14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek Generations

During the run of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Patrick Stewart began performing his one-man version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, with the latter really smacking of the inspiration for Picard’s family Christmas fantasy in the Nexus.

And who’s this random woman we see as his wife? Is it someone who got away, like Kirk’s Antonia? Was it just some idealized fantasy character? For his initial Nexus fantasy to be Christmas in the middle years of family life, that’d have to be his most prominent fantasy. And if that's the case, why is he dressed in the same uniform he was wearing on Veridian III? Wouldn't his fantasy of a different life take him out of it?

And that fantasy as depicted makes no sense. The script calls for it to be held in a 24th century French house, but what we see in the film is a weird amalgamation of Victorian, Edwardian, and mid-20th century. The girls' gifts are antique-style dolls and stuffed animals, and the younger son gets the 1992 Aliens "Space Marine EVAC Fighter" from Kenner's toy line (so Picard's fantasy life reinforces outmoded gender stereotypes?).

And notice all the incandescent bulbs which you’d expect to see on A Charlie Brown Christmas’s tree. Why on Earth would Picard imagine such an odd conglomeration of Christmases Past unless we he was a closet Dickens fan? Or has he merely binged one too many Holomark Christmas specials?

Or maybe it was all just dumb pandering to Stewart’s interest in A Christmas Carol.