10 Best Battles In Star Trek's History

10. The Battle Of The Bassen Rift - Star Trek: Nemesis

Critically panned to the point it became a Generation's Final Journey™, Star Trek: Nemesis doesn't tend to get too much love for anything these days. But through a kinder lens caused by nothing pushing this continuity forward for 19 years, there are a few bright spots.

Data and Picard's relationship transcends the themes of the TV show, Tom Hardy provides a far-better-than-its-given-credit-for performance as Shinzon, and the climactic battle sequence ranks comfortably as one of Star Trek's most epic. The Scitimar, probably the most fearsome ship we've seen in Star Trek with more than 4 angles, vs the Enterprise-E and two well-meaning but fairly useless Romulan Warbirds.

The bulk of the movie's effects budget is pumped into this fragmented but bumper conflict, with over 20 minutes of screentime elapsing between the first shots being fired and the Enterprise finally ramming itself into the enemy hull. For scope alone, as well as the constant twists in the tide of the conflict, it's an under-rated moment in an otherwise underwhelming movie.