Every Star Trek Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

10. Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

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Star Trek: Nemesis is probably the most underrated of all Star Trek films (mostly because a lot of people say it's close to being as bad as The Final Frontier). In reality, it was hounded by critics who were done with the brand, and ignored by an audience who had reached their limit.

But revisiting it now proves the problems with casting it off entirely: Tom Hardy is excellent as Picard's angry young clone, Picard has the big movie role Patrick Stewart always craved and the action is excellent (with a profoundly touching pay off when Data sacrifices himself). Just because it was different, didn't mean it was wrong.

Unfortunately, it also has a lot of sloppy details: the script is horribly cliched and painfully familiar, and though Shinzon is a great performance, he's not entirely a great villain, with a rote plan that could have been taken from any number of Next Generation episodes. It's not nearly as bad as it is proclaimed, but it's not one of the best either.

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