I think it's impossible to predict how one more TNG film would have turned out. I do know that, after Nemesis, my enthusiasm for Trek sank to zero. After being a huge fan through all the TNG years and the resulting movies, I walked out of Nemesis feeling done with the characters and that world.
And not "done" in the sense of closure, but "done" in the sense of just not caring any more. The death of Data had no impact on me whatsoever. You couldn't even say that I was angry for them for killing Data, since I just did not care. I no longer had any investment in any of the characters.
None of which means that a fresh approach, a creative story, might not have brought me back. I'd give any new TNG film a chance, and I like some of the ideas mentioned here (Q, for example).
Now, I liked Abrams Trek a lot. I thought the movie was great fun, and walked out of it with a smile on my face. I'd place it in the top 3 or 4 Trek films.
But one thing it didn't really have is an original story. An obsessed, tragic Romulan villain with a superweapon and a grudge against the Federation, and the Enterprise is the only ship that can stop him from destroying Earth, ending with a big space battle? Where did I hear that before? Oh yeah, Nemesis! Trek 2009 was a fun and exciting film in spite of the fact it had a rather cliched plot, that relied a little too much on coincidence and contrivance.
The reason I mention this is because you never know where lightning will strike. Trek 2009 was (in my opinion) a success, despite all the things that could have ruined it. Nemesis tried a similar story, and was awful. Who knows what a new TNG film would have been like?
In my opinion, fresh blood (the producers, the writers, the director, maybe even the design team) would have been needed to break out of the Insurrection/Nemesis funk. Whether or not a fresh crew and new actors was really needed as well...we'll never know.
And not "done" in the sense of closure, but "done" in the sense of just not caring any more. The death of Data had no impact on me whatsoever. You couldn't even say that I was angry for them for killing Data, since I just did not care. I no longer had any investment in any of the characters.
None of which means that a fresh approach, a creative story, might not have brought me back. I'd give any new TNG film a chance, and I like some of the ideas mentioned here (Q, for example).
Now, I liked Abrams Trek a lot. I thought the movie was great fun, and walked out of it with a smile on my face. I'd place it in the top 3 or 4 Trek films.
But one thing it didn't really have is an original story. An obsessed, tragic Romulan villain with a superweapon and a grudge against the Federation, and the Enterprise is the only ship that can stop him from destroying Earth, ending with a big space battle? Where did I hear that before? Oh yeah, Nemesis! Trek 2009 was a fun and exciting film in spite of the fact it had a rather cliched plot, that relied a little too much on coincidence and contrivance.
The reason I mention this is because you never know where lightning will strike. Trek 2009 was (in my opinion) a success, despite all the things that could have ruined it. Nemesis tried a similar story, and was awful. Who knows what a new TNG film would have been like?
In my opinion, fresh blood (the producers, the writers, the director, maybe even the design team) would have been needed to break out of the Insurrection/Nemesis funk. Whether or not a fresh crew and new actors was really needed as well...we'll never know.
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