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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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By: prometheus 59650 (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 13:54:25 on Jan 25, 2005

...have to agree on all points.


Hell, the release date alone probably cost the film at least 20 million from the final tally. Whoever thought throwing a mediocre outing into the middle of Potter, Bond and LoTR should have been fired the Monday after opening weekend.

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