There are already way too many comments to go through them all, so somebody may have already started compiling this same list. As you already know if you've seen this movie, you've seen everything in it before. The rip-off factor is off the charts. I'll list as much as I can remember from one viewing, because it's too packed full of rip-offs for me to remember them all.
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The first obvious rip off is of the Road Warrior. There's just no excuse for them to be driving around in wheeled vehicles at their tech level (especially one with no shields).
Then the groundwork gets laid for the Wrath of Khan rip-off (Data downloads his memory into another, then later sacrifices himself to save his ship). Did everyone forget Lore for some reason?
I'm getting a little out of order here, but the Voyager episode "Year of Hell" is ripped off to form major plot points. In YOH, the Voyager encounters a (temporally) cloaked super ship, the Krenim Weapon Ship. Like Nemesis, the Krenim ship can go around secretly wiping out worlds (by erasing the inhabitants from time). Voyager does find a way to detect the ship and resist its weapon. With allies, Janeway goes after the time ship, weakened by a Krenim mutiny who believe their captain has gone too far (flip-flopping Romulans anyone?). In the final battle, the front of Voyagers bridge is blown away, revealing a gaping hole view of the Krenim ship, and Janeway rams it.
Perhaps the most annoying rip-off is the Star Wars rip-offs. Star Trek has been slowly eliminating beam weapons in favor of Star Wars type energy bolt weapons (that shower sparks when they hit something, of course). But if you close your eyes while watching Nemesis, you'll swear you're listening to Star Wars! If that weren't distracting enough, you've got a good father/evil son reverse Star Wars dynamic going. During a big fire fight, the head Reman dives into a chute in the wall (a garbage chute maybe?). Riker dives after him and they wind up in area closely resembling the carbonite chamber. There they cat and mouse it the way Vader and Luke did, until Riker defeats the Reman and sends him falling down an impossibly deep shaft.
As a final rip-off, Shinzon pulls himself forward on the "spear" that impaled him the same way the head uruk-hai did in Fellowship.
***SPOILERS***
The first obvious rip off is of the Road Warrior. There's just no excuse for them to be driving around in wheeled vehicles at their tech level (especially one with no shields).
Then the groundwork gets laid for the Wrath of Khan rip-off (Data downloads his memory into another, then later sacrifices himself to save his ship). Did everyone forget Lore for some reason?
I'm getting a little out of order here, but the Voyager episode "Year of Hell" is ripped off to form major plot points. In YOH, the Voyager encounters a (temporally) cloaked super ship, the Krenim Weapon Ship. Like Nemesis, the Krenim ship can go around secretly wiping out worlds (by erasing the inhabitants from time). Voyager does find a way to detect the ship and resist its weapon. With allies, Janeway goes after the time ship, weakened by a Krenim mutiny who believe their captain has gone too far (flip-flopping Romulans anyone?). In the final battle, the front of Voyagers bridge is blown away, revealing a gaping hole view of the Krenim ship, and Janeway rams it.
Perhaps the most annoying rip-off is the Star Wars rip-offs. Star Trek has been slowly eliminating beam weapons in favor of Star Wars type energy bolt weapons (that shower sparks when they hit something, of course). But if you close your eyes while watching Nemesis, you'll swear you're listening to Star Wars! If that weren't distracting enough, you've got a good father/evil son reverse Star Wars dynamic going. During a big fire fight, the head Reman dives into a chute in the wall (a garbage chute maybe?). Riker dives after him and they wind up in area closely resembling the carbonite chamber. There they cat and mouse it the way Vader and Luke did, until Riker defeats the Reman and sends him falling down an impossibly deep shaft.
As a final rip-off, Shinzon pulls himself forward on the "spear" that impaled him the same way the head uruk-hai did in Fellowship.
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