Tobar said:

Welcome to the forum! =)

So does that mean Nemesis is among the best of the franchise? Trek 09 was basically just a rehash of the last Trek film that had come out with a layer of stomping on continuity thrown on top with a sprinkling of style. Though it was well paced.

The difference between Trek 09 and Nemesis was that the "Romulan" villains were the primary focus, whereas in 09 the Romulan villains were not the focus of the film. Both sets of villains fail at being compelling characters, and fail at being an insurmountable threat to the heroes. But since the 09 film is focused on being an origin story for an entirely new parallel universe, the baddie doesn't matter that much. It ends on an uplifting note of exploration and new beginnings, in contrast to Nemesis, which ends with Picard killing everyone in the forward decks of his ship and murdering a terminally ill young man while Data sacrifices himself in the process (which needn't have happened if Picard had thought to take the portable transporter with him in the first place). There's no lesson to be learned, no sense of excitement or accomplishment. It's just depressing.