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Star Trek: Nemesis

2002, Sci-fi/Adventure, 1h 57m

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Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) diverts the starship Enterprise from its scheduled trip to Cmdr. Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Counselor Troi's (Marina Sirtis) wedding to negotiate a peace treaty with the Romulans. Picard is shocked when Shinzon (Tom Hardy), the new Praetor of the Romulans, admits to being a clone of him. When the crew members discover a break-in on their computer, they are forced into a life-or-death battle to stop Shinzon's Warbird before it can destroy the Earth.

Rating: PG-13 (Sci-Fi Action Peril|Scene of Sexual Content|Sci-Fi Action Violence)

Genre: Sci-fi, Adventure

Original Language: English

Director: Stuart Baird

Producer: Rick Berman

Writer: Rick Berman , Brent Spiner , John Logan

Release Date (Theaters): Dec 13, 2002 wide

Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2011

Box Office (Gross USA): $500.0K

Runtime: 1h 57m

Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Production Co: Paramount

Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby SR

Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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Patrick Stewart

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Jonathan Frakes

Commander William T. Riker

Brent Spiner

Lieutenant Commander Data

LeVar Burton

Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge

Michael Dorn

Lieutenant Commander Worf

Marina Sirtis

Commander Deanna Troi

Gates McFadden

Dr. Beverly Crusher

Ron Perlman

Shannon Cochran

Senator Tal'aura

Commander Donatra

Jude Ciccolella

Commander Suran

Praetor Hiren

Michael Owen

Helm Officer Branson

Kate Mulgrew

Admiral Kathryn Janeway

Robertson Dean

Reman Officer

David Ralphe

J. Patrick McCormack

Wil Wheaton

Wesley Crusher

Stuart Baird

Rick Berman

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Marty Hornstein

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Jeffrey Kimball

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Herman F. Zimmerman

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Dallas Puett

Film Editing

Bob Ringwood

Costume Design

Peter Lauritson

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Michael Westmore

Makeup Designer

Makeup Supervisor

Terry Frazee

Special Effects Coordinator

Mark Forker

Visual Effects Supervisor

Jerry Goldsmith

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Here is the kiss goodbye from the TNG ensemble, although perhaps less than a kiss and more of a postcard. And so we are lead through this roadside museum/cafe/diner dedicated to the "the good ol' days', where nods are halfheartedly made to all the familiar and recognizable tropes of the television show, and all the nourishment offered is kinda old and lukewarm. Ho-hum. Warp out of here.

It's difficult for a particular franchise of films to live on for an extended period of time, let alone a long TV series and 4 feature films. With uninspired direction and a gradually silly film, It seems that after 15 years, this iteration of the Enterprise crew just ran out of gas. Though 'Insurrection' did well at further developing the crew of the Enterprise, 'Nemesis' puts a heavy focus on its villain. This time played by newcomer (at the time) Tom Hardy. Hardy plays Shinzon, a mysterious character hell-bent on completing his Romulan mission with a background linked to Captain Picard himself. Although the dialogue isn't always the best, Hardy shows just how good of an actor he would become, especially up against someone as revered as Patrick Stewart. Director Stuart Baird supposedly had never seen an episode of The Next Generation, and the way he handled the direction and tone of this film definitely showed that lack of knowledge. I think his attempt at creating a story that felt very different from what came before is admirable, but too much liberties taken and you may have some upset fans. This also comes into play when you think about the strange inclusion of a brother to Data, and Shinzon being a clone of Picard. I didn't find either of those two story lines compelling, nor did it really bring anything new to that approach of storytelling. It's only when I watched the actors bring much more out of the dialogue that I realized there could have been something great here. If for anything else, Shinzon is an extremely active villain and Hardy doesn't waste the extra screen time, though I was a bit turned off by a unique communication device he uses early on in the film, seriously it's just uncomfortable (and not Star Trek at all) for the wrong reasons. With diminished screen time for the Enterprise crew, they barely leave the bridge, except for one out of place Mad Max style desert sequence. Nemesis is just one of those Star Trek films I can't seem to figure out. I can tell the franchise fatigue seemed to set in, but there's still plenty of good with the performances of the crew and the newcomer Tom Hardy. +Hardy showed promise +Picard and Data's performances -But their strange subplots were unnecessary -Director/writers uncomfortable plot choices 5.4/10

Final Star Trek film featuring the Generations crew is a pretty good final, before the J.J Abrams reboot, and it's a step up from the previous film, and it manages to be an effective blend of Scio Fi and thrilling action, enough to please fans of the show and films. Although not a perfect tenth film, Nemesis is a worthwhile picture, one that is quite entertaining from start to finish. A young Tom Hardy plays the villain here, and he gives the film's strongest performance. Here Hardy would show glimpses of what was to come later in his career. Add to that, a good story, and you have a worthwhile Star Trek film worth seeing if you've enjoyed the other entries in the series. Although not breaking any new ground in the film franchise, Nemesis is a worthy final for the Generations era of Star Trek films, and is a film that is also underrated. The film may be flawed, and it does fall short of what it could have been, but it does manage to be a highly engaging picture that is much better than what you might think. I enjoyed Nemesis and I thought for a tenth film, it managed to be quite good, even if it wasn't perfect. With that being said, there is enough thrills and entertainment value to be had here if you're in the mood for a fun little Sci Fi film. This one may not be the best Star Trek film, but it surely isn't the worst either. For what it offers, it has enough momentum to appeal to genre fans as well as Star Trek fans alike. This is a pleasant ending to the original series before the reboots, and it manages to be a pretty good final, despite the fact that it could have been a bit better as well.

Not bad. I don't feel that Tom Hardy's character does enough to hurt Picard for him to be considered his nemesis, though-kind of dumb considering this is the film's title. You also don't see Shinzon become any kind of complicated character-he doesn't struggle with any of his decisions, or does anything good, just evil. This is the only thing that really annoys me about the film. It wouldn't have been that difficult to make him a complicated character. This could've become a legendary rivalry between these two characters, but instead falls short of being great.

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I'm sitting there during "Star Trek: Nemesis," the 10th " Star Trek " movie, and I'm smiling like a good sport and trying to get with the dialogue about the isotronic Ruritronic signature from planet Kolarus III, or whatever the hell they were saying, maybe it was "positronic," and gradually it occurs to me that "Star Trek" is over for me. I've been looking at these stories for half a lifetime, and, let's face it, they're out of gas.

There might have been a time when the command deck of Starship Enterprise looked exciting and futuristic, but these days it looks like a communications center for security guards. Starships rocket at light speeds halfway across the universe, but when they get into battles the effect is roughly the same as on board a World War II bomber. Fearsome death rays strike the Enterprise, and what happens? Sparks fly out from the ceiling and the crew gets bounced around in their seats like passengers on the No. 36 bus. This far in the future they wouldn't have sparks because they wouldn't have electricity, because in a world where you can beam matter--beam it, mind you--from here to there, power obviously no longer lives in the wall and travels through wires.

I've also had it with the force shield that protects the Enterprise. The power on this thing is always going down. In movie after movie after movie I have to sit through sequences during which the captain is tersely informed that the front shield is down to 60 percent, or the back shield is down to 10 percent, or the side shield is leaking energy, and the captain tersely orders that power be shifted from the back to the sides or all put in the front, or whatever, and I'm thinking, life is too short to sit through 10 movies in which the power is shifted around on these shields. The shields have been losing power for decades now, and here it is the Second Generation of Star Trek, and they still haven't fixed them. Maybe they should get new batteries.

I tried to focus on the actors. Patrick Stewart , as Capt. Picard, is a wonderful actor. I know because I have seen him elsewhere. It is always said of Stewart that his strength as an actor is his ability to deliver bad dialogue with utter conviction. I say it is time to stop encouraging him. Here's an idea: Instead of giving him bad dialogue, why not give him good dialogue, and see what he can do with that? Here is a man who has played Shakespeare.

The plot of "Star Trek: Nemesis" involves a couple of strands, one involving a clone of Data ( Brent Spiner ), which somehow seems redundant, and another involving what seems to be a peace feeler from the Romulan empire. In the course of the movie the Romulan Senate is wiped out by a deadly blue powder and the sister planet of Remus stages an uprising, or something, against being made to work as slaves in the mines. Surely slavery is not an efficient economic system in a world of hyperdrives, but never mind: Turns out that Picard shares something unexpected with his rival commander, although once I tell you that you can no doubt guess what it is, since the movie doesn't work you very hard.

There is a scene in the movie in which one starship rams another one. You would think this would destroy them both, and there are a lot of sparks and everybody has to hold onto their seats, but the "Star Trek" world involves physical laws which reflect only the needs of the plot. If one ship rammed another and they were both destroyed and everyone died, and the movie ended with a lot of junk floating around in space, imagine the faces of the people in the audience.

I think it is time for "Star Trek" to make a mighty leap forward another 1,000 years into the future, to a time when starships do not look like rides in a 1970s amusement arcade, when aliens do not look like humans with funny foreheads, and when wonder, astonishment and literacy are permitted back into the series. Star Trek was kind of terrific once, but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy.

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Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

Rated PG-13 For Sci-Fi Action Violence and Peril and A Scene Of Sexual Content

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Star Trek: Nemesis is a 2002 American science fiction film directed by Stuart Baird . It is the tenth film in the Star Trek franchise, as well as the fourth and final film to star the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation . It was written by John Logan from a story developed by Logan, Brent Spiner , and producer Rick Berman. In the film, which is set in the 24th century, the crew of the USS Enterprise -E are forced to deal with a threat to the United Federation of Planets from a clone of Captain Picard named Shinzon, who has taken control of the Romulan Star Empire in a coup d'état.

Principal photography for the film took place from November 2001 to March 2002. Nemesis held its world premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on December 9, 2002. The film was released in North America on December 13, 2002 by Paramount Pictures, and received generally mixed reviews, with publications criticizing it for being the least successful in the franchise. The film was a box office failure, earning $67 million worldwide against a $60 million budget. Plans for a final film featuring The Next Generation cast were scrapped, and the film series was rebooted instead with Star Trek in 2009, which was a box office success. The television series Star Trek: Picard , a continuation of The Next Generation and Nemesis set two decades after the latter at the end of the 24th century, premiered in 2020.

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On Romulus, members of the Romulan Senate debate terms of peace and alliance from the Reman rebel leader Shinzon. The Remans are a slave race of the Romulan Empire from the neighboring planet Remus, used as miners and cannon fodder. While a faction of the military supports Shinzon, the Praetor and Senate are opposed to an alliance. After rejecting the motion, the Praetor and senators are disintegrated by a device left in the room.

Meanwhile, the crew of the Starship Enterprise prepare to bid farewell to newly married first officer Commander William Riker and Counselor Deanna Troi. The android operations officer Data serenades the couple with a rendition of "Blue Skies". En route to the ceremony, they discover an energy reading on the planet Kolarus III near the Romulan Neutral Zone. Captain Jean-Luc Picard, security/tactical officer Worf, and Data land on the planet and discover the remnants of an android resembling Data named B-4. The crew deduce it to be an earlier version of Data. The trio then flee the planet, with B-4, as they are attacked by the native pre-industrial Kolarans.

Enterprise is ordered on a diplomatic mission to Romulus, where Shinzon has taken over the Empire and professes a desire for peace with the Federation. On arrival, they learn Shinzon is a clone of Picard, secretly created by the Romulans to plant a high-ranking spy into the Federation. The project was abandoned when Shinzon was still a child, and he was left on Remus to die as a slave. After many years, Shinzon became a leader of the Remans, and constructed a heavily armed flagship, Scimitar . The Enterprise crew discover that Scimitar is producing low levels of deadly thalaron radiation, the same radiation that killed the entire Romulan senate at the beginning of the film. There are also unexpected attempts to communicate with the Enterprise computers, and Shinzon violates Troi's mind through the telepathy of his Reman viceroy.

The medical officer, Dr Beverly Crusher, discovers that Shinzon is aging rapidly because of the process used to clone him, and the only possible treatment is a transfusion of Picard's blood. Shinzon kidnaps Picard and B-4, having planted the android on Kolarus as a lure. Data reveals he swapped places with B-4, and rescues Picard, by stealing a Reman attack vessel and breaking out of the hangar. They determine Shinzon plans to use the warship to invade the Federation, using its thalaron radiation generator to eradicate all life on Earth and any other planet he sees fit.

Enterprise races back to Federation space, but is ambushed by Scimitar in the Bassen Rift, which prevents subspace communication. Despite the aid of two Romulan Warbirds, Enterprise is heavily damaged. Picard rams Scimitar with Enterprise , crippling both ships. Shinzon activates the thalaron weapon in an act of mutually assured destruction. Picard boards Scimitar alone to face Shinzon, and kills him by impaling him on a metal strut. With Enterprise 's transporters damaged, Data leaps the distance between the two ships equipped with an emergency transporter, beaming Picard off the ship, and then sacrifices himself to destroy the thalaron generator and Scimitar with it. The crew mourn Data, and the surviving Romulan commander, Donatra, offers them her gratitude for saving the Empire.

Back at Earth, Picard bids farewell to Riker, who is leaving to command the USS Titan . Picard meets with B-4, and discovers that, before he boarded the Scimitar, Data downloaded the engrams of his neural net into B-4, allowing him to live on. As B-4 starts singing "Blue Skies", Picard leaves B-4's quarters and smiles.

Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Commander / Captain William T. Riker
Brent Spiner as Lieutenant Commander Data / B-4
LeVar Burton as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Commander Worf
Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Sirtis was "ecstatic" about the role Troi plays in the movie. She was pleased with the wedding scene, saying that the dress she wore for Nemesis was nicer than the one she wore at her actual wedding. She was happy to work once again with Wil Wheaton and Whoopi Goldberg, but felt that the film would be the last one with the entire cast of The Next Generation. She remained certain that it would not be the last Star Trek film to be made, as she thought that Paramount would want to make a film involving a variety of characters from the different Star Trek series.
Tom Hardy as Praetor Shinzon, the leader of the Reman people.
Baird and Berman had been searching for someone who resembled Patrick Stewart but looked about 25 years younger; at one point they considered Jude Law. Baird specifically wanted an unknown actor, and Hardy auditioned by tape after Stewart asked Hardy's agent if he thought any of his clients were suitable for the role. Hardy was filming Simon: An English Legionnaire in Morocco at the time,: 37 and decided against using the requested text for the audition. Instead, he got possession of a full script for Nemesis, used a different part of the script, and filmed it partly nude.: 38 He was flown to Los Angeles to do a screen test with Stewart; Hardy later described his performance there as "appalling". However, he had recorded himself performing the same piece in a hotel room the night before, and gave that tape to Baird, resulting in his being cast as Shinzon a few days later.: 39
Ron Perlman as the Reman Viceroy.
Perlman and Hardy became friends on the set. Perlman said in an interview eight years after the release of the film, "I loved him when I first met him. I loved working with him. I found him to be really smart, really a great kid.": 43
Dina Meyer as Romulan Commander Donatra
John Berg as Romulan Senator
Kate Mulgrew as Admiral Kathryn Janeway
Shannon Cochran as Senator Tal'aura
Jude Ciccolella as Commander Suran
Alan Dale as Praetor Hiren
Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher (non-speaking role, apart from a deleted scene)
Majel Barrett voice of the Enterprise's computer
Stuart Baird voice of the Scimitar's computer
Bryan Singer as Kelly (uncredited)
Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan (uncredited)

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Development and filming [ ].

Principal photography began in December 2001 in Southern California. The film was cut by about a third from a much longer running time. Many of the deleted scenes in the movie were "character moments", which served to further the characters' relationships with one another; the reason why they were cut was to put more emphasis on the battle between the Enterprise -E and the Scimitar . Rick Berman has stated that about 50 minutes' worth of scenes were filmed but cut (though not necessarily all of them were usable in a final form).

In promotional interviews for the film, Patrick Stewart stated that room for a sequel was left as B-4 begins singing "Blue Skies".

Direction and writing [ ]

Stuart Baird was brought in to direct Nemesis by executive producer Rick Berman. It was Baird's third film following U.S. Marshals and Executive Decision , although he had directed a variety of second units previously. Baird did not have a background in Star Trek ; he was aware of the films and television series but did not consider himself an expert on the subject. Berman explained that Baird would bring "fresh blood" to the film and that Berman had enjoyed "the sense of fun and action that existed in Executive Decision ." Baird said in a promotional interview that this resulted in a non-typical Baird film, saying that it was "perhaps a little different from the dynamics of the previous films." He wanted to add energy to the action scenes and added some set pieces, such as the car chase. He called that scene a "signature piece" for the film, which turns dark after the crew is put in danger by the inhabitants of the planet. He also found that the cast would discuss any issues they had with the direction he gave to their characters. Despite Frakes' being in the cast and having directed the previous two Star Trek films, Baird decided not to seek his opinion on the direction of the film. He said that there was no resentment on set, noting that Frakes was completing work on directing Clockstoppers at the time and so likely could not have taken on directing Nemesis even if Baird had not been given the job. Baird had hoped that Nemesis would be enough of a success that he could consider whether to take the lead on a future, eleventh Star Trek film.

Make-up [ ]

The make-up team sought to make Hardy look more similar to Stewart by creating latex prosthetics from moulds of the latter's face. These included numerous versions of noses and chins, and in order to reduce the visible size of Hardy's lips a fake scar was added.

The music to Star Trek: Nemesis was composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith , who composed previous entries in the franchise, such as the Academy Award-nominated score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , Star Trek: First Contact , and Star Trek: Insurrection , as well as the themes to the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (arranged by Dennis McCarthy) and Star Trek: Voyager . One of the final works written before his death in 2004, Goldsmith had also previously collaborated with Baird on Executive Decision and U.S. Marshals .

The score opens with airy synthesizers under a trumpet performing an augmented triad before preceding into Alexander Courage's Star Trek: The Original Series fanfare. The score then quickly transitions into a much darker theme to accompany the conflict between the Reman and Romulan empires. Goldsmith also composed a new 5-note theme to accompany the character Shinzon and the Scimitar , which is manipulated throughout the score to reflect the multiple dimensions of the character. The score is book-ended with Goldsmith's theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture , following a brief excerpt from the song "Blue Skies" by Irving Berlin and the original Star Trek fanfare.

Theatrical Trailer [ ]

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Star Trek: Nemesis

Star Trek: Nemesis is a 2002 American science fiction film directed by Stuart Baird . It is the tenth film in the Star Trek franchise, as well as the fourth and final film to star the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation . It was written by John Logan from a story developed by Logan, Brent Spiner , and producer Rick Berman . In the film, which is set in the 24th century, the crew of the USS Enterprise -E are forced to deal with a threat to the United Federation of Planets from a clone of Captain Picard named Shinzon , who has taken control of the Romulan Star Empire in a coup d'état .

Development and filming

Direction and writing, make-up and effects, critical response, further reading, external links.

Principal photography for the film took place from November 2001 to March 2002. Nemesis held its world premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on December 9, 2002. The film was released in North America on December 13, 2002 by Paramount Pictures , and received generally negative reviews, with publications considering it to be the worst in the franchise. The film was a box office failure , earning $67 million worldwide against a $60 million budget. Plans for a final film featuring The Next Generation cast were scrapped, and the film series was rebooted instead with Star Trek in 2009, which was a box office success. The television series Star Trek: Picard , a continuation of The Next Generation and Nemesis set two decades after the latter at the end of the 24th century , premiered in 2020.

Meanwhile on Earth, the crew of the Starship Enterprise prepare to bid farewell to newly married officers William Riker and Deanna Troi . The android officer Data serenades the couple with a rendition of " Blue Skies " at a reception. En route to a second ceremony on Troi's homeworld, they discover an energy reading on the planet Kolarus III near the Romulan Neutral Zone. Captain Jean-Luc Picard, security officer Worf, and Data land on the planet and discover the remnants of an android resembling Data, named B-4. The trio are attacked by the native population, and leave the planet with B-4, which they deduce to be an earlier prototype built by Data's creator.

Enterprise is ordered on a diplomatic mission to Romulus, where Shinzon has taken over the Empire and professes a desire for peace with the Federation. On arrival, they learn Shinzon is a clone of Picard, secretly created by the Romulans to plant a high-ranking spy into the Federation. The project was abandoned when Shinzon was still a child, and he was left on Remus to die as a slave. After many years, Shinzon became a leader of the Remans, and constructed a heavily armed flagship, Scimitar . The Enterprise crew discover that Scimitar is producing low levels of deadly thalaron radiation, the same radiation used to wipe out the Romulan Senate. There are also unexpected attempts to communicate with the Enterprise computers, and Shinzon invades Troi's mind through the telepathy of his Reman viceroy.

Medical officer Doctor Beverly Crusher discovers that Shinzon is dying rapidly because of the process used to clone him, and the only possible treatment is a transfusion of Picard's blood. Shinzon kidnaps Picard and B-4, having planted the android on Kolarus as a lure. Data reveals he swapped places with B-4, and rescues Picard. They determine Shinzon plans to use Scimitar to invade the Federation, using its thalaron radiation generator to eradicate all life on Earth.

Enterprise races back to Federation space but is ambushed by Scimitar in the Bassen Rift, a region which prevents subspace communication. Despite the aid of two Romulan Warbirds, Enterprise is heavily damaged. Picard rams his ship into Scimitar , crippling both vessels. Shinzon activates the thalaron weapon in an act of mutually assured destruction . Picard boards Scimitar alone to face Shinzon, and kills him by impaling him on a metal strut. With Enterprise ' s transporters down, Data leaps the distance between the two ships equipped with an emergency transporter, beaming Picard off the ship, and sacrifices himself to destroy the thalaron generator and Scimitar with it. The crew mourn Data, and the surviving Romulan commander, Donatra, offers them her gratitude for saving the Empire.

Back at Earth, Picard bids farewell to Riker, who is leaving with Troi to command the USS Titan . Picard meets with B-4, and discovers that, before he boarded the Scimitar , Data downloaded his memories into B-4, allowing him to live on. As B-4 starts singing "Blue Skies", Picard leaves B-4's quarters and smiles.

Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Commander / Captain William T. Riker
Brent Spiner as Lieutenant Commander Data / B-4
LeVar Burton as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Commander Worf
Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Tom Hardy as Praetor Shinzon , the leader of the Reman people.
Ron Perlman as the Reman Viceroy
Dina Meyer as Romulan Commander Donatra
John Berg as Romulan Senator
Kate Mulgrew as Admiral Kathryn Janeway
Shannon Cochran as Senator Tal'aura
Jude Ciccolella as Commander Suran
Alan Dale as Praetor Hiren
Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher (non-speaking role, apart from a deleted scene)
Majel Barrett voice of the Enterprise ' s computer
Stuart Baird voice of the Scimitar ' s computer
Bryan Singer as Kelly (uncredited)
Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan (uncredited)

Baird and Berman had been searching for someone who resembled Patrick Stewart but looked about 25 years younger; at one point they considered Jude Law . Baird specifically wanted an unknown actor, and Hardy auditioned by tape after Stewart asked Hardy's agent if he thought any of his clients were suitable for the role. Hardy was filming Simon: An English Legionnaire in Morocco at the time, [3] : 37 and decided against using the requested text for the audition. Instead, he got possession of a full script for Nemesis , used a different part of the script, and filmed it partly nude. [3] : 38 He was flown to Los Angeles to do a screen test with Stewart; Hardy later described his performance there as "appalling". However, he had recorded himself performing the same piece in a hotel room the night before, and gave that tape to Baird, resulting in his being cast as Shinzon a few days later. [3] : 39

Sirtis was "ecstatic" about the role Troi plays in the movie. [4] She was pleased with the wedding scene, saying that the dress she wore for Nemesis was nicer than the one she wore at her actual wedding. She was happy to work once again with Wil Wheaton and Whoopi Goldberg , but felt that the film would be the last one with the entire cast of The Next Generation . She remained certain that it would not be the last Star Trek film to be made, as she thought that Paramount would want to make a film involving a variety of characters from the different Star Trek series. [4]

Perlman and Hardy became friends on the set. Perlman said in an interview eight years after the release of the film: "I loved him when I first met him. I loved working with him. I found him to be really smart, really a great kid." [3] : 43

Principal photography began in December 2001 in Southern California. [5]

In promotional interviews for the film, Patrick Stewart stated that room for a sequel was intentionally left. [6]

Stuart Baird was brought in to direct Nemesis by executive producer Rick Berman. [7] It was Baird's third film following US Marshals and Executive Decision , although he had directed a variety of second units previously. Baird did not have a background in Star Trek ; he was aware of the films and television series, but did not consider himself an expert on the subject. [8] Berman explained that Baird would bring "fresh blood" to the film and that Berman had enjoyed "the sense of fun and action that existed in Executive Decision ." [9] Baird said in a promotional interview that this resulted in a non-typical Baird film, saying that it was "perhaps a little different from the dynamics of the previous films." [8] He wanted to add energy to the action scenes and added some set pieces, such as the car chase. He called that scene a "signature piece" for the film, which turns dark after the crew is put in danger by the inhabitants of the planet. [8] He also found that the cast would discuss any issues they had with the direction he gave to their characters. Despite Frakes' being in the cast and having directed the previous two Star Trek films, Baird decided not to seek his opinion on the direction of the film. He said that there was no resentment on set, noting that Frakes was completing work on directing Clockstoppers at the time and so likely could not have taken on directing Nemesis even if Baird had not been given the job. Baird had hoped that Nemesis would be enough of a success that he could consider whether to take the lead on a future, eleventh Star Trek film. [8]

Special effects were done by Digital Domain . Although the majority of the exterior shots of ships were computer generated , a practical 17-foot Enterprise saucer was built and collided into a model of the Scimitar for the film's climax. [10]

The music to Star Trek: Nemesis was composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith , who composed previous entries in the franchise, such as the Academy Award -nominated score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , Star Trek: First Contact , and Star Trek: Insurrection , as well as the themes to the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (arranged by Dennis McCarthy ) and Star Trek: Voyager . He had also scored both of Baird's previous films, Executive Decision and U.S. Marshals . Nemesis was one of the final works written before Goldsmith's death in 2004.

The score opens with airy synthesizers under a trumpet performing an augmented triad before preceding into Alexander Courage 's Star Trek: The Original Series fanfare. The score then quickly transitions into a much darker theme to accompany the conflict between the Remans and Romulans . Goldsmith also composed a new 5-note theme to accompany the character Shinzon and the Scimitar , which is manipulated throughout the score to reflect the multiple dimensions of the character. The score is book-ended with Goldsmith's theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture , following a brief excerpt from the song " Blue Skies " by Irving Berlin and the original Star Trek fanfare. [11]

Nemesis had comparatively little marketing, despite releasing so long after the previous film. Merchandise included a line of action figures, trading card set, soundtrack, novelization, and tie-in official magazines. Regional food promotions with Safeway Grocery Stores and Del Taco occurred in Southern California. [12]

On May 20, 2003, Nemesis was released on DVD in both anamorphic widescreen and full screen editions in Region 1 , and was also released on VHS . The initial DVD release contained an audio commentary by director Stuart Baird, four featurettes on the film's production, seven deleted scenes, a photo gallery, and a preview for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine on DVD at Amazon.com . Also on October 4, 2005, Star Trek: Nemesis was released on UMD in widescreen for Region 1 only; it is the only Star Trek film or show ever released on UMD. The initial release was followed up with a "Special Collector's Edition" in Region 1 on October 4, 2005. Although this two-disc set contained several additional features, it also duplicated some of the features found in the initial release. [13] The film was released on Blu-ray on September 22, 2009 as part of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection in the United States. It was subsequently released individually in Japan and the United Kingdom. The Blu-ray edition contains high definition bonus features not seen on previous DVD releases. [14] The four Next Generation feature films were released on Ultra HD Blu-ray on April 4, 2023, in standalone and collected formats. [15]

The premiere of Star Trek: Nemesis took place at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on December 9, 2002. It was attended by the cast and crew, with the exception of Jonathan Frakes who was away directing the film Thunderbirds . The after party was held in the Kodak Theatre complex. [16] Nemesis was released on December 13, 2002, in direct competition with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (released November 15, 2002), the 20th James Bond film Die Another Day (released November 22, 2002), and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (released December 18, 2002). Producer Rick Berman has suggested that Nemesis ' s performance may have been negatively affected by "the competition of other films". [17] This poor performance was predicted by reviewers, due to the short period in the film's release before The Two Towers was released. [18] The film's gross domestic income was the lowest of the franchise at $43,254,409 as of September 2008. It opened at #2 in the US box office ($200,000 behind Maid in Manhattan ) and was the first Trek film not to debut as the highest-grossing film of the week. [19] It earned a total of $67,312,826 worldwide, against a production budget of $60 million. [2]

Nemesis received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a critic rating of 38%, based on 170 reviews. This was the second-lowest rating, behind Star Trek V: The Final Frontier . [20] On Metacritic it has a score of 51% based on reviews from 29 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [21] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "A−" on scale of A to F. [22]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times had mixed feelings about the film, stating: "I'm smiling like a good sport and trying to get with the dialogue ... and gradually it occurs to me that Star Trek is over for me. I've been looking at these stories for half a lifetime, and, let's face it, they're out of gas." Ebert gave the film two out of four stars. [23] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said that the film is a "rather harebrained story that's relieved to a degree only by some striking visual effects and by Patrick Stewart's outstanding presence as Picard". LaSalle complained that Stewart gave "integrity and wry stoicism to Nemesis , but the movie [was] unworthy of him". [24] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a positive review, commenting that the crew "indulge[s] the force of humanity over hardware in a way that George Lucas had forgotten." Gleiberman gave the film a "B−". [25] Stephen Holden of The New York Times said that the film is a "klutzy affair whose warm, fuzzy heart emits intermittent bleats from the sleeve of its gleaming spacesuit". Holden praised the scenes where the Enterprise and the Scimitar ram into each other during the final battle. [26]

The film was nominated for the Saturn Awards for Best Science Fiction Film and Best Costume but lost to both Minority Report and Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones , respectively, while Hardy was nominated for Best Supporting Actor but lost out to Andy Serkis for his role in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers . [3] : 45

The movie was not well-loved among the cast, with LeVar Burton and Marina Sirtis speaking unflatteringly of Baird, criticizing him for not watching any episodes of The Next Generation . [27] [28] Frakes said that if he himself had directed Nemesis , he would have made the film less villain-centric and given more screen time to the regular Next Generation cast. [29] Patrick Stewart later described Nemesis as a "pretty weak" finale for The Next Generation . [30]

Some of the events of the film would later be followed up on in the 2020 television series Star Trek: Picard , set twenty years after the events of Nemesis . [31] [32]

Film / Star Trek: Nemesis

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Janeway : Jean-Luc, how would you like a trip to Romulus? Picard: With or without the rest of the fleet?

The One With… Picard’s younger evil clone .

Star Trek Nemesis is the tenth movie in the Star Trek film series, released in 2002, and serves as the big-screen Grand Finale for the Next Generation crew. It is directed by Stuart Baird, with the screenplay by John Logan and the story by Logan, Rick Berman and Brent Spiner , who also played Data.

After a coup , the new leader of the ever-secretive Romulan government makes an offer of peace to The Federation . Our heroes find out that this new leader, Shinzon ( Tom Hardy ), is a younger clone of Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ), the by-product of a botched Romulan plot. At first, Shinzon's intentions seem honest, but they quickly turn malicious for convoluted medical reasons. There's also a subplot about a prototype of Data, B-4 (Spiner), which serves as a counterpoint to Picard's identity struggles. See here for a more detailed recap.

The film also stars TNG series regulars Jonathan Frakes as William T. Riker, LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge, Michael Dorn as Worf, Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher and Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi. Ron Perlman appears as Shinzon's Evil Chancellor . Cameos include Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher, Whoopi Goldberg as shipboard bartender Guinan, and Kate Mulgrew as Admiral Kathryn Janeway, the only one of the three to have lines.

The film was released on December 13, 2002 in North America. It did poorly at the box office due to a combination of stiff competition note Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets , James Bond 's Die Another Day and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers were all released within a few weeks of this film's debut and, despite having the Star Trek Movie Curse in its favor, was not well received. It is generally viewed as a Franchise Killer signaling the decline of Star Trek movies, not helped by Star Trek: Enterprise also struggling before being cancelled several years later.

Nemesis provided a bookend in several ways. With a prequel show currently airing, this film was the chronological last story set in the 24th Century, and J. J. Abrams 's Alternate Timeline Star Trek (2009) (which is somewhat of a Stealth Sequel to this film) made it appear to be the last of the Prime Timeline . But this would change as a new era of Star Trek television shows would return to the timeline with TOS-era Star Trek: Discovery , while Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Lower Decks are set after the events of this film. The Third Season of Star Trek: Picard would go on to serve as Putting the Band Back Together for the TNG cast, acting as another Grand Finale .

Nemesis provides examples of:

Aborted Arc : Shinzon is an in-universe example. Picard's clone was created as part of an ambitious operation to replace the real Picard (who even at that point was a rising star in Starfleet) with a Romulan agent at the heart of Starfleet (and with none the wiser). However, the plan ultimately fell victim to a political shakeup in the Senate. A new government came to power, decided the plan was too risky, and pulled the plug and dumped Shinzon on Remus.
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene : The dinner scene, where Shinzon seems genuinely curious about the life that Picard lived.
Alas, Poor Villain : Yes, his motives were unclear, his tactical expertise was debatable (see Informed Ability below), and he wanted to kill everyone on Earth, but there's no denying that Shinzon's life sucked . He was created solely to be a tool of war, and through no fault of his own, he was eventually condemned to a lifetime of back-breaking labor in a hellish mine. And even though he managed to overthrow his captors and the entire Romulan leadership, his engineered lifespan ensured that he had a very short time to live. In short, he lived a short, violent, brutal life, and never really had any chance to know love or happiness.
Antagonist Title : Shinzon is Picard's nemesis.
Anything but That! : Worf: ... Irving Berlin .
Apocalypse How : Class 6, threatened.
Applied Phlebotinum : Thalaron radiation.
Arc Words : "Never saw the sun shining so bright, never saw things looking so right..."
Activation Sequence : After the Enterprise rams the Scimitar , rendering their weapons inoperable, Shinzon activates the thalaron weapon, a process that takes about seven minutes as the targeting emitters on the wings are moved into position prior to firing.
Attack Pattern Shinzon Theta.
Defensive Pattern Kirk Epsilon.

Backported Development : Even though Picard was supposed to have lost his hair with age, his clone is also completely bald. Shinzon's baldness can perhaps be explained away as being a result of his screwed up DNA and the resultant premature aging, but a photograph showing Picard as a bald cadet, not so easily. Especially since on TNG younger versions of Picard were shown twice; "Tapestry", fresh out of the Academy with a full head of hair, and "Violations", ten years before the start of the series, with the hairline starting to recede. Though maybe he just shaved his head at one point in the Academy.
Bait-and-Switch : At Riker and Troi's wedding party, Data begins singing the bridge of "Blue Skies" in a stilted, robotic way before switching to Brent Spiner's usual jazz singing style. In-universe, there's no reason for him to do this: all of Data's friends and people who have seen STTNG and its previous movies already know Data is a good singer. This seems to have been done solely to serve as an awkward Establishing Character Moment for audience members who aren't familiar with Data's character.
Bald of Evil : Shinzon is completely bald.
Beam Spam : The Enterprise uses this when attempting to locate the cloaked Scimitar during the battle in the Bassen Rift before the other Romulans arrive.
Because You Were Nice to Me : The Remans helped Shinzon survive in the mines, and now he's fighting to liberate them from the Romulans.
Big Damn Heroes : Commander Donatra arrives with two warbirds to assist the Enterprise and after realizing Shinzon was genocidal. Subverted, however, in that neither warbird succeeds in causing any damage whatsoever to the Scimitar , which then cripples Donatra's warbird and destroys the other one outright, meaning that Donatra's intervention ends up achieving nothing .
Troi screams it when Vkruk mentally rapes her, and again when Riker calls her name.
Vkruk yells one when Riker sends him falling to his death.
Bittersweet Ending : Data is dead, and the crew of the Enterprise is going their separate ways after so many years together. But thanks to their efforts, Shinzon is killed and the Romulan Empire is finally willing to talk with the Federation, which may lead to peace between the two, and Picard, along with all those who remain on the Enterprise , will continue their mission to go where no one has gone before. Sadly, Star Trek (2009) establishes that eight years after Nemesis , Romulus is destroyed in a supernova and the rest of the Romulan Empire blames the Federation for screwing up the project to stop it. In addition, Star Trek: Picard shows that Picard tried to help the Romulans, but The Federation chose to withdraw their aid, and Picard resigned in protest. Also, Data's attempt to download himself into B-4 failed.
Blank Slate : Data's "brother" B-4.
Board to Death : Romulan Senate not cooperating? Kill 'em all with an experimental thalaron radiation bomb!
Body Horror : The effects of thalaron radiation: it turns you into powder from the inside-out. Quite painfully, it must be added.
Body Snatcher : Data imprints his neural net on his mentally handicapped brother's brain. He plays it off as "helping his brother grow" or somesuch, but it's implied that in the future Data will completely take over B-4's body...until Star Trek: Picard reveals that the download failed.
Boldly Coming : Defied Trope . Shinzon, a clone of Picard raised on the Romulan twin planet of Remus, organizes a coup against the Imperial Senate and takes over. Commander Donatra later tries to flirt with him , but he stops her dead cold, as he grew up amongst the Slave Race of the Romulan Empire and thus despises ordinary Romulans. Instead, he settles for engaging in some pretty literal Mind Rape against the half-human Troi. Shinzon: You are not a woman. You are a Romulan .
Bond Villain Stupidity : "I have you now, Picard. Now I can proceed with the operation to save my life, a short time after I walk away and leave you in a room with one guard. I'm sure nothing will happen during that time."
When we first saw the Prime Universe Enterprise on the big screen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture , she was in spacedock undergoing a refit. In this last Prime Universe film, we last see her in spacedock undergoing repairs. The same Jerry Goldsmith Star Trek theme is played in both scenes.
Similarly, as of 2023, this remains the final Trek film set in the Prime Reality. So, Jerry Goldsmith has the distinction of scoring both the first and last films of the original, pre-reboot Film Series.
In their first meeting in the TNG pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint", Picard and Riker talk about how it was the first officer's responsibility to take on away missions. In their last meeting before Riker leaves for the USS Titan , Picard offers some advice about how to handle that with his first officer.
In the original ending, the Enterprise would have left for a mission to the Deneb system, which was where the TNG pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint" took place.
At the beginning of the film, Data sings "Blue Skies" at Troi and Riker's wedding reception. By the end of the film, B-4 struggles to sing the song as the Enterprise is docked .
Bottomless Pit : Riker kicks Vkruk into one of these; the Enterprise apparently has one starting at deck 29 (the bottom of the ship... or five decks below the bottom, thanks to a Continuity Snarl ) and going down far enough to be fatal.
In the last movie , Geordi was amazed at Picard's acute hearing. Turns out that it was painfully acute when Picard was a boy.
Shinzon's backstory is that he was a clone of Picard developed as part of a plot to undermine the Federation. In "Redemption: Part II", when they first met Sela, the identical half-Romulan daughter of Tasha Yar , Dr. Crusher briefly wondered whether she was actually Tasha's clone, created for undermining Starfleet.
Janeway appearing as a (recently promoted) Admiral is the only Canon description of what happened to the Voyager crew after their Grand Finale , until Star Trek: Picard added some further details.
Whoopi Goldberg also has one line as Guinan.

Captain Obvious : Data: [picking up a robotic arm] It appears to be a robotic arm. Worf: Very astute .
The micro transporter Data attempts to use when rescuing Picard is used later on... to rescue Picard.
Troi uses Vkruk's telepathy (which she knows about after her Mind Rape ) to locate the cloaked Scimitar . She even says "Remember me?"
Commonality Connection : Shinzon tries to forge a connection with Picard, though it's ambiguous how sincere he is given that he plans to kill Picard for his blood. Shinzon: I want to know what it means to be human. The Remans have given me a future, but you can tell me about my past. Picard: I can tell you about my past. Shinzon: Were we Picards always warriors? Picard: I think of myself as an explorer . Shinzon: Well, were we always explorers? Picard: I was the first Picard to leave our solar system. It caused quite a stir in the family, but I'd spent my youth... Shinzon: ...looking up at the stars, dreaming about what was up there, about... Picard: ...new worlds.
One of the ships waiting for the Enterprise is the USS Archer .
A maneuvering pattern during the battle is called Kirk Epsilon , and is used while trying to locate a ship that can fire while cloaked .
Data finds B-4 fascinating.
A mention of the Dominion War and an appearance by Admiral Janeway .
Troi taking the helm when the first helm officer is sucked into space and consequently being given the order by Picard to ram the Scimitar with the Enterprise is a humorous nod to her similar actions on the Enterprise-D and its status as a meme among the fanbase.
The most subtle nod happens with Worf. While moving to intercept the boarding party Worf mentions that "The Romulans fought with honor." In the Next Generation episode "The Enemy", Worf went so far as to refuse to help save a dying Romulan's life (said Romulan made it clear he'd rather die than accept Worf's help in any case) while Dr. Crusher and Picard could not convince him otherwise (his family was killed in a Romulan surprise attack at Khitomer). The fact that the people he despised so much managed to impress him says a lot.
Another subtle reference is the planet Remus itself, which was first mentioned all the way back in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Balance of Terror" (and never mentioned again until now).
Riker recalls Data's failed attempt to whistle way back in the TNG pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint", though he can't remember the song. For the record, it was "Pop Goes the Weasel."
Picard mentions Riker's refusal to let him lead away missions, also first mentioned in the TNG pilot.
A technological nod occurs when Geordi notes that the Scimitar 's cloak is perfect and doesn't leave any tachyon emissions or residual antiprotons, which were previous methods of revealing cloaking devices.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine : The now-concluded Dominion War is acknowledged, as is the Romulan involvement in the conflict (which is used as a plot point to help establish Shinzon's military background). However, Worf's post-series status quo as the new Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire isn't acknowledged at all. He simply rejoins his old crew without any on-screen explanation (though a deleted scene from the Wedding confirms Worf had resigned from the Diplomatic Corps prior to the film).
Star Trek: Voyager : The ship's triumphant return home to the Alpha Quadrant is non-verbally acknowledged by Janeway's cameo.
Constantly Curious : B-4 in the car-chase scene.
Cool Old Guy : Picard is 74 years old in the film ( Patrick Stewart was only 62), but you wouldn't know it judging by how active he is, including how he single-handedly takes out not only everyone on the Scimitar 's bridge, but also manages to defeat Shinzon in hand-to-hand combat .
The Scimitar is a decidedly evil-looking vessel, with forward-swept wings, dark gray hull, and an overall design that just oozes menace. It can also use its weapons and its shields while cloaked, something that, except for the Klingon Bird-of-Prey in The Undiscovered Country (the weapons at least, it still couldn't use its shields), is normally impossible. Picard: (awed) She's a predator.
Plus the Enterprise -E remains as cool as ever.
The Coup : At the start of the film, disgruntled Romulan senator Tal'aura and a group of Romulan military officers assassinate the rest of the Senate so they can install Shinzon as Praetor. They eventually turn on him (though to little effect) after realizing he's a genocidal maniac .
Creator Cameo : Director Stuart Baird provides the voice of the Scimitar 's computer.
Damn You, Muscle Memory! : When the Enterprise is hailed by the Romulans after the battle, Picard habitually says 'on-screen' despite a hole into space existing where the viewscreen once was - he quickly corrects himself with 'open a channel'.
Dawn Attack : Picard reflects on this trope while recording his Captain's Log during the Lock-and-Load Montage : "...and like a thousand other commanders on a thousand other battlefields, I wait for the dawn."
Demoted to Extra : Pretty much everyone except Picard and Data, but particularly egregious in the case of Dr. Crusher, who essentially disappears from the film after informing Picard of Shinzon's genetic problem, with a brief appearance in Data's wake scene (without any dialogue) being the only time she even appears after that. To a lesser extent this also applies to La Forge, who is mostly limited to providing bits of Technobabble and expository dialogue, and Worf, who is the butt of a few jokes early on and then has a minor action sequence late on, with neither getting any real character development. All three do get additional scenes in the novelization, though.
Diabolus ex Nihilo : The Scimitar . It breaks suspension of disbelief that the Remans could build, almost literally under the Romulans' noses (whose society's most prominent feature is Big Brother-level surveillance and paranoia), a starship custom-designed for their kind (it's noted that the controls are in Reman) and with the equivalent firepower of what has to be at least a few dozen top-of-the-line warships, not to mention its perfect cloak and primary weapon system.
Disney Villain Death : Vkruk falls to his death into a bottomless pit towards the end of the film.
Disposable Pilot : Poor Lieutenant Branson, who you knew would die the very moment you saw him.
Doomsday Device : The Thalaron radiation weapon.
The Dragon : Vkruk serves as Shinzon's second-in-command.
Dream Spying
Drives Like Crazy : Flying an attack craft through the corridors of a starship? Pretty crazy.
Driving into a Truck : The Argo Jeep and a cargo shuttlecraft play this role. Picard even drives the Argo over a ledge in order to park it in the shuttle. (They also drove out of the shuttle at the beginning of the scene.)
Dropped a Bridge on Him : Data 's death was generally considered an underwhelming one for such a long-established character. In fairness, it wasn't as severely anti-climactic as the Trope Namer , nor as much an utterly pointless Shoot the Shaggy Dog moment as Tasha Yar's or Jadzia Dax's deaths, since Data does at least go out in a Heroic Sacrifice while saving the Enterprise . It's more the execution that's at fault here, since his death is pretty abrupt and filmed more in the manner that you might expect some Red Shirt to meet their end in, rather than a main character.
Earth Is the Center of the Universe : Or, at least, The Federation , which is why Shinzon makes it his first target. Riker: Destroy humanity, you cripple the Federation.
Even Evil Has Standards : The Romulans start to side against Shinzon when they realize how genocidal he is. They want to conquer The Federation , not wipe it out completely.
Explosive Decompression : An energy torpedo from the Scimitar blasts a giant hole in the front of the bridge, obliterating the viewscreen. A hapless conn officer is sucked out into space, with another one holding onto his console for dear life, as well as the rest of the bridge crew. They are only saved by the timely activation of the atmospheric safety forcefields.
Fairytale Wedding Dress : Troi wears a pink one at her wedding.
Faux Affably Evil : Shinzon.
Five-Second Foreshadowing : The Enterprise is being stalked by Shinzon's cloaked ship, so it's hoping to rendezvous with the fleet for protection. On the way, they enter an area of space where long-range communications don't work. Data and Picard realize that this would be a perfect place for Shinzon to attack them. Guess what happens next?
From Bad to Worse : With the Enterprise already outmatched by the Scimitar , two more warbirds show up. Subverted when they offer to help fight Shinzon.
From Nobody to Nightmare : Shinzon may not have been the most competent Big Bad ever, but given that he started out as the weakest slave in the mines, getting as far as he did in life was quite an accomplishment.
Fun with Homophones : During the fight with the Enterprise , Shinzon slowly and viciously says "Fire at will." Followed immediately by a cut to a frantic Will Riker.
Generic Doomsday Villain : Shinzon. The extreme actions that actually relate to his supposedly well-intentioned goals occur entirely in the opening minutes of the movie: as he was raised by the Remans, he understandably doesn't like their status as the Warrior - Slave Race of the Romulan Empire. But when he assassinates the entire Romulan Senate and installs himself as the new dictator... he's already solved all the Remans' problems. At that point his only real explanation for wanting to destroy Earth is to eclipse Picard in the history books and make sure nobody ever subjugates the Remans again. For a poorly explained reason (to prove to everyone that the Remans are to be taken seriously), he has a super battleship way more advanced than every ship it comes up against. He also got a planet-destroying superweapon from... somewhere. The Star Trek Novelverse spent quite a few pages writing (non-canon) fix fics to explain this mess.
Grand Finale : For the Next Generation crew, and more: as the next film returns to the TOS gang in an altered version of history, it was the final entry of the Next Generation , of the whole 24th Century era, and of the entire Trek Verse as it has been from day one ... until Star Trek: Picard was announced in 2019.
Guns Akimbo : Picard wields two disruptors while Data figures out how to access the hangar on the Scimitar .
Hand Wave : Tom Hardy looking nothing like Patrick Stewart is handwaved during their characters' dinner scene where Shinzon notes "Not the face you remember? A life of violence can do that."
Hangover Sensitivity : Worf and Romulan ale do not mix very well.
Heel–Face Door-Slam : Subverted. Shinzon slams it himself.
Heel–Face Turn : The Romulans.
Heroic BSoD : After Shinzon dies, Picard suffers one. When Data appears, Picard barely registers his arrival at first.
Heroic Sacrifice : Data, homaging Spock's heroic sacrifice in Wrath of Khan .
Hoist by Their Own Petard : The Romulans create a clone of Captain Picard for a Kill and Replace gambit, only to have their tool kill and replace the Romulan Senate . So this is a case of Hoist By Their Own Picard .
So to be clear: the series has established that quite a few members of the Enterprise are geniuses, and they know, by this point, that Shinzon is literally out for Captain Picard's blood. And yet, it doesn't occur to any of them that flying the ship alone into a gas cloud which prevents them from calling for help is a really, really bad idea.
The last time they found a disassembled Soong-designed android, he turned out to be Data's Evil Twin and went on to nearly kill the crew on two separate occasions. Why not ONE of the senior staff, all of whom were present for both events, brings up even the vaguest mention of this...
So, Shinzon and the Remans discover B-4 somewhere, add programming to turn him into their spy, and plant his remains in the desert for the Enterprise to find. The goal here is to acquire the position of the Federation fleet, the same fleet the Scimitar can trivially bypass thanks to its perfect cloak. The whole thing failed anyway, but it's not made clear why he ever needed the data in the first place, given his plan never involved the fleet in the first place. Presumably this would have tied in to the deleted subplot where Shinzon intended to launch a full-scale assault on the Federation, and the information would have been for the benefit of the rest of the Romulan fleet, which would have otherwise been vulnerable to the Federation's normal methods of rooting out cloaked ships.
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy : The Reman side of this is lampshaded early on when it's pointed out that the Romulans used Remans for cannon fodder in the Dominion War.
Inertial Impalement : At the climax, Picard inflicts this on Shinzon with a piece of broken-off metal.
He waits for two days to talk to Picard personally, along with other general procrastination ( due to Clone Degeneration , Shinzon at this point has something like a week to live ) because he was "curious" about Picard.
He unveils his secret flagship, the Scimitar , in a show of strength, not only nullifying the surprise of his trump card but also eventually revealing to Picard that he has a planet-killer weapon.
He leaves the Enterprise in orbit of Romulus after kidnapping Picard.
While ambushing Enterprise , he flies unnecessarily close to them, allowing them to hit him despite Scimitar's cloaking device.
He orders the Scimitar to move to port when he sees the Enterprise proceeding to ram it, rather than moving full reverse. Even if the Enterprise had inertia on its side, moving back would have softened the blow considerably.
Shinzon says the Remans are "A race bred for war", yet they get slaughtered easily in most of the combat scenes. To be fair, they do slightly better against the generic security team members on the Enterprise . It could be their problem is they constantly go into combat against main characters who are protected by Plot Armor .
Interface Spoiler : At one point, the subtitles spoil the surprise of Picard being beamed off the Enterprise mid-sentence a few seconds before it actually happens. The details may not be obvious, but it's clear that something critically interrupts him.
It's Personal : The only explanation for Shinzon's attitude towards both the Romulan establishment and Picard.
Kick the Dog : Shinzon's Mind Rape of Troi, which serves no real purpose except to demonstrate how evil he is.
Killed Off for Real : Data .
Kirk Summation : Picard gives Shinzon one during the climactic battle, trying to get him to see past his rage and become a better man. Unfortunately, Shinzon responds with a Shut Up, Picard!
The Last Dance : Shinzon: I'm glad we're together now - our destiny is complete.

Lightning Bruiser : The Scimitar is faster than the Enterprise while boasting more firepower and stronger Deflector Shields . Even the combined might of the Enterprise and two Romulan Valdore -class warbirds isn't enough to defeat it.
Lock-and-Load Montage : Picard: All hands... battle stations !
Looks Like Orlok : The Remans were explicitly designed to resemble Nosferatu .
Losing Your Head : B-4.
Made of Iron : The Enterprise . While she's not nearly as well-armed as the Scimitar , she takes a beating during the battle and keeps on going (granted, Shinzon wanted Picard taken alive). The only thing that stopped her was running out of torpedoes . And then when Picard decided to ram his opponent anyway, the Enterprise only loses about 1/6th of its saucer section while the Scimitar folds like cheap cardboard, losing all its disruptors and the cloaking device in the process. If not for his Wave-Motion Gun , Shinzon would have been defeated right there.
The Main Characters Do Everything : Riker and Worf leave their posts on the bridge during a battle to go shoot it out with the Reman boarding party below decks. Why the ship's senior officers needed to leave their posts in the middle of battle to go do basic grunt work is anyone's guess.
Meaningful Name : Shinzon is a Chinese name meaning "heart". It's also a Japanese name meaning "new existence".
Military Coup : The entire Romulan Senate is assassinated by Shinzon and a group of Romulan generals who were promised that he would invade the Federation.
Mind Rape : Shinzon and Vkruk use an unusually literal version on Troi, though she turns it back on them.
Misapplied Phlebotinum : Mr Plinkett went into a long rant in his review about the shuttle that brings the Argo buggy down to Kolarus III. Complaining that a flying space vehicle is vastly more useful than a car but they only use it to house and transport a vehicle that's less useful than itself.
Misplaced Retribution : Shinzon despises being Picard's clone and is willing to kill every person on Earth just to make sure that his name is the one history remembers.
Missile Lock-On : Averted for most of the Battle of the Bassen Rift thanks to the Scimitar 's advanced cloaking device. Similarly to General Chang almost a century earlier , Shinzon's firing through the cloak and thus Worf can't achieve targeting locks. He has to fire blindly and manually (which scores as many hits as misses). The Valdore has the same problem, necessitating Worf coordinating with them to triangulate fire on any shield impact. It's not until Troi telepathically locates the Viceroy that Worf's able to finally knock out the cloak and achieve automatic targeting locks — though by that point in the battle, the Enterprise has already expended most of its weaponry and is heavily damaged.
The Scimitar is more loaded for bear with more disruptors and torpedoes than almost any other Trek ship, not to mention its Wave-Motion Gun .
During the battle, when Troi gives Worf a solid point to aim at, he starts firing the Enterprise's quantum torpedoes. These are a lot more powerful than the standard photon torpedoes, and at this point the barrage succeeds in bringing down the Scimitar 's cloak, but it's still not enough to break through the shields and do any meaningful damage.
Named by the Adaptation : The Viceroy's true name, Vkruk, is given in the novelization.
No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine : Shinzon invites Picard to a private dinner, where he shares his backstory with him.
Non-Human Non-Binary : Data makes a brief reference to "invited transgendered species" early on in the movie, the franchise's first reference to transexuality. However, the word was badly misused. Instead of having anything to do with a person whose gender identity and physical sex do not match, it was added onto "Ladies and Gentlemen," meaning it referred to races whose physical sexes are not the same as humans. note If Star Trek has an example of transsexuality, it's the TNG episode where a member of a genderless race caused a stir by considering herself female; a failed attempt at an episode about homosexuality ( But Not Too Gay and Rule-Abiding Rebel were taken a bit too far; a nominally genderless character played by a woman who isn't being made to look or sound any less female and who identifies as a woman falling in love with a man is not even sorta homosexual-ish, it's just Riker getting his Kirk on one more time. However, they accidentally backed into having an episode about transsexuality that isn't the worst you've ever seen, at a time when it was hardly on the radar).
No OSHA Compliance : Not only is there nothing protecting anyone from coming into contact with the beam coming out of the thalaron generator, which is located in an anteroom just behind the bridge of the Scimitar , but firing a hand phaser into the beam is sufficient to blow up the entire ship. Downplayed a little in that the beam is only present when the thalaron generator is active, and it's still a much lesser case than what was in the original script, where it was the ship's warp core that was on the bridge.
No Seatbelts : A deleted bit from the ending would show that the Enterprise was finally being equipped with them, to which Picard even says "About time!"
"Not So Different" Remark : Picard and Shinzon, explored at some length. Shinzon claims that he is what Picard would have been under different circumstances, then brushes off Picard's attempt to turn the "mirror" metaphor around on him. Data later points out a key difference by comparing him to B-4: Neither makes any attempt to better themselves. Subtly lampshaded when Shinzon tells his ship's replicator to give him a hot tea.
Noodle Incident : The twelve major engagements Shinzon fought in the Dominion War. We don't learn any details, save that they establish his backstory and reputation as a young, capable, and successful commander.
Not Worth Killing : For obvious reasons, Shinzon doesn't want the Enterprise destroyed with Picard still aboard, and tells his gunners to focus on her weapons and shield emitters. When he then demands Picard's surrender, he claims that he has "little interest in [his] quaint vessel", implying that he'll let the Enterprise go.
Novelization : The film's novelization stays mostly true to the finished film, with several small scenes deleted from the film, but notably expands on Shinzon's motivations: Having bonded so much with the Remans after his years of slavery, he honestly wants the best for them, and intends to lead a galactic war to make them the dominant species in the universe, and it's made clear that with the Scimitar , and the Thalaron radiation, he could have pulled it off . The book also expands Worf's role during the final battle, and actually gives Beverly something to do: Worf battles a few more Remans, and chases one into a cargo bay that's been converted into a makeshift hospital, only to be near-fatally wounded. Beverly stuns said Reman soldier, and with the help of Romulan doctor, manages to save Worf's life.
When the Enterprise crew realize that the region of space they have just entered would be the perfect place for an ambush. Data: The rift will affect all long-range communica... ( Oh, Crap! face) Picard: (calls The Bridge ) Commander Riker, evasive maneuvers! ( Screen Shake )
When Shinzon realizes that the Enterprise is about to ram him. Shinzon: HARD TO PORT!
Orcus on His Throne : Shinzon needs a transfusion of Picard's blood to prevent his own Clone Degeneration . Despite having Picard prisoner for quite some time and being repeatedly told by Vkruk to begin the procedure, he does not... for some reason .
Out-of-Character Moment : The Dune-Buggy Scene. Picard apparently decides to screw decades of adherence to the Prime Directive and perform Car Fu on a pre-warp planet, despite being willing to condemn entire species to death rather than break it before.
Palm Bloodletting : Shinzon does this to provide our heroes with a blood sample so they can see that he is Picard's clone.
Phlebotinum-Proof Robot : Data, not needing to breathe, launches himself through outer space to go from the Enterprise to the Scimitar .
Pull Yourself Down the Spear : The last scene between Picard and Shinzon is a nod to King Arthur , as Shinzon pulls himself down the beam stuck in his gut to to make his final verbal attack against Picard, a poignant parallel to Mordred hauling himself down the spear to aim a final attack at his father Arthur.
Punny Name : B-4, Data's prototype. The name was planned to be B-9 but got changed. Lampshaded by Picard: Picard: Dr. Soong's penchant for whimsical names seems to have no end!
Ramming Always Works : Subverted. While the egg-like structure of the saucer section gives the Enterprise physical resilience against head-on impacts, and it did seemingly succeed in disabling the Scimitar 's primary weapons and destroy the hangar containing her complement of Scorpion -class fighters (hence why the Enterprise wasn't reduced to space dust for its failure), it also disabled the Enterprise completely while the Scimitar still had impulse and warp capability. In the long run, however, the Scimitar also had a damaged cloak, which would have rendered it a lot more vulnerable to the Federation fleet.
Rank Scales with Asskicking : By the end of the movie, Picard blasts his way out of prison, single-handedly wipes out the entire bridge crew of the Scimitar , and defeats Shinzon in hand to hand combat. Not bad for a 76-year old.
Redemption Rejection : Picard tries to convince Shinzon to see past his rage. It doesn't work .
Red Shirt : Lieutenant Branson gets sucked out into space when the Scimitar blows a hole in the bridge of the Enterprise .
Remember the New Guy? : The entire Reman species which, given its back story, should have shown up at least once or twice on the various series — especially given they fought during the Dominion War . Everyone just acts like they've always existed. The film does try to justify it by saying the Romulans consider Remans less than real people, and thus keep them locked away on Remus toiling in slavery, but it is a bit difficult to swallow.
Replacement Goldfish : It's implied that B-4 will become this to Data thanks to the memory download he underwent . Star Trek: Countdown , the non-canon prequel to Star Trek (2009) , embraced this and featured a restored Data, though Star Trek: Picard eventually confirmed that the download didn't take, and that B-4 was dismantled.
See the Invisible : Geordi tries this, but fails — Shinzon's Invisibility Cloak is just that good.
Self-Destruct Mechanism : Picard tries to activate it as a last-ditch attempt to stop Shinzon, but it's offline from the battle.
Picard, who has consistently been depicted as being willing to lay down his life before violating the Prime Directive , happily takes part in a car chase on a pre-industrial world. He's also violated it just about as much as Kirk did, but not so whimsically and randomly.
Also, the photo shows him in the Star Trek II -era trainee/NCO uniform, not the cadet/commissioned officer uniform.
While trying to reason with Shinzon, Picard tells him "Your heart, your hands, your eyes are the same as mine," despite the fact that TNG established that Picard has an artificial heart due to an incident where he was stabbed as a young man.
A deleted scene shows Geordi discovering the emotion chip in Data's quarters. By Insurrection , Data had figured out how to remove the chip, and seems to be using it less frequently. The fact that he displayed emotion at the end without the chip is the culmination of his Character Development .
Series Fauxnale : As the final theatrical Next Generation film, Nemesis would serve as the sendoff for the Enterprise -D/E family for two decades, until the final season of Picard in 2023 would deliberately affirm itself as the true Grand Finale for the TNG cast and story.
Shoulders of Doom : Shinzon. Lampshaded on-set by his co-star Frakes, who described his outfit as "a reject from Rollerball ."
Is B-4 hacking into the Enterprise computer or The Matrix ?
The Jackal knife in the film was a prop used in TV before. Who else wielded that weapon? Faith.
Sinister Scimitar : Shinzon's warbird, which proves to be more than a match for the Enterprise .
Soul Fragment : B-4 sings "Blue Skies" at the end.
Space Is an Ocean : Averted. The majority of the final battle takes place in mostly a flat plane but there is still plenty of swooping over and under each other. Also, a major part of the combat involves the Enterprise rotating damaged sections away from the Scimitar 's line of sight, which includes turning (relative to us) upside down.
Spotlight-Stealing Squad : The film plays out like a Picard and Data Fan Fiction , with most of the main cast limited to holding the floor down. They were the primary characters of all the TNG movies, but not quite to this degree of no one else having much to do at all.
Despite leaving Starfleet in the finale of Deep Space Nine , Worf is back in his old position of tactical/security officer on the Enterprise without so much as a line of dialogue to explain it. In the other movies he didn't belong in, we got an explanation: in The Undiscovered Country, the TOS era Colonel Worf is the guy TNG's Worf is an Identical Grandson of. In First Contact, the crew of the damaged Defiant was beamed onto the Enterprise . In Insurrection, he was asked what he was doing there but the action cuts away before he answers; we're given a humorous Un Reveal but the fact that he's stationed elsewhere and a reason why he dropped by this time exists in-universe. Here? He's just there, in full uniform from the start, manning his old station like it's still his station. Not even a Hand Wave , or events that make a Fan Wank easy. A deleted line had him saying that he wasn't suited to the life of a diplomat.
Despite their wartime alliance against the Dominion during Deep Space Nine , relations between the Romulans and Federation have reverted right back to their traditional cold war status quo within less than 4 years after the War ended. This at least can be justified in-universe, as it was made clear repeatedly on DS9 that the Romulans joining the War effort was an alliance of necessity (and that the UFP and Star Empire would be left as the major powers vying for control of the Quadrant in its aftermath).
Stealth in Space : The Scimitar can fire while cloaked and its cloaking ability was capable of countering previously established means of detecting cloaked ships. The Enterprise does manage to land a fair number of hits on it, though, suggesting that the Scimitar 's constant firing gave away its position. Not a big deal, however, since unlike most ships in Star Trek, the Scimitar also retains its shields while cloaked too.
Stupid Sacrifice : Several (attempted) times in fact. First Data tries to do this when saving Picard, but Picard tells him no. Then Picard attempts to do this when the Enterprise is disabled. Then Data comes to save Picard again , before following through on his initial plan to kill himself in a semi-heroic fashion. The latter two are because no member of the crew seems to realize that the Enterprise has functioning shuttles with functioning transporters .
Taken for Granite : The entire Romulan Senate (save for Tal'aura) are turned to stone at the beginning of the film. This is also the fate that Shinzon intends for the Enterprise crew, and then Earth.
This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself Picard: Data, this is something I have to do myself.
Thrown Out the Airlock : When one of the Scimitar 's torpedos hits The Bridge . Bye bye, Branson .
Tidally Locked Planet : The Remans evolved on the dark side of tidally-locked Remus, explaining their photosensitivity.
Timeshifted Actor : Technically, Tom Hardy as Shinzon, although they didn't bother to get an actor who actually looked anything like Patrick Stewart .
To Absent Friends : Borrowed from Star Trek III .
Trailers Always Spoil : The reveal of Shinzon being human was originally meant to happen quite early on, but was pushed back to much later in the film when the producers decided it'd be more dramatic if the audience found out about Shinzon at the same time that Picard did. Something that might have worked better if not for the fact that the first trailer showed a good chunk of Shinzon's original introductory scene.
Unspoken Plan Guarantee : Data's switch with B-4 .
Villain Opening Scene : But, y'know, who really liked the Romulan Senate anyway?
Weapon of Mass Destruction : The planet-killing ship.
Weld the Lock : Picard seals the door to the shuttle bay but discovers that that door is the only way out.
Whole-Plot Reference : To Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan .
Wounded Gazelle Gambit : Shinzon utilizes this in the finale battle. In a three-on-one fight against the Enterprise and two warbirds, it was becoming easier for them to track down the Scimitar even with the cloak. He lured in the lead warbird by dropping part of the cloak, making them think they were doing worse than they were. Once in close, a full weapon spread at close range quickly disabled them.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are : Picard attempts to convince Shinzon of this. He fails, miserably.
You Have Failed Me : Shinzon orders a Reman guard who failed to stop Picard shot. So much for that whole "freeing your Reman brothers" bit.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness : The Romulans pulled this on Shinzon before they even started using him — they abandoned their plans for him when he was still a boy and sent him to the Reman mines, not expecting him to survive.
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