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star trek: nemesis
Preview readers will be glad to know that we are respecting Stewart’s wishes. Not that we have a great deal of choice: Paramount, after wildly enthusiastic responses to private, on-the-lot screenings, are playing the cards very close to their chest on this one. But the fact that the film’s opening has been shifted from just before Thanksgiving to just before Christmas indicates that they are pretty confident about how Nemesis will go down.
So, in the absence of detailed information on the plot and extended comments from the principals, you will have to make do with some pictures and a rough outline of the story.
Nemesis marks a return to the planet of Romulus, one of the TV series’ darker secrets. This time, however, the Romulans want peace, and Picard and his crew are sent as part of an advance diplomatic initiative. Once on Romulus, however, they discover that the planet is under threat from a revolt on the neighbouring slave planet of Remus, where a rebel leader, a human clone called Shinzon (Tom Hardy), needs to find a DNA match or die. And his human twin just happens to be onboard the Enterprise…
The script is by John Logan, one of the writers on Gladiator (with a little help from cast member Brent Spiner, who plays Data, and producer Rick Berman), and the director is Stuart Baird (US Marshals).
No one connected with the franchise - which launched on the small screen on September 8, 1966, and made the big one 13 years later with Oscar-winning director Robert Wise’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture (see big-screen history on facing page) - will reveal whether, momma, this can really be the end. “The film is being promoted as ‘The final journey’,” producer Rick Berman told ‘Sci-Fi Wire’. “There are a lot of ways that one can interpret that, and I’m not about to help you.”
“If this is the end of the next generation, it’s actually a beautiful and appropriate ending,” Stewart told Entertainment Weekly more recently but no more helpfully. “But there is a sequel there, just begging to be made…”
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