Stewart and Spiner Spin NEMESIS

Make it so: bring hankies, advises the good captain; eyes out for Spot!

By Anne Moore     October 01, 2002
Source: CINESCAPE reporting

THE OFFICIAL 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION presented by Creation Entertainment was held this last weekend (September 27th 29th, 2002) in Pasadena, California. The stars of TNG: Patrick Stewart, Gates McFadden, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, Wil Wheaton; and NEMESIS author John Logan were primarily on hand to promote the upcoming NEMESIS movie which will be released on December 13th.

All of the actors did an incredible job of the promotion without revealing almost anything new about the highly anticipated release of the 10th STAR TREK movie. But Stewart and Spiner did drop one or two hints just to keep everyone speculating.

Stewart had seen NEMESIS 10 days before the convention. While it had not been color-corrected and several of the special effects had yet to be included he was very impressed with the results.

"It has some very intense relationships in the film. But the one thing it has, which perhaps we haven't quite had since GENERATIONS, is emotion. It's emotionally a very, very intense movie and the last half an hour is quite a roller coaster ride. I warn you... you should probably pick up one of those little pocket tissues to take with you. There is some sad but wonderful stuff at the end of the movie."

"If this is to be the end of THE NEXT GENERATION, then it's a beautiful and appropriate way to end it. I can think of no better climax to our fifteen-plus years than we should go out with NEMESIS."

In a fan-pleasing slip, Brent Spiner gave part of one scene away as he told the audience, "Spot [Data's cat] will be in it briefly."

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