January 25, 2013

Star Trek Nemesis



Star Trek Nemesis is the fourth and final film in the Next Generation series. I watched this, and the rest of the films, with my dad and at the end he said "I had never seen that one before." I find that hard to believe. This movie ended the series in a pretty nice way. This movie was about nemeses. The bad guy in this film is the new Romulan Praetor and he is a clone of Captain Picard. He is everything that Picard is not, selfish, egotistical and hungry for power/ revenge. It could be argued that several other nemesis type relationships exist in this movie. The one that caught my eye the most was between the android Data and a brother of his they discover named B4. Data strives to be more human and to understand how humans work, B4 can't seem to grasp this. In the end, in a truly human behavior,  Data sacrifices himself to save the rest of his crew something that B4 would never do. The movie ends with Data dead, Riker and Troi are married and Riker has his own command as Captain of the USS titan.

Overall I have truly enjoyed the Star Trek TNG series. The characters are likable and they grow.  The episodes while very procedural have a tendency to surprise you. The casting is always great. The attention to detail is amazing. Most of all the message that the show sends is the best part, in the future technology will take us to a point where money doesn't matter, nobody is want of anything, and everyone strives to work in unison to better humanity.

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