6. “This Far. No Further!” (Star Trek: First Contact, 1994)
On the Next Generation TV series, Patrick Stewart sometimes got the chance to chew on a meaty speech.
But few can match up to the sheer desperate bile spewed in this confrontational moment between him and Alfred Woodard’s Lily Sloane.
Burning with rage at the Borg, who once captured him and turned him into one of them, Picard smashes up the Enterprise-E’s conference room in a mad burst of violence, before realising he’s become Ahab from Moby Dick...
Trek Trivia: After this Ahab-channelling rage-fest, Stewart popped up two years later in a Moby Dick TV movie playing… Captain Ahab.
5. Disorder In The Court (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, 1991)
Court scenes don’t usually work that well in sci-fi movies, but director Nicholas Meyer stages one that’s full of snap and crackle and boasts at least one fan-pleasing cameo.
As Christopher Plummer’s Chang gets to strut and shout and harangue Kirk and McCoy about their alleged roles in Klingon Chancellor Gorkon’s death, we also get to enjoy Michael 'Next Generation' Worf playing Colonel Worf, grandfather of his usual character, in a nice nod to the new crew.
Trek Trivia: When Chang demands that Kirk answer a question without waiting for the translation, it's an allusion to the real-life exchange at the United Nations between American Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
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mattburgess
May 4th 2009, 16:33
Star Trek Generations, and the Enterprise-D is moments from being destroyed by a vastly inferior klingon warbird. But thanks to a nifty little trick by Data, they force the warbird to drop its own shields, and in one brilliant, heart stopping, breath taking moment, Commander Riker gives the order: "Fire!" A single, fateful photon torpedo later, and the warbird is a complete wreck. Brilliant! (Never mind the fact that Riker has previously asked for a spread of torpedos)
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jhr01
May 5th 2009, 21:42
6. “This Far. No Further!” (Star Trek Generations, 1994) The scene involving Patrick Steward and Alfie Woodward's Lily Sloane is from First Contact, not Star Trek's Generations! Shame on you Total Film!!!!
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jwhite
May 7th 2009, 21:26
Argh! My bad. I'm turning in my phaser and heading to the Agony Booth for a sesh. Error fixed!
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Juliette
May 8th 2009, 19:53
Brilliant article, thanks! Though I think Spock's death has to be No 1 for me, and I also have a soft spot for Chekov's 'Now would be a good time!' in Star Trek IV
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stewart
May 10th 2009, 18:08
A really good article, thanks! Personally I thought your number 3 was probably the number 1 - Kirk destroying that which he coveted above all else - and of course the exchange between Kirk & Bones that followed. I felt that Star Trek III was the best of the lot - despite the critics harangueing it no end, and largely because of the scenes from that filn that you included in this article!
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