Star Trek - Nemesis (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) |  | Director: Stuart Baird
Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Studio: Paramount
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Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 116 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.9
MPN: 097360317947
ISBN: 1415713812
UPC: 097360317947
EAN: 9781415713815
ASIN: B000A6T1KE
Theatrical Release Date: December 13, 2002
Release Date: October 4, 2005
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Product Description
After the wedding of Troi and Riker, Captain Picard sets off for Romulus to negotiate a truce, only to find that the Romulans current leader is a clone of himself bent on obtaining his genetic material and destroying Earth.
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 10-APR-2007
Media Type: DVD
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The sacrifice of a beloved character is just one of many highlights in Nemesis, the 10th feature in the lucrative Star Trek franchise. Enigmatically billed as the beginning of "A Generation's Final Journey," this richly plotted Next Generation adventure maintains the "even number rule" regarding Trek's feature quality, and it's one of the best in the series. It hits its brisk stride when Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his Enterprise-E crew encounter Shinzon (Tom Hardy), a younger clone of Picard, rejected by the Romulans as the human weapon of an abandoned conspiracy. Raised on the nocturnal Romulan sister planet Remus, Shinzon now plots revenge against Romulus and Earth but needs Picard's blood to carry out his scheme. A wedding, a childlike "duplicate" Data named B-4 (Brent Spiner), spectacular space battles, and uncommon acts of valor make this a tautly-paced action thriller, poised to pass the franchise (but not quite yet) to a new generation of Starfleet personnel. Die-hard Trekkers will not be disappointed. --Jeff Shannon
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 The end of Trek as we knew it February 6, 2010
jackbauerfan
Star Trek Nemesis. The movie that is reputed to have killed the franchise. This movie has the lowest box office return of any Trek film made to date, even lower than that of Final Frontier. However, I really don't think the movie is quite as bad as everyone makes it out to be. I think people's dislike for this movie stems from the fact that Star Trek was just starting to get old. And Nemesis came out around the same time that Voyager and Enterprise were on TV, and both those shows are reputed to be the worst of the five Trek shows. Nemesis suffers from being cliched and familiar. Some people would go so far as to say that they copied and pasted Wrath of Khan's plot for this movie. I wouldn't go as far as that, but I do think that this movie is nothing new, and it's too similar to previous Trek movies. It's not a bad movie, necessarily, but it's too predictable and borrows way too much from better movies. But first and foremost, Nemesis is just a dumbed down, dumb action movie. Like what some people accused First Contact of being? This actually was. Almost every event that takes place in the "plot" is just an excuse to have a chase scene or fight scene. With that said, let's get to the actual review.
The movie opens up with some Romulan senators being killed by some green mist that turns them into something dead. Then they die. After this, we cut to the wedding ceremony of Troi and Riker. I don't want to go into much detail concerning this scene, but it sucked. Basically, they did their best to make all the characters look like idiots. Worf being drunk, Data singing that stupid song.........I don't want to go into it. After that, the crew of the Enterprise heads toward Betazoid to have a wedding ceremony there. On the way, they happen upon a positronic energy signal coming from the Kolaren system, near the Romulan neutral zone. Positronic signals only come from androids, so they decide to investigate. They get on a new shuttle (what's wrong with the transporters?) and fly down to the planet. They find the android in scattered pieces on the planet surface. As they are about to leave, a group of aliens attacks them. A big chase scene ensues, and eventually our heroes escape. Now here's the first example of why this is a dumb action movie. That chase scene was decent, but what was it doing in the movie? Who were the aliens? Why did they want to kill Picard? Did Shinzon tell them to kill Picard? But if he needed Picard to do that operation thing, why would he want Picard dead? Either way, this sequence is never mentioned again. It was just there for a few thrills. When assembled, the android looks exactly like Data. It calls itself "B-4" However, it appears far less advanced than Data. It does not know anything about itself, and does not know how it came to be on the planet.
The Enterprise is then contacted by Admiral Kathryn Janeway, (why is she an admiral now?) who orders them to go to Romulus. The Romulan government has been overthrown, and Romulus is now controlled by a Reman named Shinzon. This is surprising, because the Remans are usually regarded as an inferior race by the Romulans. They are usually used as slave labor, or cannon fodder. When they meet with Shinzon, they discover that he is not a Reman, he is a human. He is, in fact, a young clone of Picard. Shinzon explains to Picard who he is. And this part, I thought was pretty interesting. Years ago, agents within the Romulan government cloned Picard, through a hair or skin sample. They were going to kill the real Picard and put Shinzon in his place. They would have had a spy within the federation. But before they could execute the plan, a new government took over Romulus. They decided to abandon the plan, and sent Shinzon to die in the mines. One Reman took pity on him, and protected him. This Reman would later become his viceroy. In later years, when Romulus went to war, they needed Remans as footsoldiers. Shinzon was drafted. He ended up rising through the ranks to a powerful military position. And now he has taken over Romulus. This could have been a very interesting villian. He's someone who's been through hell, and he is a very personal adversary for Picard. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie is just one long action scene.
It turns out that Shinzon is dying, and he needs Picard so he can do a blood transfusion. He uses the B-4 (Shinzon's the one who placed the B-4 in the Kolaren system, but why did he scatter the pieces if he wanted Picard to find it?) to hack into the Enterprise computer for some stuff that is never really explained. Picard is then transported aboard Shinzon's ship, the Scimitar, along with the B-4. However, Data is able to beam onto the ship and take the B-4's place. He frees Picard, in another cool but pointless action scene. The Enterprise crew heads back to federation space, but are ambushed by the Scimitar while passing through the Mutara....I mean a Nebula which disrupts some of their instruments, including their communications. Remember how I said they borrowed from other Trek movies? The Scimitar and the Enterprise have a long space battle which takes up about the second half of the movie. Instead of developing Shinzon further, they just have a big fight scene. The Scimitar can fire it's weapons while cloaked, which is not ripping off Star Trek 6 in the slightest. Enterprise is outgunned. Shinzon sends a boarding party aboard the Enterprise to capture Picard for the surgery. Leading the boarding party is his Viceroy. The team is stopped by Enterprise security, and Riker kills the Viceroy. With his attempt to capture Picard having failed, Shinzon decides to kill everyone on the Enterprise, and then do the same to earth. The Scimitar is equipped with thalaron, the green mist thing from the beginning of the movie. Picard decides to beam over to the Scimitar and stop him. The transporters only have enough power for one person to go, so Picard decides to go. Even though the last time he tried to physically take someone on, Malcolm Mcdowell beat the crap out of him. When Data offers to go instead, Picard responds "this is something I have to do". Right, `cause it has to be a long, dramatic action scene. Picard beams over, and transporters are rendered inoperative. Data decides to act, and jumps from the Enterprise to the Scimitar. I'm serious. I know he's an android and everything, but still. That was at least a quarter mile.
Meanwhile, Picard has killed just about every Reman on Shinzon's ship. He comes in all by himself, and is able to take out seven or eight Remans with his phaser. The Remans must have graduated from the imperial stormtrooper school of marksmanship. Once he's killed all the Remans, he and Shinzon have a fight. Picard kills Shinzon, but has only seconds to dismantle the Thalaron weapon. Data arrives just in time to save Picard. Data is carrying a prototype for the ETU (emergency transport unit). He slaps it on Picard, and it beams Picard back to the Enterprise. Data shoots the Thalaron weapon, destroying it and the Scimitar. The parallel with Wrath of Khan is so obvious I won't even bring it up. But what was the point of the big shootout? Why did Picard have to transport to the Enterprise? Why not send someone tougher, like Data or Worf? And if he really felt the need to go himself, why not take the ETU thing with him? Because they needed to have a cool action scene. The crew mourns the loss of Data. Picard says goodbye to Riker and Troi, who are off to take command of the Titan. In a conversation with the captured B-4, Picard realizes that Data had previously downloaded his katra, I mean neural net, into the B-4. The movie ends with the thought that Spock, I mean Data, might be able to come back.
Star Trek Nemesis. Not nearly the worst thing to carry the name Star Trek. Not a bad plot, just a familiar one. This movie borrows way too much from better movies. Also, the movie had an interesting premise, but it sidelines that premise to make way for the dumb action scenes. Let me rephrase that. The action scenes were good, but unnecessary. Instead of focusing on good action scenes, they should have focused more on crafting a good story. They could have done that, they had the potential. Instead, they just crafted a familiar story, which goes where way too many Trek movies have gone before. It's a shame that this had to be such a failure, both critically and financially. But the thing is, Star Trek had simply gotten old and predictable. Fans needed something new. And in 2009, we got it. But that's a completely different review.
 A Fitting Send Off for the Next Generation Crew December 7, 2009
ONENEO (Buffalo, NY)
Star Trek Nemesis isn't new by any means... In fact I vaguely recall checking it out back in 2003 when it first arrived on DVD and though it did nothing to offend, the prose hadn't really stuck out in memory either. As such I recently added the DVD to my collection in effort to complete my tour of the Star Trek motion pictures. It has the distinction of being the tenth major motion picture of the Star Trek franchise despite the fact that Roman Numerals in the titles used to identify the films fell out of favor at Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Based on the timeline, character development, and full continuity of the Next Generation television series, Nemesis also (unfortunately) has the distinction of being the fourth and final film based on this crew.
Released originally in 2002, Star Trek Nemesis was directed by Stuart Baird, written by John Logan from a story initially developed by Logan, Brent Spiner ("Data"), and producer Rick Berman. The music score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, a man oft credited as being to Star Trek what John Williams is to Star Wars.
The story, though a bit complex for a couple-paragraph summary, goes something like this: Within the Romulan Imperial Senate, an argument is presented by the military that the time to strike the Federation is finally at hand. The Praetor (Romulus' version of a president) not only dismisses the aggressive proposal, he goes on to rebuke the military for their foolishness. In a very cool special effects filled sequence, a female senator arranges for the assassination of everyone in the chamber, including the Praetor himself.
In the mean time the crew of the USS Enterprise celebrates the wedding of first officer William T. Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), a ceremony that promises to conclude fully nude on Betazed.
On their way to complete the ceremony, the crew discovers a positronic energy signal on a planet in the Kolaran system (near the Romulan Neutral Zone) that warrants investigation. An away team consisting of Picard, Worf, and Data take a shuttlecraft down to the planet's surface then tool around in a really cool all-terrain-vehicle while discovering remnants of an android resembling Data.
Considering the ship's close proximity to the Romulan Neutral Zone, the Enterprise is then ordered by the Federation to conduct a diplomatic mission to the Romulus as apparently the Romulan government has undergone a military coup and is now controlled by a mysterious Reman named Shinzon.
Upon their arrival to Romulus, the crew learns that Shinzon is actually a clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, apparently built by the Romulans to replace the real Jean-Luc at the right moment. While he claims to want peace and freedom for the Remans (who raised him as a fellow slave), he also happens to occupy a most deadly warship called the Scimitar.
The film's greatest strength, were I to isolate a single trait, would have to perhaps be its ability to take the elements that made The Next Generation television series so successful and apply them directly to the realm of the motion picture medium. A seemingly simple task that somehow manages to become lost in translation with the three Next Generation-based films that preceded it. Possibly coincidental (as I do believe scripting has as much to do with it as does the directing), Nemesis represents the first in three Next Generation films where Jonathan Frakes did not serve as director. As such, Paramount decided to go with English film director Stuart Baird, who confessed to having no prior knowledge of the franchise before coming on board.
The decision pays off in my opinion as the film is rife with solid pacing, interesting visuals, and some really slick editing (Baird's primary area of expertise happens to be editing).
At this stage in the game, the cast and crew of The Next Generation had the show's formula rolling like a well-oiled machine and it shows. The character interaction is second to none and perhaps even more impressive is the actors' mastery of the tiny nuances of their character's personalities. There's a relaxed vibe to the acting that "grounds" the usual suspension of disbelief associated with enjoying science fiction.
The visuals are surprisingly low key for the genre but that's not necessarily a bad thing. The era of the film's production was rife with computer-generated overload (perhaps no greater an example than Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones which was done entirely digitally). Star Trek has traditionally been a franchise that prided itself on resisting falling into becoming a "digital showcase" by relying upon practical effects, even at painstaking time and difficulty. Nemesis carries on with this tradition and the making-of bonus features contained on the DVD are certainly worth a look.
In all there is a bit of a twist at the end of the program that is sure to upset longtime devotees of the mythos but in keeping in mind that this film represents the final voyage of the crew, some sense of finality is to be expected.
There have been criticisms to the film stating that the formula was simply too "long in tooth" to continue any further and perhaps there is a hint of truth to such complaints within the prose. However, as far as sendoffs go, Nemesis delivers with the right blend of believable technology, fiction, and drama to ensure that fans will think fondly of The Next Generation for generations to come.
 Vulcan Nightmare November 28, 2009
Andariel Halo (Phenomynouss@hotmail.com is my real e-mail)
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The sheer face-palming stupidity of this movie is enough to make Insurrection seem even slightly reasonable. At the very least, Star Trek Insurrection has the benefit of the doubt as to whether the bad guys stance of relocating the hippie-liberal people for medical breakthroughs could even work, as the medical miracle of the planet's atmosphere might be impossible to replicate, or impossible to distribute, or the hippie-liberal people would be willing to share it if only the wrinkly-faced bad guys would go away.
"Star Trek Nemesis" has absolutely none of that.
Nemesis probably had a special place in my heart somehow for being the first Star Trek movie I fully and completely remember seeing in theaters when it first came out. I'm 70% sure I saw Insurrection in theaters, and 30% sure I saw First Contact in theaters.
So maybe it had to take this long, or rather it had to take my maturing into an adult, and becoming a real Star Trek fan to realize the movie wasn't just a bust at the box office and franchise-killing, but was a complete mess of sheer stupidity!
So the story is our guys pretty much have nothing to do but wait for another Borg attempt (unless Voyager ensured that wouldn't happen any time soon), and Commander Riker is about to go off with Deanna Troi on a honeymoon, then captain his own ship. But then suddenly comes Shin-Zon, who stages a coup on the Romulan Senate and takes control of the Empire with the military's backing.
For some reason, this is treated with a remarkable amount of hostility and uncertainty, despite the fact that the Federation and the Romulan Empire had been on hostile terms for many years, and that a sworn enemy of the Romulans had just taken over the Romulan Empire, and that this could lead to a great many new and interesting diplomatic developments between the two factions.
Ideally it SHOULD be treated this way, but that would probably take too long, and have too much "exploring" and "negotiation" and "diplomacy" and "logic", all the things a Star Trek movie SHOULDN'T have, right? Oh wait, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT STAR TREK IS ABOUT! At least you'd think that from the Original Series and the movies.
Instead, Shin-Zon is introduced and supposed to be someone to RIVAL KHAN NOONIEN SINGH in terms of sheer awe and power and evilness and such. I have no idea of this is true, but I had heard that Rick Berman said that Shin-Zon would rival Khan, or even equal him.
Rather than be a snotty pessimist, I will simply say that this is not possible because the writers did not even try to portray it this way, or else their attempts to do so ended up being edited out of the final script, or completely forgotten about.
Shin-Zon is an artificial human created from Jean-Luc Picard's DNA by the Romulans. They planned to have this clone created, rapidly aged, then inserted in Picard's place as captain of the Enterprise for some nefarious plan against the Federation. Early on, this plan ends up being abandoned, and Shin-Zon is thrown away like garbage onto Remus, among the enslaved Remans.
One of the Remans there takes Shin-Zon in, after seeing how he is horribly treated by the Romulan overseers. Shin-Zon grows up in an environment of hatred of Romulans, hard work and torture. Somehow he manages to gain ahold of much power and influence amongst the Remans, and stages a coup in which he assassinates the entire Romulan Senate, and gains power of the Empire with its military behind him.
The vast majority of his story is over! He can no longer be anywhere near Khan, because Khan's whole story was one that mirrored that of Captain Ahab in "Moby Dick"---a lust for revenge so overpowering, it destroyed him and everyone he held dear. Shin-Zon achieves his revenge without losing anything, it seems.
So here comes Jean-Luc Picard, his DNA twin, sent by the Federation to investigate, and even negotiate if possible! He can do what has never been done before for the Romulan Empire; make a peace treaty between the Federation and the Empire that can see them united, break down the Neutral Zone, and be a powerful and dominating force together in a strong alliance!
Instead, because arbitrary action and "Anyone who isn't a part of the Enterprise and has spooky evil music play whenever they come on-screen must be a bad guy", Shin-Zon for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON AT ALL decides he has to attack and destroy Earth and the Federation. Brbbrbrbrb, WHY?!?! WHY?!?!? WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY?!
There is NO REASONING OR JUSTIFICATION AT ALL for Shin-Zon to arbitrarily ATTACK THE FEDERATION just because he's a clone of Jean-Luc Picard! HE HATES THE ROMULANS! EVERY SINGLE MAJOR PLOT POINT AND KEY IN HIS BACKGROUND POINTS TO HIM HATING THE ROMULANS! AND SUDDENLY HE HATES THE FEDERATION, WHY?!
This would be as if Khan, after marooning Kirk and taking the Genesis Project, decides to go and attack the Klingon homeworld. WHY?!
So instead of making any sense and maybe, trying to hunt down the military elements of Romulus that DIDN'T support him, or preparing to put down attempted rebellions on Romulan colonies and territories that oppose him, or maybe trying to make sure the military is pleased with him and strongly backing him, instead of THREATENING THE ONLY GUY WHO COULD POSSIBLY QUASH YOUR NEFARIOUS PLOTS with random acts of violence for even DARING TO QUESTION HIM, Shin-Zon decides to threaten the only guy who could put an end to his life and reign, and go after Earth because Earth is good and good is dumb.
The rest is just fudge frosting on the cake of idiocy this movie takes. This is a true franchise-killer, and while J.J. Abrams did good in "reviving" the franchise with "Star Trek", after this mess of a movie, anyone short of Uwe Boll could have revived the franchise.
 It has it's flaws, but hey, it's Trek, man! November 11, 2009
Elias P. Ebb (white bear lake, mn usa)
While I was tempted to get the new box set that that was coming out of all the TNG films leading up to the new film's release on DVD, when you're on a budget you go with what you can afford. Besides I already had the first 7 films in the same style packaging so I didn't wanna mess that up. So I went the bargain route and got the original Special Editions of the TNG films to round out my collection and I couldn't be happier to finally have the full collection. Granted, the box for my copy of "Nemesis" is a little beat up, but the content plays okay, so I can't complain since it only cost me like 3 bucks plus shipping.
If you're a trek fan like me and on a budget and just can't dive into Blu-Ray yet, check out Amazon and try to get your hands on these special edition 2 disc dvds. The bonus features are great and even make re-watching Star Trek V worth it. :-)
-Eli
 another gem October 20, 2009
tony Alen (florida)
Well, pleasantly surprised. Arrived the way the shipper said it would. Excellent quality.
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