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- What hurt Insurrection in 1998 is what hurts its reputation today: the paradox of what a Star Trek movie should be is often at odds with what a blockbuster movie must deliver. The TNG cast gets to perform some requisite phaser-firing, while the ending pits Picard against Ru’afo John McClane-style.
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Jun 11, 2020 · Star Trek: Insurrection was a critical and box office disappointment in part because not even the filmmakers agreed on the ethical premise of the movie. Released in 1998 and directed by Jonathan Frakes, Star Trek: Insurrection was the third feature film starring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Insurrection holds a 55% rotten score ...
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Dec 11, 2023 · In fact, 25 years ago, what’s now considered one of the most meh Star Trek films ever — Insurrection — actually did well at the box office. The cultural memory of Star Trek:...
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What hurt Insurrection in 1998 is what hurts its reputation today: the paradox of what a Star Trek movie should be is often at odds with what a blockbuster movie must deliver. The TNG cast gets to perform some requisite phaser-firing, while the ending pits Picard against Ru’afo John McClane-style.
Jul 27, 2016 · “Ok, ok, so First Contact was a major box office and critical success, but it would have been so much better had all those great space battles been replaced with Riker having a shave in the...
- 20 Introduces New Villain
- 19 The Son'a Are Actually Really Creepy
- Murray Abraham Is The Villain
- 17 No Earth
- 16 Data Lets Loose
- 15 It Rekindles Riker and Troi's Relationship
- 14 It Tried Something Different
- 13 Worf Gets to Have Fun Again
- 12 Data and The Villagers
- 11 The Return of Beardless Riker
The Star Trek TV shows have some of the best villains in all of pop culture. The Klingons and Romulans from the original series, the Borg from The Next Generation and the Dominion from Deep Space Nineall terrorized the Federation. The movies, on the other hand, tended to just recycle species from the TV shows. This isn't necessarily a huge flaw, an...
Speaking of the villains, the Son'a are actually an interesting concept. Essentially, they used to be a part of the peaceful Ba'ku, but were exiled after attempting to seize control. Unfortunately, after leaving their home planet, the Son'a stopped benefitting from the rejuvenating radiation. They started to age, and turned to technology to prolong...
The Star Trek film series has featured some truly great performances from their villains. Everyone recognizes Ricardo Montalban's amazing performance as Khan, but he's not alone. Christopher Lloyd played an obsessed Klingon commander in The Search for Spock (1984), Christopher Plummer made Shakespeare sound threatening in The Undiscovered Country (...
So, this may come as a surprise, but Insurrection is actually the first Star Trekmovie not to feature any scenes on Earth. In the TV shows, the crews of the different Enterprises barely ever came back to Earth. Their job was to explore the galaxy, and they spent most of their time on strange and exotic alien planets. Once the franchise went to the ...
It's always been clear that Data can do some real damage when he needs to. As an android, he's stronger than a Klingon, and is faster and smarter than almost every opponent. The Next Generation wasn't really an action show, however, so viewers only got glimpses of his abilities. Data was given some brief action in First Contact, but he spent most o...
The Next Generationnever really had a "will they/won't they" dynamic between Troi and Riker. They had a relationship before the events of the show, but it ended. The two were close friends, but there were always small moments that hinted at something deeper. Troi had a brief relationship with Worf, but that ended when he transferred to Deep Space N...
For the crew of The Next Generation, it always seemed like they struggled to escape the shadow of the original crew. In Generations (1994), not only did the two crews meet, but it copied a space fight between the Enterprise and a Klingon bird of prey from The Undiscovered Country. First Contactis great, but it uses time travel, a common trope in th...
Worf was a fan favorite character, so it wasn't surprising when the character became a mainstay on Deep Space Nine. He moved to station to help advise Captain Benjamin Sisko on how to deal with a Klingon fleet that had amassed near the station. He stayed on, and eventually married Jadzia Dax. While the show is popular among fans, it was also fairly...
One of the silliest scenes in any Star Trekmovie has to be when Picard encounters a malfunctioning Data and fixes him by singing opera at him. It's a shame, because up until this point, Data's behavior is actually frightening. He takes down a team of Starfleet officers, and appears ready to blow Picard out of the sky. What makes this interesting is...
It might seem silly, or even crazy, but it was nice to see Riker shave his beard. Riker didn't debut his famous beard until the show's second season. Since that point, it was a constant presence on the show and in the movies. Even as the uniforms changed, Riker kept his beard. Even Geordi LaForge traded in his visor for bionic eyes before Riker dec...
Dec 2, 2023 · Star Trek: Insurrection failed to live up to the critical acclaim and box office success of its predecessor, Star Trek: First Contact. The original concept for Star Trek: Insurrection was very different from the final version of the film, and included Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) killing the beloved android Lt. Commander Data ...
Critical responses to the film were mixed; the performance of Patrick Stewart and the directing of Jonathan Frakes were praised, while other critics compared it to an extended episode of the television series.