20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Trek: Nemesis
12. An Estimated 50 Minutes Of Material Was Cut
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On Nemesis' DVD, Rick Berman claims that roughly 50 minutes of material was cut from the theatrical release, in order to achieve a more commercial 117-minute runtime.
Though 17 minutes of cut material appears on the DVD, that leaves over half an hour of footage unaccounted for.
Most of the cut material was apparently character-centric scenes that fleshed out the relationships of the Enterprise's crew, which were cut to keep the emphasis on the battle between the Enterprise and the Scimitar.
This includes a far longer wedding sequence in which Picard and Data have a lengthy heart-to-heart, a more involved subplot about Shinzon's obsession with Troi, more scenes with Data and B-4, bigger parts for Worf and Dr. Crusher, and a more prolonged epilogue.
It's infuriating that so much of this material remains locked away, because much of it sounds like it would've added considerable weight and nuance to a fundamentally threadbare movie.