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By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) If you want proof trek had run its course in the Rick Berman/Brannon Braga era, look no further than Star Trek: Nemesis. Seriously, if you look any further, you will have to watch episodes of ENT. That show was not fit for human consumption.

By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) The change does make for a much different Picard than in the television series. I can appreciate some fans do not like it. In the series, Picard was unwilling to use Hugh as a genocidal weapon against the Borg even after they had done so many terrible things to him. But in First Contact--heck, in...

By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) The reasons Star Trek: Generations falls flat are almost unmanageably numerous to list. The best way to sum it up succinctly is to say it tried to copy all the elements of Star Trek III: the Search for Spock except for the one element which made that movie decent--Spock.

By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) In spite of the budget constraints, ILM was back doing the special effects. It is a fortunate thing, too. The Effects of TFF often appeared to be done on some computer nerd’s Amiga. That certainly would not have flown for the climactic space battle in TUC. Speakig of which, Gene Roddenberry jum...

By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) To finish up the review, while I will not say it is a problem here, “Frame of Mind” established a genre of Trek episodes in which we do not learn until the last few minutes that what we have been watching up until that point is not real. We know something odd is going on as Riker bounces from perfor...