How forgettable was Star Trek: Nemesis?
So forgettable, apparently, that this article in Variety states twice -- not once, but twice -- that Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) was the "last" movie in the franchise before J.J. Abrams directed his upcoming reboot.
Curiously, this article also mentions Star Trek: Generations (1994) by name, but the date and box-office figures that follow clearly belong to the more-successful Star Trek: First Contact (1996).
You might ask if I am nit-picking as a journalist or as a Trekkie. The answer is yes.
posted by Peter T Chattaway at 10:53 PM
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Some of my Trekkie friends hated Nemesis. Some of my Trekkie friends liked or even loved it. But pretty much ALL my Trekkie friends thought Insurrection was pretty forgettable -- FAR more than Nemesis, even if some of the people remembering it do so because they detest it.
Insurrection was certainly the most inconsequential of the Star Trek movies (with the possible exception of The Final Frontier), but at least it sold tickets. Nemesis was pretty much the only outright flop of the entire series -- so you might say that not enough people saw the film to remember it afterwards.
curiously, i can't remember seeing NEMESIS in the theater (though i must have because i saw every other ST film). but then when i saw it again recently on cable, i couldn't believe i'd forgotten it. i honestly thought it a pretty good story, definately better than INSURECTION. i must admit, i count it among the better (or, heh, you could say, among the even numbered) ST films.
I confess, I have fallen asleep to Nemesis about five times. I have seen the movie 5 times. I remember struggling to stay awake-even when I went in feeling alert.
I actually enjoyed Nemesis and Insurrection. The only film I find unwatchable is The Final Frontier. Yecch.
Not forgettable - BAD.
Painfully bad.
A big pointy stabby thing to impale the bad guy on in the engine room?
Dude...
thomwade, it's too bad you've fallen asleep every time, because the big space battle at the end is actually kind of cool -- especially when one ship rams the other.
One of my favorite novels, Star Trek or otherwise, is a thing called Federation, which came out in bookstores around the same time Generations came out in theatres -- and in that book, there is a moment where Picard startles everyone by deciding to ram the Enterprise into whatever enemy vessel he is facing at that point in the story. It's an exciting and amusing part of the novel, but I never thought I would get to see anything like that on the screen -- and so, whatever flaws Nemesis may have, I do thank it for that much, at least.
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