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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] TNN (The [i]National[/i] Network) aired [i]Star Trek III: The Search for Spock[/i] tonight. Had I known about it ahead of time, I definitely would have watched it. However, I did catch the final hour of the movie. More to the point, I witnessed the destruction of the Enterprise. Now, I've watched The Search for Spock many times. I helped wear out my mom's betamax copy of the movie. I since the destruction sequence more times than I could count using my hands, feet, and the appendages of the people near me. This time, though, was a bit different. I must be getting a bit more insightful in my "old age." The destruction of the Enterprise was clearly an emotion scene. It touched me a lot since I grew up on The Original Series and the TOS movies. I cannot begin to think about how it affected the people who grew up in the 1960's and watched and nurtured the ship for twenty years. This clearly ranks near the top of the list of enduring Star Trek moments (right next to the death of Spock, in my opinion). The Enterprise had become a member of the Star Trek family with an importance as high as the cast. And here, in a two minute sequence, she died in a blaze of glory. She died so that James Kirk and his loyal crew and friends could save another member of their family. To echo Kirk from the ending of the movie, "The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many." The scene was eerily beautiful. Her caregivers had abandoned her. It almost seemed like she willingly gave herself up to be used to trap the Klingons onboard her fiery soul and send them to Hell. For a brief second between the departure of her family and the arrival of her captors, she was alone in the universe. At peace, actually. When her captors arrived at the bridge, she started speaking to them. She crisply counted off the second remaining until her own death. The Enterprise seems to be so at peace and wholly supportive of her ultimate fate. When Kirk, Scott, and Chekov set her destruct sequence, there is no delay, no pause, no real emotion. But there is a forcefulness to the words. She doesn't speak as a soul resigned to her fate. She seems to be making this course of action her decision. She willingly gives herself up. And in the ten-seconds down to her death, she sounds almost happy to know that she is losing her battle to give her family the chance to "turn death into a fighting chance to live." The destruction of the original Enterprise is a very emotional and well-scripted and well-choreographed scene. This is something that will be sorely lacking when her successor, the NCC-1701-D, is destroyed years later. The original Enterprise made a dignified exit on the big screen. Her destruction had a purpose to it. The Enterprise-D's death was cold and served little to advance the story or conclude his adventures, sadly. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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