever made, simply ending with "oh my!"
Elsewhere, as I mentioned earlier, the U.S.S. Enterprise is crashing. Nobody of any importance seems to be injured but the Enterprise D is no more. As they are rummaging through the debris Data is bragging that he finally has his emotions in check when someone finds a faint live sign. The life sign belongs Data's cat Spot. Data finds himself crying at the realization that his feline companion is alive and says "I don't understand, I am happy that Spot is alive yet I am crying. I think my chip is malfunctioning." So in the end he really hasn't mastered his emotions after all and Data is forced to continue on his quest to become more human one experience at a time.
They remastered this movie beautifully. The scenes were all redone to make them more stunning and the audio was also remastered for this edition in 5.1 Dolby true HD. The surround effects are pretty awesome. When the ship crashes you can hear dirt being flung behind you. I thought it was pretty cool!
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