The Movie: If you believe what the trailers say, Nemesis is the last "The Next Generation" movie there will ever be, and I guess it is, considering that Patrick Stewart has stated that he won't play Captain Picard anymore. Thus, in addition to some of the events which occur in the movie, this is a sad occasion for fans of TNG.

This film basically starts out with everyone in the TNG crew just about to go off on their separate ways, except for one more mission that needs to be completed, a mission that sends them directly into to the heart of the Romulan empire, and into the middle of a sordid takeover of the Romulan empire by some Remans -- a race we haven't actually seen portrayed in any iteration of Star Trek to date, though they have been referenced numerous times.

Though I'm sure anybody who cares about spoilers in this movie has already seen it, I don't want to give any of them away, so I'll just end this part of the review by saying that this movie is one of the better of the Star Trek movies, with plenty of great action, interesting plot ideas (if you're already interested in these characters, anyway), though it does seem to end on a total sequel possibility! And I suppose that being an even-numbered "Trek" movie helps, if you believe the rule of thumb that says that odd numbered Treks suck.

Personally, I've never been into the Star Trek movies that much, despite the fact that I'm such a huge fan of the "Next Generation" series. I think I really love that series more because it's just such a great TV show overall than because I love the Star Trek franchise. In fact, even though I own all seven seasons of ST:TNG, this is the only Star Trek movie that I actually own!

The DVD: This disc features a great video transfer and a great audio stream. Though at first glance it seems like there might be a lot of special features, most of them aren't that great. I had heard that Wil Wheaton had been invited back to be in this movie, but that all of his speaking roles were cut. I was hoping that some of these cut "Wesley" scenes would appear on the DVD, but it looks like they snuffed him there too. Oh well.

If you're a true fan of Trek, you probably already own this DVD. For the other people, I'm not sure I can really recommend it, as it really requires knowing a lot of the back story of these characters for maximum enjoyment. Plus, they've been going through and re-releasing all the previously released on DVD Trek movies as better "special edition" versions. I don't know if they're gonna do that with this one too, but I think I'll hold off on buying any Trek movies until I'm reasonably sure they aren't gonna offer newer versions of any of them. Anyway, if you care, you probably have already seen this movie, and if you don't, it probably won't be that great, because as I mentioned earlier, you really need to know a lot of the back story for this movie to be powerful at all for the viewer. All that being said, however, I still think that the couple of scenes that really kicked ass, kicked ass enough for me to want to own this, my only Star Trek movie!