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I saw Nemesis once 20 years ago, and going in with very low expectations I thought that it was better than people said, but everything I remember about the story is pretty terrible. I did not become a fan until a few years after Generations came out, but I had friends who were and I remember the reception, and Nemesis was by far the most poorly received TNG movie, at least based on the opinions of people I knew. First Contact is considered to be the only good one, but alot of people thought that the other two were good enough when they saw them in the theaters, and didn't decide that they were lame until the rewatched them on VHS. At least that's how I remember it.

As far as comparisons to The Final Frontier, it has different kinds of problems. TFF is dumber, but Nemesis was more offensive to fan sensibilities.

For a direct comparison, Generations is actually more like The Final Frontier, and if it's not as stupid it's at least more boring. It also tries to provide the type of nostalgic ending to TNG that the series already had. In retrospect, I think everyone admits that First Contact basically did the only thing a TNG movie could have done that really justified extending the series any further at that point, by bringing back the most popular enemy alien race and giving us the kind of story that would have been too expensive to do with them on TV. TNG wasn't action-oriented enough to warrant more than one movie like that, and the other things the show did had already been done successfully on television.