Star Trek Nemesis

Star Trek Com ^ | 12/13/02 | Paramount Viacom

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The Federation is about to encounter its greatest challenge – The Romulans want peace. Conceived in the regal Senate halls of Romulus and forged in the dilithium mines of Remus, comes a nemesis bent on destroying Picard… and the entire Federation.

Ordered by Starfleet to be the first line of diplomacy in ushering in a new era for the Federation, the crew of the USS Enterprise-E is dispatched to Romulus for an unexpected peace mission. Once in the shadow of the Romulan Empire, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew are thrust into the center of a plot that couldlead to the destruction of Earth at the hands of a new and chilling nemesis.

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This is the synopsis from the Star Trek site. OK, let's have a debate - not about the Federation v the Romulans but about present day reality. Now much do you think the movie foreshadows America's impending conflict with its Iraqi nemesis? For once no movie has been so eerily titled as this one. Star Trek aways seems in the headlines and the last one about peace with the Klingons, The Undiscovered Country seemed to coincide with the collapse of the Soviet Union as it was being shown in theaters across America. So is Saddam a chilling nemesis with a deadly plot in mind to require immediate action against him? We shall see.

[One_who_hopes_to_know]

Oh Golly, I am sooooo glad you called for this debate. Like, it is so relevant to what is happening in the "real" world now isn't it. Like, I know it's just a movie, but like, it hits sooooo close to home.

You are so right on about The Undiscovered Country !!!! I mean it is like, the director(s) (was it the same one for both movies??) just knew what was happening in the "real" world and like, he/she/they(?) made a Star Trek plot line that just like fit so well!!

Like, I want to debate this soooo much, but like my friend Heather and I are like, going to the mall, and like I may not be back to post for like ages! .... later dude.

[Bommer]

There will be no peace with the Arabs until we can transport 2 humpback whales from the future!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Will this vanity post live long and prosper?

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I don't know, LOL. But if Bush's anything like Picard he knows diplomacy is fast approaching a dead end.

[Wolfie]

Bush has a (spoiler deleted)?

[Stavka2]

Only if you drop those whales ontop of the black box.

[Landru]

"Like, I want to debate this soooo much, but like my friend Heather and I are like, going to the mall, and like I may not be back to post for like ages!"

kewl.

...think Josh, Zach, & Seth can go with? {g}

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Are you of the body?

[goldstategop]

LOL!!! Soon we'll be confronted by nothing but Landrus at FR. Let's hope they're all friendly nemeses. ;-)

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Peace and happiness to you, friend!

[Gurn]

James T. Kirk: "There's just one thing I'd like to say to you people: Get a life. You've taken something I did -- on a lark, for three years -- and let it consume you. Look at you [pointing to the Trek Conventioneer with Spock ears]. You're must be 30 years old. Have you ever kissed a girl?"

[One_who_hopes_to_know]

Like, that is sooooo unfair!!!!

My friend, Sean, like he is a trekie and like he went to a convention in Bakersfield, and he was voted best Klingon. And he is like, the coolest dude I know.

So like, go and take your icy sarcasm somewhere else, you square!

[Landru]

"Are you of the body?"

Whaaaaaat?
I am the body.

You punk-off like that again, neighbor?
Couple-a-my Law Givers gonna make the scene at your pad.
~mess you up, good.

...fyi; Landru's turned Hip-Hop. {g}

[Lil'freeper]

That was one of the best SNL skits ever! "Get a life!" LOL!

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

So who's stronger, Landru or Vall?

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Ooops! Vall = Vaal

[Landru]

"So who's stronger, Landru or Vall?"

Well lemme ask you; did Landru ever need *fruit* to get-it-on?
Yea...there.

...answered your own question, didn'tcha? ;^)

[strela]

OK, let's have a debate - not about the Federation v the Romulans but about present day reality. Now much do you think the movie foreshadows America's impending conflict with its Iraqi nemesis?

Dunno - I haven't seen it yet. I will tonight though.

So is Saddam a chilling nemesis with a deadly plot in mind to require immediate action against him?

Well, if the performance of his vaunted "Republican Guard" back during Storm holds any portent in this case, Saddam is a Potemkin village and/or a Romulan holding a disruptor with a dead power cell. While I believe he's working as hard as he can to acquire WMD and might have acquired some of the necessary bits and pieces, I find it hard to believe that he has any in a form that could be used directly against the United States with lethal effect. Yet.

In the case of home-brew nukes, he would surely have tested one by now if he had any at all - his vaingloriousness would have demanded it.

In the modern-day soap opera of Star Trek, the Romulans are cousins of the race of creatures known as Vulcans. While Vulcans are coolly logical and can be good friends to humanity, Romulans wield whatever logic they possess through an almost satanic filter of plotting, scheming, and political intrigue. Referring to Saddam as a Romulan, in my opinion, gives him way too much credit. Call him a rogue Klingon general who has a h***-on for the Federation and call me out of here for today.

[SpinyNorman]

Give me some photon torpedoes and a few good men, and I will get kalifar all over Sadddam's ass!