A DVD REVIEW: STAR TREK - NEMESIS SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION (Paramount)
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A GENERATION'S FINAL JOURNEY BEGINS.
Paramount's Star Trek franchise -- as one of their biggest cash cows -- has had a strange marketing history in terms of home video deployment and development. In VHS incarnation, there was the box set that encompassed the first six films -- from The Motion Picture to The Undiscovered Country (directed by Nicholas Meyer, responsible for the downright awesome Wrath of Khan). But with the transition to Next Generation-based feature films from Generations on, and a sendoff for the original William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy based cast and crew, the studio quickly began whipping up "extended" collections of the Star Trek franchise titles, but it still wasn't complete....they came out with one DVD box set which included just the films that encompassed the original cast -- up until Generations if I am not mistaken; however, with the launch of First Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis, the studio again had to go back and make a more complete set for fans. It is expensive, and it takes up a great deal of real estate on your collection shelf, but the newly released 10-disc box set of all the Star Trek franchise films -- from 1979's The Motion Picture to 2002's Nemesis -- is the ultimate, definitive way to get all the Trek pictures into your collection...whats more, almost all have been packaged in Paramount's "Special Collector's Edition" two disc versions with pretty decent looking video and (especially towards the end of the series) audio tracks -- some with DTS tracks, to boot.
And so I received Star Trek - The Motion Pictures DVD Collection as a gift this past holiday season, as my better half knew this was on my want list, and hey, lets be honest....holidays and birthdays are the best times to get those much-wanted but usually expensive DVD box collections crossed off your want lists, right? The set does indeed take up a ****-load of room on your shelf, what with 10 two-disc DVDs in the box; it is the largest set in my personal collection without a doubt, and pushed my discs to a second shelf for collecting because of its size...but forget all that, because that's not why you're reading this review, to hear about my personal issues.....I had always been a big fan of the original cast and crew of the Trek films (and original TV show) -- especially Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan which I still think is one of the best science fiction projects ever made to date. But the more I watched First Contact and Nemesis, not to mention the crossover period in Generations, the more I came to appreciate the Next Generation crew, the Enterprise D & E and the high-tech weaponry used on the Federation starships of that generation (the only film I wont watch from that batch of Next Generation-based titles is Insurrection which I thought was downright vomit-inducing).
I had begun watching these, title by title, and reviewing them for other sites as I went along, but I simply ran out of steam after Wrath of Khan; the reviews were absolutely exhaustive and detailed, to the point they simply took up too much bandwidth, and I realized there was little chance I was going to get around to reviewing all 10 titles in the collection thoroughly, simply because of time and schedule restraints. But I finally sat down to watch, in their entirety, First Contact (which I'll get a review up for you fine folks at Club Polk as soon as I can) and Nemesis last night, both part of Paramount's Widescreen Collection and both the aforementioned Special Collector's Edition two-disc versions. What stands out in my mind most clearly from last night's viewing session in my home theater is 2002's Nemesis, so let's take a closer look at that...
I missed this in theaters in 2002; at that point, I had kind of lost interest in Star Trek up on the big screen, and in many ways, it did seem like the producers were desperately grasping for anything to make a film about based on the Next Generation characters as it was supposed to usher in a new Trek format probably oriented towards one of the spinoff shows like Deep Space Nine or Voyager (a major motion picture based on these shows hasnt happened yet, and probably wont, according to Paramount). Nemesis is actually a pretty good Trek, with a pretty scary villain -- along the lines of a Khan Noonian Singh (The Wrath of Khan) or General Chang (The Undiscovered Country) -- but the problem is it just gets so damn blurry and utterly unnecessarily confusing in many spots; it seems after Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his crew of the new Enterprise E (it seems every single commander of this ship is eager to blow it up when getting in over their head with an enemy; Kirk did it in The Search for Spock and Picard did it in Generations and almost again in Nemesis; this gets a bit tiring after awhile...arent Starfleet captains trained to do better than this when faced with an enemy?) finished stopping the Borg from assimilating Earth of the past and stopping First Contact, and then did whatever the hell they did in the ridiculously boring Insurrection, they have been made aware of a new leader of the Romulan Empire, but this alien is not of the Romulan race. After a marriage between First Officer Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Ship's Counselor Troi (a sexy Marina Sirtis), the Enterprise receives orders from Starfleet to investigate what is going on over on Romulus, as this new "leader" wishes to open communications and relations with the Federation. However, this new leader of the Romulans (played by Tom Hardy) is actually a clone of Picard -- using his DNA, he had been created (dont ask; this all gets so utterly confusing) and he has a secret plan which is really quite simple but director Stuart Baird and producers simply make it more confusing than it has to be: he wants to destroy Earth. Hardy appears as a bald-headed Picard look-alike, the only problem is....aside from the baldness, there is little similarity between them. What is the point of the cloning plot? Why does Hardy begin to change as the film goes on and his ship is doing battle with the Enterprise? Why do his facial features transform, including his eyes and vein-like structures on his face, as we go along? It's never really made clear. What saves this film are some very cool space battle sequences between Hardy's ultra-advanced ship and the Enterprise E, although some of that gets head-shaking as well; why does the Enterprise, the toughest, strongest and most battle-ready starship in Starfleet's arsenal, constantly get whipped during space battles with other ships, in which their shields are broken through, or something goes wrong to the point that the ship must be destroyed or separated? There is a point during the battle with Hardy's ship that Picard is told the Enterprise has exhausted all their "quantum torpedoes" (their main weapon) and there is only 20 percent of phaser power left; why should such a powerful starship ever be put in this predicament? The only way Picard sees a way out of this is to actually physically ram his ship into Hardy's, which he does, but this doesnt cripple Hardy's vessel as well as he planned. So, in other words, the Enterprise is out of torpedoes and phasers, so let's ram the ship into another? Give me a break.
If you watch closely, you will see where Nemesis borrows heavily from other Trek films; there is the political overtone between the Federation and Romulan Empire as seen in the Klingon politics in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; there is also the end sequence, where the android Data sacrifices himself to blow up Hardy's ship which is emanating poisonous radiation (like Spock did in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) so Picard and the Enterprise crew could escape...what pissed me off most though was this tendency for Picard to blow up the Enterprise E at the first sign of their defeat; his answer to if Starfleet will build another one? "There are plenty of letters left in the alphabet..." I mean, come on. Every time something goes wrong, this guy is ready to surrender or blow up the ship, as if Starfleet will keep building him a new one...I guess they will, as we had the Enterprise A-E. He separated the discus part of the ship and blew up the rest in Generations (well, Riker did, right?) and then was ready to do it again when the Borg took over the Enterprise E in First Contact; now, he was just about ready to do it again -- a few times -- during Nemesis. This is something Kirk (William Shatner) would have never done unless under extreme circumstances like when he was desperate for revenge on the Klingons in The Search for Spock.
Paramount's Star Trek franchise -- as one of their biggest cash cows -- has had a strange marketing history in terms of home video deployment and development. In VHS incarnation, there was the box set that encompassed the first six films -- from The Motion Picture to The Undiscovered Country (directed by Nicholas Meyer, responsible for the downright awesome Wrath of Khan). But with the transition to Next Generation-based feature films from Generations on, and a sendoff for the original William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy based cast and crew, the studio quickly began whipping up "extended" collections of the Star Trek franchise titles, but it still wasn't complete....they came out with one DVD box set which included just the films that encompassed the original cast -- up until Generations if I am not mistaken; however, with the launch of First Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis, the studio again had to go back and make a more complete set for fans. It is expensive, and it takes up a great deal of real estate on your collection shelf, but the newly released 10-disc box set of all the Star Trek franchise films -- from 1979's The Motion Picture to 2002's Nemesis -- is the ultimate, definitive way to get all the Trek pictures into your collection...whats more, almost all have been packaged in Paramount's "Special Collector's Edition" two disc versions with pretty decent looking video and (especially towards the end of the series) audio tracks -- some with DTS tracks, to boot.
And so I received Star Trek - The Motion Pictures DVD Collection as a gift this past holiday season, as my better half knew this was on my want list, and hey, lets be honest....holidays and birthdays are the best times to get those much-wanted but usually expensive DVD box collections crossed off your want lists, right? The set does indeed take up a ****-load of room on your shelf, what with 10 two-disc DVDs in the box; it is the largest set in my personal collection without a doubt, and pushed my discs to a second shelf for collecting because of its size...but forget all that, because that's not why you're reading this review, to hear about my personal issues.....I had always been a big fan of the original cast and crew of the Trek films (and original TV show) -- especially Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan which I still think is one of the best science fiction projects ever made to date. But the more I watched First Contact and Nemesis, not to mention the crossover period in Generations, the more I came to appreciate the Next Generation crew, the Enterprise D & E and the high-tech weaponry used on the Federation starships of that generation (the only film I wont watch from that batch of Next Generation-based titles is Insurrection which I thought was downright vomit-inducing).
I had begun watching these, title by title, and reviewing them for other sites as I went along, but I simply ran out of steam after Wrath of Khan; the reviews were absolutely exhaustive and detailed, to the point they simply took up too much bandwidth, and I realized there was little chance I was going to get around to reviewing all 10 titles in the collection thoroughly, simply because of time and schedule restraints. But I finally sat down to watch, in their entirety, First Contact (which I'll get a review up for you fine folks at Club Polk as soon as I can) and Nemesis last night, both part of Paramount's Widescreen Collection and both the aforementioned Special Collector's Edition two-disc versions. What stands out in my mind most clearly from last night's viewing session in my home theater is 2002's Nemesis, so let's take a closer look at that...
I missed this in theaters in 2002; at that point, I had kind of lost interest in Star Trek up on the big screen, and in many ways, it did seem like the producers were desperately grasping for anything to make a film about based on the Next Generation characters as it was supposed to usher in a new Trek format probably oriented towards one of the spinoff shows like Deep Space Nine or Voyager (a major motion picture based on these shows hasnt happened yet, and probably wont, according to Paramount). Nemesis is actually a pretty good Trek, with a pretty scary villain -- along the lines of a Khan Noonian Singh (The Wrath of Khan) or General Chang (The Undiscovered Country) -- but the problem is it just gets so damn blurry and utterly unnecessarily confusing in many spots; it seems after Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his crew of the new Enterprise E (it seems every single commander of this ship is eager to blow it up when getting in over their head with an enemy; Kirk did it in The Search for Spock and Picard did it in Generations and almost again in Nemesis; this gets a bit tiring after awhile...arent Starfleet captains trained to do better than this when faced with an enemy?) finished stopping the Borg from assimilating Earth of the past and stopping First Contact, and then did whatever the hell they did in the ridiculously boring Insurrection, they have been made aware of a new leader of the Romulan Empire, but this alien is not of the Romulan race. After a marriage between First Officer Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Ship's Counselor Troi (a sexy Marina Sirtis), the Enterprise receives orders from Starfleet to investigate what is going on over on Romulus, as this new "leader" wishes to open communications and relations with the Federation. However, this new leader of the Romulans (played by Tom Hardy) is actually a clone of Picard -- using his DNA, he had been created (dont ask; this all gets so utterly confusing) and he has a secret plan which is really quite simple but director Stuart Baird and producers simply make it more confusing than it has to be: he wants to destroy Earth. Hardy appears as a bald-headed Picard look-alike, the only problem is....aside from the baldness, there is little similarity between them. What is the point of the cloning plot? Why does Hardy begin to change as the film goes on and his ship is doing battle with the Enterprise? Why do his facial features transform, including his eyes and vein-like structures on his face, as we go along? It's never really made clear. What saves this film are some very cool space battle sequences between Hardy's ultra-advanced ship and the Enterprise E, although some of that gets head-shaking as well; why does the Enterprise, the toughest, strongest and most battle-ready starship in Starfleet's arsenal, constantly get whipped during space battles with other ships, in which their shields are broken through, or something goes wrong to the point that the ship must be destroyed or separated? There is a point during the battle with Hardy's ship that Picard is told the Enterprise has exhausted all their "quantum torpedoes" (their main weapon) and there is only 20 percent of phaser power left; why should such a powerful starship ever be put in this predicament? The only way Picard sees a way out of this is to actually physically ram his ship into Hardy's, which he does, but this doesnt cripple Hardy's vessel as well as he planned. So, in other words, the Enterprise is out of torpedoes and phasers, so let's ram the ship into another? Give me a break.
If you watch closely, you will see where Nemesis borrows heavily from other Trek films; there is the political overtone between the Federation and Romulan Empire as seen in the Klingon politics in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; there is also the end sequence, where the android Data sacrifices himself to blow up Hardy's ship which is emanating poisonous radiation (like Spock did in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) so Picard and the Enterprise crew could escape...what pissed me off most though was this tendency for Picard to blow up the Enterprise E at the first sign of their defeat; his answer to if Starfleet will build another one? "There are plenty of letters left in the alphabet..." I mean, come on. Every time something goes wrong, this guy is ready to surrender or blow up the ship, as if Starfleet will keep building him a new one...I guess they will, as we had the Enterprise A-E. He separated the discus part of the ship and blew up the rest in Generations (well, Riker did, right?) and then was ready to do it again when the Borg took over the Enterprise E in First Contact; now, he was just about ready to do it again -- a few times -- during Nemesis. This is something Kirk (William Shatner) would have never done unless under extreme circumstances like when he was desperate for revenge on the Klingons in The Search for Spock.
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There is also a silly, unnecessary subplot of Data and Picard finding an android that is Data's prototype on some planet, which Data calls his brother; the android comes into play later as after the real Data sacrifices himself to blow up Hardy's radiation-infested ship, this new android takes his place on the Enterprise E. But the whole way they find this android on the planet is just cheesily unnecessary, as Data, Picard and Worf ride around the planet on some dune buggy vehicle that they drove out of a shuttlecraft until they stumble upon the signal that the android is giving off. At the end of the picture, it seems the Federation and Romulans are going to make peace (as the Klingons and Federation do at the end of The Undiscovered Country) as two Romulan battleships appear to help the Enterprise fight Hardy's powerful ship. It was a decent way to end the franchise for Paramount, as at the end we see Riker moving on from First Officer to Picard to his own command of a starship...and a decent way to send off the motion picture adventures of the Next Generation crew...but between the confusing "connection" Hardy has to Picard's character as his "clone" and his transformation throughout the film physically, I just dont know what to make of Nemesis at the end of the day. It is surely in no way a Wrath of Khan but it is not nearly as bad as Insurrection or The Final Frontier.
As previously reported, Paramount has made Star Trek - Nemesis available in a Special Collector's Edition with two discs and the standard large housing all the titles come in with this DVD box set of the Trek films; Paramount has long been a studio I did not support being a DVD reviewer as I place critical judgment analysis on the audio tracks of these discs...example after example, Paramount has let me down, as I have found their Dolby Digital soundtracks on most of their titles to be weak, anemic or just plain forgettable; the studio has little experience with DTS encoding, and they're not a big supporter of the format, which gets my thumbs-down right there. DTS tracks can be found on the studio's rerelease of The Hunt for Red October, Titanic and some other random titles (including the latter titles in this Star Trek collection), but the results are not spectacular nonetheless. Another major cash cow in Paramount's stalls, the Friday the 13th franchise, was in recent times given a box set collection treatment for fans dubbed From Crystal Lake to Manhattan, but the audio and video transfers on that set were nothing to write home about. The mono tracks on parts 1-V were horrible, and the "Dolby Surround" tracks on the rest were not that much better -- even the 5.1 track on The New Blood sounded bad.
DISC 1
VIDEO SPECIFICATIONS:
WIDESCREEN VERSION ENHANCED FOR 16:9 TVs
Paramount, like Warner Brothers, is a studio infamous for doing this on their DVD covers -- that is, not supplying the aspect ratio the film was framed and shot in for DVD purpose and simply stating "widescreen version" and "the black bars are normal...." Give me a break. The transfer for Nemesis is approximately 2:35:1 on this Special Collector's Edition, give or take, and looks great from what I could tell on my 55" Mitsubishi. Letterboxing was appropriate, and as with any massive film franchise collection, the quality of the video transfers got better as the films in the Trek series went along. Lets put it this way: Nemesis looked a HELL of a lot better than The Motion Picture, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock or even The Final Frontier; ot seemed like Paramount didnt give much love or attention to those transfers at all. Of course, being from 2002 and those films being from the 1980s, Nemesis should have looked much better. Colors seem accurate and there was very little grain to speak of. Only one scene bothered me on the disc; the part where Data, Picard and Worf are driving the dune buggy on that dusty planet takes on a very unnatural look -- as if there is a TON of shimmering affecting the scene making everything appear glimmery and fake; its hard to describe, but it's there. There is way too much brightness during this scene, and it was probably the way it was filmed, not the transfer's fault, in defense of Paramount.
AUDIO SPECIFICATIONS:
ENGLISH DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1, ENGLISH DOLBY DIGITAL 2.0, ENGLISH DTS, FRENCH DOLBY DIGITAL 2.0; AUDIO COMMENTARY BY DIRECTOR STUART BAIRD, AUDIO COMMENTARY BY PRODUCER RICK BERMAN; ENGLISH SUBTITLES, SPANISH SUBTITLES
You have to get used to this: if there is a DTS track on a DVD, I will always skip the Dolby Digital variant (if its also available) and go straight for the DTS mix as thats what I prefer on any given day. Im a HUGE DTS supporter, and those who cannot hear the difference through a surround setup need to get their ears checked. It's there. Paramount had included Dolby Digital 5.1 (and 2.0) surround tracks on all the Trek titles up until Generations, where they began to drop DTS mixes on them as well -- the results have been a mixed bag. The Dolby tracks on The Motion Picture - The Undiscovered Country were not the most engaging you'll ever hear, but the DTS tracks on the remaining films in the collection didnt really up that excitement all that much; they come across as highly-polished-sounding Dolby Digital mixes to be honest. However, once heating up, the DTS mix on the last film in the collection, Nemesis, gets mighty aggressive -- to the point that when the Enterprise and the killer ship at the end are battling it out, you'll really think those ships are blowing each other up in your living room if your system is up high enough. Wallops of wall-shaking LFE (the best in the series) accompanies the sequences where the ships are ramming into each other, and some others....aggressive use of the surrounds accompany any time the action heats up on the screen, like when characters are firing phasers at each other or the ships are exploding and blowing up. The soundstage gets very impressive here -- especially for a Paramount release -- and the track had me sitting up and taking notice more than a few times, really immersing me in the experience. The biggest problem with the track -- and its a problem Im finding in almost all DVD releases today -- is the horrendous volume decibel differences between the dialogue stem of the track and the action sequences. The voices during dialogue-only scenes almost get hushed through the CSi center channel in comparison to the bombarding explosions, phaser fire, etc. rocking the other channels.
The best-sounding Trek in the series, without a doubt, but it's still no War of the Worlds (2005) in DTS..... :eek:
DISC 2
-PRODUCTION: Nemesis Revisited; New Frontiers: Stuart Baird on Directing Nemesis; Storyboarding the Action; Red Alert! Shooting the Action of Nemesis; Build and Rebuild; Four-Wheeling in the Final Frontier; Shinzon Screen Test
-THE STAR TREK UNIVERSE: A Star Trek Family's Final Journey; A Bold Vision of the Final Frontier; The Enterprise E
-THE ROMULAN EMPIRE: Romulan Lore; Shinzon & the Viceroy; Romulan Design; The Romulan Senate; The Scimtar
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-ARCHIVES: Storyboards; Production; Props
-TRAILERS: Teaser; Theatrical
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Anybody hear theyre coming out with another Star Trek movie? I heard something about it on the news this afternoon.polkaudio sound quality competitor since 2005
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MacLeod wrote:Anybody hear theyre coming out with another Star Trek movie? I heard something about it on the news this afternoon.
Just this afternoon? Wow; I had heard that there was possibly going to be another Trek film soon based on Voyager or Deep Space Nine but Paramount temporarily pulled the plug. -
millerman 3732 wrote:star trek sux, STAR WARS RULES
Wow; thanks for your insightful input! I must disagree in that I have always been a closet Trekkie!
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If you want to see just how serious some people take this stuff...do a google search for who would win a battle, Star Wars or Star Trek. Also try could the Empire kick the Federations ****.. I did that one night while just surfing the internet, and I was amazed at the detailed web pages devoted to this topic. The smart money is on the Empire!Jerry
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I believe there are webpages devoted to "who would win," no doubt there; there are countless fan pages devoted to Jason vs Freddy vs Slash vs Michael Myers out there....and who would win a giant fight....Jesus....
But dont count Trek out just yet....there is an absolute plethora of fans and convention junkies that support the Federation and their legion of planets, not to mention worship at the feet of Starfleet engineers who build these phaser firing starships, or as the Klingons would put it, "Federation Battlecruisers"...
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Nerds...
:rolleyes: There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin -
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I vote Empire. The Federation is too bureaucratic. Plus you can't beat the FORCE. This is just one dork's opinion of course.My work in progress:
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Okay people....lol....this was only supposed to be a review of the Nemesis DVD....
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Pablo wrote:Pacard would kick Luke Skywalkers ****!
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OnkyoFanatic wrote:I believe there are webpages devoted to "who would win," no doubt there; there are countless fan pages devoted to Jason vs Freddy vs Slash vs Michael Myers out there....and who would win a giant fight....Jesus....
well at least we know who won the Alien vs. Predator fight -
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I don't know about that, the predator had help from puny humans. He/she? would probably have lost otherwise.My work in progress:
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You know, speaking of Alien vs Predator, I was utterly confused in that film....it really dissapointed me...not nearly as much as Freddy vs Jason, but almost.....I mean, what the f---ck....what was the premise? The predators had been on this planet hunting the aliens before man was here? Couldnt they come up with a better way for these two creatures to meet somehow? And, I dont really think the aliens looked much like Ridley Scott's original sci fi masterpiece at all in Alien vs Predator; was there a clear victor at the end? I dont remember...
