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   Message 10,638 of 11,234   
   Ubiquitous to Rhino   
   Re: Star Trek: Nemesis Ending & Why It K   
   10 Jan 25 08:30:06   
   
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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   Rhino wrote:   
   > On 2025-01-09 4:49 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   >> Ubiquitous  wrote:   
      
   >>> The fourth and final Star Trek: The Next Generation movie, Star Trek:   
   >>> Nemesis, put a nail in the coffin of what was - at the time - a dying   
   >>> Star Trek franchise. Star Trek: Nemesis saw Captain Jean-Luc Picard   
   >>> (Patrick Stewart) confront a younger clone of himself,   
   >>   
   >> That doesn't look anything like him   
   >>   
   >>> Shinzon (Tom Hardy), who had been created by Romulans to secretly replace   
   >>> Picard.   
   >>   
   >> Who he doesn't look anything like   
   >>   
   >>> Shinzon had been discarded to the mines of Remus   
   >>   
   >> Hey! Look! They got the name of the planet wrong!   
   >   
   >Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the Romulan Empire centered on two   
   >planets, Romulus and Remus, which (probably not coincidentally) are the   
   >names of the founder of Ancient Rome here on Earth?   
   >   
   >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus   
   >   
   >I haven't seen all of the movies or all of the series but isn't a two   
   >planet base for the Romulan Empire mentioned in one of them? Or am I   
   >muddling mythology and Star Trek lore?   
      
   That's what I remember, too, but I also remember them inventing a vampire   
   Romulan subrace that convientiuently had never been heard of before then.   
      
   I hate "toaster pop-up" villians.   
      
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