What is all this about?
-Picard

After Insurrection no one was clamoring for another Star Trek film, especially with The Next Generation crew and even the cast believed it to be the last one as they weren't even contracted for any more films. While various writers were still throwing around the idea of doing an origin film involving the Kirk and Spock characters, Paramount Pictures decided to give TNG another go at it.

Now even though I'm a diehard fan of the original cast of the 1966 series, I still find it odd that Paramount has this franchise with a vast universe and history behind it, but when it comes to making feature films they limit themselves to only using…

Despite the critical failure of "Insurrection," fairly strong box-office allowed for one more attempt at a Next Generation movie. It had been four years since the release of the previous entry, however, and Paramount execs had to have been nervous about what would happen to one of their biggest franchises.

The plot involves a coup in the Romulan hierarchy by a Reman called Shinzon (Tom Hardy), a military slave, who falsely offers peace with the Federation. It is revealed that Shinzon is actually a clone of Captain Picard, abandoned amidst a political shift in the Romulan society. He needs Picard's blood to survive, and will use any means to attain it.

This basic story could have made an interesting movie,…

Star Trek: Insurrection was honestly a pretty crappy movie and after that one it took four years before Star Trek made it back to the big screen again and before it even came out there were rumors that it may be the last movie for The Next Generation Cast. If that was the case I was really hoping that they could go out on a high note.

I have to say I was pretty interested in the movie when I found out the main villain would be a imperfect clone of Jean-Luc Picard. I thought that Shinzon, the clone, was actually a pretty good villain as well and was acted pretty well. I didn't find out until years later that…

Finally I come to the final Star Trek film that I had yet to see. I was almost always explained to me as being a pile of shit, but I found this to be pretty good. Another case in which I don't understand the hate for it.

This film looked good, and I loved the look of the Romulan ship that Tom Hardy had. This film yet again upped the design quality of the ships and sets. I loved the internal design inside of the ship and the look of the Reman species, not quite as cool looking as the Borg but pretty awesome. The dialogue wasn't a high point of the film and neither was the overall story. It…

What is all this about?
-Picard

After Insurrection no one was clamoring for another Star Trek film, especially with The Next Generation crew and even the cast believed it to be the last one as they weren't even contracted for any more films. While various writers were still throwing around the idea of doing an origin film involving the Kirk and Spock characters, Paramount Pictures decided to give TNG another go at it.

Now even though I'm a diehard fan of the original cast of the 1966 series, I still find it odd that Paramount has this franchise with a vast universe and history behind it, but when it comes to making feature films they limit themselves to only using…

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

Star Trek: Nemesis has a lot of cool moments. From Tom Hardy and Ron Perlman putting in excellent work as Picard’s foils to the crew of the Enterprise acting like a family, a great deal of it feels like a worthy Star Trek movie. It’s too bad, then, that some catastrophically bad decisions turn a respectable entry in the series into a laughing stock that shouldn’t have made it out of space dock.

Look, I don’t want this to turn into a giant rant, but…okay, I think I’m fine with that. It’s almost like the creators of Nemesis just wanted to shit all over Data. There’s no other plausible explanation as far as I can tell.…