Revisiting Star Trek Nemesis

I recently rewatched ST: Nemesis, which I went to see at the movies, so around 20 years ago. (sorry, there will be some spoilers, I’ll assume that you’ve seen the movie) My impression back then was that it was not great and broke the “even/odd Star Trek movies rule”. This rule states that the odd Star Trek movies are bad and the even ones are good, so after Star Trek Generations (I’m starting at The Next Generation movies to not overcomplicate this: number 7 and therefore bad), it was Star Trek First… Read More

Fascinating

The importance of Spock as an icon of the XX century cannot be overstated. Let me go back for a second. When I was a child in Spain, access to Star Trek was pretty limited. There were no reruns of the original series. I think it only was emitted during the 70s in Black and White. The Next Generation was broadcasted with a four or five year delay. And it stopped for several years just at the end of the third season. It took me years to know what happened with Picard and… Read More

Wrath of Khan and failure

SPOILERS AHEAD: I will comment a couple of things about Star Trek Into Darkness, so, if you haven’t seen it, and don’t want to know some plot details, you may not want to read this. Just watch the movie and come back, I’ll be here waiting 😉 Oh, there were plenty about Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (and a little of Space Seed), but being a movie from 30 years ago, I doubt they can be considering spoilers. — Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is, no doubt, a… Read More