I saw Star Trek: Nemesis with the crew from New Hampshire last night (well, part of the crew, but I digress). Spoilers ahead, so don’t read on unless you’ve seen the movie.
I enjoy new movies in a series like Star Trek because they expand the series’ fictional universe. The writers can build upon the framework laid down by all authors before them. These new elements alone are enough to hold my interest in a movie. I enjoyed the Naboo-esque Romulan architecture, and the planet that rotates at the precise speed needed to keep one side facing the sun all the time. Stuff like that is fun to think about.
I was surprised to see that the Enterprise E and her crew were in military style. It was reminiscent of the Next Generation episode when the Enterprise C travels through time and the Enterprise D turns into a military vessel. Karl mentioned something about Enterprise E being built to fight the Borg. Any other takers on theories?
All in all, I was pleased with Nemesis. I’m really upset, borderline depressed, that Data died, though. It was one of those moments, like, ‘Take Picard! Spare Data’s life!’. Data had so much to live for! His head didn’t spend four hundred years in a cave in San Francisco just to be blown up a few years later, damnit.
Oh well.. For the rest of us, life goes on.
Karl’s wrong. The Enterprise-E wasn’t designed to fight the Borg, the Defiant was.
But you’re correct that it was more militant than the TV show. I think a lot of that has to do with the Dominion War. The Enterprise E itself was built at the beginning of the Dominion War. And there was a lot of new technology that came out of that war. Shields went from being bubbles around the ship, to being skin tight (you can see that in Nemesis), quantum torpedos, better phasers, ablative armor, and anti-cloak sensors were all created during the war. And lots of cool new ship designs. I just think these last 3 movies reflect that war.
Okay, yeah. I’m a big dork.
-Matt
It takes a big man to admit he knows stuff about Star Trek, and a bigger man to laugh at that man.
Just kidding.
Don’t be ashamed, man. =P
I’m a Star Trek fan, and proud of it!
I had heard about the “Death of Data” despite my attempt to not find out anything about the movie before it came out, so I tried to prepare myself for it. Even though, I experienced the same emotion as Adam. The end of the movie made me feel better though, as the inquisitiveness of B4 (that was his name, right?) reminded me of the Data from the first two years of TNG, and me feel as though things wouldn’t be so bad, that there still might be hope….
“Okay, yeah. I’m a big dork”
-Jon
Nemesis is a cool movie, shame about data dieing and riker leaving would have like to see them all in another movie together
the movie was very military based but this represents the war and starfleets new look, as for the ente e being built to fight the borg, it’s design was created for the purpose as was the defiants and all the new ships we saw in first contact, thats y it has so many weapons on board
the new sheilds were cool
anyway overall great movie, must get it on dvd
i was please with nemesis but admittedly i had to watch it a few times to appreiate it fully, i knew that a main charcter was going to die but i want sure who, and i was shocked and left feeling lost after i came out of the cinema, couldn’t they have killed jordie or beverly instead? lol i thought the story line in nemesis could have been made more clear and slightly better, but in good trek tradition the battles were great and the special effects were awesome, i love the enterprise-e i think its the best ship that trek has ever produced, back with more phasers, and kick ass attidude. I hope they come back for an 11th film with more enterprise kicking butt (man i love space battles and nemesis gave a great one) and a thrilling story to bring back data and possibly say good bye to the much loved cast and to pave the way for a voyager movie. As nemesis showed, the tng cast are getting on abit thats one of the reasons they say they killed data off he dosn’t look like he did 15 years ago well they should have thought of that when they started tng! well im a huge fan and in great maritime tradtion live long and prosper
ps Heres my favorite tng films in order from best to not so great, insurection (so funny and loved the story and the riker manuver was cool) first contact(gotta love the borg and picards revenge thing +first appearnce of E and a fleet in battle!) then its nemesis (first trek film with a car chase brilliant!+ big battle scene) and generations (well we said goodbye to the lengend kirk to pave the way for 3 more great films and not to mention the “oh sh*t” by data as the enterprise-d crashed onto the planet that was the highlight of the film, still good all the way)