> "Jaxtraw" knickersjaxtrawstudios.com> wrote...

>> All the TNG films suffered from being a Picard/Data double act. I
>> still don't understand why all the scripts were written this way. Am
>> I the only fan who would have preferred ensemble stories? Was Data
>> really that popular that he eclipsed the rest of the characters?

>
> I think someone realized that the real strength of the
> *successful* Star Trek theatrical films lay in the old,
> non-ensemble TOS format, and Picard/Data was the
> closest thing to Kirk/Spock they could come up with
> in TNG. Except that it was nowhere near close
> enough.
>