Patience was growing thin in the Romulan Senate, where Donatra spoke to Commander Suran about how Shinzon""s actual plan was to annihilate Earth ("He""s not planning to defeat Earth.On the train journey to the lakes, Paula is seated next to Miss Thwaites (Dame May Whitty), a garrulous Englishwoman who loves murder mysteries, gardening and digestive biscuits.He used his power of teleporting to unsuccessfully attempt to assassinate US President McKenna (Cotter Smith) in the Oval Office.He dressed his actresses often in preposterous costumes, sometimes as coins or musical instruments (or as swimmers).During almost the entire trolley-car ride to the city, one of cinema""s most exquisitely-fashioned sequences, the camera is set in the same position, viewing the scenery as the tram turns and glides through curves - first trees and forests next to the lake, then the outskirts of the city with suburbia, factories, shops, and houses, and then he City itself.