Stuart Baird

A lot of Star Trek fans panned this one. I think partly because they felt it was too reminiscent of Wrath of Khan with Data playing the Spock role. (Well, compared to Into the Darkness....) I liked it though. I found it fascinating what the character of Praetor Shinzon and what it implied about Picard's potentials--how differently he might have wound up. And seriously, this is a lot better than several Trek films: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek: The Final Frontier, Star Trek: show more Generations and Star Trek: Insurrection. (And definitely better than the latest and lame Into the Darkness. So I'd call it middle of the pack. show less

An alien world's new dictator is a mad clone.

There are enough good ideas in it that it might have been a good movie, with a different director and a revised script. As it is, it's just sort of like, "I don't know, here are some spaceships, and guys in capes, and I guess this isn't Star Wars?"

Concept: C
Story: D
Characters: C
Dialog: C
Pacing: B
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: C
Acting: C
Music: C

Enjoyment: C plus

GPA: 2.0/4

A terrorist takes over a plane with the stated desire to get his leader back. What he really has is a plan to put chemical weapons in the air on the eastern seaboard of the United States. To prevent this, a team of special forces board the plane from a stealth aircraft hooked to the bottom of the plane. When things go bad with the stealth they have to take over the plane before Washington orders the plane shot down.

Pretty good movie, with a number of recognizable faces.

D (Bad).

Someone whose story we don't know becomes a fugitive.

A half-assed mess from start to finish.

(Feb. 2026)