[Kamog]

Hi! I just came back from watching Nemesis. For some reason, none of the theatres near my home showed it, so I had to drive quite a ways to go see it. I felt a bit apprehensive because the theatre is in the bad part of town with a high crime rate. Anyway, it was good! Certainly better than Insurrection, way better.

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Here's what I found lacking: Picard was behaving a bit out of character. I didn't particularly like the part with Picard driving that vehicle fast and doing a jump off a cliff into the Argo. That's just the kind of stuff from an action movie with a fast car chase, not very Star Trek-y. Also, the atmosphere of the whole movie was kind of dark, which was also different from the other movies.

Why couldn't Data have duplicated another one of those portable transporter devices before he left? It would have taken 5 seconds and both he and Picard could have escaped. I didn't expect Data to die in the end. Considering how many narrow escapes he has had many times before, this particular time didn't seem any different. Why did he have to shoot that energy vortex and blow up the ship? Couldn't he have stopped the weapon by using the controls? Well, I guess Spiner decided he was going to die, so that's that. I suppose that he's going to be in the next movie after all, as B-4, if they make another one.

The space battle scene was really good. Too bad the Enterprise wasn't armed with transphasic torpedoes and ablative armor; would have made short work of the Scimitar... Anyway, the battle scene was good, almost as good as the Kirk vs Khan battle in ST:2. Picard ramming the Scimitar was a surprise - I thought maybe he was going to use the Picard Maneuver...

I agree with Atrocities that the movie was a bit too dark. Yes, and B-4 was kind of far fetched too, especially the Enterprise being able to detect positronic signals from such a distance. I thought that maybe the android was Data, trapped in another one of those travel-back-in-time or parallel universe situations, or maybe it was Lore. The trick with Data pretending to be B-4 was predictable, and I kept expecting that it will be done again to surprise us, but it didn't happen a second time.

Overall, I enjoyed the movie, and I thought it was good. I might go see it a second time.
In my opinion, Nemesis is the third best ST movie so far. I would rank the movies as follows:

#1: The Wrath of Khan (II) - best
#2: First Contact (VIII)
#3: Nemesis (X)
#4: Search for Spock (III)
#5: The Undiscovered Country (VI)
#6: Voyage Home (IV)
#7: Generations (VII)
#8: Insurrection (XI)
#9: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (I)
#10: The Final Frontier (V) - worst