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Star Trek: Nemesis is one of the most disliked movies in the Star Trek franchise, with even of its cast leveling criticism at the sequel. Nemesis was the fourth and final film featuring the cast of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew, and when the series ended after seven seasons the TNG films picked up where it had left off.

Nemesis was not originally intended to be the final TNG movie, but the film was such a critical and commercial failure that it put any further ideas about continuing the films to bed, and was the beginning of a franchise hiatus that lasted for most of the 2000s. There were numerous reasons why Nemesis failed, including issues with the story and fans' general dissatisfaction with the franchise at the time. However, it was not only the audience and critics who ended up disliking the sequel; of the TNG cast have also gone on record to express their unhappiness with how Nemesis turned out.

Related: Why Seven of Nine Didn't Cameo In Star Trek Nemesis

The two most vocal cast are Marina Sirtis, who played Star Trek: Nemesis too.

Baird has defended himself against these accusations over the years. In an interview with the BBC , Baird said that he was more interested in making a film that stood on its own and didn't " rest on all the past history ". He acknowledged the Star Trek fans take the series very seriously but stated he didn't feel able to watch such a vast catalog of past  TNG episodes prior to shooting. Baird also stated he tried to make Nemesis a film that would give fans " as much bang for your buck " as he could and was focused on the action and entertainment aspects rather than character development. He did not offer any counters to the reports of experiencing difficulty working with people on set but did seem to concede he could understand why fans might be offended by his lack of Star Trek knowledge.

With how badly Star Trek: Nemesis was received when it premiered, however, consensus about the sequel's failings seems to lie firmly with Sirtis and Burton. Baird likely did the best he could with the knowledge he had and other factors contributed to Nemesis's bad showing, but Sirtis, Burton, and other cast have not backed down about their dislike for the film over the years. Ultimately, the TNG cast's disapproval of Star Trek: Nemesis serves as just one other reason it is considered one of the worst Star Trek films.

More: How Star Trek: Nemesis Killed The TNG Movies

The Real Reason Jonathan Frakes Didn't Direct Star Trek: Nemesis

Jonathan Frakes is legendary in the world of "Star Trek," and his name carries almost as much weight as William Shatner and Patrick Stewart. That's pretty impressive, considering his character, Commander William Riker, spends most of his career as the second-in-command to Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Stewart). Acting as the First Officer on the starship Enterprise, Riker is often called Number 1 to denote his authority on the famous space-faring vessel.

Besides appearing as Riker in well over 170 episodes of " Star Trek: The Next Generation ," Frakes also directed several episodes of that series, as well as "Star Trek: Voyager," "Picard," and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." He's helmed "Trek" big-screen adventures, too: "Star Trek: First Contact" and "Star Trek: Insurrection" (via IMDb ). However, his directorial prowess is strangely absent from the next film in the series — "Star Trek: Nemesis." Why didn't Frakes lend his skills and familiarity to the movie, considering that the actor/director is in a rather unique position when it comes to the production of different "Star Trek" properties?

Frakes was never offered the director position for Star Trek: Nemesis

" Star Trek: Nemesis " tells a story that at its core is about identity. Set during a period of change for the Romulan Empire, Picard and his intreprid crew become embroiled in an unstable political dynamic between Romulans and Remans, who were a brutally enslaved race from the nearby planet of Remus. However, the leader of the Remans is Shinzon (Tom Hardy), who is in truth a clone of Picard that was designed to supplant him in the future, acting as a sleeper agent in the Federation. At first, Shinzon and Picard's interactions are amiable, but they soon turn hostile when it is revealed that Shinzon is dying due to his genetic makeup and needs Picard's life to end to continue his own.

As to why Frakes didn't direct this final movie starring "The Next Generation" cast, the actor/director suspects that it had something to do with his agents. In an interview with IGN , Frakes said that he was not offered the position of director, and added "I wish I had been. I probably would have [done the film]. I know that my representation, they thought that it would not be a great idea just doing Star Trek after Star Trek." In a separate interview with Vulture , Frakes said in hindsight, "I would have loved to have done 'Nemesis,' but it seemed like, 'Really? That's all you're going to do, is "Star Trek " movies?' It's glib to say now. I wish I had done 'Nemesis.'" To this day, Frakes still appears as Commander Riker in "Star Trek" properties and continues to direct, but it seems as if he really laments the fact that he wasn't in the director's chair for "Star Trek: Nemesis."

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Star Trek: Nemesis

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Why Hasn't 'Star Trek: Legacy' Been Greenlit? CBS CEO Explains Paramount's Plans

CBS' CEO George Cheeks isn't ruling it out, but "it’s really about the cadence and the timeline of it."

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• Star Trek: Picard spin-off of Legacy has not been greenlit yet.
• CBS CEO George Cheeks confirms Star Trek is still a priority for Paramount.
• Cheeks is not ruling out the possibility of a Legacy series but explains that it's all about timing.

Paramount+ has a number of Star Trek projects in the works, but the proposed Star Trek: Legacy spin-off of Picard has yet to get the green light — despite the wishes of fans and creatives. A new interview with CBS CEO George Cheeks sheds some light on the matter, suggesting that the go-ahead for any future Trek projects is all about timing. In a conversation with Vulture , when asked about an official go-ahead for Legacy and the future of Trek at the streamer, given the recent cancellation of Star Trek: Discovery and the reassignment of Star Trek: Prodigy to Netflix, Cheeks gave the following answer:

"Star Trek remains one of the most important franchises for Paramount Global, and Paramount+ specifically. There’s so much great opportunity with the franchise, and it’s really about the cadence and the timeline of it. We don’t want to offer up all these amazing premium drama series at once. We want to time it out appropriately. Luckily, we have this incredible partner in Alex Kurtzman , and we all work together to sort of manage long-range planning across many years, to figure out what’s the right cadence for dropping new Star Trek series. So there’s a lot we’re focused on, but it should not suggest to you [a scaling back]. There is a tremendous amount of focus and prioritizing of the Star Trek franchise."

There are currently more official Star Trek projects in the works than ever before. Two live-action series are in production; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is currently filming its third season , and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is in the pre-production stage. The fifth season of the animated Star Trek: Lower Decks is in the works , as is the first-ever Star Trek TV movie, Section 31 . Prodigy , although it is no longer available on Paramount, is currently completing post-production on its second season, which will be released on Netflix this year.

What Is 'Star Trek: Legacy'?

While much of Picard 's final season focused on reuniting the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation for one final adventure to save the Federation, the series also set up a potential "next Next Generation " of characters who could propel the franchise into the future.

The series ended with Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ), a former Borg drone introduced in Star Trek: Voyager , being given command of the newly-rechristened USS Enterprise-G . Other crew members include Picard characters Raffi Musiker ( Michelle Hurd ), Jack Crusher ( Ed Speleers ), the son of Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher; and Geordi La Forge's daughter, Sidney LaForge ( Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut ). The series' final episode ended on a potential teaser, as the godlike Q ( John De Lancie ) appears before Crusher , telling him that his "trial," much like the one he subjected Picard to over the course of Next Generation 's seven seasons, had just begun.

Picard's third-season showrunner, Terry Matalas , has noted his eagerness to continue the story with a Legacy spin-off, as have members of the show's proposed cast . Fans, likewise, have responded with a letter-writing campaign to Paramount. Speleers is also confident that the series will happen if fans stay "noisy about it."

Star Trek: Legacy 's future at Paramount remains unclear. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.

Star Trek: Picard

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Garak and Dukat's bitter feud in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine spanned three generations, and cast a light on the Cardassians' ruthless political system.

Gul Dukat (Marc Alaimo) hated Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 's Cardassian tailor, and former spy, Elim Garak (Andrew J Robinson) with a passion, and the feeling was mutual. Garak was exiled from Cardassia Prime and forced to live on Terok Nor. He remained on the station after it was passed into Federation hands and renamed Deep Space Nine, where he formed a close bond with Dr. Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig) and continued to be a thorn in the side of Terok Nor's former prefect, Gul Dukat.

In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 's early days, Gul Dukat and Elim Garak had a strong dislike of each other, for reasons that weren't made immediately clear. It appeared to stem from the conflict between the Cardassian military and the secretive intelligence agency the Obsidian Order, of which Garak was a member. However, it wasn't until Star Trek: DS9 season 4 that the origin of Dukat and Garak's feud was revealed, and further complicated by the arrival of Dukat's daughter Tora Ziyal (Melanie Smith).

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Why Gul Dukat & Garak Hated Each Other In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Dukat and Garak regularly feuded with each other in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , from Garak aiding the investigation of a conspiracy involving Dukat in "Cardassians", one of Bashir's best DS9 episodes , to Garak ribbing Dukat about his inability to deactivate his own security systems in "Civil Defense". It's in that same episode that Garak also reminded Dukat about his failed attempt to assassinate the tailor while he was in charge of Terok Nor. The reasons for Dukat's attempts to kill Garak were rooted in the latter's work for the Obsidian Order and how it led to the death of Dukat's father.

As with many things about Garak, the truth of what happened to Gul Dukat's father is shrouded in secrecy. It's known that Gul Dukat's father was interrogated, tortured, and executed by the Cardassian government for an undisclosed crime. Dukat's father trusted Garak, something that Dukat felt was his only failing. Presumably, Garak used this trust to have the senior Dukat executed. The Obsidian Order were ruthless in their execution of those they deemed to be traitors to Cardassiq so Garak clearly won the trust of Gul Dukat's father to have this apparent traitor removed.

Garak's Relationship With Gul Dukat's Daughter Made Their DS9 Feud Worse

As Star Trek 's executive producer Rick Berman vetoed Garak's Queerness , the Cardassian tailor was given a love interest in the form of Gul Dukat's half-Bajoran daughter, Tora Ziyal. It was seemingly one-sided, as Ziyal developed romantic feelings for Garak during the course of their close bond as Deep Space Nine's only Cardassian residents. This intensified the feud between the two Cardassian men, as Dukat threatened to kill Garak once again. In an attempt to poison his daughter's mind against Garak, Dukat revealed everything he knew about the death of his father, but Ziyal refused to give up on the man she had fallen in love with.

Furious at Ziyal's loyalty to the man who was responsible for her grandfather's death, Dukat disowned his daughter, a decision that would ultimately cost Tora her life, and Dukat his sanity. She remained aboard Deep Space Nine when it was retaken by the Cardassian-Dominion alliance in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 6. Ziyal's loyalties to the resistance led to her being executed by Legate Damar (Casey Biggs). The grief at Ziyal's death led to Garak and Dukat's paths diverging - Garak found redemption by becoming a hero of the Cardassian resistance, while Dukat doubled down on his anger and bitterness by becoming a violent religious zealot, ultimately leading to his undoing.

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Why is Star Trek: Nemesis hated so much?

Discussion in ' Star Trek Movies I-X ' started by Damian , Apr 27, 2018 .

Vger23 Vice Admiral Admiral

Romulan_spy said: ↑ I do think that Logan had some good ideas in his script. The debate of what makes us who we are is a good one. Having a clone that is like you in many ways but different in others, is a good way to have this debate. And the attack on the senate scene in the opening of the movie was a great WTF moment. But I would agree that it felt like a first draft. It had a lot of problems from continuity errors to plot holes. And, the whole concept of introducing a human clone to Picard out of the blue and having this clone somehow take over the Romulan Empire is problematic. I would have replaced both Shinzon and B-4 with Lore. Having Lore lead a band of disenfranchised Remans would make sense because it would be reminiscent of what Lore tried to do with the Borg survivors in the ep Descent. And yes, Baird sucked as a director. He had no clue how to direct a Star Trek movie. A lot of the TNG actors even admitted in interviews that Baird did not even know their character names. He clearly did not know anything about TNG. He directly the movie like a generic scifi action movie and it shows. He cut out all the good character moments. The movie lacked the soul of a Trek movie and seems to just skip from one action scene to the next. With a tighter script and a better director, Nemesis could have been a good Trek movie. Click to expand...

Mojochi Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

Picard Clone B4 Cheap attempt at recreating the Spock death from TWoK Mix all that together in a boring stew & it's no wonder why it extinguished the franchise, which was already on life support after Insurrection  

F. King Daniel Fleet Admiral Admiral

XCV330 said: ↑ 2nd Xindi attack Click to expand...

STEPhon IT Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

Damian said: ↑ He did have a pretty impressive cloaking device. It think the idea was when Earth finally saw the Scimitar it would have already been too late. Even if they knew he was coming they wouldn't know from where and he apparently could fire weapons cloaked (a la TUC) and I assume the same would have went for the thalaron device. But I don't think it was that important. It was more or less a Maguffin. He was never going to get to Earth because that wasn't part of the story, so I figured they never really gave that element much thought. Click to expand...

Smellmet Commodore Commodore

Damian said: ↑ I've always just found it interesting the hatred this movie seems to have. I'm also curious to see who the other 9 people who liked it are. I know they're out there somewhere . Click to expand...

Smellmet said: ↑ Another +1 from me. It's my favourite TNG movie. Terribly flawed, but I just find it extremely entertaining, especially the battle at the end, which remains my favourite ship battle in trek. Click to expand...

Damian Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

STEPhon IT said: ↑ What a great concept? A cloaking device with no weaknesses, a nod from "The Enterprise Incident". What made TUC interesting with the concept was it had an Achilles heel. If a ship has a cloak then it shouldn't have defensive screens or at least not be as good. There should be a counter balance for these things. The bad writers get confused about the process of a cloaking device; it simply turns the ship invisible not phased. Click to expand...

Romulan_spy Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

Vger23 said: ↑ This is an interesting point. I actually think there is a LOT of good character stuff in Nemesis...but that even more got cut out, and that was a huge shame. You could have trimmed a bunch of foolishness out and kept in a number of the scenes that were cut (the deleted scenes on the BR/DVD are almost all better than stuff they kept in) and had a much-improved movie. Click to expand...

Romulan_spy said: ↑ I especially like the deleted scene where Picard and Data share a glass of wine in his quarters and talk about the mixed emotions of a wedding. Good stuff. Click to expand...

Vger23 said: ↑ I think that's a huge point that gets lost on a lot of franchise fans quite frankly...there's a difference between "good" and "enjoyable." Fans take themselves and the product SO fucking seriously that if it doesn't have "real world suspension of disbelief" in terms of flawless execution, they can't bring themselves to enjoy it. I'm very lucky to not be like that. I can enjoy Trek even when it's deeply flawed. Click to expand...

Damian said: ↑ I wonder, just off hand, how many hate it due to a group think idea. Everyone else hates it so I should hate it sort of thing. I wonder if you took a sampling of Trekkies who had never seen Nemesis, who liked Star Trek and TNG, and just show them the film without ever seeing any reviews. What would they think? I know it'd be next to impossible, but I do get curious, how many people hate it because that's the thing to do? Well, we'll never know--and I do believe some people just hate it for whatever reason, and their reasons are just as legitimate as mine for liking it, and I'm not suggesting otherwise. Just something I get curious about, are there people that might think differently if they never saw a critique of the film and just went into it with an open mind. Click to expand...

Steven P Bastien Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

Damian said: ↑ And B-4 was basically unnecessary. Click to expand...

Steven P Bastien said: ↑ Am I the only one who realized that B-4 was there to allow Data to be resurrected if they decided to make another movie? You always need a way to bring a dead character back. In the next movie they could have B-4 become severely damaged and his memory wiped for some reason. Then Geordi suddenly remembers that he has a backup of Data's memory. Data is then resurrected in the final movie "Star Trek: The Search for Data, in the Computer Trash Bin". Fortunately, the idea was trashed before fruition. Click to expand...

Hey Missy Captain Captain

Admiral Archer said: ↑ Because it managed to do what no other Star Trek film could: it sucked so bad it killed the franchise for almost a decade. Click to expand...

Noname Given Fleet Admiral Admiral

Hey Missy said: ↑ Oh, please. When Enterprise was cancelled in 2005, Paramount immediately ordered another movie, and then JJ Abrams' Star Trek was approved in 2006. If it was a dead franchise, they wouldn't have still seen the potential for profit in it. Click to expand...

TNG isn't the whole franchise.  

johnjm22 Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

I don't understand why so many people like STiD but hate Nemesis . Seems to me if you like one you should like the other.  

Dukhat Admiral Admiral

johnjm22 said: ↑ I don't understand why so many people like STiD but hate Nemesis . Seems to me if you like one you should like the other. Click to expand...

Dukhat said: ↑ Well as soon as you explain what one has to do with the other... Click to expand...

I think johnjm22 means how people are more likely to forgive Into Darkness for the same faults they blast Nemesis for, such as "gratuitous action scenes" and "TWOK ripoffs"  

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A Complete Timeline of the Borg in Star Trek

The Borg are among Star Trek's most terrifying villains, having assimilated Captain Picard and Seven of Nine, but what is their timeline of events?

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Throughout the six-decade history of Star Trek , there have been many iconic villains, but perhaps none more so than the Borg. Created by Maurice Hurley, the head writer for Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, the Borg began as an organic species looking attain perfection. They achieved this by merging their organic bodies with cybernetic components. Individuality was erased, creating a hivemind culture of beings that sought only to assimilate more species and their technology in the search for perfection. They are led by a queen, a singular consciousness that can occupy multiple bodies.

The Borg are incredibly powerful and are known to travel via transwarp. They are even capable of time travel, though they don't do it very often. Given all that the Borg have going for them, it's no surprise that they were meant to be the ultimate villains Starfleet could never reason with. Over time, these villains became more complex and some even became Federation allies. Yet, the Borg have a long history in the Star Trek timeline, predating the earliest human space travel.

How Did Star Trek: Enterprise Become a TV Series?

The Borg have existed in their modern form since at least the time of the 15th Century on Earth. During the USS Voyager's travels in the Delta Quadrant, they met members of the Vaduwaur species who had been in stasis for more than 900 years. They had "many encounters" with the Borg who, by this time, had assimilated a few star systems in the Delta Quadrant. However, given the Vaduwaur didn't see them as their worst nemesis, they weren't as advanced as the Borg in the 24th Century.

In 2063, a Borg Sphere emerged from a temporal rift to prevent the Humans from making first contact with the Vulcans. The USS Enterprise-E followed them and destroyed the sphere, though a number of drones beamed aboard their vessel. Captain Picard defeated them, and Zefram Cochrane made his first warp flight . Some 90 years later, in Star Trek: Enterprise , remnants of the sphere were found in the North Pole. A handful of drones were revived and escaped in a space vessel. They were pursued and destroyed by the NX-01 Enterprise, but not before sending a message about Earth's location to the collective in the Delta Quadrant.

10 Star Trek Time Travel Stories That Changed Canon

The El-Aurian Guinan was saved by the USS Enterprise-B in 2293, along with fellow survivors of her people. Her planet had been assimilated by the Borg, and this was when Starfleet learned the species' name. Erin and Magnus Hansen, tried to study them in the late 2340s before they and their daughter Annika, Seven of Nine, were assimilated. In The Next Generation Season 2's "Q Who," the omnipotent being sent the USS Enterprise-D thousands of lightyears away from Federation space where it encountered a Borg Cube. They were only concerned about technology at the time, but this meeting led them to Federation space.

One year later, in 2366, the Borg sent a single cube to assimilate Earth. They captured Captain Jean-Luc Picard and assimilated him, giving him the name "Locutus." He was meant to demoralized Starfleet to prevent humans and the rest of the Federation from fighting back. He was freed of their control, but not before the Battle of Wolf 359 which destroyed 39 ships and killed 11,000 people. Among those were the wife of Commander Benjamin Sisko and the crew of the USS Constance of which Captain Liam Shaw was one of ten survivors. Commander Data briefly connected himself to the collective, ordering the Borg drones to enter regeneration and initiating the self-destruct sequence.

In 2368, the USS Enterprise-D encountered the Borg again, discovering a crashed scout ship. The drone Third of Five survived . Picard wanted to use the drone to implant a deadly virus into the collective. However, separated from the collective, the drone became an individual named "Hugh." He was returned unchanged to the collective, though Hugh's individuality caused a meltdown in the collective. A year later, Data's brother Lore found the cube and became their leader. He tried to replace their organic minds with positronic brains like his. The rogue Borg eventually overthrew him with help from the Enterprise. Five years later, another Borg cube was sent to Earth and was eventually destroyed, but not before sending the Sphere holding the Queen back to 2063.

How Did Star Trek: Voyager Become a TV Series?

In 2373, the USS Voyager entered Borg space on their journey home from the Delta Quadrant. At the same time, the Borg tried to assimilate Species 8472, which hailed from a dimension of "fluidic space." The assimilation didn't work and war broke out. Because 8472 was so hostile, Captain Janeway was able to enter into an alliance with the Borg to help defeat them, specifically with the help of the ship's holographic Doctor. The Borg betrayed them, which Janeway anticipated. The drone Seven of Nine was freed from the collective and became a member of the crew. Though she wished to rejoin the collective and tried to do so twice, she eventually chose to stay with Voyager .

In 2375, a transporter accident involving the Doctor's mobile emitter (based on 29th Century technology) and Seven of Nine's Borg nanoprobes. A drone was "grown" in the tank and designated One. The Borg tried to assimilate him and he willingly ended his own life. Later that year, the USS Voyager salvaged a transwarp coil from a destroyed Borg vessel. This led the Borg to enact a trap meant to bring Seven of Nine back into the collective as a replacement for Locutus. Janeway and the crew rescued her. A year later, while trading with the Brunali, Voyager was attacked by Borg vessel. However, they hid a photon torpedo in a captured Brunali vessel that destroyed the Borg ship, allowing Voyager to escape.

In 2377, Seven of Nine was reunited with other Borg in "Unimatrix Zero," a digital plane where drones retained their individuality. Captain Janeway used this opportunity to plan an attack on the collective and start a resistance movement. Captured by the Borg, many of Voyager's crew were assimilated. Thanks to the Doctor, they retained their individuality freeing thousands of drones and starting a Borg civil war. In 2378, a time-traveling Admiral Janeway showed up on Voyager with a plan to get the ship home. The plan succeeded, but the Admiral was assimilated. She carried a virus that decimated the collective to nearly the point of destruction. Five years after the return of the USS Voyager, the rag-tag crew of the USS Protostar found a Borg Cube, but they let sleeping Borg lie .

The Picard Blu-ray Underscores Why Each Season Needed the Borg

A Borg Cube that assimilated a Romulan vessel suffered a submatrix collapse, and it was captured by the Romulan Star Empire. In 2399, the ex-Borg Hugh led the Borg Reclamation Project on a ship dubbed "the Artifact." To stop a plan by a cult of anti-synthetic Romulans in the Tal Shiar, Seven of Nine created her own mini-collective and led the Artifact to crash on a planet populated by synthetics. It's presumed the surviving xBs (as they were called) joined the society on that planet. Hugh, however, was killed in the attempt.

In 2401, a Borg vessel of unknown origin appeared and asked to speak with Admiral Jen-Luc Picard. The Queen of this collective was Agnes Jurati, who was assimilated by the Borg Queen of an alternate timeline who took Picard and his allies into the past to save the future they knew. Jurati convinced the Queen to create a new kind of collective in which individuality was maintained and assimilation was voluntary. This new collective applied for provisional Federation membership to stand guard at a rift in space through which a still-unknown threat would emerge.

Also that year, the near-dying Borg Queen allied with Changeling terrorists angry with the Federation after the Dominion War. They infiltrated Starfleet, adding a DNA sequence to Starfleet transporters that would assimilate anyone under the age of 25 once they received a coded message. That message was sent by Jack Crusher , the son of Picard and Dr. Beverly Crusher. He was assimilated by the dying Borg Queen and named Võx. New technology added to modern Starfleet vessels allowed these new Borg to assimilate the ships in moments. Using a rebuilt USS Enterprise-D, the command crew of that vessel saved Jack and destroyed the remaining Borg, seemingly defeating them once and for all.

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Enterprise’s Hated Finale “Really Bothered Me,” Says Star Trek Actor

• Keating found the Enterprise finale disrespectful to the cast, feeling Riker and Troi took away from their last episode.
• The controversial inclusion of two Next Generation characters ticked off Keating, who believes a standalone episode was needed.
• Despite initially moving on from the show, Keating now believes the finale was a misstep that disrespected the Enterprise cast.

Lt. Malcolm Reed actor Dominic Keating has revealed that the hated Star Trek: Enterprise finale " really bothered " him. "These Are the Voyages" was the final episode of the canceled Enterprise , but it also served as a finale for the entire Star Trek franchise . To that end, it featured Commander William T. Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) observing the final mission for the Enterprise NX-01 on the holodeck during the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Pegasus".

The inclusion of Riker and Troi in the Star Trek: Enterprise finale was incredibly controversial as it took the focus away from Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and the crew. Dominic Keating reflected on the controversial Enterprise finale during the 2024 edition of the Star Trek San Francisco convention. Read Keating's comments (via TrekMovie .com ) below:

“I just watched that episode on [Star Trek: The Cruise VII]. I had seen it in times past and it has not bothered me. This time, I have to say it really bothered me… Particularly—and I love Jonathan and Marina—but to see them jauntily wafting around our last episode like nothing’s going on, and it ticked me off. It didn’t in the instance. I guess as an actor, I was like ‘We’re done’ so I was moving on to get another job. But when I look back now twenty years on, yeah it was disrespectful—I think to Scott and to our cast. I understand that Rick and Brannon were wrapping up a very long sojourn of an unparalleled TV accomplishment of 17 years on a variation of a theme. It is incredible. But I think it was a misstep. We should have had a standalone episode to end our series.”

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Why dominic keating is right about tng's riker and troi in enterprise's finale.

Dominic Keating's recent criticisms of the Star Trek: Enterprise finale are justified. Given that Enterprise had been canceled due to flagging ratings, it does feel insulting to drop two beloved characters from the more popular Star Trek: The Next Generation into the finale . What's worse is that everything that happens in the Enterprise finale is a holodeck simulation, which means that - technically - these aren't even the real characters that viewers have spent four years with. They're holographic replicas that are informed by the official record of the events leading up to the founding of the United Federation of Planets .

Dominic Keating is absolutely correct in his assertion that Star Trek: Enterprise 's finale should have been a standalone episode to end the series, not the franchise . Structurally, the story of the Enterprise NX-01 embarking on one final mission before the historic formation of the Federation could have been a fitting farewell. By including Riker and Troi as observers of the action, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga vastly reduced the importance of Archer and his crew, ending Star Trek: Enterprise not with a bang, but a whimper.

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Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise acts as a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, detailing the voyages of the original crew of the Starship Enterprise in the 22nd century, a hundred years before Captain Kirk commanded the ship. Enterprise was the sixth series in the Star Trek franchise overall, and the final series before a twelve-year hiatus until the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery in 2017. The series stars Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Archer, with an ensemble cast that includes John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, and Connor Trinneer.