Monday, September 26, 2005

Star Trek Nemesis: The Movie That Never Was

(I strongly urge you to ignore this post like any other if you absolutely have no interest in the subject. It will bore and cornfuse you.)
You know, I don't typically review movies from 3 years ago that I've seen a billion times but after tonight's viewing I had some thoughts. The movie tries, really tries to have the excitement of First Contact but I have decided that it's not desperate enough. Shinzon's ship is supposed to be so unstoppable but it almost seems that it suffers Lucas's backwards-thinking "tell don't show" policy. There's supposed to be this fleet on the other side of the super-bad danger zone that we must fly into but I think they should've played it out. It would make the Scimitar much more deadly and the situation much more perilous if the fleet had arrived and become decimated by the awesome power that is 20-something disrupter banks and a kagillion photon torpedo tubes. This would've also corrected another tacky aspect.

After the Enterprise gets the crap kicked out of it, it seems like the crew completely runs out of ideas until some anonymous ensign in the back says, "Hey...what about smashing our ship into his? That might work, right?" Now if a fleet of ships and Romulan assistance could not stop this thing, it would justify crashing into it and attempting the self-destruct. Because now they really are the last thing between this behemoth and the deaths of everyone living on Planet Earth.

Anyways, if you haven't seen this entry into the 24th Century, it's not a bad watch at all. It has one of the neatest space battles seen on screen. Not kidding, it's really cool and fun it just seems that Picard et al have become more impulsive in this movie. The Borg are essentially unstoppable and ships are blowing up all over the place and he doesn't consider ramming the ship in First Contact. Thanks to Star Trek V, there can never be a crappier movie! Thanks for lowering the bar so low.

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