Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Out There...

"...somewhere in the woods... waiting..."
Well, it's the end...
Yup - this is the last post on the Blogspot version of The Review Nebula. It's been a very fun four years, but now the time has come to move on to better pastures... by which I mean, Wordpress.

Please go there now, and check out the nifty features... alright, it's effectively the same blog, it just looks a bit less gaudy.

One last thing... 45.265881. I may not be fast, but I try and get there in the end. (Hey, I finished up two TV shows and, arguably, a series of movies.)

Well, as they say, finish on a song... "To Ganymede and Titan, yes sir, I've been around!"

"Lister... have you ever been hit over the head with a welding mallet?"

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Movie Review - Star Trek: Generations

"This is the end! Armageddon! No future!" This quote from Vyvyan of Young Ones fame can only mean one thing - this is almost certainly the last review that will be posted here on Blogspot. Future reviews for this blog will be posted exclusively on the Wordpress platform. This review came out yesterday on Wordpress, by the way. So... yeah. Repeat - please go to Wordpress for future reviews on The Review Nebula. Otherwise, you will be sorely disappointed.
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"Two captains. One destiny." (Image stolen from the Memory Alpha)

"Who am I... to argue with the captain of the Enterprise?" - James KirkWell... the former Captain of the Enterprise, missing for 78 years?

Premiere: November 18th, 1994

Written By: Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore

Directed By: David Carson

Plot: In the year 2293, the first voyage of the Enterprise-B goes south when the ship has to perform a rescue mission. An energy wave comes into contact with the ship, taking with it a scientist that was rescued, as well as Captain Emeritus James T. Kirk.

In the year 2371, the Enterprise-D comes into contact with that same scientist - Tolian Soran. He wants to continue his observation, but Picard prevents him from doing so. Going mad, he kidnaps Geordi, trades him to some Klingons, and holes up on a planet where he can shoot a rocket into the sun, bringing the energy wave - the Nexus - over to him. Only one man can stop him... but he himself is emotionally shaken up, having lost his brother and nephew. So... what about two men?

Review:

Three hundred posts, give or take. Hot tamale, that's... three hundred more (give or take) than I thought I would post back in February of 2013. Guess I got into this reviewing thing a bit, eh?

Two years ago, in an attempt to combat a lull in my reviews (because of a relative lack of content from Gravity Falls and Red Dwarf), I decided to take up reviews of Star Trek movies. It actually helped - a jog of my brain helped me start reviewing Steven Universe, and I managed to bang out five of the six movies over the second half of the year - only skipping Wrath of Khan because I reviewed it a year prior. My intent was to review the four TNG movies in December, but personal commitments led that astray, and my review of The Undiscovered Country wound up coming out on Christmas.

Now, I'm back reviewing the TNG films - and I'm about to formally move this blog over to Wordpress. And what better way to start (and end) than reviewing the bridge between TOS and TNG - Generations?

Well, it's a bridge weaker than the one in this film.