Star Trek: Nemesis Gets the Go Signal

PatJensen writes "Star Trek TNG: Nemesis, the 10th Star Trek movie gets the green light from Paramount today. It will be directed by Stuart Baird, who did Executive Decision, US Marshals and Tomb Raider. Looks to be pretty action packed. Digital Domain (LOTR, Titanic) will be doing the SFX. The movie seems to be based around Romulan conflict with the Federation. " Can't be as bad as Insurrection. At least, I hope not. BTW the first movie is out on DVD now and they did a pretty good job with the re-release.

Comments

Insurrection was BAD?

[Zigg]

I beg to differ. Insurrection was very good. It made sense. It was entertaining. And watching Data's head float around was cool :-)

If you want a bad recent ST movie, try First Contact. Absolutely destroyed the Borg mythos in one fell swoop.

Re:it's an even number trek

[sam@caveman.org]

let's run them down, shall we? plot writeups and ratings by leonard maltin, quoted from IMDB.

1. star trek: the motion picture. "The crew of the Enterprise is reunited to combat a lethal force field headed toward Earth. Slow, talky, and derivative, somewhat redeemed by terrific special effects and majestic Jerry Goldsmith score; still, mainly for purists." RATING: 2.5 stars.
2. star trek: the wrath of khan. "Kirk and the Enterprise crew must do battle with the nefarious villain of 1967's ``Space Seed'' episode. A bit hokey and pretentious at times, but a likable adventure overall, with nice touches of warmth and humor." RATING: 3 stars.
3. star trek iii: the search for spock. "Picking up where #2 left off, Kirk reassembles his crew and shanghais the Enterprise to try and rescue Spock--in whatever form he may still be alive--while both he and the rapidly destructing Genesis Planet are endangered by a Klingon warship (led by Lloyd, in an ineffectual performance). Subdued sci-fi outing very much in keeping with tone of the original TV series... and therefore, recommended most heartily to Star Trek fans." RATING: 3 stars.
4. star trek iv: the voyage home. "The Enterprise crew takes a sharp left turn toward comedy in this uncharacteristic--and very entertaining--movie. Story has the familiar characters time-traveling back to the 20th century in order to save the Earth of the future, with the help of some humpback whales. Sheer novelty of the comic tone excuses some forays into the obvious; it's all in fun." RATING: 3.5 stars.
5. star trek v: the final frontier. "The Enterprise crew takes off on an emergency mission when an apparent madman takes over a distant planet and holds its interstellar ambassadors hostage; his motives, however, turn out to be anything but terroristic. Dramatically shaky trek starts off with a case of the cutes, and gets worse before it (finally) gets better. A weak entry in the series. Shatner's feature-film directing debut; he also shares story credit." RATING: 2 stars.
6. star trek vi: the undiscovered country. "The Enterprise crew is assigned to negotiate truce with Klingon leader, only to fall prey to a trap set by one of his renegade cohorts (Plummer, in a deliciously flamboyant performance). Entertaining saga cowritten by director Meyer. Nimoy helped concoct the story and also executive produced." RATING: 3 stars.
7. star trek: generations. "The old guard gives way to the new, as Capt. Kirk (Shatner) passes the baton to a new Starfleet commander, Capt. Picard (Stewart). Episodic adventure yarn plays like an elongated segment of the Next Generation TV series; not inspired, perhaps, but entertaining just the same, with some impressive special effects. Oddly enough, the weakest segment is the climactic teaming of Picard and Kirk, which seems like a leftover from an old Saturday matinee serial. Whoopi Goldberg appears unbilled as Guinan." RATING: 3 stars.
8. star trek: first contact. "Capt. Picard lives his worst nightmare as the villainous Borg (who almost overtook him in a two-part TV episode) land on earth with domination their goal. The solution: the crew travels back in time to 2063 to make sure a cockeyed scientist (Cromwell) fulfills his role in history with a precedent-setting rocket flight. Story goes on a bit, following two concurrent threads, but series fans will have no complaints. Krige is a standout as the seductive Borg Queen. Feature directing debut for Frakes, better known as Riker." RATING: 3 stars.
9. star trek: insurrection. "Good entry in the long-running series has the crew befriending the eternally youthful residents of a Shangri-La-like planet whose existence is threatened by the vengeful Ru'afo (Abraham). Picard (Stewart) even has a dalliance with one of the women there (Murphy). Reliably entertaining for Star Trek fans." RATING: 3 stars.
10. star trek: nemesis - ?

looks pretty random to me.

-sam

Re:good lord

[SuiteSisterMary]

It is, indeed, much better. What Robert Wise was forced to release in the 70s was infact a rough cut. Now he's had a chance to go back and finish it, and it really shows. And what other movie these days has the guts to have a several minute musical overture before even the title card comes up?

Re:it's an even number trek

[hardburn]

Capt. Kirk (Shatner) passes the baton to a new Starfleet commander, Capt. Picard (Stewart).

That scene sucked. In Star Trek V, he said he knew he would die alone. Checking "Generations" again . . . nope, Picard was standing right there when he died.

Then Shatner has to go and write some stupid books about it, bring Kirk back to life after "Generations" took place, then "die alone" (as he was supposed to) while having the arrogance to destroy the entire Borg collective, then writing another book after "Insurrection", bring back Kirk AGAIN, and saying "no, I didn't destroy the Borg, that was just a small section of the collective". Uggg.

Good/Bad Even/Odd Star Trek movies

[MythosTraecer]

Actually, the correct formula for determining whether a Star Trek movie is good or bad was flushed out by Brunching Shuttlecocks in their review of Insurrection. Obviously, it's too long to repost here, but is highly accurate (or at least will at least make you smile).

Re:Directing...

[nettdata]

LeVar Burton also seems to be directing his fair share of the new Enterprise series as well.

Has anyone watched the documentary "Trekkies" ?

[feed_me_cereal]

It's a documentary about star trtek fans. Anyone who has seen it will remember and recognize a particular trekkie who was creating his own star trek movie called "Nemisis". This was quite a while ago, and the movie, I believe, was supposed to be about a star station, but what impressed me was the detail he and his crew put into designing their movie. Now, I would have written this incident off as coincidence if not for the information I just recently aquired, which is that this particular trekkie was seen on an episode of drew carrey. Now, this isn't exactly a "big holywood break", but I can't help but wonder if they're using any of his ideas in this new movie. Does anyone have any information about this?

Star Trek Topic

[IdocsMiko]

Why does /. give Star Wars its own topic but not STar Trek? Slashdotters probably waste^B^B^B^B^B spend far more person-hours watching Star Trek than watching Star Wars. Don't get me wrong... I love them both. It just seems to me that there is more discussion here about Star Trek than about many topics that get their own, um, topic.