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Critics Pan Nemesis
Reader NCC1701E submitted a short write-up on the movie:
"First, the executive summary: wait for the video. Now, the Gory Details, in all their splendor. I somehow received an email invitation to an advance screening to the Paramount Theater in Times Square, here in NYC. I had to wait in line for 30 minutes, and there was some confusion in swapping my email print out for a pass. But they didn't even check names against a list; it was basically first-come, first served among those who had been inveigled there through various means. In the end, there were even some empty seats. The movie itself? Basically disappointing. IMHO, the weakest entry yet in the series. Production values and special effects were excellent. And it was great to see the movie in a big theater with Dolby sound. But NEMESIS is little more than a Western type "shoot out" movie. The bad guys attack. The good guys fight back, Then, there's more attacking and more fighting back. Then it happens again. And again. You get the idea. I'm a sucker for the hokey humanism that was the hallmark of Star Trek at its best. There was very little of that on display here. In fact, there was very little in the way of a plot. Just some mildly amusing cutesy scenes, plus some murky musings about the nature vs. nuture debate re: a Picard clone. So I didn't much care for the movie. And judging by the subdued response in the theater, neither did the audience. BTW, NY audiences can be cruel. This one snickered at corny lines that weren't supposed to be funny. The phrase "derisive laughter" leaps to mind. I predict NEMESIS will be a huge box office hit. But long-time fans may be as disappointed as I was."
Can't be any worse than Star Trek XXIV - Scotty passes a stone
If it's worse than Final Frontier - which, according to official continuity, never happened, it's gotta be pretty bad at that.
Then again, the plot reads like they're merging the "Picard's son" ep of TNG with the plot of Wrath of KHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN! So it just might be that bad.
if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence / freedom of expression doesn't make it alright
"The 10th entry in the Star Trek movie franchise ... is the dullest and drabbest of the lot
So I take it that I'm not the only one who has repressed the horrible memory of seeing Star Trek V.
I once shot a man in Reno 'cause they cancelled Firefly.
"It's not even a good two-parter," he sobbed.
Ensign... set a course for bargin bin at local video store...
ENGAGE!
It is BECAUSE they've repressed the memory that they FORGET that V really was the worst Star Trek of all time, arguably in serious competition with bad movies in general.
Leonard Nimoy versus William Shatner as directors -- the choice is logical.
V was so bad it made the fairly forgettable III and VI look epic and skillful. Apparently Shatner did not get to do in the climax of V what he's wanted, and if he had, the movie would have at least been funny.
You mean Earth would have been in safe mode
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Seeing is believing; You wouldn't have seen it if you didn't believe it.
PICARD: Good God! We're caught in a temporal quake caused by Nemesis' evil mind powers! We'll be torn to pieces for sure! It's curtains for us! Will, can you think of anything that might save us?
RIKER: I'm so goddamned drunk I can't even see straight. Give me another gin and tonic.
PICARD: Make it so. Mr. LaForge, do you have any ideas?
GEORDI: Well, we just might be able to decouple the iambic pentameter from the refrombulatory cryo-units in order to cause a temporonucleic disturbance that just might break us free.
PICARD: Good god, Geordi, that's the craziest goddamned idea I've ever heard! No, strike that. Pure genius! Capital! Do you think we can actually make it work?
RIKER: Gin and tonic, God damn it!
GEORDI: I don't see that we have a choice, Captain. We have to try.
PICARD: Make it so. Mr. Worf, please accompany Mr. LaForge to Engineering in order to try out that crazy idea of his. And make sure to shut the watertight doors so that the water doesn't spill over the top of the bulkhead at E deck.
WORF: Roger.
WESLEY: I sure hope that this works, captain!
TROI: The fuck are *you* doing here?
[ Worf and LaForge leave bridge ]
PICARD: Data, what do you calculate our odds are at getting out of this situation alive?
DATA: I'm afraid they don't look good, Captain. The computer is claiming that they are only 5% or so.
PICARD: Jesus jumpin' Christ! I told you we should have upgraded to Mandrake 12.0.
RIKER: Who do I have to blow to get a gin and tonic around here?!?
GEORDI (on tricorder): Captain, I think we've done it! If you yell "Warp one, ENGAGE" right now, we will escape from Nemesis with approximately 0.01 seconds to spare!
PICARD: Holy moly! What are the odds? Helm, warp one, ENGAGE!
[ Enterprise zooms off. ]
[ Credits roll ]
Straight from the desk of Brannon Braga.
Romulan: Hissssss
Picard: Now A'm gonna get right in there with'em. Ah she's a beauty, look at the coloration.
*Romulan lunges*
Picard: CRIKEY she's mad. Calm down there, there's a good girl.
Well, I'd pay to see it...
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for a second I thought you meant Siskel.
Well, it can't be that bad, the "Reserve your copy" on Amazon.com gives it five stars!
You were looking for hard sci-fi in a Trek movie?
Isn't that like looking for filet mignon at McDonalds?
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People loathe it for many reasons, several of which include Sybok, Spock's supposed half-brother. But it's just a terrible film overall- the scene with Uhura dancing on the ridge was probably the nadir as far as I'm concerned.
However, Star Trek V did have what I thought was the best line ever delivered in a Star Trek film (well, there's a few contenders for the title, but I've always liked it): "Excuse me, but what does God need with a starship?"
What does God need with a starship?
Are you saying that Enterprise may be the beginning of the Mirror Universe? Scott Bakula needs to grow a goatee...
You were looking for hard sci-fi in a Trek movie? Isn't that like looking for filet mignon at McDonalds?
Exactly. More precisely, it's like looking for filet mignon and a nice salice salentino at McDonalds.
The idea behind Trek is that it's supposed to be fun. You want hard SF, or at least serious SF, look to Solaris (no, not that Solaris, Tarkovsky's Solaris), 2001, or Alien (maybe Pitch Black; though a lot of it smelled like warmed over Ridley Scott, it did have a good idea behind it and some very interesting performances). If the SF you want is filet mingon, remember that Trek is junk food. Filling, but lacking in sophistication.
Sure there was some expansion here and there, but in general the feelings for the characters never changed. Checkov never really "rose through the ranks" like Wesley did
I believe that in "the Undiscovered Country", cheesy as it was, Sulu did get a captaincy (sp?). Checkoff... well he probably never made it 'cause he couldn't pass his written test:
Desired Rank: Keptain Experience: Starships and Nuclear Wessels
Remember where we parked.
Ahh, the classics.
I don't even have your number.
Computer, on.
But if it did happen, here's the plot synopsis:
Star Trek V (Never Happened): God and Kirk compare egos. God loses.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
If I might suggest: From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe "Do people want fire which can be fitted nasally?"
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
No way! They went straight from IV to VI.
Sounds like the marketing people at Netscape used to work for Paramount too.
I hope you're not pretending to be evil while secretly being good. That would be dishonest.
Actually the formula is "all even movies that are also numbered 2 are good."
In First Contact, the Borg sprouts a queen, she gets her nipples hard over Data
In First Contact, the Borg sprouts a queen, she gets her nipples hard over Data
In First Contact, the Borg sprouts a queen, she gets her nipples hard over Data
Dude, you awnsered your own question you know...
You can't take the sky from me...
Everybody knows that alien energy beams aren't for vaporizing oceans: they're for anal probing. If species loss continues at its current rate, in 30 years nobody will be able to sit down. The ironic thing is that increased vaseline use will probably just accelerate the species loss...
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Sure Janeway... "Now tell me Kathryn, how many lights do you see?"
"THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!"
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I *LOVED* Christopher Lloyd in ST III.
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Klingon - "What do you do when you see a yellow light on the Genesis device?"
Kirk - "Slow down."
Klingon - "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat doooooooooooooooooo yoooooooooooooooooou doooooooooooooooooooo wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen
JoAnn
Would this be... wait for it...
A borgasm ?
I tried every decent and legal way I could think of to resolve the issue w/the business before I rented the chicken suit
In other words, "Enterprise" and "Babylon 5", respectively.
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
AC, go watch the movie, and then come back with your head hung in shame.
You P'Tak!
And no I didn't look up that Klingon, so if the spelling is wrong, I don't want to hear about it!
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