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Title: Star Trek: Nemesis

Date Viewed: 12/24/02

Details:

Patrick Stewart

Jonathan Frakes

Brent Spiner

Marina Sirtis

Ron Perlman

Tom Hardy

Director: Stuart Baird

Score: 1/2

The Review: Awfully loud for the vacuum of space.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Stewart) gets yet another opportunity to turn the high-tech starship Enterprise into a low-tech battering ram and candidate for the scrap heap. I cannot imagine how he continues to keep his rank and helm, considering the numbers of expensive space-faring craft that have been junked at his command. Perhaps this is the legitimate future cost of peace-keeping, for that is what this episode concerns: the New Generation crew of the Enterprise careening from the on-ship wedding of their first officer and mentalist, bypassing the honeymoon, directly into the breach of a budding internecine war between the two races of the Romulan system: the Romulans and the Remans. (Remember your Roman mythology about the founding brothers?) Notwithstanding these mere quibbles, this is a decent foray in the Trek-verse, even if the content just barely qualifies to fill the timeslot of a long TV show. There is an insidious undercurrent to the Reman rebellion which, of course, must threaten the known universe and, in particular, one small blue planet. Perhaps there's a buried political statement here: why does everyone seem to hate Earth?

Acceptable ensemble crew acting, with the by-now traditional guest villains. Ron Pearlman is excellent voicing the Reman Viceroy.

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