Star Trek Nemesis


quite good...

I am currently enjoying Star Trek Nemesis on DVD.



It is not the best or my favourite Star Trek film, but I do like it and enjoy watching it.

Even though it seems very un24th centuryish I do like the all-terrain vehicle used in the first part of the film (and the shuttle that goes along with it) great fun.

Synopsis
The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise pick up energy readings identical to those emitted by the brain of Data. Upon further investigation they find a collection of disassembled parts of an android named B4. As they reassemble B4 the crew soon realise that they have been lured into a plan to destroy the Earth...

Despite Nemesis bearing strong echoes of the Star Trek franchise's 1982 zenith, The Wrath of Kahn, the tenth film in the series sadly lacks Kahn's enormous conviction and resonance. That aside, Nemesis is still a strong, enjoyable effort containing all the Trek hallmarks, while making few concessions for non-fans. Following the wedding of Riker and Troi, the Enterprise is called to negotiate peace with longtime Federation enemies the Romulans, now led by the mysterious Reman, Shinzon (a malevolent Tom Hardy), who bears an unnervingly close link to Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart). At the same time, Data's (Brent Spiner) surprise discovery of an inferior prototype of himself leads him to make to some harsh human decisions.



Certainly, the film has a comfy familiarity to it, and there are no shocking changes of direction, but scriptwriter John Logan (Gladiator) and director Stuart Baird (Executive Decision)--both franchise newcomers--make some fine contributions. Logan imbues some scenes with fine seething drama, particularly between Picard and Shinzon, and introduces, in a psychic assault on Troi (Marina Sirtis), a hitherto unseen darkness in the Trek universe. Baird, meanwhile, offsets the series "talkiness" with some superbly realised--and brutal--action sequences. Should this indeed be the final voyage for The Next Generation Enterprise, then it could have been far worse.

Posted: Sat - August 13, 2005 at 09:54 PM         | |

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