Generations has long been my most detested of them all, it doesn't even a good premise of any kind. The entire thing is a giant nonsensical plot hole, even more both 09 and ID's plots which could be tweaked and fixed. There's no fixing GEN unless you decide that everything that happens after it is Picard still in The Nexus. The funniest part is that on the DVD commentary, Braga and Moore admit that they couldn't find an answer for why Picard couldn't go to literally any point and stop Malcom McDowell, he didn't need Kirk at all, let alone to go back and face a possible losing scenario. But they believed the rest of the garbage made up for it and compared it to The Terminator's plot hole. And were especially excited about crashing the D.
Nemesis completely fakes you out because it's got the best opening of the films:
And right after this intro it goes to the Riker Wedding and then to the dune buggy scenes. While Janeway exposition explains what exactly happened in the intro and why we should care.
Tom Hardy has some minor decent scenes with Patrick Stewart at the one point, I think they have dinner or something, and Shinzon basically explains why he's such a dick and Picard is like okay this is obviously a trap because otherwise we won't have a movie so I'll be going then.
Luckily you can totally zone out until they get to the battle, enjoy that and then totally zone out again as if this had just been a high budget episode:
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Until watching this I forgot that Shinzon and Picard have that second conversation and Shinzon's like "you're completely right and there's really no down side to me just taking over this Empire BUT THE SCRIPT SAYS FUCK YOU DAD ALSO I'M DYING BUT ALSO FUCK YOU AGAIN DAD, ER CLONE, ER WEAK ME"
Even in glorious 480p YouTube I'm loving those shield hits.
And I still like that firing in a circle to locate them and the fact that they actually try and turn the ship's weakside away. Even after II pointed it out directly as a failure of Khan's tactics, Trek still spent the rest of its history having everyone lining up the same way and fighting on a 2D plane for the most part.
I like how the Diana psychic connection to Ron Pearlman is basically cut out of the film, but then that's the whole hook they use for this stupid scene where she locates them through the cloak.
Speaking of Diana, I like the short lingering shot after Picard orders the Diana Maneuver of the two ships wedged together. A better film would have sat on that for a bit longer instead of jumping back to Riker fisticuffs in a jeffries tube. They do a longer lingering version of the shot after Shinzon rips the two of them apart and with it what's left of the movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7G8cEgiupg"Damage report."
"Disruptors are down, and the cloaking device is lodged in the Enterprise's hull."
"What about the extremely delicate superweapon?"
"...Surprisingly, still operational, sir."
"Excellent. Activate it while I double over in the horrible pain that defines my existence."
"Yes, sir. Initiating Edgelord Array firing sequence."
Also, I love how many Trek battles have a moment where the person in command says "let's do an obvious trap" and someone else goes "WHAT?!?" and then the enemy ship falls for it. Hell, it's even in a bunch of TNG episodes.
VI as a part of its determination to be the best film subverts it by Kirk ordering a physical backing off just for confusion, Christopher Plummer going "what?!?" and Kirk going "why did
they stop?" then Plummer immediate fires at them again and blows a hole through the ship. VI
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I love how the front of the bridge is blown off (because the Federation puts their bridges right up on top of the saucers except in the Defiant) and Picard just sorta looks at that dude getting sucked out and goes "medical teams to the bridge" like that wasn't a totally crazy thing that shouldn't happen so easily to ships that travel at above light speeds constantly and just fought a major scale war for three plus years.
