I didn’t stay until the last credits but I seemed to recognize the Female Romulan Commander as Dina Meyer. If this a fact all you Dina Meyer fans? Gosh, she looked good in that makeup!

Yeah, that’s her.

. For such an impressively large, technically advanced, and equipped ship the adversary’s sure had little crew to defend themselves against the one man boarding parties. Must follow that XWing Fighter thought process.

. For such an great warrior race they sure couldn’t hit their targets, our heroes, or find cover. Reminded me of Star Wars storm troopers.

. The bad guy blows out the view screen on the bridge which is really just a window into space?

. Can a telepath really be used to target a ship moving around in the huge void of space?

. Having next to no shields, an emergency shield active the bridge which is the only thing between you and space, and you decide to ram the ship in front of you while remaining on that selfsame bridge?

. Because of one particular hit to the vessel, all 26 disrupter banks cant fire?

Worf rejoined the Klingon Empire and became an ambassador to the Federation. Also his rank before his leaving DS9 was that of Captain was it not? How the heck is he back on the Enterprise like nothing happened as a chief of security/weapons officer again?

Why the need to introduce a poorly explained super weapon?

Why the need to create a race of Remans that don’t resemble Romulans or Vulcans at all?

What the heck was up with that terrible car chase at the beginning? Were the extras preparing for Mad Max 4?

Why bring in a “new” Data prototype? Wouldn’t it have been more interesting for it to have been a somehow reconstituted Lor? Certainly it would have been a better parrallel to Picard and Shinzon’s relationship.

For that matter how incredibly stupid was the death of Data? First off if they were going to let Picard beam over, why the heck didn’t Data give him the emergency transporter right then and there? Second we’ve seen characters put phasers on timers before, instead of pausing dramatically Data could have set the timer on his phaser and jumped back out of the ship.

Why oh why did we have to have fist fights for Picard and Riker? There is no need for it. Star Trek II got along just fine without them, why can’t the others?

This isn’t a horrible film, but it wasn’t all that great either. And I’ve still yet to see a TNG film that comes anywhere close to the second and sixth films in the series. Despite it poor third act at least Generations felt like a movie. The rest of the TNG films have been drawn out episodes (yes I include the over-rated and continuity destroying First Contact as well) at best.

Nemesis ranks about equal to Insurrection in my mind.

Overall I rank the films in order of best to worst like so:

Wrath of Khan

The Undiscovered Country

The Voyage Home – (good though almost like its from a different series)

Generations

The Motion Picture (Directors Cut)

The Search for Spock

First Contact

Insurrection

Nemesis

The Final Frontier

The plot was… well.. for the most part it was ok, but frankly for something that has been building for years and years, and is supposedly the last TNG Trek movie, I expected the bad guy to be a bit badder and more formidable. I wanted the damn Weapon from Hell to be 2 seconds from destroying the Earth, not the Enterprise.

Plus, Ok, Data died, but nobody else has so much as a scratch! Ship was bouncing around, people smashing up against exploding consoles, Riker fighting Mr Bad Guy, not a drop of blood.

Also… you’d think that when Data was pretending to be The B4, he could’ve quite easily strolled around the Scimitar and maybe unplug some stuff?

I think Evil Picard could’ve been a bit eviler. They showed him pull off ONE supposedly brilliant tactic, but that was it. Two brilliant tacticians, I’d expect to see a MUCH more formidable battle. A much longer stand-off.

I’m hoping that the Extended Scene DVD is a bit better. (:

Patrick Stewart is just an incredible actor. Picard has been such a HUGE trek main character, even more believable than Kirk in most ways.

I could go on and on.

If you’re a Trek fan, this is definitely movie #10, which is an even number and fits the stereotype perfectly. You won’t be let down. I paid $3 to see it and I will probably go again.

I saw it twice (that’s what happens when you have friends 30 miles apart who won’t cross town to see a movie). The second time was on the techie/Intel side of Portland, and it really showed, especially in the first part where there were a lot of in jokes — the audience there was drowning out parts of the dialogue, and I think they missed Worf’s “Irving Berlin” complaint ;-) My favorite line was Worf’s lament that “…should be illegal”, though Picard’s “on screen” was good later too.

The show did manage to surprise me in one major way: I’d seen the extended preview with the briefing room scene between Shinzon and Picard. Combining that with the critics panning it in the way they did had me certain Picard was going to convince Shinzon to leave the Dark Side and turn good.

On of the two lowest points for me was Deanna searching for the bad guy: what, is she telepathically linked to the Enterprise as well as people? How does holding Worf’s hand on the control help identify where in space what she’s feeling is located?

The other was Data’s superman leap; not so much for the leap itself — it’s in character for him to be able to set his aim to get to the other ship, but how very convenient that he’s able to aim directly for a handy access panel practically designed to allow an enemy infiltration on a ship no one’s ever seen before, even the Romulans.

Overall, however, I have to agree that it was a good, albeit not great, movie, and the special effects are some of the best in the Star Trek series. Immediately in the first shot of the Enterprise, you can see major improvement, and the end battle… Well, that just has to be seen…

For me the part that was a bit over the top was the hunt for beta-pieces at the beginning of the movie. I kept thinking “pre-warp civilization, prime directive, KILL EM ALL WITH PHASERS?!” The teststerone-charged away team did all this for a few anomalous signatures on a sensor scan.

Actually, by the time they got attacked, they had the head, so they knew it was a Data-bot. That warranted some caution (remember, they’ve run into Data-bots no less than three times in the series, and it has meant nothing but trouble.)

At first, I thought that it was the Remans attacking… that they hoped to capture Picard there, but I guess that doesn’t really make sense. That scene felt forced, like an excuse to show the dune buggy flying into the ship (which was pretty cool).

Anyway, I liked the movie as a whole, except the ending, which was 10 minutes longer than it needed to be. Also, I seem to remember that the song that Data was whistling in “Encounter at Farpoint” was “Pop Goes the Weasel”. Do these two song have the same tune and I missed it, or am I remember incorrectly. I was just confused at the end.

The common complain that I *agree* with was that this seemed to be like several shows strung together and intermixed. But they were good shows… Troi mind rape, the various Data-bot finds, Romulan treachery and counter-treacher. It’s clear the writer had a good sense of the characters and they did things we’ve been waiting 16 years to for them to do.

Of course, they did miss out on a few opportunities. Gates McFadden was criminally underused, per usual. Riker and Troi actually got some real meat to their parts this time. There is a scene with Worf at the wedding that could have been so much more (remember, he was in LOVE with this woman, and has quite recently lost the other love of his life.) Instead, they played it for drunk laughs.

Still, Tom Hardy and Patrick Stewart were nothing short of incredible in this film, throughout the entire thing. In the end, I would rank this showing less than 8, but only barely. It still very much lived up to the even-numbered hype.

Okay, and did anyone else crack-up when Picard said “On screen” towards the end? It was a nice break in the dramatic tension, but very few people in my audience laughed at it.

As for Data flying out of the ship, one quick-minded person shouted “It’s a bird, It’s a plane” when he did that. It was probably the funniest part of the whole movie.