On their way to Riker's and Troi's honeymoon, the Enterprise is sent near the neutral zone to Romulan space, and picks up a prototypic twin of android Data. Immediately they are further sent to Romulus, where a new praetor, Shinzon, a human cloned from Captain Picard who lives on the slave planet Remus, appears to want peace with the Federation. But then the crew detects a break-in on their computer systems, and Picard is captured by the Remans because Shinzon needs him as his only matching supplier of genetic material. Picard and the Enterprise can escape, only to find themselves battling Shinzon's completely cloaked Warbird, who is after the complete destruction of earth.

Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) was invited back to the cast by executive producer Rick Berman after Wheaton spoke with LeVar Burton (Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge) on a special Star Trek edition of NBC's "The Weakest Link" (2001/II). Wheaton remains in the end titles although all of his scenes were cut from the final version of the film and he can only be seen as a non-speaking extra during the wedding scene.

La Forge:
Captain, we are being hailed.


Picard:
On screen.

[He realizes that the screen has been destroyed, along with the entire front wall of the bridge]


Picard:
...Open a channel.

Continuity: Some "facts" about Picard established in episodes of the TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) are overlooked or ignored (e.g. in the series, Picard had hair at Starfleet Academy and no longer has his own heart, it having been replaced after an incident there). There are other elements of discontinuity from the Star Trek series (Worf's transfer to the Diplomatic Corps and Wesley Crusher's resignation from Star Fleet are both ignored and his departure with the "Traveler" during the seventh season), although some of these are explained away in deleted scenes.

by Irving Berlin
Performed by Brent Spiner
Produced by Gordon Goodwin