I was worried because Tom invented a cockamamie reason to not include Star Wars. Sanity thankfully reigns here. Also, him picking Aliens gives me a perfect excuse to watch it again.

I scrolled down just to make sure Aliens was up next. Now to read the article.

Yeah! How trippy of a movie would that be? It could just cold open with them in the Nexus already and have them try and figure it out from there.

The best is that it's flatly contradicted by the movie's own opening scene, where the Enterprise and that other ship with Whoopi Goldberg on it BOTH fly into the Nexus.

And thank heavens for small mercies on that! It's funny because "Skyfall" might well be the BEST Bond song ever. They were really exploring both ends of the scale with those two.

Probably the same way that Sam Smith won the Best Song Oscar last year despite having made what might well be the worst Bond song ever.

At first I assumed it was some Star Trek in-joke that I just wasn't getting.

What always bugged me about the Nexus is the whole "you can't fly into it, you need it to come to you." There's just no way that makes any kind of consistent logical sense, and seems to exist only so that they can give the bad guy a reason to kill off star systems.

There's definitely some nostalgia at play here, as this was the first Star Trek movie I'd ever seen. But even with that said, I don't think the movie quite deserves that hate that it gets. It's got problems, but there's good stuff in there as well.

I'm so happy I'm not the only one. Though it did bug me that Picard decided to leave the Nexus. Like, if you were in a place like that, why would you ever leave? I don't care how virtuous you are.

Do I have to turn in my nerd card if I admit that I kinda like Generations?

Yeah, that's my memory of it. And then Sephiroth turned out to be dead the whole time, and also Keyser Soze, right?

…how could I not see it before? It's so clear to me now!

I was an N64 man, so I missed most PS1 games. A few years ago I decided to see what I was missing. I started by finally actually playing FFVII. The game was fun*, but good lord, those graphics looked terrible. Cloud's ridiculous Popeye the Sailor Man forearms never stopped being funny, even after 60 hours of…

It's funny how cyclical it all is though, because now anyone suggesting anything BUT FFVI as the best is laughed at. Of course, they are right. VI is the best.

Yup! My family used to play a lot of games collectively in the early 90s. Our other big favorites were Myst, Myst 2, and Warcraft 2.

Yup, I know just what you mean. But there was something satisfying about spending 10 minutes preparing a path, and then watching your concentrated mass of lemmings traverse it to the exit.

Part of the problem was that 90s consumers were just as adamant about everything being 3D as the game companies, and wouldn't buy 2D games anymore. Look at how Castlevania Symphony of the Night wasn't really a top seller, despite everyone and their mother saying how great the game was.

YES! Severely underrated soundtrack. One of the first video game soundtracks that I ever appreciated as music in it's own right. Probably cause most of the songs were real-world songs remixed via the magic of MIDI.

Buddy I'm right there with ya. But in our defense, I'd say 90% of that game was watching lemmings sllllooooowwwwlllyyyy build bridges across bottomless pits.