This, the tenth overall Star Trek film and fourth involving the Next Generation cast, is the worst of them all. To be sure, the Next generation films were nothing more than ploys to capitalize on a popular TV series and struggled to maintain both legitimacy and respectability amongst an aging and ailing franchise, but Star Trek: Nemesis is the straw that broke the camel’s back.
To top it all off, this Star Trek film did something that I thought would happen more frequently throughout the series- it put me to sleep. That’s right, parts of this film are so trite, tedious and boring that it may put you to sleep.
The plot doesn’t make much sense, and in the end you wonder what all the commotion was about. All this over one guy? That’s it? Sure, there were ramifications for the rest of the known galaxy had the central villain prevailed, but if you didn’t expect the good guys to come out on top in the end then you’re either cynical or stupid.
Once again, too much time is spent on trying to make Data seem as interesting as Spock was in the original series. And once again, it didn’t work. Data is corny and probably the most annoying crew member of the Next Generation series. The filmmakers did throw us a surprise by ‘killing’ Data at the end of the film, but his memories we conveniently downloaded into an identical model before he sacrificed himself for his Captain.
Lots of boringness and silliness abounds in this movie, a clear indication that the franchise had run out of steam. Fortunately, this was marketed as the last Star Trek film for the Next generation cast, essentially ending the series altogether. (Did anyone really expect them to make a Deep Space Nine movie?) It should be interesting to see what JJ Abrams has in store with his upcoming Star Trek reboot.
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!
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