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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cartmaniac: [QB] A little late, so this thread probably won't generate much discussion, BUT NO-ONE CAN STOP ME FROM STARTING ONE ANYWAY! NYAH-NYAH! *What use do the Romulans have for dilithium? Their ships aren't powered by M/AM. [i]Duh.[/i] *The E-E's being pursued by the most heavily armed warship in the quadrant, so it enters a nebula that interferes with communications and sensors. [i]Duh.[/i] *Why not just fly the aeroshuttle from place to place? Why bother with a buggy? [i]Duh.[/i] *The alien buggies: who was behind their wheels? Why did they attack the crew of the Enterprise, aside from scaring off the landing party? *The Romulans take their "matter of internal security" rather lightly by sending two totally outclassed Warbirds to deal with the situation. [i]Duh.[/i] *B-4 has an apt name. Before, get it? Hah-hah-hah. [i]Duh.[/i] *Where did B-4 come from, anyhow? If he was built by Dr. Soong, why was he never mentioned by the good doctor? Where and when did the Romulans find him? No reference whatsoever to Data's OTHER brother/prototype, Lore. [i]Duh.[/i] *Highly tangential observation: why does Shinzon have to wear that shiny latex overcoat 24/7? Is it to prevent us from identifying with him? I was kind of, erh, pertubed by the creaking every time he so much as twitched a muscle. *What happened to the Romulan military after Shinzon's coup? Surely Romulus isn't defended by Canada, like Earth? [i]Duh.[/i] *DS9 presented the notion that Romulus and Earth became loose allies during the Dominon War, which is thrown out the window and adds to the very detached feel Nemesis gives off. [i]Duh.[/i] *How and where did the Remans construct the Scimitar (in complete secrecy no less)? Presumably, their galactic position isn't the most ideal, what with them being (former?) Romulan slaves... *If the Remans are such formidable shock troops, why was the Viceroy's boarding party so easily neutralized? [i]Duh.[/i] *And while we're at it, where did the Big Cheese suddenly get the idea to take a stroll down a Jeffrey's Tube? *Why did Dina Meyer's character, who was in on Schinzon's scheme and nonchalantly assasinated the entire Romulan senate for him, later get cold feet? No fury like a woman scorned, huh? *On the assasination itself: I suppose the senators thought they were impervious to harm on the floor of the Senate, but I have to believe there would have been stricter security measures in place. If it's that easy to effect a change in the Romulan government, I'm amazed that it hasn't become routine. *Echoes of Spock's death and eventual resurrection when Data uploads his memory to his new found twin before heading off to die. It's as if they've stuffed Spiner in a glass booth with a sign reading "Break Glass In Case Of Emergency". [i]Duh.[/i] *Why are the Romulans eager to go to war one day, then making historic peace overtures the next? *Other unaddressed points: Worf's previous courtship with Troi (not to mention his ill-fated marriage to Dax), Janeway's promotion to admiral, Spock's underground unification movement. I expected Nemesis to wrap up loose ends, as it was billed as TNG's last installment, but it raised more questions than it answered. The film is, more than anything, a vehicle for Picard & Data to strout their stuff. Someone apparently decided they're the only characters worth developing... Nemesis is also basically a rehash: In Generations, Picard fights a madman to stop the activation of a deadly device which will cost countless lives. In Insurrection, Picard fights a madman to stop the activation of a deadly device which will cost countless lives. In Nemesis... I think there's a pattern emerging here. The trick is to avoid walking the beaten track, and to be more or less consistent with What Has Gone Before: Trek has a 40 year legacy to uphold, after all. Nemesis falls short on both counts. It suffers from a substandard, contrived plot that consists of a confusing and arbitrary sequence of highlights from previous movies, woven together by a storyline which bears no relation to the Star Trek universe As We Know It. For instance, Shinzon reveals that he wants to avenge his childhood slavery by wiping out the population of Earth. Why? Shouldn't his beef be with the Romulans? Furthermore, how did Shinzon take leadership of the Remans? How did he guide them to their independence? Shinzon was cast into the Reman mines to die, but somehow became a commander during the Dominion war... so how did he obtain that military commission? Bare essentials like these shouldn't have been left dangling. IMO, Nemesis was one Trek chasm after another, with lots of smaller canyons in between. The film hinged on the audience's belief in one basic premise: that Shinzon is a clone of Jean-Luc Picard. Unfortunately, Tom Hardy doesn't even remotely resemble him. He tries to mimic Stewart's stance and speech patterns, but fails, which only undermines his efforts as Evil Twin. Even RAMBO works on some intellectual level... it's disappointing that a member of the Star Trek franchise does not. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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