The Single Biggest Mistake Each Star Trek Movie Has Made

4. Star Trek: Nemesis - The Reman Reputation

Star Trek Reman
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The Mistake: Making the Remans out to be the greatest warriors that the Galaxy has ever known, then revealing them to be as threatening as the average Ferengi.

Why?: This was a let-down. For the first time in Star Trek's then-40 year history, the Remans were revealed to the audience. We are told in the early stages of the film that they are some of the most brutal soldiers to have fought in the Dominion War, serving as effective slave labour to their Romulan overlords. The opening scene suggests a ruthlessness that the audience can look forward to.

And then, nothing!

Shinzon is the primary villain with the Viceroy being suitably frightening to look at but if these are the most devastating soldiers in the Galaxy, the Dominion War would have ended in a matter of weeks, with the Alpha Quadrant races on the losing side. The Remans are simple fodder, standing and firing and being fired at. Shinzon is a human-clone, so he can hardly be counted. The Viceroy puts up a good fight but it still overpowered by Commander Riker.

They were an anti-climax of an introduction, wasting the potential of their mystery for a fairly ho-hum finale to The Next Generation's film saga.

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