Space battle comments

[Master of Ossus]

Fifty minutes of cut footage?

Has the entirety of Paramount become incompetent now? If they hadn't blown so much on all that footage, they might have been able to pay for a better space battle.

It's usually not the responsibility of the parent-company to edit a film. That responsibility is usually given to the director and producer, who then find a chief editor and some subordinates to go through a movie. In this case, it seems clear that Paramount told them to make a movie that was x minutes long. The editing staff then had to go through and cut out a bunch of film, but it is unclear how much this film affected the movie. Sometimes, when it looks like there's a lot of material left over in a film, it turns out that that material never would have added much to the finished film. In this case, from the leaked script, we missed out on a cameo by Wesley Crusher and one with Guinan. We missed a couple scenes of Picard and Data (by far the most serious cuts), and we missed a few scenes of B-4 talking in an incredibly annoying manner that bores everyone else on the ship (NTM the audience) to death. Doesn't look to me like we missed a whole lot.