Star Trek: Nemesis | | Cast : | Patrick Stewart | | Director : | | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned | | Released Date : | , 2002 | | DVD Released Date : | October 04, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 08, 2005 | | Summary | Nemesis Review | Content
 | I don't know how to say this any other way but to come out and say it. Nemesis is a Bad Film. I have enjoyed Star Trek for almost thirty years. When did Star Trek go so wrong, and who is responsible. If you ask me Star Trek went wrong when it lost it's best writers people like Ron Moore and Ira Stephen Bare. The Next Generation had a rough start but when it got going was a terrific series thanks to people like Ron Moore who came along in the third season. Deep Space Nine was the Last good Trek series. Voyager was horrible it's first two seasons and while it got better in later seasons did more harm than good. Just look at what the series did to the Borg, a once menacing villain reduced to toothless jokes. The Only Time I enjoyed Voyaer was when barclay and the Dr. were featured at least they had character. If Voyager nearly killed trek Enterprise put the final nail in the coffin, I mean could there have been a duller show. The Entire cast was flat and devoid of personality including Scott Backula. He was wonderful in quantum leap, what happened. Bad Writing perhaps ? Much of the Blame has to be with Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. If Trek is ever brought back jettisoning these two morons should be on the top of the list.
Nemesis is one of the most derivative films I have ever seen. It borrows heavily from Star Trek II, but has none of its charm. The only next Generation film I thought was fun to watch was First Contact. It was a roller coaster ride and didn't apologize for being so. Star Trek Generations had its moments, but was a very flawed movie. Insurrection was goofy and not in a good way. It's painful watching a great cast of actors muttering through such poorly written dialogue in a story thats not going anywhere. I think what pains me the most when I watched this movie was here I was sitting in the theater watching the end of trek. The Next Generation cast, people we have come to care about were hung up on the tracks and staring down a looming freight train. I hope I get to see the TNG group one more time but only if its in the capable hands of good writers.
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| Rating | | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | Old and Weak | Content
| What is it with destroying the Enterprise in the TNG franchise? They seem to treat her like a damn Yugo: cheap and easily replaceable. Borrowing liberally from its own past, this film demonstrates how tired the franchise has become. Not that we're tired of the characters, but they obviously need new direction. There is no spirit of discovery left. Berman and company have bled the turnip dry. At least with the TOS films there seemed to be a desire to move the characters forward, despite the obvious and necessary commercial ambitions of the movies. Berman seems content with just holding a record for spin-offs. They tried to make this their Star Trek II with a black hat villain and heroic sacrifice in the end, but there's no emotional connection. It's all too fantastic to believe. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | The Trekker's own Nemesis | Content
| After three viewings in the theater,while sadly seeing it do poorly at the box office,as well as hearing both praise and harsh criticism, Nemesis doesn't seem at all like the same movie I saw Dec 13.
The biggest problem(despite a knuckle-headed decision to release it between Harry Potter and The Two Towers)was the story itself.The belief that Romulus would be controlled by not only their sub race,The Remans,but also make the Praetor,a human clone of Capt. Picard,as well as having an agenda to destroy the Federation.As much as the TNG movies try,they are still big screen TV episodes.
Despite the many gapping plot holes as well as hearing fans rip this movie to shreds(It ranks above Search for Spock and Generations),Nemesis is still an entertaining movie(How could you top the collision scene!!!).
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| Rating | | | Date | July 30, 2005 | | Summary | Baird was the better then Frakes or Carson..... | Content
| In all honesty, I have to disagree with what the "trek" reviewers said about Baird. He was (and is) a very capilble director. He has a more experienced resume when it comes to movies and is not limited to just one genre of films, the other TNG directors can not say that.There was a decision made when this movie was green lighted at Paramount to use a new face and a new direction on this new Star Trek movie and it was a wise choice as you can see from the fact that TNG movies did rather poorly at the box office as seen in the last three movies. These were all made by people who had all been with TNG since 1987, and the time had come for them to step aside as they had not shown that they could do Star Trek in movie form. A lot of key production personal on this movie were new and it made Star Trek exciteing as a movie again. This was the only movie that had a TOS feel to it, and that is what good Star Trek stories are all about. I think the whole agruements against Baird are absurd, |
| Rating | | | Date | July 27, 2005 | | Summary | not as bad as people think | Content
| i have heard many people trash this movie, calling it "khan lite" and even worse things, but i wish to disagree. the major
differance between the two movies has to do with what was going on with each crew. in the time of "khan" there a long and uneasy
peace among the major powers (in part due to the organian peace treaty) and the crew of enterprise 1701, had all moved on with
there careers and were happy with what they were doing. that is everyone but jim kirk who had come to think the galaxy had passed him by. in fact one of the underlining currents of "khan", "search for spock", & "voyage home" was how much jim kirk could still do, could still be useful to the galaxy.
in nemesis, the mood is much different. nemesis took place just 4 years after the end of the dominion war, the largest and most destuctive war to have occured since humans first went into space. the war almost brought the federation and the klingon empire to there knees, left cardassia prime looking like
berlin in 1945, and major federation worls like betazed recovering from invasion and occupation. in addition, after the
war there was the gateway crsis, the genesis wave crsis, plus many smaller actions to maintain and restore the peace. in this
environment even the best crew would be under great pressure. and so we come into nemesis and see that the crew is about to break up (to find out what extra pressures caused this to happen, you will have to read the 9 vol. a time to... books)
first is the wedding riker and troi, who will soon take command of the new luna class ship "uss titan", dr. crusher is going back to head starfleet medical, data is to become 1st officer and worf, having grown tried of being a ambassador, has his commission reinstated and is to become 2nd officer.
so as you can see, the crew interaction completely diffent.
in addition, the release of "khan" from his prison world was a fluke, while the plot that brought "shinzon" to power was as cold and calulating as any romulan(or reman for that matter) plan. in addition, as to the deaths of spock and data, each was logical in it's own way. to quote spock "the needs of the many outweigh the few, or the one", and because the chareter of data
had gone about as far as it could in groth and still be a andriod it quite logical that data should save his crewmates, and it also logical that the chareter of data should end at this point.
as to why this movie bombed at the box office and was the only "star trek" movie to ever lose money, i do not know. while it is not as good as "khan" or "first contact" it is much better than "final frontier". i hope there is a 11th movie out there soon, and i thing a mixing of "next generation, ds9, and voyager" crews would be great, such as seeing more of "admiral janeway"
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