Review of Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) by Vince K — 16 Aug 2009

They killed off Data, OH NO! I thought my Data autograph would be worth more now, since he's dead, but then I remembered he's a fictional character. The movie starts off great - Commander Riker and Deanna Troi get married, Riker is going off to be captain of the Titan, and Data is to be Picard's new #1.

Sadly, we never get to see that happen, because these Romulans start their shenanigans, and THEY KILL OFF DATA! The Romulans are being led by a clone of Captain Picard, who looks nothing like him, but they just shaved the actor's head and were all like, "Look, he's totally like Patrick Stewart now!" It was cool to see Captain Janeway, now admiral, tell Picard to go to Romulus, but the fucking bitch actually puts into motion events that KILLED OFF DATA! Then there's the retarded brother of Data they find, called B4, who Data puts his memory onto, but he is inferior to Data in every way.

It's obvious if there was going to be a sequel that the tardbot would somehow BECOME Data (that actually happened in the comic books), but sadly this would be the last Next Generation film. They did that with Spock when he was killed off (Spock put his Katra onto McCoy, who later gave it back to Spock).

Data's death in contrast to Spock's was unemotional, almost meaningless (I cried like a little bitch when Spock died). I found out during the credits that Brent Spiner contributed to the story, so maybe he came up with this idea to kill off Data (he always said in interviews because of aging he wouldn't be able to play this character forever).

If I had known he was behind the death of Data I would've punched him in the face last week when I met him at the convention. Good movie, not as bad as everyone says, except for the part where they KILLED OFF DATA!