Review of Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) by Wes S — 18 Aug 2016

This is a decent Star Trek: The Next Generation film that feels like an extended, big-budget TV episode. There's nothing particularly significant at stake as Picard and crew help out a small colony of technology-avoiding pastoralists against an alien-Federation alliance that wants to re-locate them because their planet has valuable properties.

Picard's actions are in defiance of Federation orders, hence the film's title. There's some action, there's some romance, there's some humour as our heroes experience a certain energy the planet has to offer.

The film takes few risks, but it doesn't make any major mistakes, either.