The criticism that Star Trek films give their characters too little development meets specific counterexamples. Generations gives Data an emotion chip, while First Contact returns Picard to the trauma of assimilation by the Borg. Insurrection is defended through the conflict between Geordi's restored sight and the fate of the planet. Another response accepts the appeal of those ideas while objecting to the surrounding action and writing. The exchange also identifies the attack that destroys the Enterprise as Star Trek Beyond, correcting earlier references to The Wrath of Khan and Into Darkness. The disagreement turns on which films and which parts of their stories each person is judging.
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Star Trek's films divide opinion over character development
Data's emotions, Picard's assimilation trauma, and Geordi's restored sight become counterexamples in a disagreement over the character writing in Star Trek films.