Finding out that “God” is just some prisoner trapped at the center of the galaxy who wants to steal a starship to escape isn’t bleak? Perhaps not for those of us who already knew God isn’t real, but still.
It’s a generational repeat. The captain had to get behind the camera and ruin the franchise somehow. It just took Terry Matalis 30 years to come back and give us our Star Trek VI for the next generation with PIC S03
Nemesis was a bit lame but still a decent enough film. Generations on the other end could be single TNH episode and it would be equally engaging and interesting.
I liked how they show a young Picard in a photo at some point and he's even more bald than present Picard and it's like the opposite of most people who lose their hair as they age.
I like it, it's a bit over the top at times though.
It felt like a flawed prototype of what became JJ trek films later on, which while flawed on their own were much more successful at being the big action blockbuster Nemesis was trying to be, but ended up out of character and style for the TNG crew.
My take is that it's best viewed as a 2 parter from the show. The first part ending after the "badmiral" admits the Federation had chosen to ignore the plight of the Ba'ku.