Why did Star Trek movies have smaller budgets then other sci Fi movies

[cooleddie74]

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I thought I remembered reading that Nemesis was, at that point, given the biggest marketing push that a Trek film ever had.

It was. The film did poorly, not because it was poorly advertized, but because it sucked. It sucked so bad that even the hype of a major advertising campaign failed to camouflage the obviousness of its suckitude in any way.

Agreed. NEMESIS had spectacular effects and a big budget(for a TREK film of the old timeline). It was just a disappointing, shoddily-written film that got bad word of mouth online before it opened. A lot of devoted Trekkers just didn't like what they saw, read and heard before it came out. End of story.

 

[Galileo7]

Re: Why did Star Trek movies have smaller budgets then other sci Fi mo

.. It was just a disappointing, shoddily-written film that got bad word of mouth online before it opened. A lot of devoted Trekkers just didn't like what they saw, read and heard before it came out. End of story.

I wanted NEMESIS to be like TOS "Balance Of Terror" with Picard's 1701-E battling a rogue Romulan Warbird.

 

[cooleddie74]

Re: Why did Star Trek movies have smaller budgets then other sci Fi mo

.. It was just a disappointing, shoddily-written film that got bad word of mouth online before it opened. A lot of devoted Trekkers just didn't like what they saw, read and heard before it came out. End of story.

I wanted NEMESIS to be like TOS "Balance Of Terror" with Picard's 1701-E battling a rogue Romulan Warbird.

With Shinzon and his Reman crew in command...THAT would have made for an epic TREK film on par with KHAN. Two hours of claustrophobic cat-and-mouse with a creepy feel to it.

Instead we got what we got. (*Sighs*)

 

[RyanKCR]

Re: Why did Star Trek movies have smaller budgets then other sci Fi mo

.. It was just a disappointing, shoddily-written film that got bad word of mouth online before it opened. A lot of devoted Trekkers just didn't like what they saw, read and heard before it came out. End of story.

I wanted NEMESIS to be like TOS "Balance Of Terror" with Picard's 1701-E battling a rogue Romulan Warbird.

With Shinzon and his Reman crew in command...THAT would have made for an epic TREK film on par with KHAN. Two hours of claustrophobic cat-and-mouse with a creepy feel to it.

Instead we got what we got. (*Sighs*)

That's actually what I saw in that film. The problem is (and what I saw as a correction) is that the characters were not written for that type of story. No matter what they did, it would never have worked for those characters.

I had always imagined a TNG story with Q trying to take the smugness out of the crew by putting them on the Enterprise during the events of TWOK and see how they handled it. The characters as they originally were would not have been able to defeat Khan.

 

[Harvey]

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Well, Picard was so by-the-book that I'm sure he would have raised his shields long before Khan had the opportunity to fire, used the override code to disable the Reliant, and gone home happy.

 

[RAMA]

Re: Why did Star Trek movies have smaller budgets then other sci Fi mo

I thought I remembered reading that Nemesis was, at that point, given the biggest marketing push that a Trek film ever had.

It was. The film did poorly, not because it was poorly advertized, but because it sucked. It sucked so bad that even the hype of a major advertising campaign failed to camouflage the obviousness of its suckitude in any way.

Agreed. NEMESIS had spectacular effects and a big budget(for a TREK film of the old timeline). It was just a disappointing, shoddily-written film that got bad word of mouth online before it opened. A lot of devoted Trekkers just didn't like what they saw, read and heard before it came out. End of story.

While I disagree with the general perception of Nemesis here...my post addressed only the scale/budget of the film, and not the overall quality of it, which I will leave up to others.

 

[RAMA]

Re: Why did Star Trek movies have smaller budgets then other sci Fi mo

.. It was just a disappointing, shoddily-written film that got bad word of mouth online before it opened. A lot of devoted Trekkers just didn't like what they saw, read and heard before it came out. End of story.

I wanted NEMESIS to be like TOS "Balance Of Terror" with Picard's 1701-E battling a rogue Romulan Warbird.

With Shinzon and his Reman crew in command...THAT would have made for an epic TREK film on par with KHAN. Two hours of claustrophobic cat-and-mouse with a creepy feel to it.

Instead we got what we got. (*Sighs*)

I disagree...already done...enough with the cat and mouse. What we needed was a larger scale space battle, and they did do it to a large extent. I wish that it hadn't been two factions of the Romulan/Remans and it had been a more standard Rom vs UFP/Enterprise battle....

 

[Galileo7]

Re: Why did Star Trek movies have smaller budgets then other sci Fi mo

I wish that it hadn't been two factions of the Romulan/Remans and it had been a more standard Rom vs UFP/Enterprise battle....

Agreed. Romulans.