Star Trek Nemesis: Revisiting The Worst Star Trek Movie Ever Made 

I understand the "hate" for this movie, but I still watch and have fun with it

I don’t think it’s the worst Star Trek movie, and while it doesn’t live up to its expectation, there are cool ideas in it

I liked Nemesis. The battle between Enterprise E and the Scimitar were fantastic. The whole movie was entertaining.

If I remember correctly, Paramount did reach out to Nicholas Meyer about directing Nemesis. He agreed, but wanted to do some major rewrites of the script first. Paramount said no, so he said "I'm out!!"

Actually, I liked Enterprise. Too bad they never got a chance to do the Romulan War although there is a book adaptation.

I just never understood the point of killing Data but then he’s not dead because of the clone. Total FU to audience.

Hiring a director who doesnt understand Star Trek is like turning the entire franchise over to a producer who.. Oh wait. Nevermind.😂😂😂

I loved Nemesis but I loved everything related to TNG.

I'm directing my comments directly to Chris Bumbray: you write and narrate superior reviews, and nearly every time. You're a pleasure to learn from, and your honesty doesn't drip with the ego I hear in some reviewers (thankfully not any on this channel). I didn't just find myself agreeing with your points, but I really approved of your use of the clips from Picard. My only complaint: I wish you had more content in this review. It was tantalizingly short. Thank you for always making me feel like my time on this channel is well spent.

The Wrath of khan, has got to be the best Star Trek movie.🍿⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Interesting Stuart Baird has not directed anything since went back to doing what he did best

Nemesis was so bad, they couldn't even get the Romulan Ale joke right. The alliance with them from DS9 two years prior lifted the trade embargo, and made it legal.

Honestly surprised you didn't mention that for its first two seasons, Enterprise didn't even include "Star Trek" in its title -- that didn't come about until season 3! (But, uhhhh, I liked the opening music...) PS - you're mispronouncing Data's name. As he told Pulaski when she did the same, "One is my name; the other is not."

So glad he edited out Wesley. That deleted scene should convince anyone it was a mistake to bring him back. Of course he was supposed to be an immortal space butterfly anyway…

The worst one? The Final Frontier was clearly the worst.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier says…hold my beer.

He might have had a career in directing if he'd been given a (halfway decent) action movie to direct instead of an entry of a huge property that he knew bugger all about and couldn't be bothered to learn (or respect the actors for that matter). Leaving him to do what he does best was probably the right decision regardless though.

I really liked Nemesis. I liked it a heck of a lot more than Insurrection or Final Frontier. And Beyond.

Lol this is the only Star Trek movie I've ever seen 😂 we watched it at my grandma's when I was a kid. No wonder I didn't like Star Trek until I was an adult

The teen film clock watchers. Picture of clockstoppers shown.😂😂😂

Not just the director, the writers acted like they had no idea about TNG Trek. Why was Worf back in Starfleet? Wasn't he supposed to be an ambassador for the Klingon home world or something? (At the end of DS9) And did they just forget about Lore? Why else would they throw B-4 together so quickly? Gee, what could go wrong? And the story made no sense. Why was Shinzon so pissed at Earth? We didn't enslaved him. You'd think he'd want revenge on Romulus.

I was pretty disappointed when I saw this at release. The TNG films had a lot of issues. Now in the Kurtzman era I struggle with how worse it’s become. We’ll struggle is a strong word, I just act like it no longer exists. Hasn’t put a damper on enjoying the older stuff like the TOS films thankfully.

I honestly didn't think that much of Generations either, First Contact was the best of the TNG movies.

How to say you haven't seen Star Trek 5 without saying you haven't seen Star Trek 5.

Star Trek 5 has entered the chat…

Every TNG film just feels like an extended episode, unlike the OS films, which actually have a cinematic feel.

This movie is a lot better than its reputation would have you believe.

What? The cgi is the one thing that holds up

I think Roger Ebert's review of this movie was a perfect summary of why this wasn't well received, and possibly an insight why we didn't see another one of these until 2009. Me personally, I had seen every previous movie dozens of times, and I saw this movie exactly once many until years later. All I remembered from it was, in this order, the incredibly icky mind rape scene, Data getting exploded, and the head on collision with questionable physics.

I've tried so hard to like this movie I like some of the things about it Similar to Star Trek 5 Both crappy movies I'll even put Insurrection ahead of it Even though it's more of a glorified single episode of the tng series To have a director that didn't know star Trek biggest mistakes

I've always felt like these films could have been much better had Picard gone into battle holding a pug.

Has anyone seen discovery.. this is pure genius compared to anything from that series..

Wesley Crusher is in a Nemesis Scene, Red Alert

Anybody who says Nemesis is better than any of the Kelvin movies need to have their eyes and brains examined...

Looney Tunes: Back in Action was Jerry Goldsmith's last film score.

Great video! Brings back a lot of happy memories with my Dreamcast (why did I sell it?? 😢). Love your set up, I’ve now subscribed for more of your content. Cheers🤙

I think I'm a clone now. There's always two with me, just a hanging around. Part of Edison's plan was born to be a carbon copy man. You can send yourself for 🍕

It wasn't that bad it was ok

'A New Ending' is my favorite version of the Star Trek march. Also, Data's Final Flight was awesome. SuperData!!

have you seen "into darkness" and part five...?

There was still heaps to like about this, a rogue clone who comes from nowhere, in a ship built in secret with a tactical run sheet that had to inspire Jar jars USS Vengeance, & slicker dog fighting, & a strategic game of wits that results in a spectacular front on collision, also the score was awesome..& a gun metal grey Enterprise E looks bad ass...

I disagree. Insurrection was the worst, in spite of having a superior guest cast of Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham, Emmy winner Anthony Zerbe and Tony winner Donna Murphy.

Please make a "WTF happened" about each crew member!

Now it's a cult franchise favorite... You know it's good. Considering TNG series...this is EPIC!

Never hated number ten didn't always love it it deserves some level of respect after all it is a part of one of the greatest franchise that's ever been around 57yrs and running

*Compared to the 'remakes' it is a masterpiece!*

Worst? thats a lil overboard.

I would say looking back now that the JJ Abrams films were the worst Star Trek films especially Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) in the history of Star Trek.

This is still the only Star Trek movie I haven't yet watched. I remember when the trailers first came out back then feeling like there's something not quite right with this one. So I skipped it in the theaters and have never heard anything that wanted me to actually watch it on video or on cable. I've never missed not watching it either and I've seen some really dreck movies in other series just for completion purposes

Only if's really not. No such thing as a bad Star Trek film. Except to "Critics", but only a feeb calls themselves a film fan and listens to anything a "critic" says..lmao And Enterprise was amazing, just too "Elevated" for the general feeb public.

I wasn’t crazy about any of the TNG movies except First Contact. That said, I’ll gladly watch any of them over the Kelvin Timeline abortions/abominations.

The problem with all of the TNG movies is that they all rehash STII: TWOK. Every premise of these movies has someone wanting revenge, someone having a gripe, and a supposed space battle. None of the movies had anything to offer for the big screen. Each TNG movie was a made for television movie. I bet when you first watched them, your thumb was twitching for the remote for the commercial break. I am glad they never brought DS9 to the big screen, although with their writers, it would have be spectacular but not Enterprise Trek. Insurrection was very two-dimensional in every sense of the term. I didn't feel any sense of action, urgency, or interest for this movie. The problem with TNG Trek is that they have a talent of hiring great actors with a poor script or having a decent script but getting sub-par actors. And character development in TNG universe sucks. And my final analysis/comment, TNG was the only series that said, Goodbye three times: All Good Things, Nemesis, Picard. Like seriously, retire and move on.

I'm so sorry for Tom Hardy. I had no idea he had taken the criticism so hard; it might not have been a great 'Trek' film, (although I would STILL consider 'Trek 5' a contender for that title) but Hardy was still great in it. (as well as Pearlman, as usual) =( =)

Star Trek Nemesis is the worst Star Trek movie? Are we excluding the JJ-verse movies? 'Cause... Star Trek Into Darkness exists.

I did not care much for Tom Hardy as a younger clone Picard. I could not see the resemblance very much. I also did not like the dialogue with Tom Hardy. I did like the performances of the TNG cast but that is about all. Major rewrites from Nicholas Meyers would have been the best decision, however that was not done. Paramount failed, and Meyers has the best trek movie to date with Wraith of Khan.

Perhaps Mr. Baird wasn’t a strong choice for director, but I don’t think the directing was the issue; I think we can lay fault at the feet of the screenwriter. It was a paper thin story, with lame dialogue and a “B story” (Data’s replacement) that should’ve been excised totally.

One thing that everyone seems to miss are the later depictions of Data and Q, showing them aged. Yes, the actors have aged, but Data and Q aren't supposed to age. One's a robot and the other's a supposed immortal entity. It takes me out of it seeing them old with white hair. It shows that the directors aren't knowledgeable about the characters in question.

Im.glad star trek picard season three fixed thus huge cluster fk of a movie...

This was supposed to be Tom Hardy's big break, but due to the films failure it would be another 5 yrs before his breakout with Bronson and then a further 2 yrs to a wider audience with Inception

Star Trek Insurrection was a worse movie 🤮 than Nemesis at least Nemesis continued with Picard and JJ Abrams Star Trek

WAS the worst movie. ST: Beyond really showed us just how asinine the writers can get with the Kelvin timeline.

Nemesis is only the worst ST movie ever made if you ignore the 3 newest Kelvin Universe movies. They are mind-numbingly stupid.

So he didn’t understand the source material. Sounds exactly like bringing in Rian Johnson to direct a Star Wars movie.

Never really understand the hate for this one, I went to see it at the time & liked it better than "Genertions" & "Insurrection" It woudn't do for us all to be the same. That would be crap!!

Five was the worst!!! And that's saying a lot cause there was a writer strike going on .

What made this movie so ultimately horrible??? The only thing I see that is so bad is the solid blue at the end of the movie. I am no director but I think it would have looked much better as a star fiend rather than solid blue.

Insurrection was a huge let down which effected Nemesis. If Nemesis would have come after First Contact, it may have done better but they should have quit on a high note which was First Contact.

I don’t think Nemesis is a disaster. It clearly has a more theatrical feel than Insurrection. But Nemesis was plagued with the problem of Trek in the early 2000’s which was “playing it safe”. Theatrical films need to push changes and not just end the same way it started.

Insurrection had Data exploring what fun and being a kid meant, gradually learning how to interpret emotions over 3 movies. Now in Nemesis Data is a portrayed as a wise sage and suddenly he’s sacrificed himself. It never felt right, and it broke our hearts. Also Data’s inspiring speech of “B4 could never be me” while the ending with B4 implies the opposite 🤦‍♂️

One of the dumbest decisions the film made was to make young Picard bald. He wasn't. They acted as if the viewers would be too dumb to understand bald people don't start bald

Worst? Have you never seen INTO DARKNESS?

Not a great movie, but I like this one better than Insurrection.

B4 should have been Lore posing as a random android. Missed opportunity IMO. I also think Data's death needed MORE of reason for the crew to survive. Like perhaps the Romulan Thalaron Weapon had some kind of positronic design that Data throwing himself into the core would destroy it. I also wonder if this film had a Spring release in 2003 away from other big titles what it could have done. It has issues but certainly not unwatchable.

I'm a die hard supporter of the first three Next Gen movies (I love them all, not just "like" them) but Nemesis was so bad. It felt wrong, everything from the digital grading applied to certain scenes, to the plot, writing choices, etc...Just it was so deflating to have thought this was the last I'd see this cast I literally grew up with as a kid.

I didn't think Tom Hardy looked anything like a younger Patrick Stewart in Nemesis and the whole premise just collapses when we get the big reveal. It was also painfully obvious that the director had no idea about the characters or the star trek universe and the thought was none of that matters as we are appealing to a wider audience who won't know when we mess with the show's continuity. This was a big mistake.

I remember coming out of the theater with my friends. We didn't mention the movie at all. We were more concerned with food. None of us wanted to acknowledge that the movie was bad.

Oh come on, Final Frontier, Into Darkness and Generations were worse. Hell, Insurrection was worse. Nemesis wasn't without problems but it was nowhere near the worst.

Worst Star Trek Movie is Into Darkness. Nemesis is steller in comparison.

How can you mispronounce so many words? Still, a good video.

BRONSON is on Tubi, that's a real blast from the past

I think this movie is fine. I can't really understand the hate it gets.

Stuart Baird was the editor of the first Superman movie.

A trully bad film. Unfortunately Bad Robot would come along and defile the corpse of Star Trek even more.

I'll still take Nemesis over ST:5 any day!

The wedding scene was the only good part of the movie.

This was a masterpiece compared to anything done since.

Is that baby Tom Hardy? Never noticed it

I think there is an argument for Star Trek 5 being the worst.

Part of the reason why Nemesis ended up way it is because Brent Spiner and John Logan planned on Nemesis being part 1 of an epic conclusion to that era of Star Trek. Part 2 would've brought together the cast of TNG, DS9 and Voyager and possibly bring back Data but of course the box-office returns of Nemesis killed that project.

Insurrection was the worse Star Trek movie.

Sad that it's better than most of the s@@t coming out now.

Overall, I liked it. It wasn’t great but pretty watchable. I liked it better than the movie that preceded it.

I thought insurrection was good, there's worse ones

Some people just get too old for what they loved as a kid to appreciate how good things are

Did you just not see Insurrection at all then??

Actually I WAY disagree ( NEMESIS ) was actually the most ACCURATE to TNG show although dark. Most were not out of character unlike First contact and Generations. so I kinda liked it I think its good

Wasn't Tom Hardy smoking crack at this point in his life? Lol.

Loved all three reboot trek films

My personal opinion on this one every time is it was written as pretty decent episodic bits. It would have made a couple of good episodes maybe pulled apart a little bit. Some of these plots as b-plots, or a-plots, with other b plots might have been enjoyable. The Star Trek fandom was thirsty for anything, so you're going to be able to make a decent box office just on fandom.

Still better than Abrahms crap.