…where nearly every sci-fi movie has gone before.
We watched Star Trek: Nemesis this afternoon. I think this is supposed to be their (The Next Generations) last movie together. After 4 of these I think they believe it is time to hang up the phasers and tricorders. I second that emotion, its about time.
When watching this movie I couldn’t help but feel that I’d seen this all before. To go along with the bald face copying of other movies: Data walking Picard down the hall as a prisoner – Star Wars. Ditto the jumping down a little chute to escape a laser battle.
We have also lapsed into the standard movie cliches of good guys in white and bad guys in black, even down to drinking from white or black tea cups. The bad guys fire 6,000 laser blasts and only manage to create sparks and charred walls, while the good guys fire 6 shots and kill 12 baddies.
Why is it that we can pick out 6 distinct little pieces of an android from light-years away, but when several bad guys beam aboard our spacecraft we have to grab some guns and search around corridors for them?
I used to be a Trekkie back in the day. I watched the Original Series when they first came on and later lived on reruns. And enjoyed the movies (even the lame-o first one) until about the 6th one. I watched all the ST:TNG episodes and now have semi-enjoyed their movies. But please no more.