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The intimidating Scimitar — the Reman warbird commanded by Captain Picard’s clone Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis — has decloaked to join your Eaglemoss starship collection ready menace your Federation ships with its deadly thalaron weapon.

Designed by John Eaves for the final Next Generation film, the Scimitar was built in response to the need for a new imposing Romulan ship design that would dwarf the Enterprise -E. A ship described as “awesome in its power” by the movie’s shooting script, the Scimitar is an imposing shape.

The primary hull of the Scimitar resembles a large beetle, and the sweeping wings and appendages all over the ship give it a dangerous insectile quality. Visually, the Scimitar is a striking vessel; you wouldn’t necessarily say that it was good looking, but it definitely evokes the right emotions on the screen of power and scale.

One of the “special”-sized ships, the Scimitar model measures approximately eight-and-a-half inches across its wingspan, though feels a little small given the ship it is modeled from is so massive. Despite not being as big as it maybe should be, however, the decision to make the Scimitar at the special rather than the smaller regular size is a welcome one.

The general trend of Eaglemoss towards making the movie ships in the “special size” has been a welcome one. In many cases, these models are more detailed and impressive than their TV counterparts because they needed to be in order to impress upon the big screen. The larger size allows for the detail of these models to shine.

And so it is for the hull of the Scimitar . The whole hull has intricately molded details that add significant visual interest to the model, and draw the eye in wherever you are looking. Without them, the Scimitar is all blocky shapes and could be boring.

The Scimitar is largely plastic, with only the ventral section of the primary hull being metal. The rest of the ship, including the dorsal section of the primary hull, as well as the wings, are all plastic. As a result, and given how thin the wings are – they bend quite easily in your hand without much force – the model is quite fragile.

You will not want to accidentally let this one fall; it’s not liable to survive the landing.

If Eaglemoss produces enough specials, it might be nice for them to get back to the Scimitar and produce a version with the wings fanned out, when the main tharalon weapon is ready to fire.

Eaglemoss’ ships have not had any articulation built into them, so that was never going to be an option here and would likely be quite fragile, but the wings-out mode for the ship is a striking one. If it can be produced, here’s hoping that it will be.

The stand fits over either side of the primary hull; the fit is merely okay. Given the fragility of the model, it is a shame that the stand does not hold it a little tighter. If jostled, the model does move about quite a bit when on the stand, worrying me that one jostle in the wrong direction will cause it to fall and break.

Overall, the Scimitar is a nice addition to the collection. A visually engaging model whose larger size works for the detail necessary to make it so engaging, the Scimitar will look good facing off against the standard size Enterprise -E or nestled among your Romulan fleet.

If you’re interested in adding this Reman predator to your own starship fleet, the  Scimitar is available at the US webshop for $49.99 and when available, for £24.99 from Eaglemoss’ UK online store.

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Star Trek: Nemesis

• 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.
• After a joyous wedding between William Riker and Deanna Troi, Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew stumble upon a positronic signature which results in a prototype version of the android Data. Then the Enterprise is invited to Romulus to negotiate a peace treaty with the Romulans by their new leader, Praetor Shinzon. However, Shinzon is revealed to be a clone of Picard who was raised on Remus, a slave planet to the Romulans. Later on, Picard discovers that this peace treaty was nothing more than a set-up on account of the fact that Shinzon needs Picard in order to survive. But little do the Enterprise crew know that Shinzon also plans to do away with the Federation by unleashing a weapon that could destroy a whole planet. — Blazer346
• On their way to William Riker and Deanna Troi's honeymoon on Betazed, the Enterprise heads near the Romulan Neutral Zone, and picks up a prototype version of the android Data. Immediately, they are diverted to Romulus, where the new ruler, Praetor Shinzon, a human cloned from Captain Picard who lives on the slave planet Remus, appears to want peace with the Federation. But then the crew detects a break-in on their computer systems, and Picard is captured by the Remans because Shinzon needs him as his only matching supplier of genetic material. Picard and the Enterprise crew escape, only to find themselves battling Shinzon's completely cloaked Warbird, who goes after the complete destruction of Earth. — 42/103
• The Romulan military offers the Imperial Senate plans to join forces with the Reman military and invade the Federation, but the Praetor (Alan Dale) refuses to cooperate. A green Thalaron radiation mist is released into the room, and everyone is killed. Meanwhile, the crew of the USS Enterprise-E prepares to bid farewell to longtime first officer Commander William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), who are soon to be married on Betazed. On route, they discover a Positronic energy reading on a planet in the Kolaran system near the Romulan Neutral Zone. Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), Lieutenant Commander Worf (Michael Dorn), and Lieutenant Commander Data (Brent Spiner) land on Kolarus III and discover the remnants of an android resembling Data. When the android is reassembled it reveals its name is B-4 (Brent Spiner), and the crew deduce it to be a less-advanced earlier version of Data. Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) orders the crew to conduct a diplomatic mission to Romulus. Janeway informs Picard that the Romulan government has undergone a military coup and is now controlled by a Reman named Shinzon (Tom Hardy), saying he wants peace with the Federation and to bring freedom to Remus. This is a surprising development as the Romulans had regarded Remans as an undesirable caste used principally as slave labor, due to their long history of prejudice. Upon their arrival on Romulus, the crew learns that Shinzon is actually a clone of Picard, a remnant of a secret experiment conducted by the Romulans to take Picard's place in Starfleet as a spy; however, he and the project were abandoned after a political change in the Romulan government left him cast away to Remus as a slave. It is there that he meets his Reman brethren and effects his rise to power. It was also on Remus where Shinzon constructed his flagship, a heavily armed warship named Scimitar, with completely undetectable cloaking devices, an arsenal of weapons, and virtually impregnable shields. Though the diplomatic mission seems to go smoothly, the crew discovers that the Scimitar is emitting low levels of extremely dangerous Thalaron radiation, the same substance used to assassinate the Romulan senate as seen in the film's beginning. Several unauthorized computer accesses take place aboard the Enterprise, and Counselor Troi is mentally attacked by Shinzon while she is making love to Commander Riker. Picard is captured by Shinzon and is informed that he is slowly dying from the accelerated aging from his cloning process, and thus needs Picard's blood to live. Shinzon also transports B-4 aboard the Scimitar, revealing that Shinzon was behind the placing of B-4 on Kolarus III in order to lure Picard to Romulus. However, B-4 reveals himself to actually be Data - he rescues Picard, and they make their escape back to their ship. Realizing that the Scimitar is a Weaponized Thalaron emitter with enough power to destroy all life forms in a fleet of ships as well as an entire planet, Data deduces that Shinzon is using the warship to conquer the Federation and destroy Earth. The Enterprise races back towards Federation space, but is soon ambushed by the Scimitar, disabling the Enterprise's warp drive in the process in her first volley of torpedoes. In the ensuing assault, the Enterprise is outmatched. Two Romulan Warbirds arrive and assist in the assault, but Shinzon destroys one Warbird and disables the other. Refocusing his attention on Picard, Shinzon damages the Enterprise to a significant degree. Refusing to surrender, Picard uses his heavily damaged ship to ram the Scimitar, but only succeeds in slightly damaging it. Picard even tries to initiate the Enterprise's self-destruct sequence, but finds it disabled from the attack. Meanwhile, Shinzon initializes the Scimitar's Thalaron weapon in a desperate attempt to take the Enterprise down with him. Picard boards the vessel alone and faces Shinzon. Unable to stop the weapon from activating, Picard kills Shinzon by impaling him through the abdomen with part of a metallic support strut. Data arrives with a single-use personal transporter, using it to quickly beam the captain back to the Enterprise before sacrificing himself to destroy the ship, shutting down the weapon in the process. While the severely damaged Enterprise is under repair in a space dock in near-Earth orbit, Picard bids farewell to newly promoted Captain Riker who is off to command the USS Titan, to begin a true peace negotiation mission with Romulus. Picard then meets with android B-4, whereupon he learns that Data had succeeded in copying the engrams of his neural net into B-4's Positronic matrix not long before his death.

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Film / Star Trek: Nemesis

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Janeway : Jean-Luc, how would you like a trip to Romulus? Picard: With or without the rest of the fleet?

The One With… Picard’s younger evil clone .

Star Trek Nemesis is the tenth movie in the Star Trek film series, released in 2002, and serves as the big-screen Grand Finale for the Next Generation crew. It is directed by Stuart Baird, with the screenplay by John Logan and the story by Logan, Rick Berman and Brent Spiner , who also played Data.

After a coup , the new leader of the ever-secretive Romulan government makes an offer of peace to The Federation . Our heroes find out that this new leader, Shinzon ( Tom Hardy ), is a younger clone of Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ), the by-product of a botched Romulan plot. At first, Shinzon's intentions seem honest, but they quickly turn malicious for convoluted medical reasons. There's also a subplot about a prototype of Data, B-4 (Spiner), which serves as a counterpoint to Picard's identity struggles. See here for a more detailed recap.

The film also stars TNG series regulars Jonathan Frakes as William T. Riker, LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge, Michael Dorn as Worf, Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher and Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi. Ron Perlman appears as Shinzon's Evil Chancellor . Cameos include Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher, Whoopi Goldberg as shipboard bartender Guinan, and Kate Mulgrew as Admiral Kathryn Janeway, the only one of the three to have lines.

The film was released on December 13, 2002 in North America. It did poorly at the box office due to a combination of stiff competition note  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets , James Bond 's Die Another Day and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers were all released within a few weeks of this film's debut and, despite having the Star Trek Movie Curse in its favor, was not well received. It is generally viewed as a Franchise Killer signaling the decline of Star Trek movies, not helped by Star Trek: Enterprise also struggling before being cancelled several years later.

Nemesis provided a bookend in several ways. With a prequel show currently airing, this film was the chronological last story set in the 24th Century, and J. J. Abrams 's Alternate Timeline Star Trek (2009) (which is somewhat of a Stealth Sequel to this film) made it appear to be the last of the Prime Timeline . But this would change as a new era of Star Trek television shows would return to the timeline with TOS-era Star Trek: Discovery , while Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Lower Decks are set after the events of this film. The Third Season of Star Trek: Picard would go on to serve as Putting the Band Back Together for the TNG cast, acting as another Grand Finale .

Nemesis provides examples of:

• Aborted Arc : Shinzon is an in-universe example. Picard's clone was created as part of an ambitious operation to replace the real Picard (who even at that point was a rising star in Starfleet) with a Romulan agent at the heart of Starfleet (and with none the wiser). However, the plan ultimately fell victim to a political shakeup in the Senate. A new government came to power, decided the plan was too risky, and pulled the plug and dumped Shinzon on Remus.
• Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene : The dinner scene, where Shinzon seems genuinely curious about the life that Picard lived.
• Alas, Poor Villain : Yes, his motives were unclear, his tactical expertise was debatable (see Informed Ability below), and he wanted to kill everyone on Earth, but there's no denying that Shinzon's life sucked . He was created solely to be a tool of war, and through no fault of his own, he was eventually condemned to a lifetime of back-breaking labor in a hellish mine. And even though he managed to overthrow his captors and the entire Romulan leadership, his engineered lifespan ensured that he had a very short time to live. In short, he lived a short, violent, brutal life, and never really had any chance to know love or happiness.
• Antagonist Title : Shinzon is Picard's nemesis.
• Anything but That! : Worf: ... Irving Berlin .
• Apocalypse How : Class 6, threatened.
• Applied Phlebotinum : Thalaron radiation.
• Arc Words : "Never saw the sun shining so bright, never saw things looking so right..."
• Activation Sequence : After the Enterprise rams the Scimitar , rendering their weapons inoperable, Shinzon activates the thalaron weapon, a process that takes about seven minutes as the targeting emitters on the wings are moved into position prior to firing.
• Attack Pattern Shinzon Theta.
• Defensive Pattern Kirk Epsilon.

• Backported Development : Even though Picard was supposed to have lost his hair with age, his clone is also completely bald. Shinzon's baldness can perhaps be explained away as being a result of his screwed up DNA and the resultant premature aging, but a photograph showing Picard as a bald cadet, not so easily. Especially since on TNG younger versions of Picard were shown twice; "Tapestry", fresh out of the Academy with a full head of hair, and "Violations", ten years before the start of the series, with the hairline starting to recede. Though maybe he just shaved his head at one point in the Academy.
• Bait-and-Switch : At Riker and Troi's wedding party, Data begins singing the bridge of "Blue Skies" in a stilted, robotic way before switching to Brent Spiner's usual jazz singing style. In-universe, there's no reason for him to do this: all of Data's friends and people who have seen STTNG and its previous movies already know Data is a good singer. This seems to have been done solely to serve as an awkward Establishing Character Moment for audience members who aren't familiar with Data's character.
• Bald of Evil : Shinzon is completely bald.
• Beam Spam : The Enterprise uses this when attempting to locate the cloaked Scimitar during the battle in the Bassen Rift before the other Romulans arrive.
• Because You Were Nice to Me : The Remans helped Shinzon survive in the mines, and now he's fighting to liberate them from the Romulans.
• Big Damn Heroes : Commander Donatra arrives with two warbirds to assist the Enterprise and after realizing Shinzon was genocidal. Subverted, however, in that neither warbird succeeds in causing any damage whatsoever to the Scimitar , which then cripples Donatra's warbird and destroys the other one outright, meaning that Donatra's intervention ends up achieving nothing .
• Troi screams it when Vkruk mentally rapes her, and again when Riker calls her name.
• Vkruk yells one when Riker sends him falling to his death.
• Bittersweet Ending : Data is dead, and the crew of the Enterprise is going their separate ways after so many years together. But thanks to their efforts, Shinzon is killed and the Romulan Empire is finally willing to talk with the Federation, which may lead to peace between the two, and Picard, along with all those who remain on the Enterprise , will continue their mission to go where no one has gone before. Sadly, Star Trek (2009) establishes that eight years after Nemesis , Romulus is destroyed in a supernova and the rest of the Romulan Empire blames the Federation for screwing up the project to stop it. In addition, Star Trek: Picard shows that Picard tried to help the Romulans, but The Federation chose to withdraw their aid, and Picard resigned in protest. Also, Data's attempt to download himself into B-4 failed.
• Blank Slate : Data's "brother" B-4.
• Board to Death : Romulan Senate not cooperating? Kill 'em all with an experimental thalaron radiation bomb!
• Body Horror : The effects of thalaron radiation: it turns you into powder from the inside-out. Quite painfully, it must be added.
• Body Snatcher : Data imprints his neural net on his mentally handicapped brother's brain. He plays it off as "helping his brother grow" or somesuch, but it's implied that in the future Data will completely take over B-4's body...until Star Trek: Picard reveals that the download failed.
• Boldly Coming : Defied Trope . Shinzon, a clone of Picard raised on the Romulan twin planet of Remus, organizes a coup against the Imperial Senate and takes over. Commander Donatra later tries to flirt with him , but he stops her dead cold, as he grew up amongst the Slave Race of the Romulan Empire and thus despises ordinary Romulans. Instead, he settles for engaging in some pretty literal Mind Rape against the half-human Troi. Shinzon: You are not a woman. You are a Romulan .
• Bond Villain Stupidity : "I have you now, Picard. Now I can proceed with the operation to save my life, a short time after I walk away and leave you in a room with one guard. I'm sure nothing will happen during that time."
• When we first saw the Prime Universe Enterprise on the big screen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture , she was in spacedock undergoing a refit. In this last Prime Universe film, we last see her in spacedock undergoing repairs. The same Jerry Goldsmith Star Trek theme is played in both scenes.
• Similarly, as of 2023, this remains the final Trek film set in the Prime Reality. So, Jerry Goldsmith has the distinction of scoring both the first and last films of the original, pre-reboot Film Series.
• In their first meeting in the TNG pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint", Picard and Riker talk about how it was the first officer's responsibility to take on away missions. In their last meeting before Riker leaves for the USS Titan , Picard offers some advice about how to handle that with his first officer.
• In the original ending, the Enterprise would have left for a mission to the Deneb system, which was where the TNG pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint" took place.
• At the beginning of the film, Data sings "Blue Skies" at Troi and Riker's wedding reception. By the end of the film, B-4 struggles to sing the song as the Enterprise is docked .
• Bottomless Pit : Riker kicks Vkruk into one of these; the Enterprise apparently has one starting at deck 29 (the bottom of the ship... or five decks below the bottom, thanks to a Continuity Snarl ) and going down far enough to be fatal.
• In the last movie , Geordi was amazed at Picard's acute hearing. Turns out that it was painfully acute when Picard was a boy.
• Shinzon's backstory is that he was a clone of Picard developed as part of a plot to undermine the Federation. In "Redemption: Part II", when they first met Sela, the identical half-Romulan daughter of Tasha Yar , Dr. Crusher briefly wondered whether she was actually Tasha's clone, created for undermining Starfleet.
• Janeway appearing as a (recently promoted) Admiral is the only Canon description of what happened to the Voyager crew after their Grand Finale , until Star Trek: Picard added some further details.
• Whoopi Goldberg also has one line as Guinan.

• Captain Obvious : Data: [picking up a robotic arm] It appears to be a robotic arm. Worf: Very astute .
• The micro transporter Data attempts to use when rescuing Picard is used later on... to rescue Picard.
• Troi uses Vkruk's telepathy (which she knows about after her Mind Rape ) to locate the cloaked Scimitar . She even says "Remember me?"
• Commonality Connection : Shinzon tries to forge a connection with Picard, though it's ambiguous how sincere he is given that he plans to kill Picard for his blood. Shinzon: I want to know what it means to be human. The Remans have given me a future, but you can tell me about my past. Picard: I can tell you about my past. Shinzon: Were we Picards always warriors? Picard: I think of myself as an explorer . Shinzon: Well, were we always explorers? Picard: I was the first Picard to leave our solar system. It caused quite a stir in the family, but I'd spent my youth... Shinzon: ...looking up at the stars, dreaming about what was up there, about... Picard: ...new worlds.
• One of the ships waiting for the Enterprise is the USS Archer .
• A maneuvering pattern during the battle is called Kirk Epsilon , and is used while trying to locate a ship that can fire while cloaked .
• Data finds B-4 fascinating.
• A mention of the Dominion War and an appearance by Admiral Janeway .
• Troi taking the helm when the first helm officer is sucked into space and consequently being given the order by Picard to ram the Scimitar with the Enterprise is a humorous nod to her similar actions on the Enterprise-D and its status as a meme among the fanbase.
• The most subtle nod happens with Worf. While moving to intercept the boarding party Worf mentions that "The Romulans fought with honor." In the Next Generation episode "The Enemy", Worf went so far as to refuse to help save a dying Romulan's life (said Romulan made it clear he'd rather die than accept Worf's help in any case) while Dr. Crusher and Picard could not convince him otherwise (his family was killed in a Romulan surprise attack at Khitomer). The fact that the people he despised so much managed to impress him says a lot.
• Another subtle reference is the planet Remus itself, which was first mentioned all the way back in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Balance of Terror" (and never mentioned again until now).
• Riker recalls Data's failed attempt to whistle way back in the TNG pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint", though he can't remember the song. For the record, it was "Pop Goes the Weasel."
• Picard mentions Riker's refusal to let him lead away missions, also first mentioned in the TNG pilot.
• A technological nod occurs when Geordi notes that the Scimitar 's cloak is perfect and doesn't leave any tachyon emissions or residual antiprotons, which were previous methods of revealing cloaking devices.
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine : The now-concluded Dominion War is acknowledged, as is the Romulan involvement in the conflict (which is used as a plot point to help establish Shinzon's military background). However, Worf's post-series status quo as the new Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire isn't acknowledged at all. He simply rejoins his old crew without any on-screen explanation (though a deleted scene from the Wedding confirms Worf had resigned from the Diplomatic Corps prior to the film).
• Star Trek: Voyager : The ship's triumphant return home to the Alpha Quadrant is non-verbally acknowledged by Janeway's cameo.
• Constantly Curious : B-4 in the car-chase scene.
• Cool Old Guy : Picard is 74 years old in the film ( Patrick Stewart was only 62), but you wouldn't know it judging by how active he is, including how he single-handedly takes out not only everyone on the Scimitar 's bridge, but also manages to defeat Shinzon in hand-to-hand combat .
• The Scimitar is a decidedly evil-looking vessel, with forward-swept wings, dark gray hull, and an overall design that just oozes menace. It can also use its weapons and its shields while cloaked, something that, except for the Klingon Bird-of-Prey in The Undiscovered Country (the weapons at least, it still couldn't use its shields), is normally impossible. Picard: (awed) She's a predator.
• Plus the Enterprise -E remains as cool as ever.
• The Coup : At the start of the film, disgruntled Romulan senator Tal'aura and a group of Romulan military officers assassinate the rest of the Senate so they can install Shinzon as Praetor. They eventually turn on him (though to little effect) after realizing he's a genocidal maniac .
• Creator Cameo : Director Stuart Baird provides the voice of the Scimitar 's computer.
• Damn You, Muscle Memory! : When the Enterprise is hailed by the Romulans after the battle, Picard habitually says 'on-screen' despite a hole into space existing where the viewscreen once was - he quickly corrects himself with 'open a channel'.
• Dawn Attack : Picard reflects on this trope while recording his Captain's Log during the Lock-and-Load Montage : "...and like a thousand other commanders on a thousand other battlefields, I wait for the dawn."
• Demoted to Extra : Pretty much everyone except Picard and Data, but particularly egregious in the case of Dr. Crusher, who essentially disappears from the film after informing Picard of Shinzon's genetic problem, with a brief appearance in Data's wake scene (without any dialogue) being the only time she even appears after that. To a lesser extent this also applies to La Forge, who is mostly limited to providing bits of Technobabble and expository dialogue, and Worf, who is the butt of a few jokes early on and then has a minor action sequence late on, with neither getting any real character development. All three do get additional scenes in the novelization, though.
• Diabolus ex Nihilo : The Scimitar . It breaks suspension of disbelief that the Remans could build, almost literally under the Romulans' noses (whose society's most prominent feature is Big Brother-level surveillance and paranoia), a starship custom-designed for their kind (it's noted that the controls are in Reman) and with the equivalent firepower of what has to be at least a few dozen top-of-the-line warships, not to mention its perfect cloak and primary weapon system.
• Disney Villain Death : Vkruk falls to his death into a bottomless pit towards the end of the film.
• Disposable Pilot : Poor Lieutenant Branson, who you knew would die the very moment you saw him.
• Doomsday Device : The Thalaron radiation weapon.
• The Dragon : Vkruk serves as Shinzon's second-in-command.
• Dream Spying
• Drives Like Crazy : Flying an attack craft through the corridors of a starship? Pretty crazy.
• Driving into a Truck : The Argo Jeep and a cargo shuttlecraft play this role. Picard even drives the Argo over a ledge in order to park it in the shuttle. (They also drove out of the shuttle at the beginning of the scene.)
• Dropped a Bridge on Him : Data 's death was generally considered an underwhelming one for such a long-established character. In fairness, it wasn't as severely anti-climactic as the Trope Namer , nor as much an utterly pointless Shoot the Shaggy Dog moment as Tasha Yar's or Jadzia Dax's deaths, since Data does at least go out in a Heroic Sacrifice while saving the Enterprise . It's more the execution that's at fault here, since his death is pretty abrupt and filmed more in the manner that you might expect some Red Shirt to meet their end in, rather than a main character.
• Earth Is the Center of the Universe : Or, at least, The Federation , which is why Shinzon makes it his first target. Riker: Destroy humanity, you cripple the Federation.
• Even Evil Has Standards : The Romulans start to side against Shinzon when they realize how genocidal he is. They want to conquer The Federation , not wipe it out completely.
• Explosive Decompression : An energy torpedo from the Scimitar blasts a giant hole in the front of the bridge, obliterating the viewscreen. A hapless conn officer is sucked out into space, with another one holding onto his console for dear life, as well as the rest of the bridge crew. They are only saved by the timely activation of the atmospheric safety forcefields.
• Fairytale Wedding Dress : Troi wears a pink one at her wedding.
• Faux Affably Evil : Shinzon.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing : The Enterprise is being stalked by Shinzon's cloaked ship, so it's hoping to rendezvous with the fleet for protection. On the way, they enter an area of space where long-range communications don't work. Data and Picard realize that this would be a perfect place for Shinzon to attack them. Guess what happens next?
• From Bad to Worse : With the Enterprise already outmatched by the Scimitar , two more warbirds show up. Subverted when they offer to help fight Shinzon.
• From Nobody to Nightmare : Shinzon may not have been the most competent Big Bad ever, but given that he started out as the weakest slave in the mines, getting as far as he did in life was quite an accomplishment.
• Fun with Homophones : During the fight with the Enterprise , Shinzon slowly and viciously says "Fire at will." Followed immediately by a cut to a frantic Will Riker.
• Generic Doomsday Villain : Shinzon. The extreme actions that actually relate to his supposedly well-intentioned goals occur entirely in the opening minutes of the movie: as he was raised by the Remans, he understandably doesn't like their status as the Warrior - Slave Race of the Romulan Empire. But when he assassinates the entire Romulan Senate and installs himself as the new dictator... he's already solved all the Remans' problems. At that point his only real explanation for wanting to destroy Earth is to eclipse Picard in the history books and make sure nobody ever subjugates the Remans again. For a poorly explained reason (to prove to everyone that the Remans are to be taken seriously), he has a super battleship way more advanced than every ship it comes up against. He also got a planet-destroying superweapon from... somewhere. The Star Trek Novelverse spent quite a few pages writing (non-canon) fix fics to explain this mess.
• Grand Finale : For the Next Generation crew, and more: as the next film returns to the TOS gang in an altered version of history, it was the final entry of the Next Generation , of the whole 24th Century era, and of the entire Trek Verse as it has been from day one ... until Star Trek: Picard was announced in 2019.
• Guns Akimbo : Picard wields two disruptors while Data figures out how to access the hangar on the Scimitar .
• Hand Wave : Tom Hardy looking nothing like Patrick Stewart is handwaved during their characters' dinner scene where Shinzon notes "Not the face you remember? A life of violence can do that."
• Hangover Sensitivity : Worf and Romulan ale do not mix very well.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam : Subverted. Shinzon slams it himself.
• Heel–Face Turn : The Romulans.
• Heroic BSoD : After Shinzon dies, Picard suffers one. When Data appears, Picard barely registers his arrival at first.
• Heroic Sacrifice : Data, homaging Spock's heroic sacrifice in Wrath of Khan .
• Hoist by Their Own Petard : The Romulans create a clone of Captain Picard for a Kill and Replace gambit, only to have their tool kill and replace the Romulan Senate . So this is a case of Hoist By Their Own Picard .
• So to be clear: the series has established that quite a few members of the Enterprise are geniuses, and they know, by this point, that Shinzon is literally out for Captain Picard's blood. And yet, it doesn't occur to any of them that flying the ship alone into a gas cloud which prevents them from calling for help is a really, really bad idea.
• The last time they found a disassembled Soong-designed android, he turned out to be Data's Evil Twin and went on to nearly kill the crew on two separate occasions. Why not ONE of the senior staff, all of whom were present for both events, brings up even the vaguest mention of this...
• So, Shinzon and the Remans discover B-4 somewhere, add programming to turn him into their spy, and plant his remains in the desert for the Enterprise to find. The goal here is to acquire the position of the Federation fleet, the same fleet the Scimitar can trivially bypass thanks to its perfect cloak. The whole thing failed anyway, but it's not made clear why he ever needed the data in the first place, given his plan never involved the fleet in the first place. Presumably this would have tied in to the deleted subplot where Shinzon intended to launch a full-scale assault on the Federation, and the information would have been for the benefit of the rest of the Romulan fleet, which would have otherwise been vulnerable to the Federation's normal methods of rooting out cloaked ships.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy : The Reman side of this is lampshaded early on when it's pointed out that the Romulans used Remans for cannon fodder in the Dominion War.
• Inertial Impalement : At the climax, Picard inflicts this on Shinzon with a piece of broken-off metal.
• He waits for two days to talk to Picard personally, along with other general procrastination ( due to Clone Degeneration , Shinzon at this point has something like a week to live ) because he was "curious" about Picard.
• He unveils his secret flagship, the Scimitar , in a show of strength, not only nullifying the surprise of his trump card but also eventually revealing to Picard that he has a planet-killer weapon.
• He leaves the Enterprise in orbit of Romulus after kidnapping Picard.
• While ambushing Enterprise , he flies unnecessarily close to them, allowing them to hit him despite Scimitar's cloaking device.
• He orders the Scimitar to move to port when he sees the Enterprise proceeding to ram it, rather than moving full reverse. Even if the Enterprise had inertia on its side, moving back would have softened the blow considerably.
• Shinzon says the Remans are "A race bred for war", yet they get slaughtered easily in most of the combat scenes. To be fair, they do slightly better against the generic security team members on the Enterprise . It could be their problem is they constantly go into combat against main characters who are protected by Plot Armor .
• Interface Spoiler : At one point, the subtitles spoil the surprise of Picard being beamed off the Enterprise mid-sentence a few seconds before it actually happens. The details may not be obvious, but it's clear that something critically interrupts him.
• It's Personal : The only explanation for Shinzon's attitude towards both the Romulan establishment and Picard.
• Kick the Dog : Shinzon's Mind Rape of Troi, which serves no real purpose except to demonstrate how evil he is.
• Killed Off for Real : Data .
• Kirk Summation : Picard gives Shinzon one during the climactic battle, trying to get him to see past his rage and become a better man. Unfortunately, Shinzon responds with a Shut Up, Picard!
• The Last Dance : Shinzon: I'm glad we're together now - our destiny is complete.

• Lightning Bruiser : The Scimitar is faster than the Enterprise while boasting more firepower and stronger Deflector Shields . Even the combined might of the Enterprise and two Romulan Valdore -class warbirds isn't enough to defeat it.
• Lock-and-Load Montage : Picard: All hands... battle stations !
• Looks Like Orlok : The Remans were explicitly designed to resemble Nosferatu .
• Losing Your Head : B-4.
• Made of Iron : The Enterprise . While she's not nearly as well-armed as the Scimitar , she takes a beating during the battle and keeps on going (granted, Shinzon wanted Picard taken alive). The only thing that stopped her was running out of torpedoes . And then when Picard decided to ram his opponent anyway, the Enterprise only loses about 1/6th of its saucer section while the Scimitar folds like cheap cardboard, losing all its disruptors and the cloaking device in the process. If not for his Wave-Motion Gun , Shinzon would have been defeated right there.
• The Main Characters Do Everything : Riker and Worf leave their posts on the bridge during a battle to go shoot it out with the Reman boarding party below decks. Why the ship's senior officers needed to leave their posts in the middle of battle to go do basic grunt work is anyone's guess.
• Meaningful Name : Shinzon is a Chinese name meaning "heart". It's also a Japanese name meaning "new existence".
• Military Coup : The entire Romulan Senate is assassinated by Shinzon and a group of Romulan generals who were promised that he would invade the Federation.
• Mind Rape : Shinzon and Vkruk use an unusually literal version on Troi, though she turns it back on them.
• Misapplied Phlebotinum : Mr Plinkett went into a long rant in his review about the shuttle that brings the Argo buggy down to Kolarus III. Complaining that a flying space vehicle is vastly more useful than a car but they only use it to house and transport a vehicle that's less useful than itself.
• Misplaced Retribution : Shinzon despises being Picard's clone and is willing to kill every person on Earth just to make sure that his name is the one history remembers.
• Missile Lock-On : Averted for most of the Battle of the Bassen Rift thanks to the Scimitar 's advanced cloaking device. Similarly to General Chang almost a century earlier , Shinzon's firing through the cloak and thus Worf can't achieve targeting locks. He has to fire blindly and manually (which scores as many hits as misses). The Valdore has the same problem, necessitating Worf coordinating with them to triangulate fire on any shield impact. It's not until Troi telepathically locates the Viceroy that Worf's able to finally knock out the cloak and achieve automatic targeting locks — though by that point in the battle, the Enterprise has already expended most of its weaponry and is heavily damaged.
• The Scimitar is more loaded for bear with more disruptors and torpedoes than almost any other Trek ship, not to mention its Wave-Motion Gun .
• During the battle, when Troi gives Worf a solid point to aim at, he starts firing the Enterprise's quantum torpedoes. These are a lot more powerful than the standard photon torpedoes, and at this point the barrage succeeds in bringing down the Scimitar 's cloak, but it's still not enough to break through the shields and do any meaningful damage.
• Named by the Adaptation : The Viceroy's true name, Vkruk, is given in the novelization.
• No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine : Shinzon invites Picard to a private dinner, where he shares his backstory with him.
• Non-Human Non-Binary : Data makes a brief reference to "invited transgendered species" early on in the movie, the franchise's first reference to transexuality. However, the word was badly misused. Instead of having anything to do with a person whose gender identity and physical sex do not match, it was added onto "Ladies and Gentlemen," meaning it referred to races whose physical sexes are not the same as humans. note  If Star Trek has an example of transsexuality, it's the TNG episode where a member of a genderless race caused a stir by considering herself female; a failed attempt at an episode about homosexuality ( But Not Too Gay and Rule-Abiding Rebel were taken a bit too far; a nominally genderless character played by a woman who isn't being made to look or sound any less female and who identifies as a woman falling in love with a man is not even sorta homosexual-ish, it's just Riker getting his Kirk on one more time. However, they accidentally backed into having an episode about transsexuality that isn't the worst you've ever seen, at a time when it was hardly on the radar).
• No OSHA Compliance : Not only is there nothing protecting anyone from coming into contact with the beam coming out of the thalaron generator, which is located in an anteroom just behind the bridge of the Scimitar , but firing a hand phaser into the beam is sufficient to blow up the entire ship. Downplayed a little in that the beam is only present when the thalaron generator is active, and it's still a much lesser case than what was in the original script, where it was the ship's warp core that was on the bridge.
• No Seatbelts : A deleted bit from the ending would show that the Enterprise was finally being equipped with them, to which Picard even says "About time!"
• "Not So Different" Remark : Picard and Shinzon, explored at some length. Shinzon claims that he is what Picard would have been under different circumstances, then brushes off Picard's attempt to turn the "mirror" metaphor around on him. Data later points out a key difference by comparing him to B-4: Neither makes any attempt to better themselves. Subtly lampshaded when Shinzon tells his ship's replicator to give him a hot tea.
• Noodle Incident : The twelve major engagements Shinzon fought in the Dominion War. We don't learn any details, save that they establish his backstory and reputation as a young, capable, and successful commander.
• Not Worth Killing : For obvious reasons, Shinzon doesn't want the Enterprise destroyed with Picard still aboard, and tells his gunners to focus on her weapons and shield emitters. When he then demands Picard's surrender, he claims that he has "little interest in [his] quaint vessel", implying that he'll let the Enterprise go.
• Novelization : The film's novelization stays mostly true to the finished film, with several small scenes deleted from the film, but notably expands on Shinzon's motivations: Having bonded so much with the Remans after his years of slavery, he honestly wants the best for them, and intends to lead a galactic war to make them the dominant species in the universe, and it's made clear that with the Scimitar , and the Thalaron radiation, he could have pulled it off . The book also expands Worf's role during the final battle, and actually gives Beverly something to do: Worf battles a few more Remans, and chases one into a cargo bay that's been converted into a makeshift hospital, only to be near-fatally wounded. Beverly stuns said Reman soldier, and with the help of Romulan doctor, manages to save Worf's life.
• When the Enterprise crew realize that the region of space they have just entered would be the perfect place for an ambush. Data: The rift will affect all long-range communica... ( Oh, Crap! face) Picard: (calls The Bridge ) Commander Riker, evasive maneuvers! ( Screen Shake )
• When Shinzon realizes that the Enterprise is about to ram him. Shinzon: HARD TO PORT!
• Orcus on His Throne : Shinzon needs a transfusion of Picard's blood to prevent his own Clone Degeneration . Despite having Picard prisoner for quite some time and being repeatedly told by Vkruk to begin the procedure, he does not... for some reason .
• Out-of-Character Moment : The Dune-Buggy Scene. Picard apparently decides to screw decades of adherence to the Prime Directive and perform Car Fu on a pre-warp planet, despite being willing to condemn entire species to death rather than break it before.
• Palm Bloodletting : Shinzon does this to provide our heroes with a blood sample so they can see that he is Picard's clone.
• Phlebotinum-Proof Robot : Data, not needing to breathe, launches himself through outer space to go from the Enterprise to the Scimitar .
• Pull Yourself Down the Spear : The last scene between Picard and Shinzon is a nod to King Arthur , as Shinzon pulls himself down the beam stuck in his gut to to make his final verbal attack against Picard, a poignant parallel to Mordred hauling himself down the spear to aim a final attack at his father Arthur.
• Punny Name : B-4, Data's prototype. The name was planned to be B-9 but got changed. Lampshaded by Picard: Picard: Dr. Soong's penchant for whimsical names seems to have no end!
• Ramming Always Works : Subverted. While the egg-like structure of the saucer section gives the Enterprise physical resilience against head-on impacts, and it did seemingly succeed in disabling the Scimitar 's primary weapons and destroy the hangar containing her complement of Scorpion -class fighters (hence why the Enterprise wasn't reduced to space dust for its failure), it also disabled the Enterprise completely while the Scimitar still had impulse and warp capability. In the long run, however, the Scimitar also had a damaged cloak, which would have rendered it a lot more vulnerable to the Federation fleet.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking : By the end of the movie, Picard blasts his way out of prison, single-handedly wipes out the entire bridge crew of the Scimitar , and defeats Shinzon in hand to hand combat. Not bad for a 76-year old.
• Redemption Rejection : Picard tries to convince Shinzon to see past his rage. It doesn't work .
• Red Shirt : Lieutenant Branson gets sucked out into space when the Scimitar blows a hole in the bridge of the Enterprise .
• Remember the New Guy? : The entire Reman species which, given its back story, should have shown up at least once or twice on the various series — especially given they fought during the Dominion War . Everyone just acts like they've always existed. The film does try to justify it by saying the Romulans consider Remans less than real people, and thus keep them locked away on Remus toiling in slavery, but it is a bit difficult to swallow.
• Replacement Goldfish : It's implied that B-4 will become this to Data thanks to the memory download he underwent . Star Trek: Countdown , the non-canon prequel to Star Trek (2009) , embraced this and featured a restored Data, though Star Trek: Picard eventually confirmed that the download didn't take, and that B-4 was dismantled.
• See the Invisible : Geordi tries this, but fails — Shinzon's Invisibility Cloak is just that good.
• Self-Destruct Mechanism : Picard tries to activate it as a last-ditch attempt to stop Shinzon, but it's offline from the battle.
• Picard, who has consistently been depicted as being willing to lay down his life before violating the Prime Directive , happily takes part in a car chase on a pre-industrial world. He's also violated it just about as much as Kirk did, but not so whimsically and randomly.
• Also, the photo shows him in the Star Trek II -era trainee/NCO uniform, not the cadet/commissioned officer uniform.
• While trying to reason with Shinzon, Picard tells him "Your heart, your hands, your eyes are the same as mine," despite the fact that TNG established that Picard has an artificial heart due to an incident where he was stabbed as a young man.
• A deleted scene shows Geordi discovering the emotion chip in Data's quarters. By Insurrection , Data had figured out how to remove the chip, and seems to be using it less frequently. The fact that he displayed emotion at the end without the chip is the culmination of his Character Development .
• Series Fauxnale : As the final theatrical Next Generation film, Nemesis would serve as the sendoff for the Enterprise -D/E family for two decades, until the final season of Picard in 2023 would deliberately affirm itself as the true Grand Finale for the TNG cast and story.
• Shoulders of Doom : Shinzon. Lampshaded on-set by his co-star Frakes, who described his outfit as "a reject from Rollerball ."
• Is B-4 hacking into the Enterprise computer or The Matrix ?
• The Jackal knife in the film was a prop used in TV before. Who else wielded that weapon? Faith.
• Sinister Scimitar : Shinzon's warbird, which proves to be more than a match for the Enterprise .
• Soul Fragment : B-4 sings "Blue Skies" at the end.
• Space Is an Ocean : Averted. The majority of the final battle takes place in mostly a flat plane but there is still plenty of swooping over and under each other. Also, a major part of the combat involves the Enterprise rotating damaged sections away from the Scimitar 's line of sight, which includes turning (relative to us) upside down.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad : The film plays out like a Picard and Data Fan Fiction , with most of the main cast limited to holding the floor down. They were the primary characters of all the TNG movies, but not quite to this degree of no one else having much to do at all.
• Despite leaving Starfleet in the finale of Deep Space Nine , Worf is back in his old position of tactical/security officer on the Enterprise without so much as a line of dialogue to explain it. In the other movies he didn't belong in, we got an explanation: in The Undiscovered Country, the TOS era Colonel Worf is the guy TNG's Worf is an Identical Grandson of. In First Contact, the crew of the damaged Defiant was beamed onto the Enterprise . In Insurrection, he was asked what he was doing there but the action cuts away before he answers; we're given a humorous Un Reveal but the fact that he's stationed elsewhere and a reason why he dropped by this time exists in-universe. Here? He's just there, in full uniform from the start, manning his old station like it's still his station. Not even a Hand Wave , or events that make a Fan Wank easy. A deleted line had him saying that he wasn't suited to the life of a diplomat.
• Despite their wartime alliance against the Dominion during Deep Space Nine , relations between the Romulans and Federation have reverted right back to their traditional cold war status quo within less than 4 years after the War ended. This at least can be justified in-universe, as it was made clear repeatedly on DS9 that the Romulans joining the War effort was an alliance of necessity (and that the UFP and Star Empire would be left as the major powers vying for control of the Quadrant in its aftermath).
• Stealth in Space : The Scimitar can fire while cloaked and its cloaking ability was capable of countering previously established means of detecting cloaked ships. The Enterprise does manage to land a fair number of hits on it, though, suggesting that the Scimitar 's constant firing gave away its position. Not a big deal, however, since unlike most ships in Star Trek, the Scimitar also retains its shields while cloaked too.
• Stupid Sacrifice : Several (attempted) times in fact. First Data tries to do this when saving Picard, but Picard tells him no. Then Picard attempts to do this when the Enterprise is disabled. Then Data comes to save Picard again , before following through on his initial plan to kill himself in a semi-heroic fashion. The latter two are because no member of the crew seems to realize that the Enterprise has functioning shuttles with functioning transporters .
• Taken for Granite : The entire Romulan Senate (save for Tal'aura) are turned to stone at the beginning of the film. This is also the fate that Shinzon intends for the Enterprise crew, and then Earth.
• This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself Picard: Data, this is something I have to do myself.
• Thrown Out the Airlock : When one of the Scimitar 's torpedos hits The Bridge . Bye bye, Branson .
• Tidally Locked Planet : The Remans evolved on the dark side of tidally-locked Remus, explaining their photosensitivity.
• Timeshifted Actor : Technically, Tom Hardy as Shinzon, although they didn't bother to get an actor who actually looked anything like Patrick Stewart .
• To Absent Friends : Borrowed from Star Trek III .
• Trailers Always Spoil : The reveal of Shinzon being human was originally meant to happen quite early on, but was pushed back to much later in the film when the producers decided it'd be more dramatic if the audience found out about Shinzon at the same time that Picard did. Something that might have worked better if not for the fact that the first trailer showed a good chunk of Shinzon's original introductory scene.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee : Data's switch with B-4 .
• Villain Opening Scene : But, y'know, who really liked the Romulan Senate anyway?
• Weapon of Mass Destruction : The planet-killing ship.
• Weld the Lock : Picard seals the door to the shuttle bay but discovers that that door is the only way out.
• Whole-Plot Reference : To Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan .
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit : Shinzon utilizes this in the finale battle. In a three-on-one fight against the Enterprise and two warbirds, it was becoming easier for them to track down the Scimitar even with the cloak. He lured in the lead warbird by dropping part of the cloak, making them think they were doing worse than they were. Once in close, a full weapon spread at close range quickly disabled them.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are : Picard attempts to convince Shinzon of this. He fails, miserably.
• You Have Failed Me : Shinzon orders a Reman guard who failed to stop Picard shot. So much for that whole "freeing your Reman brothers" bit.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness : The Romulans pulled this on Shinzon before they even started using him — they abandoned their plans for him when he was still a boy and sent him to the Reman mines, not expecting him to survive.
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Shinzon was a clone of Human Starfleet captain Jean-Luc Picard , initially created by the Romulans for the purpose of replacing Picard with a Romulan agent . Shinzon later became the leader of the Reman people, staging a successful coup d'état against the Romulan Senate , and plotting the annihilation of Earth in the name of Reman freedom. ( Star Trek Nemesis )

• 1 Early life
• 2 Rise to power
• 3 Meeting with Picard
• 4 The Battle of the Bassen Rift
• 5.1.1 "Shinzon"
• 5.1.2 Apocrypha
• 5.2 External links

Early life [ ]

Created by the Romulan Star Empire after obtaining the DNA of Jean-Luc Picard, Shinzon was a clone intended to conduct espionage within the United Federation of Planets .

Shinzon was meant to replace Picard, one of Starfleet's and the Federation's most decorated and noted starship commanders of the 24th century . As part of this plot, Shinzon's design incorporated temporal RNA sequencing, which could be used to accelerate his physical age to Picard's at any time.

Shinzon as a child

Like his progenitor, Jean-Luc Picard, Shinzon was diagnosed with Shalaft's Syndrome at an early age. Hypersensitive to any kind of sound, young Shinzon suffered until a physician could be found who was capable of treating rare Human illnesses.

Not long after Shinzon was created, though, power within the Romulan Empire shifted and the Romulan Senate abandoned its plan, believing it to be too provocative an act if discovered. With no use for such a clone, the Empire exiled Shinzon from Romulus , sending him, still a child , to work as a slave laborer in the dilithium mines on Remus .

Reviled by the Romulans working there, Shinzon became the target of abuse. In his time in the mines, he was severely beaten, having his nose and jaw broken by brutal Romulan guards, and also being forced to work for eighteen hours a day, being constantly lashed with Romulan whips . One Reman, however, took pity on Shinzon, teaching him strength and compassion and protecting him when he could from the Romulans. This man would become Shinzon's Reman Viceroy in the conflict to follow.

Rise to power [ ]

Praetor Shinzon in 2379

During the Dominion War of 2374 and 2375 , the Romulan military drafted Shinzon out of the mines and onto the frontlines, where he distinguished himself in battle and became a capable commanding officer of Reman troops, fighting twelve successful engagements against the Dominion .

Following the end of the Dominion War, Shinzon had both military experience and a capable army at his disposal. Forming an alliance with several Romulan officials, including Senator Tal'aura and Commanders Suran and Donatra , Shinzon vowed to free his Reman "brothers". Setting into motion a plan to overthrow the Romulan government, he and his cohorts constructed a massive warbird , the Scimitar . Operating out of a secret base, Shinzon and his people also developed a weapon, utilizing deadly thalaron radiation . Deploying a small thalaron projector in the Romulan Senate, Shinzon was able to kill all the Senate members.

Shinzon's days, however, were numbered. Abandoned by his Romulan creators, Shinzon's temporal RNA aging program was never activated, and thus it began slowly breaking down his cellular structure. The only way for him to avoid death was to make a complete blood transfusion from the only genetically-compatible donor, Jean-Luc Picard himself.

Towards this end, Shinzon concocted an elaborate plot to lure the USS Enterprise -E (and by extension Picard) to Romulus. He planted the pieces of a Soong-type android , B-4 , on Kolarus III , where he knew that the Enterprise would find it. As a result, the Enterprise was the closest starship available when Shinzon offered to open peace negotiations between the Federation and the Romulans, so the Enterprise was subsequently ordered to Romulus by Starfleet.

Meeting with Picard [ ]

Upon meeting Picard, Shinzon delayed his plans, having acquired an intense interest in his originator's history and that of the Picard family. He also became smitten with Counselor Deanna Troi , who was the first Human woman (albeit, only half-Human) he had ever seen.

The Scimitar and the Enterprise -E rendezvous

During his first meeting with Picard and members of his crew, Shinzon remained hidden in the shadows (he and his Reman "brothers" were not comfortable in the light ) and informed Picard of his intentions to negotiate peace with the Federation. After correctly guessing what Picard thought of such a negotiation, Shinzon revealed himself to his doppelgänger . This revelation shocked Picard, who now realized himself to be facing a younger version of himself. Shinzon then cut his own hand with his knife and gave the knife to Lieutenant Commander Data to have Doctor Beverly Crusher examine his blood. Afterward, he invited Picard to dinner in the Romulan Senate, insisting that they had "much to discuss."

During the dinner, Shinzon explained to Picard how and why he was created and his upbringing in the mines of Remus. Shinzon then asked with great curiosity about the history of the Picard family. Despite their obvious similarities, however, Picard was reluctant to forge a friendship with Shinzon and an alliance with his Romulan government until the Praetor had earned his trust. When Picard left, Shinzon was informed by his viceroy that they were wasting time and reminded the young clone of their mission.

Shinzon and his viceroy

Afterward, Shinzon and the viceroy returned to the Scimitar . Instead of proceeding with their mission, however, Shinzon had the viceroy form a telepathic link between Shinzon's mind and that of Counselor Troi's so that he could make love with the woman he had become fascinated with. This telepathic form of rape was a violation and traumatic experience for Troi.

When further delay became unacceptable because of the accelerating deterioration of his condition, Shinzon ordered B-4 to be beamed aboard the Scimitar , believing the android to have secretly downloaded Starfleet's communication protocols , giving Shinzon the location of all Starfleet vessels. Afterward, Shinzon kidnapped Picard by transporting him from the Enterprise 's sickbay to the brig aboard the Scimitar . Shinzon then told him that he would always feel to be just an echo or shadow as long as Picard was alive.

As soon as Shinzon left the brig, Picard managed to escape from the Scimitar with the help of Data, who had taken the place of B-4 and given Shinzon inaccurate data about Starfleet, and left the Romulan system aboard the Enterprise at maximum warp.

During the subsequent trip, Data assured Picard that Shinzon would not have been him even if the two had lived the same lives, because Picard had always aspired to better himself and his understanding of the universe around him, while Shinzon sought nothing but death and destruction – both for those who had oppressed him, those he erroneously believed oppressed him, and those who he might harm for personal gain.

The Battle of the Bassen Rift [ ]

Desperate, Shinzon ordered the Scimitar to pursue the Enterprise , and launched an attack in the Bassen Rift , a region where subspace communications were unavailable. In the battle that ensued, Picard continued to elude capture with the assistance of Romulan reinforcements – Commander Donatra had betrayed Shinzon, realizing that Shinzon didn't just plan to attack the Federation with the thalaron radiation weapon, but actually planned mass genocide by wiping out Earth's population. She subsequently aided Picard in a battle for some time before her starship, the Valdore , was heavily damaged by a disruptor blast from the Scimitar .

A dying Shinzon on the bridge of his ship

For some time, the battle was in Shinzon's favor, due mostly to his ship's ability to fire while cloaked . Things changed, however, when Troi reopened the telepathic link between herself and the viceroy, allowing the Enterprise to pinpoint the Scimitar 's exact location. With its cloak disabled, the Scimitar began taking damage – but Shinzon was not defeated yet.

After the Enterprise 's shields took extensive damage, Shinzon ordered the viceroy to lead a boarding party to retrieve Picard. But the boarding party that had beamed to the Enterprise was pinned down, and the viceroy himself was killed by William T. Riker in a maintenance shaft.

On the whole, however, the battle was not going well for the Enterprise . Shinzon had nearly crippled the Sovereign -class starship and had even destroyed a section of its bridge , sending at least one Starfleet officer hurtling to his death . Overconfident, Shinzon had the Scimitar turn to face the battle-damaged Enterprise . Picard then turned the tables by ramming the Enterprise into the Scimitar , a move which Shinzon did not expect and which he could not avoid. With both starships heavily damaged, Shinzon ordered a Reman officer to activate the thalaron weapon and to fire at the Enterprise . He then ordered the officer to take the Scimitar into Federation space and complete their mission once every living thing aboard Enterprise was dead.

Picard and the death of Shinzon

To stop the thalaron weapon from firing, Picard beamed himself to the Scimitar . On the Scimitar bridge, Picard managed to kill all Reman crewmembers with his phaser rifle . As Shinzon's health worsened, he engaged Picard in a ferocious hand-to-hand combat which moved from the bridge itself to the thalaron radiation generator room. In the end, Shinzon was killed when Picard used a piece of wreckage to impale Shinzon as the clone lunged in for the kill. With his plans collapsing around him, the dying Shinzon used the last of his strength to pull himself down the makeshift spear and grab the captain by the throat. His last words to Picard were: " Our destiny is complete ".

As Picard stood in shock, Data arrived and transported the captain back to the Enterprise . Data then fired his phaser at the thalaron generator, destroying himself and the Scimitar and effectively concluding Shinzon's plan for galactic conquest. ( Star Trek Nemesis )

Appendices [ ]

Background information [ ].

Shinzon was played by actor Tom Hardy and by an unknown actor as a boy. Other actors who were considered for the role were Stargate SG-1 actor Michael Shanks , movie star Jude Law ( The Talented Mr. Ripley , Cold Mountain ), and Buffy the Vampire Slayer star James Marsters .

In addition to shaving his head, Hardy had to wear a prosthetic nose and chin in order to more closely resemble Patrick Stewart , as he was supposed to be playing a younger version of Stewart's character. Ironically, in the film Shinzon cites his nose and jaw as being different from those of Picard.

A deleted scene which took place early in the film revealed that Shinzon's motives in wiping out the population of Earth were twofold; firstly as an act of revenge against Humanity, and secondly as the first step of a larger plan to invade the United Federation of Planets. By destroying Earth, Shinzon would also have wiped out the Federation Council and Starfleet Command , rendering the Federation unable to mount an adequate defense against the Blitzkrieg -style attack that the Romulans would then deploy. His ultimate aim was to make a name for himself as the man who destroyed the Federation, thereby eclipsing Picard in the history books. While the scene was removed, during a meeting of the senior staff later in the movie, Riker and Picard comment that destroying Humanity would "cripple" the Federation, allowing the Romulans to invade.

It remains uncertain as to when exactly Shinzon was created. He was sent down to the mines on Remus as a child and spent "nearly ten years" there, probably until he left for the Dominion War. Since that conflict took place in 2374/2375, he would have been exiled around 2364 / 2365 , and his creation would have been several years earlier, placing his birth somewhen in the 2350s . A power shift within the Romulan Empire around 2364/2365 would be somewhat consistent with Alidar Jarok 's 2366 comments from " The Defector " about "new leaders" and the Romulans increasing their activity in the Romulan Neutral Zone in 2364, as depicted in " Angel One " and " The Neutral Zone ".

In an interview given years after this movie came out, Tom Hardy said that he took the role very seriously, as it was intended to be his big break. The commercial failure of the movie, and the response from long-time fans, apparently led to his relationship dissolving, his turning to alcohol, and considering suicide. It was only when he pulled himself together and starred in Bronson that he got over the film. ( citation needed • edit )

According to Beverly Crusher, Shinzon was supposed to "skip thirty years" to replace Picard, though it is unclear whether Shinzon's "activation" was imminent or still further in the future at the time of his exile. In any case, since Picard was born in 2305 , the age difference between Picard and Shinzon would be closer to 50 years based on the 2350s creation date.

According to Crusher in the novelization of Star Trek Nemesis , Shinzon was created approximately twenty-five years earlier, in or around 2354 .

Depending on the exact date, Picard was either still commanding the USS Stargazer or in the (never canonically described) interval between the Stargazer and the USS Enterprise -D when his DNA was taken. It is possible that Picard, already before commanding the Federation flagship , was prominent enough for his DNA to be taken or even that the Romulans learned about Picard's future prominence from the alternate timeline Natasha Yar from " Yesterday's Enterprise ".

"Shinzon" [ ]

• According to the novelization, the name "Shinzon" is Reman for "liberator". This, however, was never referenced in the film.
• Also, in the short story "Twilight's Wrath" (see below) it is stated that the name "Shinzon" is Reman for "twilight." This name was given to him by his viceroy, Vkruk, because of his "irrepressible fascination with the fine line that separated light and darkness."
• In his foreword to J.M. Dillard 's novelization of the film, screenwriter John Logan says that he based the name "Shinzon", as well as all the other Reman and Romulan names in the story on ancient Chinese names, in homage to Gene Roddenberry 's creation of the Romulans as an analog to 1960s Communist China.

Apocrypha [ ]

• The story implies that Shinzon and B-4 were created by the Romulans at roughly the same time; if this were true, the most opportune time for them to have "copied" Picard and Data would be in 2368 , after the two were captured on Romulus while trying to locate Ambassador Spock . ( TNG : " Unification II ")
• In the prologue to Michael Jan Friedman 's novel Death in Winter , Picard's DNA is taken in 2348 , along with that of Walker Keel , Leo Blais, and Marielle Kumaretanga, by a Romulan agent masquerading as a waiter at the wedding reception of Jack and Beverly Crusher. This would be while Picard was still in command of the Stargazer .
• In the briefing prior to a mission inside the Federation campaign within the game Star Trek: Starfleet Command III , Captain Picard tells the player the following: " Recent intelligence reports suggest that a suspicious person – not a Romulan – is forming a coalition to challenge the Praetor's authority. ". This could be a reference to the character.

Shinzon in 2378

External links [ ]

• Shinzon at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• Shinzon at the Star Trek Online Wiki
• 1 Abdullah bin al-Hussein

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Scimitar class

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The Scimitar -class was a type of Romulan warbird developed in the late 24th century . The prototype vessel of the class was destroyed in 2379 .

• 3 Known vessels
• 4.1 Connections
• 4.2 External links
• 4.3 References

History [ ]

The Scimitar class was the culmination of a Romulan development program to create a powerful new class to utilise against the Dominion . ( TOS novel : Captain's Blood )

A Scimitar -class warbird.

The design included a revolutionary thalaron radiation core, developed by the Tal Shiar , making it a deadly adversary. ( DS9 - Tales of the Dominion War short story : " Twilight's Wrath ")

Only one vessel of the class was completed as the necessity for such a super-weapon disappeared following the end of the Dominion War . That vessel, the Scimitar , was under the control of Shinzon of Remus , and he used it to destroy the remaining unfinished Scimitar -class vessels to make sure no one could oppose him. ( TOS novel : Captain's Blood )

The Scimitar herself was later destroyed when Lieutenant Commander Data of the USS Enterprise -E fired a phaser into the vessel's thalaron core to prevent the weapon from being used to kill his shipmates. ( TNG movie & novelization : Nemesis )

A Tulwar -class variant.

By the 2400s Scimitar -class vessels were in use as a dreadnought by both the Romulan Star Empire and some groups of Reman rebels , the latter including the Reman Resistance under Obisek . In 2409 the Romulan Republic also developed two variant classes, designated the Falchion and Tulwar -subclasses . ( ST video games : Star Trek Online , Legacy of Romulus )

A year later, the Romulan Republic launched a new line of Scimitar -derived ships, with a distinctly Romulan appearance. ( Star Trek Online news )

Features [ ]

Scimitar -class warbirds are huge, but even for their size, they have an unusually high amount of weaponry: 52 disruptor banks and 27 photon torpedo tubes. In addition, the class features at least one huge shuttle bay which can hold in excess of 40 Scorpion -class fighters . The class is also fitted with an advanced cloaking device which is undetectable by any previously known means and can also be operated whilst maintaining full shields and firing weapons.

The most notable feature of the Scimitar class are the thalaron cores. Scimitar -class vessels are able to create a thalaron discharge which could wipe out all organic tissue on a target ranging from a starship to a planet . To fire the weapon, the ship must splay its wings into a firing position; this takes several minutes, during which time the thalaron radiation is built up from the core. ( TNG movie & novelization : Nemesis )

By 2387 , this design had set the standard for other classes of Reman vessels, though it is very likely that they lacked the thalaron generator the Scimitar possessed. ( ST comic : " Countdown ")

Known vessels [ ]

• Scimitar (prototype) ( TNG movie & novelization : Nemesis )
• RRW Lleiset ( Tulwar -subclass ) ( STO video game : Legacy of Romulus )
• IRW Hook Saber
• IRW Jambiya
• IRW Khopesh
• IRW Leahval (Flagship of Empress of the Romulan Star Empire Sela) ( ST Video game : Star Trek Online )
• IRW Shamshir
• IRW Valdore (later assimilated by Borg Collective ) ( ST video game : Star Trek Online )

Appendices [ ]

Connections [ ], external links [ ].

• Scimitar class article at Memory Alpha , the wiki for canon Star Trek .
• Scimitar Dreadnought article at The Star Trek Online Wiki .
• Scimitar Dreadnought Warbird article at The Star Trek Online Wiki .

References [ ]

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• 2 Preserver (race)
• 3 Ferengi Rules of Acquisition