Star Trek: Nemesis
Writers: Gene Roddenberry, John Logan, Rick Berman
Director: Stuart Baird
Release: December 9, 2002
Tagline(s): A generation’s final journey begins.
The ultimate battle for Earth begins.
A nemesis will betray a generation, and their final journey will begin.
For every good in the universe, there is an evil. And the only way to conquer it is to face it.
Producer: Rick Berman
Co-Producer: Peter Lauritson
Executive Producer: Martin Hornstein
Stars/Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Tom Hardy, Ron Perlman, Kate Mulgrew, Wil Wheaton
Music by: Jerry Goldsmith
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Adventure, Thriller
ID: tt0253754
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 116 minutes
Based On: Based Star Trek: The Next Generation
Synopsis: The Enterprise is diverted to the Romulan homeworld Romulus, supposedly because they want to negotiate a peace treaty. Captain Picard and his crew discover a serious threat to the Federation once Praetor Shinzon plans to attack Earth.
Declassified by Agent Palmer: Palmer’s Trek: Star Trek: Nemesis
Quotes and Lines
DATA: I will always be puzzled by the human predilection for piloting vehicles at unsafe velocities.
JANEWAY: The Son’a, the Borg,…the Romulans. …You seem to get all the easy assignments!
PICARD: Just lucky, Admiral.
PICARD: What is all this about?
SHINZON: It’s about destiny, Picard. It’s about a Reman outcast…
PICARD: You’re not Reman.
SHINZON: And I’m not quite human. So what am I? My life is meaningless as long as you’re still alive. What am I while you exist? A shadow? An echo?
PICARD: If your issues are with me then deal with me. This has nothing to do with my ship. Nothing to do with the Federation.
SHINZON: Oh, but it does. We will no longer bow before anyone as slaves. Not the Romulans and not your mighty Federation. We …are a race bred for war. And conquest.
PICARD: Are you ready to plunge the entire Quadrant into war to satisfy your own personal demons?
SHINZON: It amazes me how little you know yourself.
PICARD: I’m incapable of such an act.
SHINZON: You are me! …The same noble Picard blood pumps through our veins. Had you lived my life, you’d be doing exactly as I am. So look in the mirror, See yourself. …Consider that, Captain. I can think of no greater I torment for you.
PICARD: Shinzon, …I’m a mirror for you as well.
SHINZON: Not for long, Captain. …I’m afraid you won’t survive to witness the victory of the echo over the voice.
“Captain’s Personal log, supplemental. We’re heading toward Federation space at maximum warp. The crew has responded with the dedication I’ve come to expect of them. And like a thousand other commanders on a thousand other battlefields, I wait for the dawn.”
PICARD: ‘For now we see but through a glass darkly’
DATA: Sir?
PICARD: He said he’s a mirror.
DATA: Of you, sir?
PICARD: Yes.
DATA: I do not agree. Although you share the same genetic structure, the events of your life have created a unique individual.
PICARD: If I had lived his life, is it possible I would have rejected my humanity?
DATA: The B-4 is physically identical to me, although his neural pathways are not as advanced. But even if they were, he would not be me.
PICARD: How can you be sure?
DATA: I aspire, sir, to be better than I am. B-4 does not. Nor does Shinzon.
PICARD: It can be the future. Buried deep within you, beneath all the years of pain and anger there is there is something that has never been nurtured. The potential to make yourself a better man, and that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are. …Oh yes, I know you. …There was a time you looked at the stars and dreamed of what might be.