That might just be the ultimate Kirk moment, and getting there is worth a couple of hours of janky runaround.Ī fairly catastrophic failure both critically and commercially, Nemesis did what no Trek film had done before: killed the franchise stone dead for almost a decade. Fundamentally, this is a film where Captain Kirk meets God and is unimpressed.
And yet, while the separate parts might not add up to a cohesive whole, there's enough going on that some of it works. Spock suddenly has a renegade brother we've never heard of before. An impressive Dune-like desert sequence gives way to a knock-off Mos Eisley bar scene. On one level this is a classic Roddenberry concept about exploring the universe and investigating its creation, but that sits alongside Klingon-Romulan-Human politicking and moments of comedy: Kirk and Bones ribbing Spock round a campfire, or Scotty knocking himself unconscious because he doesn't know his way around the new Enterprise. The results are, let's say, uneven: a collision of separate stories that don't really mesh, with some jarring tonal shifts. After two films directed by Nimoy, Shatner stepped up for Star Trek V, but it was a troubled production, beset by rewrites, re-shoots and industrial action.
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