Wednesday 31 December 2008

Star Trek

We watched Star Trek Nemesis again the other night.

Really not happy about the way this film wraps up the series.

We know from "All Good Things" how the future of the crew turns out.
Picard goes on to be an Admiral, then Ambassador, then retires.
Crusher marries him, divorces him, keeps the name, and ends up Capain Picard of a medical ship.
Riker becomes Captain of the Enterprise, then an Admiral, and keeps the D as his flagship (adding an extra warp nacelle for some reason).
Data becomes Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.
Worf become Klingon Ambassador.
Troy dies.

So now to Nemesis.

Janeway made Admiral before Picard? How? He was Captain on the Enterprise - THE ship - when she was just a 1st Officer on a Science ship.

Riker gives up on the Enterprise and finally accepts a post as Captain of the Titan.

Data dies.
And don't tell us the Data we see in AGT is B4.

And at the end of the film, Picard is still Captain of the Enterprise, about to go out again, with a new crew. Why is Picard not just promoted to Admiral and Riker takes over the ship, which was supposed to happen all along?

It's like the hint in series one that Wesley ws really Picard's son, which got dropped later on. Picard still nepetises him up the ladder, but for no apparent reason (and don't blame it on the Traveller).

What could have been a satisfying end to the whole series of films was a big let down.

Let's see what the new film - going back to the Kirk, Spock and Bones days with a new young cast will be like.