Review of Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) by Antonio P — 23 Aug 2008

This was my first star trek movie in theaters...god was I unlucky. this is the one that cuased the decline of the next gen crew.

I havent seen nemisis yet but I cant beleive reveiws that it was worse than this.

Heres an excerpt from the agony booth about how bad the "TWIST" was.

So, if I'm understanding this right, the Head-Staplers wanted to be off the planet, but once they got what they wanted, they decided to get revenge. Just read that again and realize how stupid this plot truly is. This film didn't need a rewrite; it needed a bullet between the eyes.

So, just because some of the younger Villagers dared to be curious about the outside world, they were forever exiled from the planet? Given that living on the planet means eternal youth, this seems pretty harsh. Couldn't they have just split into a separate colony elsewhere on the same planet? This doesn't make the "good guys" look particularly sympathetic.

If they're all the same race, it makes even less sense that it takes "ten years" for the Head-Staplers to experience the effects of the planet. Especially since the effect on humans (and Klingons) is almost instantaneous. (I guess you could argue that the planet has an instant effect on androids, too, but I'm inclined to think that's just Data being an idiot.) The "can't share the planet" argument, which basically drives the whole story, has now become so hopelessly convoluted that there's no possible way for this movie to come to a satisfying resolution.