Star Trek: Nemesis

There has been a big hoopla about this being the last movie for the Next Generation cast and that is true no matter how well this does at the box office. Half of the cast is dismissed in one way or another in the last ten minutes (One dies and he graduated from Bellaire HS). I just can't bring myself to recommend this because Star Trek no longer seems futuristic to me, all of the gadgets look fake. The tricorders that the crew members walk around with, that used to be things that blink and make noise are now palm pilots with stuff glued on them. The ships also don't really make sense; you ought to know there should be more space saving ways of building ships. The sets don't look futuristic anymore, the seem to just be pieces of plastic and the screens have also updated, they have images flashing on them like our home computers that have never occurred in Star Trek. One last quibble with effect before I critique plot and acting, they changed the way Worf looks and Data has a receding hair line, you know they could fix that with make-up. The story is almost nonexistent with the crew finding a positronic android and a clone of Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) except much younger and ruling Romulus and Remus. The writing is terrible like all Trek movies and this was written by the guy who wrote "Gladiator", the acting is terrible (except for Stewart), and the space battles seems way too complicated and is filled with the classic Trek battle jargon. The one thin that has improved since the last Trek movie (1998's Insurrection) and that is the CGI. In my opinion there is only one good Star Trek movie and I actually really really liked it and that is 1996's First Contact, it had heart, better writing, great special effects for 1996, and great action. If you never liked Star Trek then you will not like this movie at all.