I love the observation that if you include Galaxy Quest, the Bad/Good sequence is maintained.

The cinematic equivalent of half a bottle of sleeping tablets and 3 shots of tequila? I suddenly feel like watching this film again.

Star Trek Nemesis is the final nail in the proverbial space coffin. No wait, it is a space coffin!

What's the odds that it was Brent Spiner who contributed to the story by giving himself two roles?

I recall somewhere that Hardy was new to films as well. Given his post-Trek career, his caliber was a sheer boon to this outing.

Nemesis was a real bummer alright

that Romulan senator that gets offed at the start is Jim from neighbours

"Don't tempt me." I knew then and there that I wanted to buy this reviewer good booze. And then you list Michael Grade as unbearable. I love your wit!!

Not being a true Star Trek FAN, I missed most movies at the cinema. But did go to two with fan friends; Star Trek: The motion Picture.... and Star Trek Nemesis.

I was trying to think up something funny to say, but I'm just so over Star Trek. Good review though. Your work is always a treat.

Nemesis has another distinction not mentioned in your review: it's the first time another Trek film attempted to ape the (far superior) climax of The Wrath of Khan by having a crew member sacrifice themself to save the ship. As stolen valor goes, it rates slightly higher than Into Darkness, but only because it plagiarizes to a far lesser degree. They both suck all the same. (Actually, the similarities don't end there. Both Stuart Baird and J.J. Abrams took pride in having no appreciation for the source material and both managed to butcher their respective movies. Well done, Paramount. At least you raked in some receipts on Abrams' films, horrible as they were.)

7:10 "...know that there's almost zero chance that you'll feel it's worse than Nemesis." -Boy, was he wrong... :-/

The title Star Trek: Nemesis had been floating around as a potential title years before this movie was even made, suggesting that the writers started with a title they liked and then wrote the script, which is completely opposite to how most writers write. If the movie has a message, it’s that clones are never as good as the original. Shinzon is inferior to Picard and B4 is inferior to Data. But the best example of this idea is the movie itself, which feels like a poor remake of Wrath of Khan with elements of Undiscovered Country thrown in. Tom Hardy is miscast as Shinzon. Other than being white, bald, and having a British accent, there’s nothing about him that reminds you of Patrick Stewart, making it impossible to believe he’s a clone of Picard. Then there’s his motivation. In TWOK, we know that Khan was once a dictator who wants revenge on Kirk for marooning him on a dead planet. But Shinzon and Picard have no history. So why is Shinzon focused on killing Picard and destroying the federation? Because he’s the villain and the action movie formula demands that he wants to kill the good guys. It’s easy to blame Stuart Baird who wasn’t familiar with Star Trek and had only directed two movies before this. But Nick Meyer wasn’t familiar with Star Trek either and had only directed one movie prior to TWOK. The difference was that Meyer was a good writer and John Logan wasn’t and IMO it’s the writers who deserve most of the blame for Nemesis.

Saw this in cinema 😑 .... it wasn't one bit fun to watch. That's worse than just being bad... It felt time to make space for other shows and generations. Even if the movie wasn't bad I would have preferred to see characters of the new shows get more air time. I think people were also just over NG at that point....

Picard drinking wine and perving over the happy couple 😆😆

As the villain Tom Hardy was supposed to a younger Picard clone, the only problem was I never thought once that he looked enough like Picard (Patrick Steward) to pass for it. Most of the scenes on the villains ship I did not like at all and it was hard to watch. They should have gone with an all different plot with higher stakes. Maybe a Q movie with very high end effects at different locations.

I don't get the hate on this film. I thought it was so much better than Insurrection, which I thought was no more than an over-long episode and not a movie, whereas Nemesis was more of a movie. But that's just me.

I absolutely LOVE that in canon, Captain Riker of the USS Titan wanted the most DIVERSE crew, not the most CAPABLE..and there were constant problems and the ship went sub-par. Nothing ever changes, does it. MERIT and EFFORT (Enterprise) or DIVERSITY (Titan) I'm surprised it got out of spacedock!

I quite enjoyed this movie and felt it an improvement on the borefest that was Insurrection. I liked the subtle references to WOK (a figure out for revenge against the captain of the enterprise , a fan favorite sacrificing himself to stop/escape a superweapon) and the battle was the best of anything in the pre-reboot films. But it was a bit muddled. The whole buggy chase and the proto Data stuff felt like they were part of a different story idea. The choice of director certainly seems strange in hindsight

I actually think that Nemesis really is a better film than Insurrection .

This film and Insurrection always felt a bit off to me. It was like I should enjoy them but I didn’t. Was it the concept, the acting, the dialogue, the presentation? I mean, I enjoyed First Contact and that was just a big action flick. So was Nemesis, but I didn’t enjoy it. So what is it? It’s boring.

Wait... You liked the wedding? You liked the inexplicable, dimwitted buggy-chase scene?! I mean, everything else sucks too, so you were right about the rest of the sh*tshow, but... man, I can't find one worthwhile thing in this debacle.

7:10 Oh how I wish you had been right...

WTF is Wesley Crusher doing in this movie anyway? Last we saw of him (as far as I remember), he had disappeared with The Traveler to become an interdimensional being (good riddance). Or maybe I just hate the character so much I blocked him out.

why were 1/2 the TNG era movies just repurposed episodes with more FX, so effn lazy.

While the director had no familiarity with Star Trek, I recall John Logan was a huge fanboy and larded down the script with continuity Easter eggs to the point that it actually became tedious.

While flawed, I like the movie.

Nemesis AKA why didn't you back up your Data!!!

Picard(the show) is completely soiled by being based on the JJ timeline despite it being such a different series of events that TNG would never have happened as we know it

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I stopped watching Discovery early season three. Season one of Picard was an abomination, didn't watch season two however season three of Picard generated enough good will and nostalgia in me to give Nemesis a re-watch. Maybe with how bad most recent Star Trek has been (I was hoping Strange New Worlds would be better than it was), I wondered if Nemesis would suck less. Nope.

Nope, sorry, I would rather watch Nemesis 5 times back to back than watch Picard again.

60-year-old erudite Picard as quip-making gunslinging action hero is just awkward.

i thought this was the best of the tng films

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Michael Grade most unbearable. Above polio? Well....we know the Wholigan in this group.

Couldn't have Patrick done double duty and played the clone also. I was NOT like looking in a mirror. And also the dialogue was drab for the TNG cast. Nothing memorable. No passionate speeches to Moby Dick.

I never bought the odd even rule. The Motion Picture is flawed, but so much more ambitious and affecting than the incredibly safe (and silly) Voyage Home. Search for Spock is far from perfect, but I'll take that over any Picard movie. Generations has its problems, but at least Picard is still somewhat like the character in the show. When we get to First Contact, they reduced him to an action hero hell bent on revenge. That's not Picard; that's movie Picard.

I can only imagine how much focus you put on the fact that Gates McFadden as Dr. Crusher has no lines OR scenes in the Abrams Star Trek film...what a weird fixation!

I'm sorry, but I disagree. I find Nemesis to be very watchable and engaging and Insurrection to be the crushing bore. While agreed that B-4 is a bad plot device and Shinzon being Picard's clone is well.... a little dopey, I think production wise it's right behind First Contact with Generations and Insurrection bringing up the rear. But that's just me and my subjective opinion. Let the opposing viewpoints fly like a phaser bank stuck on the deep fat fry setting. I still would watch Nemesis over Insurrection or, for that matter, ANY Next Gen episode from season 1, which is the equivalent of being slathered in peanut butter and nibbled to death by gerbils. Nuff Said!

Actually, I do think Picard is worse than Nemesis.

Nemesis is better than Picard's second season. Cover that literal shit show sometime.

PICIRD, STD, THOSE 💩 REBOOT FILMS AND ANY OTHER NEW TREK ATE WORSE THE NEMESIS...But not by a huge amount

CAN YOU LEARN TO SEE IN THE DARK

Nemesis was the WORST TNG film. Yes, worse than Insurrection.

Awful film

Any thing calling itself Trek past 09 isnt trek it is in name only

horrible horribleeee movie

Terrible movie. Just like Enterprise the series, this killed the franchise for 10 years until JJ saved it then now we have the awesome Discovery series. I never get why crybaby TNG fans want to go back to this shite. The fact is TNG was not actually that great. Had 2 good seasons, 6&7 But its a 80s/90s cheese fest with way too many filler episodes and a few great ones. It would of not got a second season if it came out today. People dont want to watch 24 episodes of monster of thre week anymore. Love Patrick Stewart, but he was wasted in TNG