Was there ever an official explanation in Nemesis...
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Ha! This made me laugh out loud.
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Burton has won one award for directing. A Black Reel Award for directing a TV show in 2006. That was 4 years AFTER Nemesis. When Nemesis was filming, all Burton had directed was a bunch of Star Trek episodes, two TV movies, and two episodes of "Soul Food". That's not the resume of someone you give a major motion picture that is trying to save the franchise. You could argue about Frakes since he had at least directed 2 TNG movies by that point, but I don't think Burton was ever really a serious consideration.
My understanding was that Nick Meyer was approached to direct, but like Nimoy with Generations he would only accept on the proviso that he could rework the screenplay...so that was out...
I thought it was a case of Burton was the next choice to direct until the Studio pushed Baird on, in return for Baird doing some editing work on Mission Impossible and Lara Croft?
I thought it was a case of Burton was the next choice to direct until the Studio pushed Baird on, in return for Baird doing some editing work on Mission Impossible and Lara Croft?
It's not like Baird's resume was all that robust in the directing department, either. The fact that he didn't know a tribble from a transporter only made things worse.
The directing "style" didn't help. But sadly, I agree with you the movie was horrible primarily for it's script.
One of the many silly ideas contributed by DS9, good NEM simply ignored it. Why would Worf be a good Ambassador? Because he's Klingon? His divided loyalties are precisely why he's not up to the job. How many times did he quit his job as starfleet officer to fix something on homeworld, how many time had Picard and Sisko to set his head straight?
Or because...like most of the rest on DS9...he was just coming off a vicious war (where he'd lost his wife, no less) and wanted to leave the front lines to do something else...
And I don't think divided Loyalty would be a problem, because he specifically chose Martok to lead the Klingon people, because he thought Martok would be the best person to lead them...
Worf being a Klingon makes him a good person to represent the Federation, because he understands the politics and the way the politics works...
And finally, we saw in Way of the Warrior that Worf had pretty much thrown in with the Federation by now, so I don't think divided loyalty would be an issue.
Worf became a stronger and more independent character in DS9 I thought. And the fact that he has a good understanding of Klingon and Federation policies would make him a logical ambassador.
As far as the original question of why Worf was on the Enterprise-E, the film takes place between the wedding on Earth, and the wedding on Betazed. Since everyone involved is going to the wedding on Betazed, its a simple matter of taking Worf with them (he doesn't necessarily have to have arrived at the Earth wedding on the Enterprise, he could have just as easily come on a transport ship or some other means)....for how Worf got back on the Enterpise-E? Is it anything more than he was simply there for the Riker-Troi wedding? I know the novels have Worf leaving his position as Ambassador, but was this confirmed "on screen?" I'm drawing a blank and I don't want to wait for the Netflix DVD to get here
Doesn't explain my other gripes with the film, like where were the rest of Riker's guests. His dad should have been at the wedding, and I would imagine Thomas Riker would have been there as well (unless he's in jail).
The Dominion War was over for a while by this point, so it doesn't make much sense for Tom Riker to still be in prison.
But, again, we were dealing with a director who thought Geordi was an alien, Worf was a funny looking human, and that Picard going offroad racing and shooting at the natives in blatant violation of the Prime Directive, beyond anything Kirk would've done on his worst day, was a good idea.
Feature films are a director's medium, so Baird gets the lion's share of the blame.
But, again, we were dealing with a director who thought Geordi was an alien, Worf was a funny looking human, and that Picard going offroad racing and shooting at the natives in blatant violation of the Prime Directive, beyond anything Kirk would've done on his worst day, was a good idea.
Feature films are a director's medium, so Baird gets the lion's share of the blame.
I'd argue this was never a problem. After all, there were (going to be) two weddings - anybody who failed to appear at the Earth end could be assumed to be coming to the Betazed party.
Or then be absent. Many of Riker and Troi's folks are starfarers, after all; they might be months or years of travel time away from the occasion when the invitations were sent, and arranging for all of them to be "within range" might be impossible.
Timo Saloniemi
Whenever I watch NEM, I always go with a similar theory to tighr's
As far as I see it Worf still is the Ambassador to Qo'noS, like said he's just along for the ride in the movie, does it ever actually specify he is the Security/Tactical chief of the E-E?
As for why he's wearing a Starfleet uniform, did he have to resign from Starfleet? I don't know, in my mind he didn't, and he's just happy to help out while aboard the Enterprise with old buddies again.
And Tom Riker, maybe he was executed when Cardassia joined the Dominion, esp when the war started
* How sad is it that I don't even have to think about how to properly spell Qo'noS?
As far as I see it Worf still is the Ambassador to Qo'noS, like said he's just along for the ride in the movie, does it ever actually specify he is the Security/Tactical chief of the E-E?
As for why he's wearing a Starfleet uniform, did he have to resign from Starfleet? I don't know, in my mind he didn't, and he's just happy to help out while aboard the Enterprise with old buddies again.
And Tom Riker, maybe he was executed when Cardassia joined the Dominion, esp when the war started
* How sad is it that I don't even have to think about how to properly spell Qo'noS?
