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Take frequent breaks (every half hour) and do some real stretches. Get up, and get the blood moving. Treat yourself like an investment and diversify. Do a little typing, a little reading, a little breathing, maybe. If it means slowing down, then as the great philosopher Jean-Luc Picard would say, "Make...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard is building up a head of righteous steam about the Borg, the evil race that once enslaved Picard and has now infested the Starship Enterprise with plans to do something very naughty to Planet Earth. Well, the Captain will not abandon ship. He will face up to the Borg, he says. "And I will make them pay for what they've done." As Patrick Stewart delivers this line with a majestic ferocity worthy of a Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus, the audience gapes in awe at a special effect more imposing than any ILM digital doodle. Here...
...contours and fabulous tail fins, toward mop-up duty in the Federation's war against its ugliest nemesis. The Borg are flying back to the 21st century to prevent the first rendezvous between humans and benevolent extraterrestrials, then to "assimilate" all earthlings and turn them into crusty, cranky robots. Picard, who has been denied active duty for the very reason he needs to fight--because of his earlier assimilation by the Borg--disobeys orders and, y'know, saves the galaxy. But not before his android Data (Brent Spiner) is captured by the seductive queen Borg (Alice Krige...
...Frakes, who also plays the Enterprise's second-in-command, the movie glides along with purpose and style. It also allows for a fun detour into a "holographic novel" set in the dear Deco days of Indiana Jones. But it's mainly a three-way tug of souls among Picard, Data and the queen of all the Borg. When she whispers to her onetime conquest Picard, "You can't begin to imagine the life you denied yourself," she opens the movie up to the ache of memory--to a good man's second thoughts when he considers the road...
With darting glances and sneers irrelevant to her role as Raina's mother, Holly Maples tried to make her character appear overly civilized and dignified. Peter Picard '96 gave one of the most sound performances as Raina's father, portraying well the stiff patriarchal personality. Galen Weston '96 portrayed the insensitive, womanizing Sergius quite well...