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Star Trek: Nemesis is an American science fiction film and the tenth and final installmetn in the original Star Trek film series. It is also the fourth film to spotlight the crew of the 1980s-90s television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Following this movie, the franchise was rebooted, establishing a new continuity in an alternate timeline begining with the 2009 film Star Trek. Star Trek: Nemesis was directed by Stuart Baird and produced by Marty Hornstein, Rick Berman and Peter Lauritson for Paramount Pictures. The movie was released theatrically in the United States on December 13th, 2002. An official soundtrack for the film was released on November 26th, 2002 and both a novelization and junior reader novelization were published by Pocket Books and Aladdin Paperbacks.

The central antagonist of the film is a Romulan named Shinzon, who happens to be a clone of Enterprise captain Jean-Luc Picard. Having grown up as a slave on the planet Remus, Shinzon allies himself with neither the Federation nor the Romulan Empire. As the crew of the Enterprise become involved with Shinzon's mad schemes, they discover an android named B-1 - a robot who is an exact replica of Lieutenant Commander Data.

Notes & Trivia

 * Star Trek: Nemesis was released on VHS in the UK on August 11th, 2003. The film was not releasd in this format in North America. It was released to DVD on May 20th, 2003. The Region 1 Special Edition DVD and UMD was released on October 4th, 2005. The Region 2 release of the Special Edition was issued in the UK on December 12th, 2005.
 * Production on Star Trek: Nemesis began on November 28th, 2001 and concluded on March 9th, 2002.


 * Closed out of theaters on March 13th, 2003.


 * Star Trek series creator Gene Roddenberry is posthumously credited as an executive producer.


 * Wil Wheaton makes a cameo guest appearance as Wesley Crusher in the beginning of the film. It is the character's only appearance in the NextGen-era of Star Trek films. Wil Wheaton was a credited cast member on the first four seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Cast

 * Star Trek: Nemesis at Wikipedia
 * Star Trek: Nemesis at Memory Beta
 * Star Trek: Nemesis at Memory Alpha
 * Star Trek: Nemesis at Memory Beta
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 * Star Trek: Nemesis at Metacritic
 * Star Trek: Nemesis at Box Office Mojo
 * Star Trek: Nemesis at Rotten Tomatoes
 * Star Trek: Nemesis at Turner Classic Movies
 * Star Trek: Nemesis at the Star Trek Databank