Posted:
22:21:32 on July 16 2001
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Star Trek X
TrekToday has posted some updated information from their source 'Faith', who has followed up on the detailed script review of 'Star Trek: Nemesis' with more information about the film's villain, 'Shinzon', and the finale of the movie, slated to begin production this fall for a 2002 release.
As alluded to in AICN's review, there is a critical plot twist regarding cloning. According to TrekToday's source, Shinzon is actually a clone of a human--Picard himself. The Romulans cloned him 25 years before to replace Picard, but eventually abandoned the plan and banished Shinzon to be a slave on their sister planet, Remus.
Shinzon is described as "a dynamic young man in his twenties... very handsome with pale, almost white skin and shining, golden hair." He resembles a younger version of Picard. However, the process by which this clone was created intended for him to age rapidly to reach Picard's age to fulfill the Romulan's plan. Since this never occurred, Shinzon is dying and only a deadly procedure from Picard himself can save the villain.
Shinzon plans to reunify Romulus and Remus, recapture the Neutral Zone, and defeat the Federation.
About the brother of Data, 'B-9', 'Faith' says that he is physically identical to Data and Lore, but with less sophisticated neural pathways, rendering him child-like. Shinzon uses B-9 to lure the Enterprise into his plan, and Data eventually tries to help B-9 evolve with some of his own memory engrams, which is unsuccessful.
By the end of the film, Data sacrifies himself to save the Enterprise and B-9 and all seems lost until B-9, after the memorial ceremony exhibits behavior indicating that perhaps the memory transfer was successful... and Data is not lost after all.
For the original report, go here.
The story and characters summarized here are copyright © 2001 by Paramount Pictures.
