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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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RE: Repititiousness wasn't the problem | Report this post to moderator
By: Reklaw (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:53:52 on Jun 14, 2004

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Are you stoned?

No it’s been years since I last indulged. But I take your point, perhaps if I got a bit buzzed I might appreciate DS9's really deep characters like Quark and the other ridiculous Ferengi caricatures. Yeah, I might even appreciate Bashir's incessant adolescent whining too.

Anyway, Deslok used to give me shit for dissing DS9 too. His most valid point, as I recall, was that I have not watched the whole series - I've probably watched about 50% of it at this point. But if it aint all that great at 50%, I'm not exactly driven to watch the rest. Also, there were some interestingly developed and portrayed characters such as O'Brien and his wife Keiko.

I guess childish isn't the most articulate way to sum up what I feel was bad about DS9. Although the characters that I mentioned and the whole Dominion War plot seemed childish, there were many other aspects of the show that left stone cold. For example, Sisko was always so stagy but with no gravitas. (Patrick Stewart was also quite stagy, but he had extraordinary presence.) Another example of what I disliked about DS9 was the lack of interesting single episode plots. There were some that were good -like the one where some of the Ferengi characters accidentally visited 30s era USA- but very very few.

So, although I'm incontrovertibly 'wrong' in your opinion, I think DS9 was the worst Trek series yet.


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