Final Star Trek: TNG Movie Was Pulled Due To Franchise Fatigue

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Yeah... I really ould have liked a better send-off for the TNG crew. I didn't care for Nemesis at all. It seemed to me in a number of ways to be a weak clone of TWoK... I think it really was time to lay the series to rest for a while, but I hate that they couldn't have gone out on a higher note.

Star Trek shouldn't have dune buggies as standard equipment. 2nd they dipped into yet another Data prototype too many times already.

Overall I enjoyed Nemesis. Father Xmas hit the problems I had with it: I didn't like the dune buggy, I didn't like the prototype. Additionally I thought it would have been better had Data had his on again, off again emotional chip turned on when he decided to sacrifice himself for Picard. It would have been an apology for the awful scene where he was afraid to die in Generations (First Contact already had such an apology when the Borg reactivated it against his will, but there's nothing wrong with another.)

I thought it was a better than Insurrection at any rate, which really did play out like a two part episode rather than a movie in my opinion.

I've enjoyed all of the TNG films... so... yeah.

I agree that there was franchise fatigue going on with the Trek series. I think they should've stopped with Voyager (Enterprise was a mistake on a lot of levels), and then started stretching out the time between the TNG movies. It's disappointing that the TNG crew isn't going to get the send off it deserves, and even more disappointing that Patrick Stewart doesn't want to come back for another movie.

I would like to have seen the series produce one or two DS9 movies, too. Something to wrap up the fate of the crew, or deal with the Cardassians and their post-war reconstruction. Maybe have Sisko come back from the wormhole.

But I want to see a DS9 movie!

And I liked Nemesis, as it felt like they were adding small space crafts for ship to ship fighting!

I never saw Nemisis all the way though. I just can never sit through it. It doesn't interest me. Perhaps I am the audiance that thay say became fatigued. Actually I think it was the writers who became fatigued.

Franchise fatigue is what happens when you have a mediocre creative team churning out mediocre movies whose main draw is the franchise name. If you turn out a quality product you get movie series that last as long as James Bond.

See the way they killed off data, but had his prototype inherit his memories and such, i was really thinking that was going to be a device to kinda ungod the character a bit. Data kinda hit that Wesley Crusher level of making every other character insignificant in the cast. So at the time i honestly felt it was done to dumb down the character a bit and take him more back to where he was at the begining of the show.

I'm pretty forgiving of all things Trek, but I suffer some odd hang ups.

One of the best TNG episdoes Tapestry had Picard die and Q let Picard go back in time to his early 20s and avoid a mistake that leads to his death in the present.

20 year old Picard in that ep had hair, 20 year old Picard in Nemisis is bald. I couldn't get over it.

I remember rumors coming out before Nemesis was released that Paramount was trying to pretty much kill the Trek franchise at the time. There'd been a management shift and the new folks in charge didn't like Trek, so im not surprised Nemesis ended up being the last one. It wasn't the weakest of the 4 TNG movies (Insurrection. it's not bad, but that doesn't mean it was all that good), but it just felt too much like Trek2, especially towards the end. The fight scenes between the ships at the end did look damn cool, but it was still weak.

Im not a big fan of the Abrahms' reboot, and im hoping the 2nd one is much better. The bright side is that the reboot is still better than the first and fifth Trek flicks, mostly.