20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Trek: Nemesis

15. Riker's Back Hair Was Removed With CGI

Star Trek Nemesis
Paramount

CGI sure is capable of incredible things, huh? Well, it played a major role in one of Nemesis' most infamous and oft-ridiculed scenes: the sex scene between Riker and Troi, which is interrupted in an extremely rapey way by Shinzon.

Because much of the scene focuses on Riker's back, the filmmakers asked Jonathan Frakes to shave his back for a more aesthetically appealing visual, but he refused.

And so, it fell to a VFX company to do the work instead, giving Riker's back a digital shave. And to be fair, you'd never ever know it, even though it's tough to believe that someone actually cared this much about Riker having a tufty back.

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