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Post #57355

Author
oojason
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a Star Trek thread...
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Date created
2-Aug-2004, 1:49 PM
I wonder if the new Editions (Collector's / Special / Director's) of the Trek films have caused a lot of people to be pissed at Paramount for not doing them right at the time...

Nemesis may be interesting in a new longer version - there are reports of around 45mins-1 hour of footage was cut out - the reason why? Berman thinks the movie going public don't like long movies... this in the age of The Matrix, LOTR, and SW all pulling at around 2h30min+

For me the cinematic version of Nem was very choppy and had little in character development, the backstory of recent Trek history ignored, a story which had little credibility (one Reman ship seemed to be the only decent warship in Romulan space?), the dominanace of Data and Picard (AGAIN) on-screen, coupled with the Data cop-out at the end left me disappointed in modern Trek once more.

Maybe a longer version couldn't correct the faults I found above, but would hopefully go someway to making it a more well-rounded film.


For my top 5:-

Wrath of Khan
Voyage Home
Undiscovered Country
First Contact
Motion Picture.


I wish TPTB in Trek would have given Shatner his $300,000 to finish his version of ST:V for DVD a couple of years ago - would have been intriguing to see what changes there were to be made (apparently mostly effects shots towards the end involving 'Rock creatures'). Considering one Trek episode costs around $2million (I think), a fraction of that to finish one the films wouldn't have been that much to give him?