292: I Have an Appointment with the Tholian Ambassador

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2016

⏱️ 85 minutes

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The worst of the Next Generation “Star Trek” movies, “Insurrection” and “Nemesis”, are in our sights. Why don’t they work? What were the producers thinking? How tenuous was Star Trek’s life as a franchise that two bad movies in a row could kill it? You’ve got to laugh to keep from crying.

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0:26.8	The incomparable number 292, March 2016.
0:34.5	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:36.4	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:37.4	We're back with the second edition of the Star Trek bad movie thing that we're doing.
0:44.3	Why, why?
0:45.3	Why?
0:47.2	For this episode, it is Bad Star Trek Movies, The Next Generation, as we watched Star Trek Insurrection from 1998 and Star Trek
0:57.2	Nemesis from 2002.
1:00.8	Star Trek Nemesis, you may remember, as the one that killed the franchise for several
1:05.4	years.
1:07.0	Yay!
1:08.9	Although it was, you know, the six years later, JJ Abrams brought it back.
1:12.2	But this was the end of the line for the next generation crew.
1:15.0	So to talk about these movies in turn and give them a good beating as if they were pinatas, just like the last time.
1:21.7	When we talked about Star Trek 5 and Star Trek promotion picture, I'm joined by a different panel of people.
1:26.3	But one person remains in common. That's Mr. Scott
1:28.8	McNulty, my Star Trek go-to expert. Hi, Scott. Hello, Jason. Have you ever experienced a perfect
1:35.0	moment? We'll talk about that later, the bonus track. Dan Morn's here. Hi, Dan.
1:44.7	Jason, if you had lived my life, would you not do the same as me and be on this podcast
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