10years of Insurrection

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Uhh.....yeah....about that. :oops:
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Mine is hitting "save" instead of "preview".
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Cpl Kendall wrote:Mine is hitting "save" instead of "preview".
We have the option to edit any post; sometimes it can be easy to mix up the "edit" and "quote" buttons, even though they're separated by other buttons. :lol:

I've done it twice, but realized there were no [quote tags on the text before I did anything.
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I did it once and typed my message in and put it up before realising I'd just put words in someone elses mouth. :oops:

Fortunately I hit backup a few times and got to the original message again, so I copied it, edited the post again, pasted the original text back in and put it up. Big save, yay me! 8)
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Cpl Kendall wrote:Mine is hitting "save" instead of "preview".
I do that all the time.
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GrahamKennedy wrote:I did it once and typed my message in and put it up before realising I'd just put words in someone elses mouth. :oops:

Fortunately I hit backup a few times and got to the original message again, so I copied it, edited the post again, pasted the original text back in and put it up. Big save, yay me! 8)
I assume that was before the big software change? With the current iteration, hitting the back button just takes you to a blank reply box.
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Yes, but hit it again and you get to the original post.

Or did, anyway, I haven't tried it in a while.
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I avoid the edit/quote thing by quoing inside the reply box instead of the main page.
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I assume that was before the big software change? With the current iteration, hitting the back button just takes you to a blank reply box.
Hm? I can hit back and the post restores itself to normal, regardless of any tampering I may have done. :?
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I simply didn't like the idea of this as a movie. It wasn't bad, but did not have that epic feel. As a 2 part episode, this would have been pretty enjoyable. Really, though, for something that was meant to be a major motion picture, it just didn't grab me the way any of the other films did. Even Star Trek V, for all its fault, had a certain epicness to it, and I don't mean epic fail.
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That's all Insurrection (and, to an extent, Generations) was - a typical TNG two-parter. Hell, even Redemption and BoBW had a more epic basic story than Insurrection.
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BOBW would have been great as a film, I think. Like FC without the time travel. Imagine seeing the Battle of Wolf 359 from start to finish with movie-level effects. :Drool1:
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It would have been great at the time - as far as I can remember there'd never been an onscreen battle of that scale seen on screen in Trek before.

Maybe a scene or two onboard the Melbourne prior to the battle, and during.
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What could have been done to make Insurrection more epic, then?
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the Battle of Wolf 359 from start to finish with movie-level effects.
Thaqt would make an awesome movie all by itself. :Drool2:

What could have been done to make Insurrection more epic, then?
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