FABIO wrote:

Kahn- Meaningful intro that will come into play later on.

Nemesis- Pointless Road Warrior segment.


Kahn- Villains gains control of existing Federation ship.

Nemesis- Romulans trust and allow their slave race that hates their guts to construct and man an unstoppable battleship with build in doomsday weapon and have it orbit their planet.


Kahn- Cat and mouse chase where the Enterprise overcomes a major disadvantage with clever tactical maneuvering. The benchmark in capital ship combat for future games and movies.

Nemesis- No chase. Enterprise overcomes a major tactical advantage with lots and lots of stupid shit and zero use of tactics.


Kahn tactic: Use build in overrides in computer to level the playing field.

Nemesis tactic: Take advantage of the villain wanting to fuck Troi via telepathic link in order to detect the villain's cloaked ship.

Kahn tactic: Fake out enemy into believing Enterprise is more damaged than it really is.

Nemesis tactic: Physically ram a ship at close to light speed and come out relatively unscathed because the Enterprise's saucer is all pointy like a knife and stuff.

Kahn tactic: Lure villain's ship into a nebula where they will lose their shield/sensor advantage.

Nemesis tactic: Beam Picard aboard the enemy ship and have him John Woo his way past hundreds of enemy crew to reach the bridge.

Kahn Tactic: After the villain's ship is crippled and dead in space, activate a doomsday bomb that will kill everyone before they can get away....unless Spock can expose himself to a deadly radiation leak to make repairs (left all their radiation suits at home I guess).

Nemesis tactic: After the villain's ship is crippled and dead in space, yet somehow the doomsday weapon that takes up 80% of its superstructure is still intact, activate said doomsday weapon to kill Enterprise. Hey, every single external weapon may be out, but this power guzzling planet-killer that runs through the entire ship is the only thing that still works! Enterprise cannot get away....unless Spock Data can sacrificie himself by.....leaping across empty space onto the other ship, make his way to engineering, and fire a hand phaser into the reactor.