Editing Star Trek: Nemesis (section)

==Themes==
''Nemesis'' continues the franchise's longtime focus on issues of identity and cloning,{{sfnp|Relke|2006|p=140}}{{sfnp|Bishop|Rabitsch|2022}} which had only grown more pronounced after the cloning of the sheep [[Dolly (sheep)|Dolly]] in 1996.{{sfnp|Tranter|Statham|2007|pp=361–362}}<!-- and others! --> The film even recasts the Romulan Empire as a mirror image of the Federation.{{sfnp|Relke|2006|p=140–150}} Law professor Kieran Tranter and Bronwyn Statham argue that ''Nemesis'' explores the "clone hysteria" that, concurrent to the film's release, led to the passage of the Prohibition of Human Cloning Act in Australia. To them, ''Nemesis'' repeats the tropes of the double being innately evil with Picard and Shinzon, but challenges it with Data and B-4. It is Data, not the duplicate, who impersonates the other in subterfuge, and there is no "uncanny [...] commonality" in their relation to each other; they relate not as good and evil twins, but as family. Clone hysteria also focuses on the loss of individuality; Shinzon suffers a crisis of identity upon meeting Picard and must destroy the original to survive. But the film also touches on the question of [[Nature versus nurture]]. Tranter, Statham, and professor Diana Relke agree that ''Nemesis'' rejects the simple thesis that genetics determines the self.{{sfnp|Tranter|Statham|2007|pp=370–376}}{{sfnp|Relke|2006|p=140}} Jan Domaradzki noted that ''Nemesis''{{'}} treatment of clones aligns with common features of biotechnologies in science fiction films, where the technology is relatively easy but comes with serious side effects and medical issues for the clones.{{sfnp|Domaradzki|2021|p=291}}

David Green argued in 2009 that ''Nemesis'' was the apotheosis of the franchise's recurring challenges to traditional conceptions of masculinity, offering a version of ''Paradise Lost'' that can be seen to have queer themes.{{sfnp|Greven|2009|p=187}}