Okay so we get to see the TNG team, after 15 years, still in all of their original jobs, taking on a bad guy in a movie-class movie. (As opposed to a TV-movie on film, which the last film was.) Happily Riker is finally getting promoted off the ship. The film dragged for about an hour with lots of semi-philosophical posturing about nature vs. nurture, a conflict which is never fully resolved and basically leaves Picard speechless (I guess the writers just threw their hands in the air, said "we give up-- let's do a big battle scene".)
In the end you get the Enterprise vs. the much bigger Romulan vessel, in a protracted battle that leaves one yearning for better stuff. The production values are pretty good, and as a Star Trek fan you're not going to miss this movie. Still, I'd much rather see the Voyager team in action-- the TNG guys are all looking pretty old, even Data looks aged and he's an android.
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