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Is Nemesis better in hindsight?
By Morpheus

You probably know the old expression, "Hindsight is always 20/20."

Looking back and re-evaluating Nemesis with the aid of this new DVD set, in my humble opinion, I feel that Nemesis is not too bad a flick.

I was one of those fans three years ago who went and saw it in the theaters and walked away disappointed. But now, at least from my perspective, my cold distain for this film is melting, somewhat.

The zooming into Romulus and senate dissolving scene were an awesome way to start the movie.

Riker and Troi's wedding was interesting to watch. Nice idea to include Wes and Gunian, who stepped back into the dimension were the 24th century of Star Trek takes place in. After kicking around other temporal planes for the past decade and ahalf. Some people complain that Crusher should not be in a starfleet uniform but I feel that he was just wearing it to fit in and is not a real serving line officer. Still, I would have liked to have seen Barclay and maybe even a DS9 character or two. Riker was known on DS9 wasn't he?

Yes. The scene on the washed out orange planet with the dune buggies looks like a deleted scene from one of the road warrior movies, but I rationalize the use of a wheeled vehicle by starfleet as trying to blend in; instead of using a shuttle craft or open pit hover vehicle, which would stick out more on that world.

And the main plot of Picard and Shinzon, I feel works for me. Picard seems to be suffering some after effects of his midlife crisis left over from Generations (his aggressive driving, taking orders from a younger woman, seeing his first officer prepare to leave and become a captain in his own right, finally) and then meets this younger self. If they included just some of the deleted scenes which beef what Picard felt then I think the movie would be even more effective.

Ah well, like Kirk said, "C'est la vie." That's life. You don't always get a perfect product, service or experience in life. I seldom do, anyway.

Does anyone else feel that way, or has your opinion of Nemesis not changed, either negatitive or positive within the last three years?

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