I stumbled across some deleted scenes from Star Trek Nemesis. Most of them I think has been seen by everyone, but there were a few new ones, for a lack of a better word, and extensions on other scenes. Found it quite interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jTg9kSgzjc&feature=plcp
Yes, the original DVD had 6-7 scenes--the Blu-ray had the original deleted scenes PLUS 6 or 7 more. Later DVDs releases may have included all the scenes but I don't know that for sure. Blu-ray players will be starting at $50 this holiday season--i think it's not a huge expense for a major upgrade in quality/features.
So the rumors of a possible 45 minutes being cut from the film might actually be true, that's interesting.
I have the bluray versions of the movies, but never watched the deleted scenes. I thought they were all the same from the dvds. Guess I got some watching to do. I have never seen a couple of those nemesis scenes before.
I think it's interesting that Baird says that he "had" to cut the second rape scene and then corrects himself. I enjoyed listening to him talking about it, about the camera angles and so forth.
More and more it shows how Baird mishandled the material and it makes you think what would/could have happened with a different director. The story is still a bit wobbly but somewhere in there is a better movie trying to get out.
I'd blame Paramount rather than Baird, they wanted a shorter movie to try and more money. And the scenes that were cut from what I saw were some good character scenes but really advance the plot too much.
There were some nice character moments in Nemesis that hit the floor. All taken together they show a nice bond of friendship and comradeship between the crew. I especially like the scenes between Picard and Beverly. The sickbay scene (which I hadn't seen before) reminds me of Picard touring the Ent before the encounter with the Borg where he talks to Guinan.