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What's the difference between the new Star Trek movie and a VCR instruction manual?
Actually, there are two answers: The Star Trek movie has prettier pictures, and the VCR manual is easier to understand.
Okay, all of you Trek-heads out there can turn your phaser ray guns down to mild stun for a minute. It doesn't mean a hill of Tribbles whether some film critic who never cared to go where no one had ever gone before doesn't like Star Trek: First Contact. You'll still line up at the box office to see where the latest incarnation of the USS Enterprise winds up next. Live long, and Paramount Pictures will prosper.
That doesn't mean that the rest of us should overlook the arrogance of filmmakers who are content with perpetuating the longest inside joke in the universe.
Star Trek: First Contact is loaded with witty remarks that don't mean a thing unless you know the aliens swapping them. Rapid-fire space-speak arbitrarily explains wild swerves in the action. Actors appear in cameos for no reason other than...