10 Reasons To Stop Hating Star Trek: Nemesis

Picard’s quotation in Stellar Cartography is all the more apt as the Enterprise-E and crew enter the Bassen Rift "but through a glass darkly," for what proceeds is a battle of biblical proportions. The Scimitar has already rightly been described as "a predator," which can bare its teeth of 52 pulse disruptor cannons, 27 photon torpedo launchers, and the gargoyle-inducing thalaron weapon.

Yes, you can argue that the entire sequence is overly long, and then there's the whole Riker/Viceroy thing, but come on! It's pretty damn cool as battles go, and the visuals hold up rather well to this day.

In universe, this battle – after the aid given to the Enterprise by the Romulans to defeat Shinzon – sparked new hopes of peace between the Federation and the Empire. The Titan, captained by Riker, was set to head up the first rounds of talks. This all changed, however, by the 2380s when it was discovered that the Romulan sun was soon about to go supernova (and indeed did in 2387). Star Trek (2009) and became a prominent focus in Star Trek: Picard season one.

The Bassen Rift sequence was intended to be grander, as John Logan's script called for a whole fleet of ships to fight the Scimitar. Budgetary concerns meant that these ambitions had to be scaled back to what we ended up with in the movie. Nonetheless, it still ranks in the history of epic Trek space battles.

"Full axis rotation to port. Fire all ventral phasers." That line alone should be argument enough here.