#star trek nemesis

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Say what you will about Nemesis but Data offering to drive the little alien spaceship he and Picard are Grand Theft Auto-ing and Picard getting offended is a pretty great moment.

Bonus moments involving rare displays of action based coolness:

Picard breaking his gun over this dude's face

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Data throwing his gun to Picard

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That's it. These are my three favorite moments from this movie.

I guess Picard saying "You have the bridge, Mr. Troi" to Riker as the turbolift doors close on his smiling face is a good moment but I already ejected the disc and cannot find the strength to put it back in.

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Me, after several hours of brutal soul-searching and quaffing cheap whisky: Star Trek Nemesis…wasn’t as bad as everyone says it was.

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Actually you know what? Fuck it. I like Nemesis quite a bit, actually. Yes, its treatment of Troi was shitty as hell; yes the car chase scene was stupid; yes it had some, if not plot holes, then at least some parts that were generally sloppily plotted.

But consider:

  • It has this cool “Nature vs. Nurture” theme running throughout in parallel plotlines between Picard and Shinzon and Data and B-4, and kicks around some quite interesting philosophical questions
  • Patrick Stewart and Tom Hardy are both **really good actors** and they have **really good chemistry** and they’re acting **really well**
  • It has the best musical score of any Star Trek movie
  • The Romulan Senate Chamber is just a really beautiful set
  • It has one of the best space battle sequences in any Star Trek movie or TV series (and one of the vanishingly few that remember that space is three dimensional and orientation is arbitrary)
  • It pays off Picard’s established arrogance in his younger days in that scene where the Enterprise rams the Scimitar
  • It pays off Picard’s angst over the end of his family line in Generations
  • It pays off Worf’s resentment against Romulans from the earliest seasons of TNG
  • It pays off Geordi’s friendship with Data! When Data decides to sacrifice himself, he doesn’t even need to exchange words with La Forge; they just intrinsically understand each other
  • It pays off Riker and Troi’s relationship throughout the series, and Riker finally gets his own command
  • It doesn’t drag out Data’s death! So much is conveyed just by Brent Spiner’s acting
  • Picard delivers one of his best speeches in the entire franchise to Shinzon in the scene in his ready room

Like, yes, it does have problems, but I genuinely do not understand why there is such hyperbolic hatred for this movie (and don’t try to explain it to me, I’ve spent 20 years hearing your reasons; I don’t agree)

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Bringing this back since apparently today is its 20th anniversary

Star Trek NemesisI like it better than Insurrection