20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Trek: Nemesis
2. It's The Lowest-Grossing Star Trek Film In History
There's no way to be kind about this. Despite being produced on a not-indecent $60 million budget - a whole $10 million less than predecessor Star Trek: Insurrection, due to Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner both agreeing to take pay cuts - Nemesis was an absolute dud at the box office.
It ended up grossing just $67.3 million worldwide, making it the lowest-grossing film in the series, pulling in even less than the consensus-worst film, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
Additionally Nemesis was also the first of the ten Trek films released at that point to not "win" its opening weekend at the box office, opening a hair behind the Jennifer Lopez rom-com Maid in Manhattan, which says it all really.
Nemesis' catastrophic failure becomes easier to understand when you consider that it was effectively released in a death slot against a number of heavily anticipated blockbusters, namely Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Die Another Day, and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
That, combined with a surprisingly low-key marketing campaign and the four year gap since Insurrection surely did it no favours at all.