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Star Trek: Nemesis
En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself.
2002 · Directed by Stuart Baird · 116 min · Science Fiction · Action · Adventure · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 12 frames
Tagline
A generation's final journey begins.
Plot
On Romulus, members of the Romulan Senate debate terms of peace and alliance with 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 oppose an alliance. After rejecting the motion, a device left in the room disintegrates the Praetor and senators.
Meanwhile, on Earth, the crew of the starship Enterprise prepare to bid farewell to newly married officers William Riker and Deanna Troi. 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 android officer Data land on the planet and discover the remnants of an android resembling Data, named B-4. The trio is attacked by the native population and leaves the planet with B-4, which they deduce to be an earlier prototype built by Data's creator.
Enterprise is then 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 the leader of the Remans and constructed a heavily armed flagship, Scimitar. The Enterprise crew discovers that Scimitar produces 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.
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Crew
- Screenplay: John Logan
- Cinematography: Jeffrey L. Kimball
- Edited by: Dallas Puett
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith
- Production design: Herman F. Zimmerman
- Produced by: Peter Lauritson, Rick Berman
Cast
- Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker
- Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data
- LeVar Burton as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
- Michael Dorn as Lt. Commander Worf
- Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
- Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
- Tom Hardy as Praetor Shinzon
- Ron Perlman as Viceroy Vkruk
- Dina Meyer as Commander Donatra
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures, Digital Image Associates
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Box office: $67,336,470
- Themes: android, spacecraft, assassination, self sacrifice, teleportation, ambush, senate, starship, enterprise-e, clone
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