Ron Perlman’s Viceroy: Star Trek: Nemesis" Controversial Villain Explained

Summary

• Ron Perlman's role as the Reman Viceroy in Star Trek: Nemesis was controversial, particularly due to his involvement in a disturbing scene.
• The movie itself was considered a failure, leading to the cancellation of a fifth and final Star Trek film for Captain Picard and his crew.
• Perlman's career has since moved beyond Star Trek, with notable roles in Hellboy and other genre movies, while the responsibility for the scene lies with the director and screenwriter.

Cult hero Ron Perlman played the controversial Reman Viceroy in Star Trek: Nemesis, the final movie for the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast. Perlman has an extensive list of credits in genre movies, many of which have performed better commercially than Nemesis. The final TNG movie was such a box office failure that it torpedoed any hopes of a fifth and final movie for Patrick Stewart's Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise-E. Perlman was physically unrecognizable under the heavy prosthetics that transformed him into a Reman, but his familiar gravely tones were instantly recognizable.
Ron Perlman's Viceroy was the second-in-command of Tom Hardy's Shinzon during their hostile takeover of the Romulan Star Empire in Star Trek: Nemesis. The movie has a reputation for being a dark and miserable affair, and Ron Perlman's character played a substantial role in one of its most controversial scenes. Thankfully, the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast did finally get to have their final farewell. Despite this, Star Trek: Nemesis and the Reman Viceroy's role in the movie's most unpleasant scene still leaves a bitter taste in the mouth twenty years later.


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