(no subject)
Dec. 14th, 2002 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unbibiumI saw Star Trek: Nemesis last night. I like how the movie logo had the Tetris Я and the Eminem Ǝ.
I have to admit, it's a little far-fetched. For example: faster-than-light travel. Hello? Producers, I'd like to introduce you to Dr. Albert Einstein. I'm sure he has a lot to talk to you about.
First of all, I did spot Wesley at the wedding reception, sitting next to Dr. Crusher, not having been killed by the Dominion when they overran the Maquis or anything. He, Guinan, and a host of other cameos.
OK, let me get this straight.
A Picard clone by the Romulan government is plausible enough.
So to abort the project, they send him to the dilithium mines to die, rather than, say, to an orphanage or out an airlock.
But instead of dying, which would have made the movie rather short, he, well, survives. I buy that easily; I blame the Romulans for using the Batman villain method. "Begin the ridiculously slow dipping mechanism!" But he and his Reman mentor escape, and join up with a rebel group that eventually stages a coup d'état.
Using a top-secret doomsday weapon. Well, two of them actually: one planetary-scale one no doubt inspired by the Genesis torpedo, and a cute little handheld room-effect one — the Game Gear of genocide, if you will.
And afterwards, they appoint the human boy to be PRÆTOR OF THE ROMULAN EMPIRE. A general, I could understand. But Prætor? That's a little overboard.
The little coin-sized Sharper Image transporter is neat, though it seems another example of how Trek gadgets are becoming a little too godlike.
For the most part, excellent stunts. They actually worked a car chase into Star Trek. I don't remember getting a good look at who exactly was chasing them, though. But, it's a car chase! Entire movies have been made that were simply excuses to film exciting car chases. So I'll give them some leeway here.
Also, luv scene. I knew it was coming as soon as we saw Riker's quarters. And I also knew that something was going to go wrong because gratuitous luv scenes are kind of pointless in a PG-13 movie. I was surprised to learn later in the movie that there was more point to the scene than simply pointing out that Evil Bald Guy was a sick bastard.
Also, Before proves once and for all that robots are funnier than chimpanzees. I know that there will be people calling for him to appear in a future movie, but come on. Before will probably spend most of his life bagging groceries, crushing people's eggs under gallons of milk.
It was quite a ride. It's good, if dark. Go see it so I don't have to worry about spoiling the movie when I'm around you.
I have to admit, it's a little far-fetched. For example: faster-than-light travel. Hello? Producers, I'd like to introduce you to Dr. Albert Einstein. I'm sure he has a lot to talk to you about.
First of all, I did spot Wesley at the wedding reception, sitting next to Dr. Crusher, not having been killed by the Dominion when they overran the Maquis or anything. He, Guinan, and a host of other cameos.
OK, let me get this straight.
A Picard clone by the Romulan government is plausible enough.
So to abort the project, they send him to the dilithium mines to die, rather than, say, to an orphanage or out an airlock.
But instead of dying, which would have made the movie rather short, he, well, survives. I buy that easily; I blame the Romulans for using the Batman villain method. "Begin the ridiculously slow dipping mechanism!" But he and his Reman mentor escape, and join up with a rebel group that eventually stages a coup d'état.
Using a top-secret doomsday weapon. Well, two of them actually: one planetary-scale one no doubt inspired by the Genesis torpedo, and a cute little handheld room-effect one — the Game Gear of genocide, if you will.
And afterwards, they appoint the human boy to be PRÆTOR OF THE ROMULAN EMPIRE. A general, I could understand. But Prætor? That's a little overboard.
The little coin-sized Sharper Image transporter is neat, though it seems another example of how Trek gadgets are becoming a little too godlike.
For the most part, excellent stunts. They actually worked a car chase into Star Trek. I don't remember getting a good look at who exactly was chasing them, though. But, it's a car chase! Entire movies have been made that were simply excuses to film exciting car chases. So I'll give them some leeway here.
Also, luv scene. I knew it was coming as soon as we saw Riker's quarters. And I also knew that something was going to go wrong because gratuitous luv scenes are kind of pointless in a PG-13 movie. I was surprised to learn later in the movie that there was more point to the scene than simply pointing out that Evil Bald Guy was a sick bastard.
Also, Before proves once and for all that robots are funnier than chimpanzees. I know that there will be people calling for him to appear in a future movie, but come on. Before will probably spend most of his life bagging groceries, crushing people's eggs under gallons of milk.
It was quite a ride. It's good, if dark. Go see it so I don't have to worry about spoiling the movie when I'm around you.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2002-12-14 11:59 am (UTC)I thought they looked like Remans, but it wasn't clear and apparently not too critical a plot point.
I know that there will be people calling for him to appear in a future movie
I think it's inevitable that he'll turn up in the next movie, based on the ending of this one.
Re:
Date: 2002-12-14 12:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-14 12:27 pm (UTC)Wait, so there really ARE a race called Remans?
I was hoping that was just a clever pun on the name "Romulans".
Star Trek is dumb.
Re:
Date: 2002-12-14 12:34 pm (UTC)If you think Star Trek is dumb, you should see Enterprise.
no subject
Date: 2002-12-14 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-15 11:20 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-12-15 12:10 pm (UTC)Good plots form because there are limitations to what people can do, which are consistent throughout an entire story, or in the case of a serial, an entire universe. Babylon 5 never had transporters or deflector shields, humans generated gravity "the hard way", FTL travel was a little complicated, and most importantly, time travel was an exotic technology which was used only twice in the series, to describe the same incident. And they stuck to that. Star Trek used to have that, too: vessels couldn't fire while cloaked, the transporter wouldn't work through shields, and, well, the rest is just random I suppose. But now they have a McGuffin for any occasion.
Enterprise looks like it has more limitations, but the time travel thing could get messy as hell, fast. That Daniels guy seems to have godlike powers over space and time, factoring in last season's cliffhanger as a simple mistake that can occur when you get really sloppy with time travel. We'll probabyl never learn what rules govern the use of time travel, probably because there are none above the "er, try not to INTERFERE" one....
no subject
Date: 2002-12-14 12:50 pm (UTC)