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Brent Spiner Defends NEMESIS, Reveals the STAR TREK XI That Could Have Been

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By GustavoLeao / 15:16, 24 January 2005 / Star Trek: Nemesis

The latest issue of the Star Trek Magazine, just out in the UK, features an exclusive interview with TNG actor Brent Spiner, in which he talks about his guest role of 'Doctor Arik Soong' on STAR TREK ENTERPRISE and his opinions on the STAR TREK movie franchise. Here are a few excerpts :

About STAR TREK NEMESIS, the TNG movie which he co-wrote with screenwriter John Logan and turned out to be a major box office disaster, Spiner told the magazine "I think that NEMESIS was a way better movie than it was given credit for. I don't quite get what happened there. Without naming names, critically it was not well received. Again, not naming names, there were critics who said, 'I'm sick of it this. I don't care if the ship is in jeopardy.' Then my response would be, 'Don't go if you already know you're sick of it and then negatively review it.' That's not really fair. That's not a review: 'I'm sick of it.' Bit I do think that history will be kind to NEMESIS, as far as STAR TREK movies are concerned. STAR TREK movies are an oeuvre unto themselves."

Spiner also revealed what he, Rick Berman and Patrick Stewart had in mind for a possible STAR TREK XI "It had something to do with using everyone and doing a kind of amalgamation," Spiner said "If you put it in comic book terms it'd be like doing the JUSTICE LEAGUE of STAR TREK movies. We'd use all of the major villains we've had and all of the major STAR TREK figures we've had, and we'd have a huge, massive encounter. That would have been cool. I think everyone was assuming (that the idea) was a B-4 story, but that had been done. I don't think that was going to happen again in another STAR TREK movie. I think that was just to give some hope for the future. You have to remember that we wrote NEMESIS thinking it was our last movie."

The original report can be found at Sci Fi Pulse.

And to read the full interview, get the latest issue of the Star Trek Magazine at your local newstand.



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RE: So he is back on Nemesis this time! | Report this post to moderator
By: c.p. (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:37:32 on Jan 25, 2005 | Edit History (2)

The script was good. And so was the plot. It was presented badly.

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RE: So he is back on Nemesis this time! by Shano @ 13:03:39 on Jan 25
RE: So he is back on Nemesis this time! by Scorned @ 10:58:30 on Jan 25
    Scorned... by prometheus 59650 @ 13:54:25 on Jan 25
       RE: Scorned... by Scorned @ 22:22:44 on Jan 25

RE: So he is back on Nemesis this time! | Report this post to moderator
By: Sxottlan (Odo's file, contact) @ 23:47:48 on Jan 26, 2005

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The person whom he doesn't want to name is "Roger Ebert". I saw his review for Nemesis and he slammed it not based on the film but on his dislike of Star Trek.

Having just read his review, I got the impression that it was this movie that made him feel like he was through with Trek. He liked all the rest of the movies about as much as most people did. I never got the idea that he "disliked" it in the past. And when so much of the movie was a regurgitation anyway, his criticisms in the review are valid enough. Yeah, simply saying the shields are dropping is hardly an effective storytelling device. Show, don't tell.

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Another reason why movie critics are f'ing useless!

A critic's job is to tell you what they think of something. There's enough resources available that anyone should be able to find a critic that shares a similiar taste in film with them. If you don't feel he convinced you that he didn't like it, then I'd say he failed at it. But since you didn't seem to like it either, why do you care?

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Quote by Spiner:"'Don't go if you already know you're sick of it and then negatively review it.' That's not really fair. That's not a review: 'I'm sick of it.'

Sure it's a review and it's sort of their job to review movies even the ones they know they won't like. You don't think some critics were fans were just as disillusioned with the way the Trek films have been going of late? No critic is objective and I'd prefer it if they weren't to begin with.

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Oh but what about all those people who worship this Ebert doufess! All these people saying that "he knows movies". yeah whatever!

(*shrugs*) He does.

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