Darrin Drader
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Hear! Hear!Ranger REG said:The only good Trek movies are usually Nicholas Meyer's. Even his two Trek TOS films (II and VI) trump the only one Trek TNG film I like. If Berman has at least a kilo of functioning gray matter between his ears, he'll bring Nick Meyer.
Nemesis was horrid. They literally managed to recycle the best parts of the Nicholas Meyers scripts, but somehow managed to make them incredibly lame. I watched that movie with the terrible sense of having seen all this before, only better. I remember after Nemesis flopped I saw an interview with Berman where he was practically scratching his head trying to figure out why it failed. He thought it had a good script. He thought it had good character development. He actually made a case for how this followed in the tradition of all the other even numbered Trek movies. Did he even bother to read the script or watch the movie? It was awful!
Actually all the Next Gen movies were a major disappointment to me. I wanted to see movies with an ensemble cast that were driven by different characters, much like the show was. Instead what we got were 4 movies with The Star of TNG, Patric Stewart. Don't get me wrong, I like him fine as the captain, but there just weren't enough moments revolving around the other cast members. I suppose behind Picard, there was Data, who certainly got more than his share of camera time too, but the rest of the cast was seriously lacking throughout all four of them. It would have been far better if they would have shifted the focus from one or two characters in one movie to a different pair in the next movie. At least the original cast had the big 3. These had the big 2, which was incredibly unfair to the rest of the cast.
They should have been setting up Riker to take the reigns when Stewart finally caled it quits. While they did give him his own ship in the end, there is no indication that we'll ever see him or any of the other characters again. They should have gotten Worf off that klingon outpost that they unceremoniously dumped him on at the end of DS9 and put him back on the Enterprise where he belongs rather than making up lame excuses for why he was on the ship in time for each major feature film. They didn't even make an effort to explain his presence in Insurrection. The cast of TNG the show was a family, but the movies didn't give them this treatment, and that is why their movies were cut short at 4. They should have outlasted the original cast.
Bah! Berman and Braga have created the text book example of how to take a perfectly fun and wonderful franchise and utterly destroy it. They should have bowed out of Trek and given it to someone else as soon as they ruined Voyager.
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