Corrected entry: Since emergency transporters are only about the size of a quarter, why didn't Picard take one with him when he went to Shinzon's ship at the end of the movie?
Corrected entry: If the Romulans consider Picard so dangerous, and if they have zero compunctions about killing someone, why exactly would they leave his clone alive and able to lead a revolt?
Correction: As Shinzon is explaning to Picard at dinner, the Dilithium mines are very dangerous and he was about 10 so the Romulans expected him to die there, in fact, a guard tried until the now Viceroy took pity on him and became his mentor. The people of Remus only cared if the Romulans died, not the humans or their own kind.
Corrected entry: Early in the story Picard gets a person to person call from Admiral Janeway. Isn't she and her whole crew stranded some tens of thousands of light years away, on board the U.S.S. Voyager?
Correction: By the time of this film, Janeway is firmly back on Earth.
Corrected entry: I'm not a hardcore Trekkie, but Picard's clone needs his blood for a transfusion. After they capture Picard they take a blood sample from him. Now both ships have that technology that enable them to create something from general matter (as in the tea both Picard and the clone order from their respective ships). Why couldn't the clone take Picard's blood sample, feed it into the replicator and make Picard blood by the gallons?
Correction: If the Remans simply replicated the blood that they had already taken from Picard, the replicated blood would be less pure than the original sample. Shinzon needs Picard's blood straight from the veins.
Why would a replicated blood be less pure than the original sample they had already collected from Picard? Why does Shinzon need blood straight Picard's veins?
Corrected entry: When the Remans beam on deck 29, an intruder alert initiates. But where are the advanced internal sensors and force fields like in Star Trek: Voyager? They could just lock them and decompress the area without a single loss.
Correction: After the collision, the self-destruct mechanism didn't work, so the odds are that internal sensors and force fields would be inoperative, too.
Actually the enterprise, and other federation starships would have had safeguards to keep even massive damage from disabling internal sensors, and force fields in case intruders came onboard a ship during battle.
Corrected entry: Given the militaristic nature and pervasive control of the Romulan Government how could a bunch of slaves manage to first build a starship construction facility and then build a technologically advanced starship without it being discovered?
Correction: They did it the exact same way that they left a clone of Picard with a group of the best fighters in the galaxy with the materials available to make a ship like the Scimitar.
Actually building such a massive and technologically advanced ship like the scimitar would have attracted a lot of attention due to how far they would have had to travel to get the resources to build the scimitar so it should have been discovered. And being the best fighters in the galaxy does not mean they would have the knowledge in engineering required to build the scimitar.
Corrected entry: When Shinzon projects himself onto the Enterprise, as he moves around Picard's office, the office lights reflect off his shiny clothing, despite the fact that he isn't in the office. He also throws a shadow on Picard, again despite the fact that he isn't realy there.
Correction: The hologram Shinzon projects is most likely a variation of what the holodeck does- project something there that isn't there and can still interact with the environment - he just did it for himself.
Corrected entry: Since the Federation has had a Klingon ship in their possesion since the time of Kirk and the Search For Spock, it seems unlikely that Federation ships would not now be equipped with cloaking technology, especially since every other race in the Universe appears to have mastered the technology.
Correction: The Federation does not use cloaking technology on moral grounds, not technological. There was also a treaty with the Romulans forbidding the Federation from developing or using cloaking technology.
Well why didn't the federation make allowing them to use or develope cloaking technology one of the conditions in which they would even have a treaty?
Corrected entry: For all his intelligence, Data doesn't seem to be very smart, when it comes to security. They find an android on an alien planet near the Neutral Zone, one that seems to be a Soong-built prototype for Data, but they don't know how it got there. Why does Data think it's a good idea to download all his memories to the strange android? Sentimentality aside, Data has said on many occasions that his loyalty to Starfleet transcends all else. Wouldn't that include keeping his knowledge of how to secretly access the Enterprise's computers to himself?
Correction: Data has always shown that he has a soft spot for other andriods, and since Captain Picard gave his permission, Data wouldn't have seen any problem with it. B4 certainly up to that point didn't show any capacity to USE that information.
Correction: Bear in mind they were setting a trap for Shinzon whilst allowing B4 to do this.
Corrected entry: The Enterprise rams the Scimitar, and the two ships get stuck together. The Scimitar pushes it into reverse and the two ships seperate. But, since there's nothing holding the Enterprise in place, why did they seperate? The Scimitar should have just dragged it.
Correction: As the order 'reverse thrusters' is given, you can see the thrusters physically turning on the outside of the Scimitar. The blast from these thrusters pushes the Scimitar and the Enterprise away from each other.
Corrected entry: When investigating the 'positronic radiation', Picard and his merry men visit the planet of a PRE-WARP civilisation without even the slightest attempt of being discrete. They show off and make a lot of noise, they do not use any sort of camouflage, they engage in combat with the natives, etc. They don't seem to have even bothered to check whether there were any natives near the positronic emanations - the chaingun-wielding ATV drivers take them by surprise. Whatever happened to the Prime Directive ?
Correction: They knew from their scans that there were no settlements near the source of the radiation. The natives took them by surprise, granted, but what were they supposed to do, stand around and be killed by them?
Correction: Who is to say they were natives at all? No one ever points that out in the film. They could have been something to do with Shinzon and the ones that buried B4. And Picard and Co are in a motorised terrain vehicle...hardly a futuristic thing.
Correction: One had to remain on Shinzon's ship to destroy the weapon, not giving the individual time to use the transporter. It is understood that Picard going onto Shizon's ship is a suicide mission.