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   From: not@chance.dude   
      
   Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   >  "David E. Powell" wrote:   
   >   
   >> Here's an idea for "Nemesis" that they could have done.   
   >>   
   >> Drop the whole Reman thing and drop the whole clone thing.   
   >   
   > I still don't understand the purpose of the clone, except to somehow   
   > mirror Data and his retarded cousin, that they murder right after the   
   > film ends.   
      
   They didn't kill Special Data that I remember - but don't make me watch   
   it again.  Just looked like we'd see Data live and learn as the previous   
   Data did.   
      
     I mean, if Stewart had been playing the close, I could have   
   > seen it as a sop to his tremendous and unwarranted ego, the way they   
   > were forced to put in the 'candygram, your entire family is dead' scene   
   > in Generations just because he felt like doing a tragic scene that day,   
   > but a clone of Picard *not* played by Stewart?  What the Hell was the   
   > point?   
   >   
      
   My friend, you have summed up the main reason this film flopped.   
      
   Natalie   
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