Star Trek X - Nemesis

This Star Trek movie is not necessarily bad. However, it is not one of the best, either. Basically, it is about average. Nemesis definitely had its moments, like the Riker-Troi wedding, and Data’s heroic death at the end of the movie, as he concludes his existence, while at the same time, in a way, finally fulfilling his wish to be human. While parts of the movie were excellent, it seemed to be lacking as a whole. Partly due to the franchise’s choice of an incredibly pompous, arrogant director, who knew nothing about the Star Trek universe, and seemingly had no respect for it. As a result, many aspects of the film were “off.” The opening is not recognizably Star Trek; there is practically no theme, and the lettering on the film’s title more closely resembles Russian Cyrillic than anything ever used in star Trek. Also, as a result of this director’s bad attitude toward the franchise, different parts of the ship seem to be caught in different periods of the Star Trek timeline. The control panels on the bridge are a slightly off version of the TNG era, while the cybernetics lab more closely resembles something one would expect to find on the starship Excelsior. Also Stuart Baird apparently thought that the warp drive was nothing more than a glorified rocket as he insisted on having the Enterprise’s engines leave a trail of exhaust behind every time the ship went into warp. While the director did a very good job of conveying the dark nature of the story, he seemed to have no knowledge or regard of the Star Trek universe. If a director who was actually familiar with the Star Trek universe was hired to direct the tenth movie, it probably have been much better. The plot of this movie is actually excellent. However, this is not readily evident in the movie mostly because of the poor directing. As a result of this, the movie as a whole suffered, and what had the potential to become one of the best Trek movies, ended up being merely average. The fate of B-4 is left unaddressed at the end of the movie- he obviously has Data’s memories- but what will he do with them? We will never know, giving the whole TNG saga as sense of continuity and incompleteness at the same time. Star Trek Nemesis had a good deal of potential. However, this potential was never realized, sadly ending the Trek of the Next Generation crew on a rather average note.