From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   >  "David E. Powell" wrote:   
   >    
   >> Here's an idea for "Nemesis" that they could have done.   
   >>   
   >> Drop the whole Reman thing and drop the whole clone thing.   
   >    
   > I still don't understand the purpose of the clone, except to somehow    
   > mirror Data and his retarded cousin, that they murder right after the    
   > film ends.    
      
   They didn't kill Special Data that I remember - but don't make me watch    
   it again.  Just looked like we'd see Data live and learn as the previous    
   Data did.   
      
     I mean, if Stewart had been playing the close, I could have   
   > seen it as a sop to his tremendous and unwarranted ego, the way they    
   > were forced to put in the 'candygram, your entire family is dead' scene    
   > in Generations just because he felt like doing a tragic scene that day,    
   > but a clone of Picard *not* played by Stewart?  What the Hell was the    
   > point?   
   >    
      
   My friend, you have summed up the main reason this film flopped.   
      
   Natalie   
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