From: starfist@gmail.dot.com   
      
   On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:43:05 -0600, Brian Thorn wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:33:26 -0800 (PST), westcoast   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>I just watched Star Trek Nemesis for the first time in many years and   
   >>I actually kind of liked it.   
   >   
   >>What do you guys think?   
   >   
   > About on-par with "Insurrection", which is to say, unmemorable. It is   
   > not a very good movie, but it isn't terrible, either. I don't think it   
   > deserves the hatred it got from many fans here at the time. Neither   
   > did Enterprise, but that's just me.   
      
   I find Insurrection to be an excellent TNG two-part episode.  If it   
   were in the series I would say they were to of the best episodes.   
      
   As a movie, it's okay.  Certainly better than Trek I or V.   
      
   Nemesis is a bit harder to nail down for me.  When I saw it first in   
   the theater, I thought it was pretty good.  Then when I bought the   
   DVD, I thought it kind of sucked.  I recently bought the Blu Ray set   
   and watched it again, and thought it was "meh+."  As a crew-ending   
   movie, it certainly didn't rise to the level of Trek VI.   
      
   I think part of what I didn't like about Nemesis was how magical the   
   tech started to get.  For that movie we had an emergency transport   
   device that was the size of a communion wafer and was able to beam   
   Picard back to the Enterprise after the Enterprise transporters were   
   pulverized.  It seemed way to contrived just to get Data to sacrifice   
   himself for Picard.  The Romulans figured out how to clone Picard and   
   rapid-age the clone -- but decided to dump him into a mine?  Yes, I   
   know the reason is addressed in dialog, but it was just too far   
   fetched -- even for Trek.  Still, it was the best looking of the Trek   
   movies until Abrams came along, and it sure was pretty to see the   
   Enterprise-D ram the Scimitar.   
      
   Oh, and why did Pickard's clone want to murder every last human?  Did   
   they ever explain his motivation for that -- given what the *Romulans*   
   did to him and his comrade Remans?   
      
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