Star Trek: Nemesis

Star Trek: Nemesis

Director: Stuart Baird

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis

Cert: PG12.

With much talk of the entire Star Trek series being in trouble - only the disappointing Enterprise is now being made for TV - there is a great deal of anxiety over this, the 10th voyage into deep space.

All the usual suspects are boldly going under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Stewart) facing dangers from an assortment of sneering baddies, but it all looks and feels so tired, so expected.

The plot hardly matters given the frightening thought that this could see the end of the long-running big-screen versions of what has been a seminal drama series.

Nemesis is not a bad film, it is merely not quite as good as many of the others which have gone before. Perhaps this is because the character of Data (Spiner) takes centre stage, and he has never been one of the crew's most gripping characters.

It might also be that, in a perverse sort of way, that compared to more recent epics such as Lord of the Rings, Minority Report and Harry Potter, Star Trek looks increasingly old-fashioned.

It might be, finally, time to beam us all away from the dear old Enterprise … even the engagement, and about time too, of Riker and Troi doesn't give us a lift.

Star Rating: 3/5