Star Trek Nemesis opens tomorrow, and all the media is abuzz with advance reviews and speculation as to how well it will perform at the box office, especially in light of the fact that The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers opens only five days afterwards. MSNBC says that Nemesis obeys the rule of even-numbered Star Trek films being good, but that it falls short of appealing to audiences not already familiar with Star Trek, in the way that 1986’s “The Voyage Home” 1996s First Contact did. At odds with being billed as the “darkest” Star Trek film yet, it suffers from “a case of the cutes”, with an overly long prologue that director Stuart Baird, being a newcomer to the Trek franchise, wanted to cut, but Trek’s shepherd, Rick Berman, insisted upon. Filmcritic.com outright hated it, saying it’s the worst Trek film since “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier” (which pretty much everyone agrees was terrible indeed), having a dumb plot and endless contrivances to keep it going. CNN has an interesting article about the villains of Trek, implying that with the exception of “The Voyage Home”, the success of the Trek films seems to be associated to the calibre of the movie’s villain. In Nemesis, British actor Tom Hardy is said to have turned in a solid, villainous performance. Regardless of whether it’s good or bad, whether I’ll be delighted or disappointed, I know I’ll plunk down my money and see it because, just like the Star Wars movies, I just can’t help myself.