20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Trek: Nemesis
5. LeVar Burton Nearly Directed The Film
The director's chair for Nemesis sure was busy before the production finally settled on Oscar-nominated film editor-turned-director Stuart Baird.
Initially, Rick Berman approached The Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country director Nicholas Meyer to helm, but Meyer would only agree to come aboard if he could rewrite the screenplay.
Berman had to turn Meyer down as he'd already promised writer John Logan full creative control over his script, and so Berman then considered offering the job to Geordi La Forge himself, LeVar Burton.
By the time Nemesis was preparing to shoot, Burton had directed 20 Star Trek episodes across The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager, and so was certainly an inspired choice, following in the tradition of Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, and Jonathan Frakes as stars-turned-directors.
However, Paramount ultimately ordered Berman to offer the gig to Baird instead, and with this being the last Trek movie of this era, Burton sadly never got then chance to take the big-screen helm behind the camera.