Star Trek: Nemesis is the tenth feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. It was billed as "A generation's final journey begins" & is the survive Star Trek film up to now to feature a cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Cast
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" ! Actor !! Role |- | Patrick Stewart || Captain Jean-Luc Picard |- | Jonathan Frakes || Commander/Captain William T. Riker |- | Brent Spiner || Lt. Commander Data/B-4 |- | LeVar Burton || Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge |- | Michael Dorn || Lt. Commander Worf |- | Gates McFadden || Dr. Beverly Crusher |- | Marina Sirtis || Counselor Deanna Troi |- | Ron Perlman || Reman Viceroy |- | Tom Hardy || Praetor Shinzon |- | Dina Meyer || Romulan Commander Donatra |- | Jude Ciccolella || Romulan Commander Suran |- | Kate Mulgrew || Admiral Kathryn Janeway |- | Whoopi Goldberg || Guinan (uncredited) |}

Plot summary
When a crew of the USS Enterprise prepares to bid farewell to first officer Commander William T. Riker and Counselor Deanna Troi, who have married each other in Alaska, they find the remnants of an android resembling Lt. Commander Data on a planet roughly a Romulan Neutral Zone called Kolarus III. Whenever a mechanical man is reassembled, it reveals its title when B-4, a predecessor to Information.

A ship is so ordered by Admiral Kathryn Janeway to a diplomatic mission to Romulus, the homeworld of the Romulan Star Empire, which has undergone the military coup & is okay, restricted by a mysterious immature Reman named Shinzon. A Romulan Praetor Shinzon proves to be the clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who appears to desire peace & has a few awful plans for two a Romulans & a Federation.

A Enterprise crew detects the break-breaking and entering on the ship's adp system, & Picard is captured per Romulans because Shinzon needs him when his single matching provider of hereditary poop. A crew has observed retired that B-Four occurs as spy world health organization helped transport reference from either a Enterprise to Shinzon, & is take a breath to replenish him by owning Information to rescue Picard. Picard & a crew may escape exclusively to buy themselves battling Shinzon's totally cloaked Warbird, a Scimitar, which is Shinzon's custom-built weapon designed for one purpose: the complete destruction of Earth.

Themes
A film has deuce major story arcs: Picard meeting his opposite inside Shinzon, & getting to believe his way away from his common system to out-fight himself. When such, the own household budget of seeing Picard meet a immature, awful version of himself (evocative of many Star Trek: The Original Series episodes, most notably "The Enemy Within") doesn't amount to great deal to a higher degree the rousing space risky venture by having a grand battle at the prevent. Healthy was widely praised for his acting skills paired Stewart, nevertheless.

A 2nd arc involves Information meeting — when the fashion — his opposite inside B4 (he has antecedently found an additional double of himself, Lore, who is genuinely evil; B4 is just less advanced, the last version of the mechanical man). Information finally makes a ultimate sacrifice to demonstrate his humanity, & his emotional incubation & maturity conjunctive by owning his responses to a cases in the area of him come the virtually all affecting moments of the film.

Lot of the film is devoted to the quest of two or three of the protagonists to discover what it is to exist as man. When discovering his clone is quite different to what he is, Picard is left wondering what it is to exist as individual. He doubts his ability to kill Shinzon, given that it is technically a equivalent individual, despite a appearance that it is opposites. Picard yet discovers, or even at least concludes, that to exist as human being is to try to improve in 1's self. Throughout his period using Information, he realises that it was Information world health organization understood this to a higher degree anyone else & this influences & inspires Picard to came to this guide. This is an epiphany for Picard, world health organization, when in case to frustrate himself potentially farther, was non suspire to teach you this to Information prior to his demise.

Thematically, a plot of Nemesis is an lesson of power corrupting & a require for retribution camping an human on top a edge to his end of the world, equally better exemplified in the original series films by Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and around literature in Moby Dick.

Deleted scenes
A film, when sustaining Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, was cut by about the third from either the tremendously yearn running off instance. Good deal of the deleted scenes in the motion-picture show were "character moments," which served to more a characters' relationship by using of these an additional. Many deleted scenes produce higher astir Xvii proceedings of this original footage & includes:

a personal conversation between Picard & Information on top a glass of wine where it discuss the fact the Enterprise is starting to march on using their resides. Early introduction of Shinzon in a film (correct fallowing the wedding reception). This is a scene that includes a dialogue from either the theatrical trailers, "But in darkness there is strength..." (Viceroy) & "The time we have dreamed of is at hand... the mighty Federation will fall before us..." (Shinzon). A 2nd "mind-rape" scene of Counselor Troi in the Turbolift. The scene of Picard walking by having Troi down the corridor & Troi explaining to him that he & Shinzon come 2 different population. This scene includes a line from either a trailer, "it was like a part of me had been stolen..." (Picard) Infected-sick berth generating quick for battle, the short dialogue between Dr. Crusher & Picard is shown. An extend version of the scene where Crusher visits Picard around his quarters. Therein extended version Crusher tells Picard Shinzon occurs as different huhuman non a man she has known for all over Thirty years. Picard kisses Crusher on the cheek to thank her for her visit. Worf warning Picard all about a Romulans good prior to it leave for Romulus. This scene includes a dialogue from either a trailer, "I recommend extreme caution..." (Worf) Riker & Troi discussing their honeymoon plans by using Worf. A long version of Picard's number one meeting sustaining Shinzon. Original extended ending - a fresh 1st Officer is introduced in board the Enterprise & 2 funny moments come shown later. This scene is in which a Enterprise eventually gets seat belts.

Nemesis was to develop been a foremost Star Trek film to feature a character of Wesley Crusher (played by actor Wil Wheaton). Still, his scenes were about totally cut from either a film, allowing lone a brief cameo when you took the wedding scene, where he has there are no dialogue.

Public opinion
This picture's gross domesticated income was (relatively speaking) a "worst" (i personally.e., last-place revenue-getting) of all the films in the (then far, 10-a share) series at $43,254,409 when of December 2004. It earned $67,312,826 worldwide in the budget of $60,000,000. A select few fans own noted that Nemesis stops a perceived trend of possibly-numbered Trek films existence better than odd-numbered films. (A lot numbers based on data from [http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=startrek10.htm Box Office Mojo.])

A blame for the film's unsatisfying performance has been stack away many pages. Paramount Pictures has been criticized for releasing a film single two or three years prior to the powerhouse opening of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Others blame a veto response numbers of Trekkies have towards Star Trek: Enterprise, and general dislike of Star Trek executive producer Rick Berman. Others point to a fact that early drafts of the script were leaked onto the Internet more than a year before a film's release, giving a tidal wave of veto word-of-mouth criticism that built higher on top the course of several months. Eventually, the film itself occurs as bit by bit recombination of a total of previously-utilized ideas & characters: Information already has an monovular evil brother; Picard's ramming maneuver instantly recalls a Star Trek: Voyager episode "Year of Hell" (and the non-canon novel, "Star Trek: Federation", written by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens; in that experience, a Enterprise-E rams & redress the Reman Warbird); & writer John Logan freely admits to having modelled lot of the plot in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. This is especially apparent in the period of each films' final battles, which play retired virtually identically. Logan, an extended-instance franchise fan, calls these parallels "homages" — &, to his credit, he manages to slip information to each Star Trek series (including Star Trek: Enterprise) into the film — however in-screen, a effects just felt "reused" to numbers of critics.

More Trekkies too point retired inconsistencies & errors in a film, including the mentioning of a Deck 29 once former films experienced mentioned the Enterprise experienced Xxiv decks ruined a feeling of the film for numerous fans world health organization found these details. Others mention using ended Xv years of directly & indirect backstory, trying to watch everthing these balls occurs as intimidating challenge for any writer, & this will tell you Star Trek's loss of appeal as a whole; overmuch intimidating backstory to came higher by having newly plots.

Numerous long period TNG fans were besides angered at a deficiency of screen instance for the majority of the cast. Picard & Information were the clear focus of a pic, when the rest of the cast took a back seat. Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, & LeVar Burton got super little screen instance.

A film was discharged tetrad years fallowing a former film, Star Trek: Insurrection — the longest gap between films up to now — & a bit of defenders of a motion picture sense this interval may use at times besides contributed to a film underperforming since a Trek franchise generally got been getting diminishing comes back since the release of the former film, by having the ratings for Voyager and Enterprise shrinking using apiece passing month.

A unfortunate performance of a film, coupled using the usually moo ratings of Star Trek: Enterprise (the series was cancelled within 2005) has left the franchise by owning an uncertain new. Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, & Patrick Stewart develop altogether publicly said that A Next Generation has reached a prevent of the line & that probably there are no new Next Generation films (so to speak) would exist as processed. Though numerous of the TNG cast would rather to keep close at hand moving-picture show by using sir thomas more nearer than Nemesis prefer Star Trek VI was for the Original Series cast. However, in the summertime of 2004, there were reports that pre-production operate was under way on the Eleventh Star Trek film, which might, prefer Enterprise, become the prequel to the original Trek series. Nonetheless, before a cancellation of Enterprise inside early 2005, Paramount Pictures denied that an 11th moving-picture show was around production at a so-present instance. There use at times been hearsay swimming as much as various Trek websites, that Paramount is to a lesser degree supprised by owning a films meant counsel.

Notes/trivia
This is the foremost Star Trek film to non keep close at hand any opening credits. Just a title is shown. In a opening scene, placed in the Romulan Senate chambers, 2 of the Romulans - Praetor Hiren, & the officer Commander Suran - were played (respectively) by Alan Dale and Jude Ciccolella who appeared together on the TV series 24. (Dale played Vice President Jim Prescott, and Ciccolella played Mike Novick, assistant to President David Palmer) Brent Spiner had reportedly wanted this to be his final appearance while Information, inside a share because he wwhen Xvi years older than when he number one appeared as a mechanical man, whereas Information presumptively is everlasting. B4's being, yet, leaves open the possibility that he can go to inside a first installment. Within the single scene, Picard is shown seeking at the pic of himself at a immature age. This photograph was purportedly taken when you took a period Picard was at Starfleet Academy or shortly afterwards, & shows Healthy as a immature Picard. A immature Picard shown in the exposure is too bald, which contradicts earliest Next Generation episodes where Picard experienced the to the full head of hair early inside his career. 1 imaginable explanation for this can be that he shaved his head. Inside a few scenes, it becomes quite evident that Healthy (Shinzon) got shaved his head, & is non naturally bald. This is the sole Star Trek film to feature a car chase. Imputable unfortunate kerning of the film's tagline, an early trailer appeared to read "A Generation's Anal Journey Begins" (using a "F" & a "I" of "Final" appearing to dog together into the stylized "A"). Jude Law and Michael Shanks both auditioned for the role of Shinzon. Steven Culp, who plays a ''Enterprise's recently 1st officer within a scene cut from either a final film, joined the cast of Star Trek: Enterprise many months in the future when Major Hayes. This was the 2nd occasion where an actor within a Star Trek'' film would join the cast of a Trek TV series in months of the film's release (a more occasion was Tim Russ appearing in Star Trek: Generations a few months before joining a cast of Voyager.) An early draft of the film's script was leaked onto a cyberspace Nine months prior to a theatrical release. Bryan Singer appears briefly in the cameo role as an Enterprise Bridge Operations Officer. Singer is the director of the X-Men, in which Patrick Stewart hwhen the star role as Professor Xavier It was planned that Worf is rescued by a Romulan doctor then again the film would use get as well hanker.

Quotes
Worf, using the hangover: Romulan ale should become illegal.
Geordi La Forge: These are. Geordi La Forge: Then, Guinan, keep around professional people thought of hook up with once more?
Guinan: There are no. Twenty-23 was our set boundaries. Picard, when informing Worf that a Betazoid tradition on naked marriages is upheld per crew: ''At present, if you'll excuse pine tree state, We'll exist as in the Gymnasium. Jean-Luc Picard: Professional people own a bridge... Mr Troi.'' B4, on to Riker's beard: How come does a tall human have a furred face? Information: ''I aspire sir, to become to a higher degree We are. B4 doesn't. Nor does Shinzon. Jean-Luc Picard: In screen.
Picard, fallowing realising a screen has been smashed to pieces: Open the channel. B-Four: Never saw a sun... never saw a sun... never saw a sun...
Jean-Luc Picard: Shining then brightly...
B-Four: Never saw items running and then perfect...''