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Jonathan Frakes Talks Candidly About NEMESIS Failure, End of the Road

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By GustavoLeao / 15:28, 11 June 2004 / Star Trek: Nemesis

The latest issue of DreamWatch magazine, out now in the UK, features an exclusive interview with TREK star and director Jonathan Frakes. The actor discusses his latest project, the movie adaptation of the british television series THUNDERBIRDS, which opens in the U.S. on August 6th. Frakes also offers some frank words about the failure of the latest TNG movie, STAR TREK NEMESIS, which bombed at the box office and now ranks as the lowest big-screen TREK adventure.

"I wasn't expecting it to do so badly," Frakes told journalist Ian Spelling. "I think because the core audience is such a Trekkie audience they missed having the usual NEXT GEN family. At least half of the movie was Patrick [Stewart] with the guest star, Tom Hardy. I'm not sure that helped matters. And over the years, long acting scenes in the STAR TREK movies never seemed to help the movies, and NEMESIS had more than a few long acting scenes."

"I also thought the three big face-off scenes between Patrick and the clone were too similar to each other, to be honest."

In the wake of NEMESIS failure at the box-office, Frakes acknowledges that he may have reprised his role as 'Willliam Riker' for the last time.

"I hope not, but I think the writing might be on the wall," he states. "I think we're done for a while, until the environment improves or there's some anniversary to celebrate. I'd be happy to come back, but I don't think there's anyone chomping at the bit. I don't think anyone was chomping at the bit for NEMESIS, actually."

For much more from Frakes, check out the latest issue of Dreamwatch, now available in the UK and in the U.S.



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By: jimbtnp (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:58:36 on Jun 12, 2004

everyone I know liked the movie, the story pace action and script, and the music too. This movie actually felt like a movie, good drama and a great script, ST FC was good too but the strong points in that movie, Picard losing it and flipping out and Data's exchanges with the Borg QUEEN are exactly what make ST Nemesis good.
No techno babble, no cheese, great script come on this was great.

I don't know what everyone is talking about.

ST Nemesis did poorly beacuse the entire franchise is in freefall due to Berman&Braga and people have simply stopped being interested Voyager was a big turn off and Enterprise quickly followed though this season has been a big improvement, even TNG & DS9 had either weak episodes or at least were inconsistent at the end of their run.
I didn't see Nemesis in the theater myself along with other fans (1st st movie ever) becasue with B&B involve it was likely to be garbage, thankfully I was wrong.

And BTW Insurrection was crap, Frakes - who i like - would not have done as good a job as Baird

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By: jimbtnp (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:20:28 on Jun 12, 2004

you are on the money with Nemesis

the bottomline is Paramount has so destroyed the franchise by not sacking berman that it turned off the fans and along with a bad release date, people just gave up on ST

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