Generations fix.

[Knife]

No Sela is the obvious best choice, even if the actress isn't terrific. It not only allow them to tie up threads left open in Unification, but it fits with the Nemesis theme. After all, Sela has serious beef with both Picard and Data, the principle characters in the movie, and was foiled by one the other or both of them three times previously. I agree with the rest.

Hmmm; so Sela instigates a coup against the semi Fed-friendly Senate that developed durring the Dominion War. She does this by using captured (secertly) Klingon BoP's to attack a Senate fact finding mission on planet X.

The Senate, who's obviously pissed off about that, give a shit load of power to the Generals and Commanders, who Sela is acting for, to defend the Empire.

Sela is put in charge of a Romulan task force to fuck up the Klingons, who are weak after the Dominion War, and she then comes back to Romulus saying that the Klingons who attacked the Senate were in league with the Federation.

Romulans get really pissed off at the Federation and set in motion a plan to lure the Enterprise (flagship of the Federation) to Romulus, in the guise of diplomacy, and attacks Picard and crew.

This way Sela's in the coup, put back into some semblence of power, gets revenge on Picard and co., and comes across as the main bad guy even though she's still middle managment.

[Stofsk]

No Sela is the obvious best choice, even if the actress isn't terrific. It not only allow them to tie up threads left open in Unification, but it fits with the Nemesis theme. After all, Sela has serious beef with both Picard and Data, the principle characters in the movie, and was foiled by one the other or both of them three times previously. I agree with the rest.

True, to a degree. I mean while Sela might have serious bone to pick with Picard and the Federation, are we even sure she's still around? I mean she failed to turn Geordi into an assassin who'd kill a Klingon governor (In the mind's eye); she failed to send those supplies to the Duras forces, hence facilitating their defeat at the hands of Gowron loyalists (Redemption); finally she fails in the planned invasion of Vulcan, at the hands of the same people who foiled her previously, and the Unification movement and Spock himself go to ground. I'm sure Romulan High Command gave her a prestigious assignment covering sensor stations in some nebula somewhere in response to her good work. (I'm trying to think of the equivalent "CIA-arctic station" punishment in ST)

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And to add to that, the reunification movement started by Spock (who, given this is a TNG movie, should be martyred for the sake of letting the crew stand on their two feet) helps the Federation and may even have some of their people in power - the Dominion War would have been turbulent enough to probably put Pro-Federation Senators in leadership positions. Obviously for the story to work the Hawks will be in the majority.

Also with the Unification movement you can add in those progressive themes most ST movies have and can't stop adding, so that it doesn't end up as a 2 hour slugfest with phasers and fleet battles.