Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I never really got into "Star Trek" the tv show even though I've probably seen every episode. I never really cared about "Next Generation" when it was on. But I did see a couple of episodes here and there. I certainly wasn't a fan. That said, I'm a fan of the movies. I really enjoy both the original crew and the Next Generation films. But "Insurrection" doesn't scratch the inch like the other ones. For the first half of the movie I feel like an outsider. LIke, I'm not a real fan. That I should know the relationships better. Then it get's stuck in second gear way too long. When it finally starts to shift up, it gets wildly entertaining. I'm sure I will like more and more after repeated viewings. But right now, it feels like an okay dinner followed by an extra long dessert.

When it comes to my viewing experiences with Star Trek I've seen 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8. I'd also put the reboot films in there as well (the first 2, haven't seen the new one) but honestly... they don't count in my eyes. The end result of this movie is a bore possibly moreso than the first one because at least the first one had a lot of very interesting ideas in it's second half. Also the script in this is so bad virtually everyone is unlikeable.The plot is that Data has gone haywire while observing a planet full of people who don't believe in technology (I do mean people in the sense that they didn't do a make-up job on the actors to make them look like... you know, aliens) and exposes a Federation base that could have easily been built in space. Meanwhile Picard accepts a new race into The Federation and gets informed about Data and he decides to try and stop him... by singing the HMS Pinafore... I know the reasoning behind it but how is anyone supposed to look at that scene and not think "What the hell?".After that surprisingly works evidently they find out that Data's morality took over (Yes, because morality can be totally programmable facts in the future!) and they find a huge machine to take the population of 600 (remember this) on a Holo-deck replica of their village. It also turns out that the reason the Federation wants them off without consulting them (oh it gets better) is that the planet can actually stop ageing and work medical miracles (should I remind that they hate technology and the people who use it?). Oh and as a reminder these people are not the inhabitants of the planet and there are these other group of aliens who want the planets properties because they're dying (oh and it also says it's the needs of 600 people vs the needs of billions!) and spoilers but they are the same race as the technology haters but exiled off the planet because they dared offered a different viewpoint... Oh but the technology hating people are the GOOD GUYS.I really don't see why this movie needed to exist. The technology hating aliens are actually constantly saved by it and this tries to push the whole "re-connect with nature" and how warp capability is bad because "where could it take us except away from here" Yes because Space exploration in the Star Trek universe is pretty boring I guess. Oh and the Federation really doesn't help with forcing them off without realizing it happened. Virtually there is so much against each side in this movie that I really wonder how the first Star Trek movie is considered to be worse than it. It at least when seeing something that needed explanation, they at least explained it rather than this movie's (and I swear I'm not kidding) "No more questions".So aside from a REALLY bad script whose reaction from me was "between this and The Phantom Menace no wonder the genre of Space Opera died for a while in summer blockbusters!" What else do I have to say about this? For a Star Trek movie this has no interesting ideas. The rest left me with something but no, this left me with nothing but the thought of the cast and the cinematography being wasted when the idea of F Murray Abraham playing a Star Trek villain who could have been a tragic villain alongside Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard really screams more awesome as an idea. If they just revamped the entire idea of the Baku and threw in something interesting to walk away with after the movie's over then I'm not sure if it would be good but it would have been a lot better than this!

Oh my God, this was for me a terrible flick and hard to watch because what the hell has this to do with Star Trek and the effects were sometimes done with cheap CGI so it was easy to spot when spaceships were made of pure CGI. Here we do have it again, humor added to the story with for example the Klingon and his pimple on his face. Total crap. And the love added to the story even makes it more laughable, you don't need that in a Star Trek flick.I can understand why those second generation flicks weren't made with a lot of money. Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

A joint Federation–Son'a group is secretly observing the Ba'ku when Data goes rogue and reveals their position. Admiral Matthew Dougherty contacts the Enterprise for Data's schematics to shut him down. Captain Picard ignores Dougherty's command and cuts short his mission to stop Data himself. After repairing Data, they discover that this is sinister plot between some in the Federation and the Son'a. Picard decides to ignore command and do what's right.This is an old school Star Trek story. The ideas and the morality have the great basic Star Trek DNA. The problem is that it's executed poorly. It's not big enough. I have problems with the logic of the sinister plot. The humor is awkward. I can see this as a solid episode of the TV show. However, it doesn't work quite as well when it's upgraded to a theatrical release.