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Posted: 12:40:20 on September 10 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Star Trek: Nemesis

Stuart Klawans in Sunday's New York Times previewed the upcoming tenth TREK feature film with a column critical of the franchise's predilection for narrative recycling.

"Once again, the history of the future repeats itself," Klawans writes. "Go back in the series from the 24th century to the 23rd, substitute Klingons for Romulans and James T. Kirk for Jean-Luc Picard, and you will discern the outlines of 'Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country' [in NEMESIS]. This duplication is not simply a matter of one generation following another onto the bridge of the Enterprise. As true fans can tell you, "Nemesis" will seem new and yet vaguely familiar: the 10th film in a series that has five plots."

He goes on to list what he says is the sum of "what can happen" in a STAR TREK movie.

• "A megalomaniac tries to seize the power of life itself ("S.T. II: The Wrath of Khan"; "S.T. V: The Final Frontier"; "S.T. VII: Generations"; "S.T. IX: Insurrection").
• "A senior officer of the Enterprise comes back from the dead ("S.T. III: The Search for Spock"; "S.T. VII: Generations"), or a fate worse than death ("S.T. VIII: First Contact").
• "The crew of the Enterprise goes back to an earlier century on Earth, to make sure that history happens as it should ("S.T. IV: The Voyage Home"; "S.T. VIII: First Contact").
• "A spacecraft threatens to destroy Earth, and we're to blame, either because our technology is more advanced than our ethics ("S.T.: The Motion Picture") or because we've trashed other species ("S.T. IV: The Voyage Home")."

Finally he says, "Poverty of narrative invention has nothing to do with predicting the success or failure of any 'Star Trek' film. 'The Wrath of Khan' has more incident than the others put together and is by common consent the best of the lot. But 'The Voyage Home' also ranks high, despite a story that can be fully retold in the listing in TV Guide. Like the original television series, which put expansive ideals into rudimentary settings, 'The Voyage Home' charmed audiences by blending self-aware goofiness with outer-space liberalism."

What does he think of the prospects for NEMESIS after this analysis? As an even-numbered film he says any fan knows there is hope, "assuming, of course, that nothing new ever happens in the 'Star Trek' series."

Read the full commentary at this page after signing up for a free account at the paper's web site. Thanks to TrekWeb member 'LombezDC' for the submission.

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