Star Trek: Nemesis
Star Trek: Nemesis is the tenth Star Trek movie and the fourth and final film based on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation . The cost of producing the film was about $ 60 million and grossed about $ 67.3 million at the box office. The film opened in German cinemas on January 16, 2003.
action
After an attack on the Senate of Romulus, the home planet of the Romulans , in which the majority of the senators are killed, Shinzon , an inhabitant of the inhospitable brother planet Remus , seizes power in the Romulan Empire.
While the crew of the Enterprise-E is on the way to Betazed to celebrate the wedding between Troi and Riker there after the ceremony on the Enterprise, the sensors from a planet in Federation territory, near the border to the neutral zone, capture positronic Signals that point to an artificial form of life that should be similar to Data . There Picard, Data and Worf finally find individual android parts and have them assembled on the Enterprise. This android called B-4 and proves to be a prototype of Data (in English there is here a play on words , since B-4 = be-four as before dt (. Previously pronounced)).
The Enterprise then receives a transmission from Admiral Janeway, which informs Picard that Starfleet Command is sending the Enterprise on a diplomatic mission to Romulus because Shinzon has requested a Federation envoy and the Enterprise is the next ship.
There the crew meets Shinzon, who reveals that he is not a Reman or Romulan, but a clone of Jean-Luc Picard. It was created as part of a Romulan project to replace the captain of the Enterprise (Picard) in order to have a spy in the heart of the Federation and infiltrate Starfleet. The project was eventually dropped and Shinzon was sent to work on Remus as a slave laborer. Shinzon pretends to get to know his "role model" Picard better and to want to make peace with the Federation .
However, he pursues his own goals and beams Picard onto his ship against his will, because he actually needs Picard's body cells - whose DNA is logically identical to his - in order to survive. His ship Scimitar - a heavily rebuilt and improved Reman spaceship and tactically superior to the Enterprise - is equipped with a thalaron matrix, a weapon that generates thalaron radiation that is deadly to all forms of life. The Romulus Senate was obliterated with a smaller version; the scimitar's thalarone matrix is capable of wiping out life on an entire planet. Having become megalomaniac and in order to free himself from the political shadow of his "DNA donor" Picard, Shinzon wants to change the universe forever. So he intends to wipe out the earth with this weapon and later conquer the Federation for the Romulan Empire.
Shinzon programmed B-4 to control it. B-4 therefore serves Shinzon as a henchman and spy on the Enterprise - without even knowing it. Since La Forge notices this in time, Data succeeds in taking B-4's place and saving Picard.
The Enterprise eventually flees towards Federation territory, where other ships are already waiting for reinforcements. In a fog that blocks long-range communications, Shinzon's ship attacks her, disabling the warp drive.
A fight ensues in which the Enterprise is supported by two Romulan warbirds (Valdore-class), whose commanders appear to be part of the opposition to Shinzon. Shinzon's ship is far superior. After the warbirds have been eliminated, the shields of the Enterprise have been almost inoperative and the last photon torpedoes have been fired, the Enterprise finally rams Shinzon's ship head-on as a last resort, both ships being badly damaged, but the Scimitar's primary weapon remains operational and is now supposed to attack the Enterprise are used.
Captain Picard is finally beamed onto Shinzon's ship, with the Enterprise's transports being destroyed by overload. Data therefore jumps across space to Shinzon's ship.
There is a showdown between Picard and Shinzon on the Scimitar, with the latter being killed. The weapon is activated and would destroy the Enterprise in a few seconds. Data, who has since reached Picard, sends him back to the Enterprise with the prototype of a mobile place-to-place transporter and sacrifices himself by firing a phaser at the weapon and thus triggering an explosion, the Shinzon's ship and him completely destroyed itself. At the end it is suggested that B-4 could take the place of Data, but due to its lower level of development it cannot initially be an equivalent substitute for Data.
Origin background
- Whoopi Goldberg is - traditionally - not mentioned in the credits.
- Hollywood director Bryan Singer makes a brief appearance. He appears as a Starfleet Officer on the bridge of the Enterprise.
- As director Stuart Baird said in a "Making of", Brent Spiner decided to let Data die, in agreement with the scriptwriters. Spiner justified this decision with the fact that he had enjoyed playing the role of the android all these years, but it was difficult to cover up the traces of his (Spiner's) age with make-up. According to Roddenberry's vision at the beginning of the TV series, Data should never age. At first Spiner and the scriptwriters wondered whether it was possible that Data might get older after all and that this could be incorporated into the film, but then it was decided that Data would be dead. Spiner was given a back door for a comeback by incorporating the data transfer scene between Data and B-4 and thus making a kind of “backup” of data. However, Spiner rejected a comeback from the start.
- The official slogan for the film was "The last journey of a generation begins".
- Kate Mulgrew appears on screen in the role of Admiral Kathryn Janeway.
criticism
The criticism's reaction to Star Trek: Nemesis was mostly negative. Of the 158 English-language reviews that Rotten Tomatoes has listed, only 37% were rated positive. The film critic Roger Ebert was disappointed and closed his review with the words that Star Trek used to be “pretty grandiose”, but now “a copy of a copy of a copy”. For the lexicon of international films , Star Trek: Nemesis is a "science fiction adventure staged without recognizable or even comprehensible enthusiasm", which both the "attractiveness of the images" and the "persuasiveness of the script" and the "performance of some actors" criminally neglect. The rating on the website of Cinema is more positive , where the film is classified as “better than The Uprising , but weaker than The First Contact ”. Cinema criticizes "a badly talked-out first half", which, however, is followed by an "all the more furious finale".
Awards and nominations
In 2003 the film was nominated for the Saturn Award in four categories, including Best Science Fiction Film , but could not win a prize. Also in 2003, the film won a Young Artist Award in the Best Family Feature Film - Fantasy category .
Novels
- In 2004, a nine-volume Star Trek novel series was published in the USA , which tells of the crew of the Enterprise-E in the one year period before the start of the film. Eight of them have a title starting with A Time to .... The novels have not yet appeared in German.
- The novel version of the film was published in German by Heyne Verlag in 2002 , with number 77 in the Star Trek: The Next Generation series .
- The novels, which take place after the plot of the film, contain several novel and cross-series storylines, about which the article Star Trek (literary sequel after Nemesis) gives an overview.
- At the end of the film, Riker is given command of the star fleet spaceship USS Titan. The Star Trek: Titan series tells of this spaceship and its new crew .
- In addition to Titan , the series of novels Star Trek: The Next Generation continues the plot of the TV series based on Nemesis . After Riker's departure from Titan, Worf becomes the new first officer ( → main article: Star Trek: The Next Generation (literary sequel after Nemesis) ).
Web links
- Star Trek: Nemesis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Star Trek: Nemesis in the online movie database
- Star Trek: Nemesis atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Star Trek: Nemesis in the Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha
- Discussion of the film music
- Movie review
Individual evidence
- ↑ STAR TREK: NEMESIS ( English ) www.boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved June 28, 2009.
- ↑ Berman to "The Last Journey of a Generation Begins" . September 14, 2002. Retrieved June 22, 2012.
- ↑ Star Trek - Nemesis ( English ) In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved January 2, 2017.
- ↑ Roger Ebert: Star Trek: Nemesis ( English ) December 13, 2002. Retrieved January 2, 2017: "Star Trek was kind of terrific once, but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy."
- ↑ Star Trek: Nemesis . In: Lexicon of International Films . Two thousand and one. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
- ↑ Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) . In: Cinema . Retrieved January 2, 2017.
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