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Okay, I need to start this by declaring that I love Star Trek. Love it love it love it. Especially
Next Generation. That said, Star Trek: Nemesis is a big pile of horse dooky. Was it steaming?
Yes...yes it was. Of course it's Star Trek, so I really wanted to like it, but overall, I just
couldn't. Maybe in part of it was because as a reader of Wil Wheaton's
Weblog I knew that he was supposed
to be in the wedding scene in the beginning and was COMPLETELY cut out. I couldn't even find him
in the background shots, and I was really looking. Sure, maybe that was part of it, but mostly
it was because it just sucked!
There were one or two bright spots...The bad guy, or nemesis, if
you will, was HOT! With his bald bald head, and his shiny shiny cenobite suit, he was very nice
to look at, until halfway through the movie when he got the ick, and then we were left with this
totally non-threatening, pasty white villian dude who was terrifyingly polite and British.
I guess that's a qualified bright spot.
The special effects were "eh" at best, considering the iffy plot they should have thrown in
a lot more
snazzy visuals to distract us. Like when they're searching for the cloaked nemesis ship, and they
find it because Deanna shares a telepathic link with the Reman Viceroy, a bigger
more spectacular fight sequence might have distracted me from wondering why they had that
link in the first place. Not to get too dorky here, (yeah, right) but Deanna was always an empath.
Now they just lob in the fact that she's also a telepath so they can make a plot point and they
just expect Trek fans to go with it? Don't they realize who they're dealing with???
I must say I appreciate the fact that they keep coming up with reasons
to show
that saucer section plowing into stuff. The "Data Torpedo" scene is hiLARious, and although
it was hard to tell because the movie uniforms
are all black and grey with different colored mock turtlenecks underneath, I appreciated the
fact that the random bridge
crewman who got sucked into space was in fact wearing a red mock turtleneck. Sadly, considering
I had to rewind, zoom and step through in slo mo to discover this, I'm pretty sure it was more
random than winky.
Will there be another Star Trek movie? Probably, but thanks to this one, I just don't care.