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I freaking hate this mistake in the film (not even Nexus-related)


Near the beginning of the movie, there's the amateurishly written scene with a terrible editing/writing mistake. Picard is on the holodeck Enterprise sailing ship. He leaves suddenly after receiving some sort of news. When Counselor Troi visits the Captain and asks him what's wrong (he's clearly upset over something), he tearfully informs her that his nephew René "burned to death in the fire."

Not "a fire," but "the fire," as if there was a mention of a fire earlier in the movie (which there wasn't).

Of course, Picard is an emotional wreck as he says this, so you can say "Oh, he forgot that he didn't tell anyone about a fire at the house in France," but for freak's sake, it should have been "they died in a fire." Or did they cut out a scene where we hear that there's been a fire at his family's house with serious injuries?

This is the sort of error I'd expect from a fan film, not a major Paramount release with an estimated $35 million budget.

I fast-forwarded to the scene, courtesy of Hulu, to verify that it was how I remembered hearing it. It is exactly how I remember it:

www.whysanity.net/awkwardboyhero/fire.mp3



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I'm sure it was just bad editing. So much of the story here is weak. Hard to believe that Ronald Moore was involved. Not at all hard to believe that Berman was.



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Wow, I really thought we were going to get a neat criticism of the film that was not Nexus-related, but out of ALL THAT it turned out to be nothing more than a lecture on a one second grammar issue.

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To me, it sounded like a sobbing Englishman saying "Burned to death in a fire". Maybe you can watch it with subtitles and you can see if you were right or wrong.

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Subtitles say "a fire".

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I heard "a fire", not "the fire". Seen the movie several times and heard it the same every time.

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I have a feeling you're being sarcastic, putting out so much effort to explain why you supposedly hate this minuscule part of the movie so much. He was sobbing, and people who are sobbing/crying sometimes might not pronounce words as well as they do when talking normally. It does almost sound like he could be saying "the fire", but not quite.. He could very well be saying "a fire".

But the real question is, who cares?

Why else might I think you're being sarcastic? There are a lot of people who don't like this movie and think it's one of the worst Star Trek movies - Perhaps you're providing an example of how nitpicky and futile their arguments sound? If that's your intent, I like it, as I enjoyed this movie.

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