Fails the Bechdel test

Star Trek: Nemesis

Name: Star Trek: Nemesis
Released: 2002

2002. Directed by Stuart Baird, written by Gene Roddenberry and John Logan and Rick Berman.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

2 / 3

Fails

Yes 1. At least two women
8 women characters. 6 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
Women do talk to each other.
No 3. About something besides a man
Every conversation between women that our parser found mentions a man.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.

The film

After a joyous wedding between William Riker and Deanna Troi, Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew stumble upon a positronic signature which results in a prototype version of the android Data. Then the Enterprise is invited to Romulus to negotiate a peace treaty with the Romulans by their new leader, Praetor Shinzon. However, Shinzon is revealed to be a clone of Picard who was raised on Remus, a slave planet to the Romulans. Later on, Picard discovers that this peace treaty was nothing more than a set-up on account of the fact that Shinzon needs Picard in order to survive. But little do the Enterprise crew know that Shinzon also plans to do away with the Federation by unleashing a weapon that could destroy a whole planet.

Released: 13 Dec 2002
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 6.4 / 10
Metascore: 51 / 100
Awards: 1 win & 4 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Picard 257 lines, man
Shinzon 146 lines, man
Data 109 lines, man
Riker 56 lines, man
Worf 46 lines, man
Geordi 42 lines, man
Deanna 39 lines, woman
B-9 29 lines
Beverly 29 lines, woman
Viceroy 24 lines, man

Full cast, 21 people

Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker
Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data
LeVar Burton as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Commander Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Tom Hardy as Praetor Shinzon
Ron Perlman as Viceroy Vkruk
Dina Meyer as Commander Donatra
Jude Ciccolella as Commander Suran
Shannon Cochran as Senator Tal'aura
Kate Mulgrew as Admiral Janeway
Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher
Stuart Baird as Scimitar Computer (voice)
Alan Dale as Praetor Hiren
David Ralphe as Commander
Majel Barrett as Computer (voice)
Bryan Singer as Kelly (uncredited)
Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan (uncredited)
Wanda Roth as Starfleet Lieutenant (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 6% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 148

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	0	0
5 to 8	12	26
9 to 12	2	41
13 to 16	3	35
17 to 20	0	24
21 to 24	4	32
25 to 28	12	29
29 to 32	1	34
33 to 36	6	62
37 to 40	6	17
41 to 44	0	51
45 to 48	8	26
49 to 52	3	33
53 to 56	1	27
57 to 60	0	16
61 to 64	0	0
65 to 68	0	2
69 to 72	5	10
73 to 76	6	31
77 to 80	2	26
81 to 84	0	9
85 to 88	0	3
89 to 92	3	48
93 to 96	0	7
97 to 100	1	7
101 to 104	2	3
105 to 108	3	9
109 to 112	2	0
113 to 116	0	8
117 to 120	1	9
121 to 124	0	13
125 to 128	0	1
129 to 132	1	10
133 to 136	2	17
137 to 140	7	9
141 to 144	0	15
145 to 148	3	19

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 12 are women's.

96 lines from women, 709 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

8 women and 13 men in the cast. 6 women and 9 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 6 of 859. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 82 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 13% of the words (1,172), men 87% (8,024). Women have 12% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.

Exhibit D: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Two women

Two men

Exhibit E: behind the camera

3 of the 16 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 19% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Stuart Baird (man)
Written by: John Logan (man)
Story by: John Logan (man), Rick Berman (man), Brent Spiner (man)
Produced by: Peter Lauritson (man), Rick Berman (man)
Shot by: Jeffrey L. Kimball (man)
Edited by: Dallas Puett (man)
Music by: Jerry Goldsmith (man)
Production design by: Herman F. Zimmerman (man)
Costumes by: Bob Ringwood (man), Robert Blackman (man)
Cast by: Junie Lowry-Johnson (woman), Amanda Mackey (woman), Cathy Sandrich Gelfond (woman)