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The tenth film in Paramount's highly lucrative sci-fi franchise is also positioned as the last for the entire original Next Generation crew. En route to the honeymoon of William Riker (Jonathan Frakes... read more read more...) to Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receive energy readings identical to those uniquely emitted by the positronic brain of android crew member Data (Brent Spiner). Upon investigation, they discover the disassembled parts of an identical android named B4, an early prototype of Data himself, now scattered on the surface of a remote world. As they reassemble B4, the crew receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon (Tom Hardy), who claims to seek détente with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. As commander of the closest starship to Romulus, Picard is ordered there to negotiate with Shinzon. 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 (the residents of which are vampire-like creatures that dwell on the perpetually dark side of their home world), and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself. It soon becomes clear that Shinzon has lured the Enterprise to Romulus using B4 as bait and that his sinister ulterior motives include the destruction of Earth. A vicious battle between the Enterprise and Shinzon's powerful warship ensues, resulting in heartbreaking heroics and a devastating casualty. Star Trek: Nemesis was written by long-time Trek fan and Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan. Regular cast members Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, and Whoopi Goldberg co-star with Ron Perlman, Dina Meyer, and Steven Culp. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

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PG-13, 1 hr. 57 min.

Directed by: Stuart Baird

Release Date: December 13, 2002

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DVD Release Date: May 20, 2003

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  • blacksheepboy
    April 19, 2010
    blacksheepboy
    This is surely a horrible last chapter for the Next Generation films, and even though it presents an interesting premise, it mostly feels like a shameless rehash of The Wrath of Khan, only this time the villain is downright lame, bearing some stupid motivations, and the conclusio... read moren is a pathetic cop-out for the entire series.
  • SirPant
    September 21, 2009
    SirPant
    The next generation?s version of Wrath of Khan went horribly wrong. What was the idea going to be for the next film, Star Trek 11 - The Search for Data? Alas we get lumbered with a shit ?Prequel? instead. Arse.
  • superclerk25
    December 2, 2008
    superclerk25
    This flick is a little slow. The main point of the plot isn't revealed until near the end and by that time I'm wondering why we had to sit through all the other stuff at all.
    The death of a main character felt a little hollow and pointless as well.
    As the final movie for this c... read moreast there were a lot of changes being made but I think there were also a lot more missed opportunities as well.
  • matertenebraum
    October 29, 2008
    matertenebraum
    If the rumors are to be believed, then approximately fifty minutes of footage for Star Trek: Nemesis are lying somewhere in Paramount's vault. While the movie itself is technically well-edited with a slick Hollywood gloss, this might explain why everyone but Picard and Data are l... read moreeft short-handed with minimal screen time and dialogue. Hopefully, the missing footage will find its way to the DVD release, where we can get the final tribute the crew of The Next Generation deserves.

    As a story for a final adventure, Nemesis isn't quite the epic one may hope for. The plot mostly focuses on the parallels between Picard and the new Romulan leader, a human named Shinzon (Tom Hardy), who claims to desire peace between the Romulans and the Federation. He also has a special bond to Picard, which I won't give away, suffice to say Data also gets to experience something similar throughout the film. Essentially, the plot isn't particularly interesting and it works primarily as a set-up for the climactic space battle, definitely the movie's highlight.

    Before then, the only setpieces worthy of interest are a gratuitous but enjoyable car chase (!) on a desert planet that resolves in a grin-inducing fashion, and a fast-paced shootout on board Shinzon's warship, the Scimitar, which also resolves in a pretty cool manner. That's all the action we get in the first 80 or so minutes, meaning there's a lot of talky scenes that go nowhere and clumsily insert the good ol' "Nature vs. Nurture" debate to no avail. Outside of the action, what makes the first 3/4's of the movie watchable are the excellent special effects and the crew's camaraderie. Acting wise, we get excellent performances from Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner (by the way, is it just me or does Stewart look even more physically fit than ever? Old age is doing little to bring him down)

    Clearly, the final space battle is what we've been waiting for, and after 10 movies and 23 years, we get what is easily the most elaborate action sequence of the entire Trek franchise. The segment runs just short of a half-hour and features the Enterprise going toe-to-toe with the Scimitar, and to keep the concept of one starship battling another from getting boring (because let's face it, that gets old in a matter of minutes), director Stuart Baird throws in a few more ships, some more phaser fights from boarding enemy parties (which prove to be the most exciting parts of the movie), fisticuffs, and even a self-destruct sequence that could prove fatal for everyone. It's a doozy of an action scene, even if it is slightly marred by Troi's psychic link and tiresome reports of collapsing shields. This is the sequence that makes the movie worth watching to sci-fi action fans.

    Personally, I would have preferred had Baird just spaced the action out more evenly (a la First Contact), rather than stuffing it all in the conclusion, since the plot itself is hard to hold interest on its own. Still, from the space battle alone, this is more action-packed than any of the original crew's films and comes out just ahead of First Contact in terms of quantity, if not in quality. The finale also features the death of a beloved character, which isn't executed quite as properly as it should have, but is touching on its own. Once again, I'm hoping the director's cut will fix that up. Until then, this is just satisfying enough to those who thirst for outerspace action.
  • Godless
    March 26, 2008
    Godless
    2 and a 1/2 stars based on nostalgia.
  • cancercapricorn2002
    December 18, 2007
    cancercapricorn2002
    Well this is ( for now) the last Next Generation movie and all I can say its too bad that it had to end like this, they deserve better.

    Trekkie's Law #1: The even numbered films in the series are always outstanding (Khan, First Contact, Voyage Home) while the odd films are alw... read moreays iffy (Insurrection, Final Frontier). Search For Spock being the exception to this law.

    Law #2: Occasionally borrowing from other sci-fi sources is ok, but borrowing from oneself is bad.

    Murphy's Law: If something bad can happen, it will.

    "Star Trek Nemesis" is an engaging idea, but several scenes, plotpoints and concepts taken directly from "Wrath of Khan" cripple this one and shows how close this "Generations" writers have come to running out of ideas.

    If youre a true sci-fi fan, you'll catch the obvious Trek references as well as others to "Star Wars" and "2001". Too bad the cute in-jokes don't help what is essentially a fundamentally weak script.

    Plotline is as follows, a warning......spoilers may be contained herein, read the next Four paragraphs at your own discretion.

    Somewhere, somehow, the Romulans gained a copy of Capt. Picard (Patrick Stewart)'s DNA. This was the beginning of a plan to create a clone of him, so that they may infiltrate the Federation at the highest levels. This clone's name: Shinzon. Once this plan is abandoned by yet another government shakeup, Shinzon (wonderfully played by Tom Hardy) is left for dead in the dilithium mines on planet Remus. There he finds companionship and eventually assassinates the Romulan government, putting himself in charge.

    Of course, like a bad James Bond villain, Shinzon invites peace talks with the Federation and naturally the Enterprise is the only ship in the area, heading to Betazed following the wedding of Counselor Troi (Marina Sirtis) and Cmdr. Riker (Jonathan Frakes). Naturally, Shinzon is happy with his development, as he has other things in mind for Picard.

    Epic space battles follow, with Romulan warbirds gallantly assisting Enterprise in her attempts to defeat Shinzon's massive warbird. Dina Meyer ("Starship Troopers") plays a good, if not underused Romulan known as Commander Donatra. Nice to see her again, as she takes what shes given and makes the most of it.

    Tom Hardy, as previously stated, is wonderful as the vengance seeking Shinzon. Blaming not only the Romulans, but the people of earth as well, his maniaical quest for revenge drives him to violate numerous interstellar treaties in the creation of an ultimate weapon that can terminate all life in a given area in seconds (Genesis anyone???). Very nicely played though.

    Patrick Stewart gives a workman's redition of Picard, almost looking like he'd rather be working on and X Men movie rather than this film, but Picard is always the leader and even gets a chance to "let his hair down" in his one.

    Jonathan Frakes is all but left out of this one, save for an out of place love scene with new wife Troi, which leads into other plot points, but could have been handled less cheesily.

    Brent Spiner delivers a scene stealing Data, and even as the less advanced version B-4 he shines on through this muddled mess. Data always seems to be one of the more interesting characters, and Spiner has yet to fail in this series.

    None of the other cast mattered or figured in this one, save for Ron Perlman (tv's "Beauty and the Beast") as Shinzon's Viceroy. Very nicely done.

    It won't be hard to see the "Khan" ripoffs, or the "Doomsday Machine" references. Having had 4 years to work on the story ("Insurrection was released in 1998), one would naturally assume to not be sitting in the theater, making jokes about expecting to hear Kirk's epiloge "of all the souls I've encountered in my travels" speech at the end! Very poor storywriting and cinematography (did the power fail at the studio one day and they write the story around that?) make this final voyage one I was sad to take.
  • YosemiteSamFan
    July 7, 2007
    YosemiteSamFan
    Romulans are somewhat boring, and the makers of "Star Trek Nemesis" based their whole movie on them!

    Captain Picard and his crew come up against a very dangerous Romulan leader Shinzon and his powerful weapon of destruction. There's some unnecessary business about Shinzon bei... read moreng a clone of Picard which I ignored.

    There's a great opening buggy-chase on a desolate planet surface, where the Enterprise answer a distress call.

    But then the remainder of the film is primarily set in a wicked ship-to-ship combat. It's hard not to think of this as an imitator of "The Wrath of Khan" plotline.

    Like Wrath, this film is important for the loss of a major Star Trek character. It however seems hokey that they would instantly introduce a remedy for the loss, negating it.

    Many of the scenes are forgettable. I didn't want the Star Trek series to end this way; I wanted something bigger and more memorable. They cheaped out.
  • garyX
    May 28, 2007
    garyX
    I must admit, I hated this film when I first saw it, but with a re-watch, I've decided I was a little harsh. The rare attempts at humour are embarrassing, particularly Brent Spiner's characterisation of the prototype Data which is something akin to an autistic Stan Laurel. The ac... read moretion sequences are also long-winded and superfluous, and Stewart and Frakes are getting a little too mature and portly to make convincing action stars. Add to that, the fact that the whole what makes a man, nature/nurture theme is a little pretentious and shallow, and I come to realise that maybe I wasn't THAT harsh after all...
  • Beefy
    April 25, 2007
    Beefy
    Not the greatest film ever made, but certainly not as bad as some have made it out to be.
  • CloudStrife84
    April 12, 2007
    CloudStrife84
    Doesn't deserve the name Star Trek in the title. I was really disappointed.

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Critic Reviews

J. R. Jones
May 19, 2008
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

Reasonably entertaining if utterly familiar. Full Review

David Edelstein
December 23, 2002
David Edelstein, Slate

This tenth feature is a big deal, indeed -- at least the third-best, and maybe even a notch above the previous runner-up, Nicholas Meyer's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
December 23, 2002
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

As lo-fi as the special effects are, the folks who cobbled Nemesis together indulge the force of humanity over hardware in a way that George Lucas has long forgotten. Full Review

Alex Pappademas
December 17, 2002
Alex Pappademas, Village Voice

John Logan clones Enterprise skipper Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), geek-relatable android Data (Brent Spiner), and -- less successfully -- 1982's Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan. Full Review

Richard Roeper
December 16, 2002
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

Star Trek: Nemesis stands alone as an engaging intergalactic thriller with a lot of spirit-and some rousing action scenes. Full Review

Wesley Morris
December 13, 2002
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

This is the fourth film to feature the Next Generation crew, and everyone is still off-track after the ideologically unsound, sparsely entertaining Insurrection. Full Review

Michael O'Sullivan
December 13, 2002
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

The cheesiness so endemic to the Star Trek franchise ... is back in full force.

Stephen Hunter
December 13, 2002
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

An ordeal for all save the most ardent Treksters.

Mike Clark
December 13, 2002
Mike Clark, USA Today

As spent screen series go, Star Trek: Nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th class reunion mixer where only eight surviving members show up -- and there's nothing to drink. Full Review

Mick LaSalle
December 13, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Stewart instead lends integrity and wry stoicism to Nemesis, but the movie is unworthy of him. Full Review

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