Summary
- Patrick Stewart shares his disappointment in Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis, calling them both a letdown.
- Stewart believes Star Trek: First Contact was the high point of the Next Generation movies and thought they were on the verge of establishing a successful franchise.
- By the time Star Trek: Nemesis was released, Stewart had lost interest in sci-fi and wanted no further involvement with the franchise or outer space.
Patrick Stewart shares his opinion on the final two Star Trek: The Next Generation movies, and he doesn't like Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis either. After 7 years of playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the small screen, Stewart led the TNG cast's takeover of the Star Trek movie franchise. Stewart found teaming up with William Shatner's Captain T. Kirk to be "a pleasure" in the first TNG movie, Star Trek Generations, although he felt the film itself "plays like an extended, expensive episode rather than a feature film."
In his autobiography, "Making It So: A Memoir," Sir Patrick Stewart echoed Star Trek fans' general opinion that Star Trek: First Contact was the high point of the Star Trek: The Next Generation movies. Stewart writes about his disappointment in the two sequels that followed First Contact in "Making It So." Read the excerpt below:
When Star Trek: First Contact came out, I was convinced that we were on the threshold of establishing a potent movie franchise. Unfortunately, the two films that followed it, Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis, were both a letdown. And Nemesis, which came out in 2002, was particularly weak. I didn’t have a single exciting scene to play… But Nemesis was a dud, as far as I was concerned. By the time it had come and gone, I wanted no further part of sci-fi, uniforms, or anything to do with outer space. I was convinced that my time as Jean-Luc Picard was consigned forever to the past.
