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One too many? , 15 February 2008
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Star Trek 10: Nemesis
on DVD (2002)
Starring: Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner
Director: Stuart Baird
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Star Trek Nemesis is no Generations. Generations was the first and best Star Trek movie with the cast of The Next Generation. It was exciting and dramatic and Data was hilarious in it. Nemesis isn't exciting and it's more melodramatic than dramatic.
It's certainly not Wrath of Khan which is what it clearly wants to be. Nemesis cribs a lot from Wrath of Khan, even paralleling the death of Spock with the death of Data, both times to stop the evil villain (Khan for Spock, a clone of Picard who for some reason is ruling the Romulans for Data) from wreaking havoc.
It's an odd film. There's very little real action in it and what there is seems unpleasantly like the Sega CD game Night Trap (In the case of person to person combat) or like the producers simply didn't have the funds (Ship to ship combat).
The movie blatantly cribs from movies outside the Star Trek franchise too and even falls into some horrible cliches. Worse, the plot is despicably poor, littered with inaccuracies, holes, flaws and ineptitude - both from the characters and from whoever thought certain scenes weren't blatant giveaways about where some things were heading in the film.
I'm not mad at myself for watching it by any stretch of the imagination. But I will never do so again. Give me Generations any day.
And roll on Star Trek XI. JJ Abrams, it's on you: make up for this mess.
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