One of Alicia""s friends asserts that she brought him - he""s not a "party crasher." Embittered, Alicia discusses how she is a "marked woman" and followed constantly by police [an ironic statement since she will be followed for most of the film by government agents and the male lead silently sitting in her company]:I hate low, under-handed people like policemen, pussy-footing after you.However, eliminating his brother""s murderer in his plan was an extra bonus: "Life has its little bonuses.Although believing that she had been promised a house of her own, Anna was shocked when the intimidating and stern Kralahome informed her that he had come to escort them to their living quarters in the Royal Palace.As the Nexus approached closer, Soran and Picard fought hand-to-hand - as Soran successfully launched his trilithium missile probe at the Veridian star, and both men were sucked into the ribbon following the blast; Picard found himself enjoying Christmas with his family (and a reunion with his favorite deceased nephew Renee who died in a fire), but then realized that he was in the unreal temporal Nexus ("This can""t be real"), and was told by Guinan, also in the Nexus, that he needed to get help from Captain Kirk, also happily entrenched there reliving his past (after being drawn into the Nexus 78 years earlier); after convincing Kirk to help him stop Soran ("Make a difference again") and save millions of lives, the two Captains materialized back on Veridian IIIjust beforeSoran was to launch his missile and destroy the star.