Warning!!! Warning!!! Warning!!! This may contain spoilers!!! !!! !!!
Star Trek: Nemesis has good production values, a great antagonist, and good action sequences. My problem with the movie was that it left too many unanswered questions. How did Schinzon take the leadership of the Remans? How did he lead them to the position we see in the beginning of the film when the Romulan Senate is considering an alliance? They mention that he was a commander for the Romulans in the Dominion war, but wasn't he cast into the mines to die? How did he then get a high military commission? How was he able, using from what we see to be only one ship, however formidable, to achieve independence from the Romulan Empire, one of the most powerful in the quadrant, when his planet was right in the middle of their system? And speaking of the ship, the Scimitar, how did the Remans, previously confined to mines, where we must assume that their education was not a priority, able to build the largest and most heavily armed ship ever to come out of the alpha quadrant, with the most advanced cloaking system in existence, speed that surpasses the very fast Enterprise E, and a new form of weapon that uses an unknown energy form, all in secret no less? If they didn't suspect he was going to try to wipe out Earth, why did the Romulan Fleet commanders think that he was the right one to lead them into war with the Federation? Why does Schinzon want to destroy the Federation and not the Romulans? What were the powers that the Viceroy used with Schinzon to help his pain, and to probe Diana Troi? Why did Dina Meyer's Romulan character, who apparently knows Schinzon's plan, is able to nonchalantly assasinate the entire Romulan senate and open the door for the invasion of Romulus, yet later gets cold feet? Is it just because Schinzon wouldn't have sex with her? In which case they are taking the whole woman scorned thing a little too far. Where did Schinzon get B4? How did La Forge and Data, miss his new programming? With transporter technology able to replicate things, even Riker in one TNG episode, why can Data bring only one of those mini transporters with him, also why can't Schinzon, who transported Picard, use his signature to create as many Picards as he wants for his procedure? What was his procedure that seemed to need Picard at some times and not need him at others? Also, (***SPOILER***) why couldn't they replicate data and then reload his memory engrams from B4 like they will probably do in a later movie, if there are more? If the Remans are such formidable warriors, then why was the Viceroy's boarding party so easily neutralized? Why did the Viceroy decide to take a stroll in the jeffrey's tube, what did he care about going mano a mano with Riker? Wasn't Worf in love with Troi once, why isn't he even a little bitter about her getting hitched? How did La Forge go from knowing only the slightest bit about the theoretical radiation weapon in one scene, to knowing exactly how is worked and how long it would take to fire in another? Why wasn't Data, who knew about how the Radiation weapon worked, able to use a remote, or timed explosive to stop it? We've seen phasers set to overload before and he obviously had one with him. Why don't they mention quantum torpedoes in the movie? How could Janeway have outranked Picard? I gave up on voyager a while ago so I guess I could have missed something there. And last but not least, why was the Romulan Fleet, eager to go to war one day and then making historic peace overtures a couple days later? Ok, maybe they decided that destroying earth was a bad idea, but that doesn't explain their later friendliness. As you can see this movie leaves you with a lot unanswered. Even Rambo works on some intellectual level, so it's a bit disappointing when a member of the Star Trek Franchise, which is usually more intelligent than most popular sci-fi, does not. I heard that there is a lot of additional footage was that might explain some of these mysteries. If it did shed light, I think they should have left it in the movie since most of the folks who go to see a Trek film would be willing to sit in the theater indefinitely to get their fix of the Trek universe. Hopefully, the footage will later be released on a DVD version.
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