My understanding is Nimoy's criticism was foundational. The problem was the story itself. Having to spend far too much energy in the why just to swing a gimmick to pull off the what (get the two captains in the same scene).

As insulting as it was to ENT, if you want to get Kirk and Picard in the same scene, it's easier to do it "These are the Voyages" style. Give Picard some new mysterious crisis in the present that has to be explored on the holodeck in the past. Sort of a cross the episode where Picard orders Data to lie and the time Geordi creates a holo-engineer. A murder mystery, "piece it together" story. Kirk & crew encounter something, resolve it, but the threat comes back and their OFFICIAL report doesn't give Picard enough to go on so he has to get inside Kirk's thinking.

As I recall, Nimoy's criticism was foundational. The problem was the story itself. Having to spend far too much energy in the why just to swing a gimmick to pull off the what (get the two captains in the same scene).

As insulting as it was to ENT, if you want to get Kirk and Picard in the same scene, it's easier to do it "These are the Voyages" style. Give Picard some new mysterious crisis in the present that has to be explored on the holodeck in the past. Sort of a cross the episode where Picard orders Data to lie and the time Geordi creates a holo-engineer. A murder mystery, "piece it together" story. Kirk & crew encounter something, resolve it, but the threat comes back and their OFFICIAL report doesn't give Picard enough to go on so he has to get inside Kirk's thinking.

As I recall, Nimoy's criticism was foundational. The problem was the story itself. Having to spend far too much energy in the why just to swing a gimmick to pull off the what (get the two captains in the same scene).

As insulting as it was to ENT, if you want to get Kirk and Picard in the same scene, it's easier to do it "These are the Voyages" style. Give Picard some new mysterious crisis in the present that has to be explored on the holodeck in the past. Sort of a cross the episode where Picard orders Data to lie and the time Geordi creates a holo-engineer. A murder mystery story. Kirk & crew encounter something, resolve it, but the threat comes back and their OFFICIAL report doesn't give Picard enough to go on so he has to get inside Kirk's thinking.

As I recall, Nimoy's criticism was foundational. The problem was the story itself. Having to spend far too much energy in the why just to swing a gimmick to pull off the what (get the two captains in the same scene).

As insulting as it was to ENT, if you want to get Kirk and Picard in the same scene, it's easier to do it "These are the Voyages" style. Give Picard some new mysterious crisis in the present that has to be explored on the holodeck in the past. Sort of a cross the episode where Picard orders Data to lie and the time Geordi creates a holo-engineer. Kirk & crew encounter something, resolve it, but the threat comes back and their OFFICIAL report doesn't give Picard enough to go on so he has to get inside Kirk's thinking.