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BTW, anyone who doesn't want spoilers about ST10, but was stupid enough to open this thread anyway, you might want to reconsider now.
This says Shinzon is supposed to have "golden" hair. Why? If he's a clone of Picard, altered to be Romulan, he should have dark hair. Darker than "golden", anyway. Young Picard had brown hair, and Romulans almost exclusively have black hair. I mean, I'm sure it could be explained as some sort of anomaly resulting from all the genetic whatsis, but it still seems odd. Personally, if I were in charge, I would have considered having Shinzon be played by one of the actors who has played Picard's younger self in the past: either the kid from "Rascals" (if he's old enough now) or the guy from "Tapestry".
Then again, maybe I'm just overrating continuity. :-)
Actually, everything I've read on the Star Trek X spoilers says that TSN is correct. Shinzon is out for blood and to conquer the Federation because he's Picard's reject clone. The Romulans somehow got Picard's DNA and cloned him. But something happened where they couldn't insert the clone into Picard's place. The clone later ends up being named Shinzon and has to grow up on the Romulan slave labor world of Remus. He supposedly also has an enzyme disorder and needs Picard to help him live. That's essentally the core plot of the movie.
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Ummm... What about that article? It simply announced that Tom Hardy has been selected to play Shinzon by Paramount Pictures. The last couple script treatments I read for Nemesis were over on the Ain't It Cool News website. I think it was Dark Horizon and Moriarty who did the spoiling.
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I think it would depend on how old the clone is. Or did you expect Young Jean-Luc in "Rascals" to be played by Patrick Stewart with a hair-piece?
One wonders *when* the Romulans decided to clone Picard, though. If it was after he first got command of Enterprise, then the clone shouldn't be more than 15 or 16 years old (depending on how long after Voyager the film takes place).
Then again, the Romulans might be able to accelerate growth a bit ... he "ages" a year and a half for every year or so. ::shrug::
Or we could learn about something Picard did on the Stargazer (or after, and before Enterprise) which captured the Romulans' attention to the point they decided to clone him.
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If the clone and Picard were supposed to be the same age, then, yes, they would be played by the same actor (Patrick Stewart). However, Shinzon's emergence in the world of the living only happened twenty-or-so years ago, I remember the treatment correctly. Since the clone is younger than Picard, they have a different actor to portray the younger-Picard-if-he-was-forced-to-be-on-a-dark-slave-world-for-many-many-years.
There are a couple of problems with the plot that I haven't heard about being resolved. One is that if Shinzon is supposed to have pale human features or pale Romulan features. His sidekick is described as appearing somewhat like a vampire with pointed ears. The other is that is Shinzon is only twenty-or-so-years-old, how did the Romulans get their hands on Picard's DNA? Twenty years prior to the setting of Nemesis is still in the Romulan Isolation.
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Okay, Jeff, episode titles belong in quotation marks. Series titles belong in italics or underlined. Thus, your post should have looked like this:
quote:Well, TPTB have been about as consistent with the "Romulan Isolation" from "The Neutral Zone" as with the Ferengi first contact in "The Last Outpost." By the way, Siegfried, I worship that ground that you walk on. If I was a girl, I'd be on you like peanut butter and bananas on wheat bread.
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