Star Trek: Nemesis/Wall Banger

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Star Trek: Nemesis is just loaded with wallbangers, thanks to bad writing. This pictorial review highlights several of them.

  • Early in the film, the crew discover a positronic signature that matches Data's energy signature. Instead of simply getting on a shuttle and going down to the planet (just as they do in every other TNG episode), Picard, Data and Worf elect to use the "Captain's Yacht" (a luxury shuttle) to go down to the surface, and then inexplicably use a land-based vehicle to travel around to each crash site and retrieve B-4's parts. Instead of the alternative (use the yacht to fly to each site and pick up the pieces), the three crewmen (including the Captain) willingly put themselves in danger by driving an unshielded, exposed (to the elements) vehicle with little carrying capacity, and use it to have a chase scene with aliens sporting similar hardware...why?
  • Data overwrote his brother's brain. Data overwrote his brother's brain. DATA OVERWROTE...
    • The justification for this appeared to be that B4 had no real mind of his own. Thing is, he did. Sure, he was less advanced than his brother, but he had a level of sentience. And the thing to remember is, by this point in the franchise, he has an emotions chip. On top of that, during TNG, Data fought for his rights as a sentient being to protect his own mind from being erased - in a widely-regarded and well-known episode, no less. You'd think that would've made him more sympathetic.
    • Calm down. Data copied his memories into B4 but it's not indicated that he overwrote the android's basic personality.
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