[NCC-73515]

Originally Posted by MrQ1701

WOW!!! Thanks for the link! That is EXACTLY what I was thinking! I suppose I should cruise YouTube a little more!

I live to serve...

[kevin]

Originally Posted by Samuel

That would have been the smart thing to do... especially from Picard. He is smart, isnt he? But then everything would have been over and he couldnt save the day at the last minute during a heroic fight. Captains like stuff like that. Looks good on their resume.

Not to mention a dull as dishwater ending.

[NCC-73515]

You mean like "I suppose it could be Khan."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k5Aju0AHT4

[Samuel]

Well... yea. Convenient that these guys didnt figure out a planet was missing and they were looking at the wrong one... and Chekhov didnt remember there was a bad dude nearby.

[MrQ1701]

Originally Posted by Samuel

That would have been the smart thing to do... especially from Picard. He is smart, isnt he? But then everything would have been over and he couldnt save the day at the last minute during a heroic fight. Captains like stuff like that. Looks good on their resume.

I agree. It is difficult to write a sci-fi story where you are trying to give one character the ability to mover forward in time, but at the same time ignore the easy win solution. If they had made it a rule that you could only exit the Nexus shortly before you entered it, then the whole Kirk helping Picard storyline would NOT have been possible.