You've made a friend in the Romulan Empire today, captain.   

                Hopefully, the first of many.

It is a sad, yet happy day for the crew of the USS Enterprise, who are preparing to bid farewell to their longserving first officer Captain William T. Riker and Counciller Deanne Troi, who have married each other in Alaska. However remnants of an android resembling Lietenant Data are discovered on a planet close to the Romulan neutral zone, Kolarus III, and when it is re-assembledit revealsits name to be B-4, a predecessor to Data.

The ship is then ordered by Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway to a diplomatic mission to Romulus, the slave homeworld of the Romulan Star Empire, which has undergone a military coup and is now controlled by a mysterious young Reman named Shinzon. The Romulan Praetor Shinzon proves to be a clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who appears to want peace but has some nasty plans for both the Romulans and the Federation.

The Enterprise crew detects a break-in on the ship's computer systems, and Picard is captured by the Remans because Shinzon needs him as his only matching supplier of genetic material needed to repair his body, which will otherwise rapidly degenerate as a result of the process used to artificially age his clone body. The crew finds out that B-4 is a spy who helped transfer information from the Enterprise to Shinzon, and is able to replace him with Data to rescue Picard. Picard and the crew subsequently find themselves battling Shinzon's completely cloaked Warbird, the Scimitar, which is Shinzon's custom-built weapon designed for one purpose: the complete destruction of Earth.

With the assistance of two Romulan warbirds whose captains and crews are not loyal to Shinzon, a space battle ensues in which the Scimitar is eventually crippled, although this is at great cost as: the warbirds are severely damaged and forced to back off, and the Enterprise rams the Scimitar, sustaining heavy damage to the forward half of the saucer section. Shinzon then activates the Scimitar's superweapon, bent on taking the Enterprise down with him. Picard and Data board it to stop the weapon, and Data ultimately sacrifices himself to save Picard and the Enterprise.

At the climax, while the Enterprise undergoes repairs at a drydock in Earth orbit, Picard says goodbye to Captain Riker and wishes him luck on the Titan. B-4, into whom Data had copied the seeds of his neural net, starts haltingly singing parts of a song Data was practicing for the wedding......

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