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Star Trek: Generations
1994 · Film · 118 min
Part of Star Trek: The Next Generation Collection
Directed by David Carson
Science FictionActionAdventureThriller
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.
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Story says there were 2:
The original (the one discussed here, stolen during production & re-surfacing decades later).
And its replacement. Any pointers as to that chair's whereabouts?
I'm guessing that 'break in the timeline' might be visible in TNG series? (some minor scratches, gone in next episode or something like that).
Edit: (presumably) chair stolen around or after filming TNG series finale (1994), and filming Star Trek Generations (1994 movie)?
A lot of it's wrong too.
Instead of minimizing excess reactivity, they seem to be doing everything in their power to increase it. Evidence of the high excess reactivity of a warp core can be found every time one of 'em blows up. For example, in "Generations", they knew the reactor was going to blow five minutes before it actually did, and they couldn't do anything but evacuate. In "Disaster", we saw a similar scenario; the reactor was counting down to doomsday throughout the entire second half of the episode. The only way they could stop these catastrophes was to eject the entire warp core or restore the containment field. You would think that they could simply shut off the flow of antimatter into the chamber (or at the very least, redirect it out into space), but it appears that even if they do so, the warp core contains enough unreacted fuel at any time to destroy the entire ship. It's a textbook example of extreme excess reactivity.
This is completely ignorant. Given that there's no such thing as an antimatter reactor, we have no idea how one works. Applying design principles from some trivial mechanical system to a fictional science fiction super-reactor just doesn't make sense.
I can imagine reporters using ear cameras. As far as I remember, there was even a scene on Star Trek: Generations movie, when journalists used something similar in principle: http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/factfiles/federation-camera-2293.jpg and http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/factfiles/federation-camera-2293-2.jpg
Key Star Trek Generations analogies.
But of course ... I've never seen that movie, and if I did I didn't like it.