Star Trek: Nemesis Cast & Character Guide

Star Trek: Nemesis brought together the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation for their fourth and final big-screen adventure. Directed by Stuart Baird, and written by the Academy Award-nominated John Logan, Star Trek: Nemesis premiered in December 2002. Unfortunately, Star Trek: Nemesis ranks as the lowest-grossing Star Trek movie, and it was a bomb with critics and audiences that resulted in the end of the Star Trek: The Next Generation movie franchise.

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Star Trek: Nemesis‘ plot involves Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) of the USS Enterprise-E meeting his clone, Shinzon (Tom Hardy), who took control of the Romulan Empire and plots to destroy the United Federation of Planets. Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) also meets his malfunctioning android doppelganger, B-4. Star Trek: Nemesis includes cameos by Star Trek: Voyager’s Kate Mulgrew as Admiral Kathryn Janeway, Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan, and Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher. Details of the main cast of Star Trek: Nemesis are below:

Star Trek: Nemesis Cast

Character

Patrick Stewart

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Jonathan Frakes

Commander Will Riker

Brent Spiner

Lt. Commander Data

Michael Dorn

Lt. Commander Worf

Gates McFadden

Dr. Beverly Crusher

Marina Sirtis

Counselor Deanna Troi

LeVar Burton

Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge

Tom Hardy

Shinzon

Ron Perlman

The Viceroy

Dina Meyer

Donatra

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10 Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Date Of Birth: July 13, 1940

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  • Active Since: 1959

Actor: Born in Mirfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Patrick Stewart got his big break as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stewart moved to the United States when he was cast as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Stewart has also portrayed Professor Charles Xavier in Marvel’s X-Men movies, Walter Blunt in Blunt Talk, and Bosley in Charlie’s Angels (2019). Stewart reprised Admiral Jean-Luc Picard for three seasons of Star Trek: Picard.

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Year

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Character: Captain Picard faces a threat to the Federation in the form of his clone, Shinzon, the new Praetor of the Romulan Empire. Meanwhile, the USS Enterprise-E faces a transition with Commander Riker leaving to become Captain of the USS Titan. Picard is tested once more to unlock Shinzon’s secrets and prevent him from using a powerful doomsday weapon to destroy the Enterprise and the Federation.

9 Jonathan Frakes as Commander Will Riker

Date Of Birth: August 19, 1952

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  • Active Since: 1977

Actor: Jonathan Frakes was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and worked for Marvel as Captain America, making appearances and conventions. Frakes had roles in Falcon Crest and North and South before he was cast as Commander Will Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Frakes has also become a celebrated director, helming the feature films Star Trek: First Contact, Thunderbirds, Clockstoppers, and countless TV series, including Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

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Year

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Character: Commander Will Riker marries his Imzadi, Counselor Deanna Troi, and they begin their transition to leave the Starship Enterprise to start their new lives aboard the USS Titan. However, before Will can become Captain Riker, he has one final mission with Picard, and Riker must help Troi when she is targeted and psychically assaulted by Shinzon and his Reman right-hand man, the Viceroy.

8 Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data / B-4

Date Of Birth: February 2, 1949

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  • Active Since: 1968

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Actor: Brent Spiner was born in Houston, Texas, and became a stage actor before guest starring roles in Night Court and Cheers led him to be cast as the android Lt. Commander Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Spiner also portrayed Dr. Okun in Independence Day and Independence Day: Resurgence. Brent also appeared in Threshold, Material Girls, and reprised his character in the Night Court reboot.

Notable Movies & TV Shows:

Title

Character

Year

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Lt. Commander Data

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Character: Lt. Commander Data is earmarked to replace the departing Commander Riker as the new First Officer of the USS Enterprise-E, but the discovery of his heretofore unknown android ‘brother,’ B-4, leads Data into a trap laid by Shinzon. Data ultimately sacrifices himself to save the Enterprise from Shinzon’s doomsday Thelaron weapon.

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7 Michael Dorn as Lt. Commander Worf

Date Of Birth: December 19, 1952

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  • Active Since: 1976

Actor: Born in Luling, Texas, Michael Dorn appeared in an uncredited role as Apollo Creed’s bodyguard in Rocky before guest starring roles on television followed. Dorn’s breakthrough was getting cast as the Klingon Lt. Worf on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Dorn also had a recurring role on Castle, and he voices Battle Beast in the Prime Video animated series Invincible.

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Character

Year

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Lt. Worf

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Lt. Commander Worf

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Captain Worf

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Character: The Klingon Lt. Commander Worf is back aboard the USS Enterprise-E as Chief of Security. Worf accompanies Data and Picard on their away mission where they discover the remains of B-4. Worf has a supporting role in Star Trek: Nemesis, but Star Trek: Picard reveals it’s the Klingon who becomes the Enterprise’s new First Officer and later succeeds Picard as its new Captain.

6 Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher

Date Of Birth: March 2, 1949

Dr. Beverly Crusher enters a room in Star Trek: Nemesis

  • Active Since: 1980

Actor: Born in Akron, Ohio, Gates McFadden was a dance and theatre teacher and a director of choreography before she was cast as Dr. Beverly Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation. McFadden is also the first actress to play Dr. Cathy Ryan from Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan franchise in The Hunt for Red October. McFadden hosts her podcast, InvestiGates: Who Do You Think You Are? for the Nacelle Company.

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Notable Movies & TV Shows:

Title

Character

Year

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Dr. Beverly Crusher

1987-1994

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Dr. Cathy Ryan

1990

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Character: Dr. Beverly Crusher also has a supporting role in Star Trek: Nemesis. Beverly’s main function is to help Data and Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge with B-4, and Dr. Crusher also helps Counselor Deanna Troi after she is psychically violated by Shinzon. Star Trek: Picard season 3 would later reveal that Dr. Crusher left the Enterprise after Star Trek: Nemesis to secretly raise her son, Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers), her son with Captain Picard.

5 Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi

Date Of Birth: March 29, 1955

Deanna Troi grim in Star Trek Nemesis
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  • Active Since: 1977

Actor: Marina Sirtis was born in Hackney, London, England, and her early film work included roles in Death Wish 3 and Blind Date before she was cast as Counselor Deanna Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Sirtis also appeared in the Academy Award-winning Crash, Earth: Final Conflict, Stargate: SG-1, The Closer, and Without a Trace.

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Title

Character

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Counselor Deanna Troi

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Commander Deanna Troi

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Character: Counselor Deanna Troi marries her Imzadi, Commander Will Riker, at the start of Star Trek: Nemesis. Troi, however, becomes the victim of Shinzon as part of the Picard clone’s multi-pronged assault on the crew of the USS Enterprise-E. After Shinzon’s defeat, Troi joins Riker as they leave the Enterprise to take over command of the USS Titan.

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4 LeVar Burton as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge

Date Of Birth: February 16, 1957

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  • Active Since: 1976

Actor: LeVar Burton was born in Landstuhl, West Germany, and got his big break portraying Kunta Kinte in the 1977 miniseries Roots. Along with playing Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Burton was the host of Reading Rainbow for over 20 years, and he directed episodes of JAG, Charmed, and Las Vegas. Burton also hosts a podcast, LeVar Burton Reads.

Notable Movies & TV Shows:

Title

Character

Year

Roots

Kunta Kinte

1977

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Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge

1987-1994

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Commodore Geordi La Forge

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Character: Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge continues his service as Chief Engineer of the USS Enterprise-E in Star Trek: Nemesis. La Forge helps Data perform diagnostics on B-4 and leads Engineering during the film’s crisis and attacks by Shinzon and his flagship, the Scimitar. Geordi is one of the officers who remains aboard the Enterprise at the end of Star Trek: Nemesis.

3 Tom Hardy as Shinzon

Date of Birth: September 16, 1977

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  • Active Since: 1998

Actor: Born in London, Star Trek: Nemesis was Tom Hardy’s big break, getting cast opposite Patrick Stewart as the villainous Shinzon. Hardy’s distinguished TV and film career includes starring in Christopher Nolan’s Inception, playing Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, Mad Mad Max in Mad Max: Fury Road, Peaky Blinders, Capone, The Bikeriders, and portraying Eddie Brock and Venom in Marvel’s Venom trilogy.

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Character: Shinzon was cloned from Captain Jean-Luc Picard as part of a Romulan plot to replace the Captain of the Enterprise, When the Romulans abandoned their scheme, Shinzon was banished to the mines of Remus. Shinzon rallied the Remans to his cause and led a coup to overthrow the Romulan senate. Secretly dying from Shalaft’s Syndrome, the new Praetor then sets forth his scheme to get revenge on Captain Picard and destroy the Federation.

2 Ron Perlman as The Viceroy

Date Of Birth: April 13, 1950

Shinzon's Viceroy attacks Troi psychically
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  • Active Since: 1975

Actor: Ron Perlman was born in New York City, and he made his television debut on the soap opera Ryan’s Hope in 1979. Perlman won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Vincent in Beauty and the Beast, played the title superhero character in Hellboy and Hellboy II: The Golden Army, appeared in Blade II, Alien: Resurrection, and Pacific Rim, and Perlman played Clay Morrow in Sons of Anarchy.

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Character: The Viceroy is the hulking, mostly silent aide and bodyguard of Praetor Shinzon. A monstrous Reman, the Viceroy cared for the young Shinzon when he was imprisoned in the Reman mines, and was by his side when Shinzon overthrew the Romulan senate. The Viceroy possesses psychic abilities and helps Shinzon sexually assault the mind of Counselor Troi before he is killed by Commander Riker.

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1 Dina Meyer as Donatra

Date Of Birth: December 22, 1968

Dina Meyer as Donatra in Star Trek Nemesis

  • Active Since: 1993

Actor: Dina Meyer was born in Queens, New York, and her big break came when she was cast as Lucinda Nicholson on Beverly Hills 90210. Following roles in Johnny Mnemonic and Dragonheart, Meyer played Dizzy Flores in Starship Troopers. Dina also played Barbara Gordon/Oracle in Birds of Prey and Detective Allison Kerry in the Saw horror franchise.

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Character: Commander Donatra is a member of the Romulan Star Empire who falls in line with Shinzon after the Remans take over the Romulan government. However, Donatra secretly plots to defeat Shinzon, and she betrays him to help Captain Picard and the Federation destroy the villainous Shinzon and his Reman army. Commander Donatra has a minor but memorable role in Star Trek: Nemesis.

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*Availability in US Director Stuart Baird Release Date December 13, 2002 Writers Gene Roddenberry , John Logan , Rick Berman , Brent Spiner Cast Patrick Stewart , Jonathan Frakes , Brent Spiner , LeVar Burton , Michael Dorn , Marina Sirtis , Gates McFadden , Tom Hardy Main Genre Sci-Fi