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Posted: 16:20:47 on November 01 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Star Trek: Nemesis

British news web site Ananova reports that STAR TREK NEMESIS has been awarded a 12A certificate by the British Board of Film Certification (BBFC), only the second TREK film to earn such a rating (1996's FIRST CONTACT). The 12A rating is similar to the MPAA rating of PG-13 in the United States and signifies that the movie may be inappropriate for viewers under the age of 12 and requires that an adult over the age of 18 accompany patrons under 12. The U.S. rating for the film is PG-13.

The site also reports that the tenth TREK picture clocks in at just under two hours: 116 minutes to be exact. If this length sticks (the news remains unofficial), it'll make NEMESIS thirteen minutes longer than its immediate predecessor, 1998's INSURRECTION. That film remains the shortest installment of the film franchise, followed by STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK at 105 minutes and STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER at 107 minutes.

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (113 minutes), STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (113 minutes) and STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT (110 minutes) all fall just short of the latest pic, while TNG cohort STAR TREK: GENERATIONS clocked in slightly longer at 118 minutes, STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME offered 119 minutes and STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE holds the record with 132 minutes (theatrical release).

Check out this page for the original report.

In related news, actor Brent Spiner talks in the new 25th anniversary issue of Starburst Magazine (Issue 292) and Sci-Fi Pulse has some excerpts.

"It’s always a challenge playing two characters," Spiner says about playing both 'Lt. Commander Data' and the android 'B-9'. "It’s challenge enough to play one, but this character is a very simple character. He’s far less sophisticated than Data; far less sophisticated even than Data was when we first met him. The thrust of the character is that his positronic brain is very primitive so that a more simplified personality made it easier for me to separate them in my thoughts and in my daily performance on the set.”

The actor also says NEMESIS is the most thoughful of the four TNG motion pictures.

"It dances around the idea of what is it that makes us what we are,” Spiner asserts. “That’s really the philosophical essence of what the movie’s about - no answers to that question, or course, but just musings on it. Having two of each of us - Data and Picard - gives us that opportunity to look at the theme in the time honoured tradition of Star Trek.”

Check out this page for more of Spiner's remarks.

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