Star Trek: Insurrection

Star Trek: Insurrection (Paramount Pictures, 1998) is the ninth Star Trek feature film. Directed by Jonathan Frakes, from a script by Michael Piller, it features the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Plot Summary

During a diplomatic mission, the U.S.S. Enterprise receives a communication that Lieutenant Commander Data (Brent Spiner) has gone berserk during an observation mission at the Ba'ku homeworld.

After capturing and fixing Data they return to the Ba'ku village on the planet surface to find what caused him to malfunction. They find a Federation ship which contains a holodeck reproduction of the Ba'ku's village, apparently so the Ba'ku can be unwittingly relocated without their knowledge.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his crew discover that the Briar Patch (the area of space the Baku planet is located in) is filled with metaphasic radiation particles, which imparts fountain of youth qualities which the Federation and the Son'a wish to harvest. However, harvesting the particles would cause the planet to become uninhabitable, hence the need for the holo-ship.

Against orders, Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew return to the planet surface to prevent the relocation of the Ba'ku. When Picard is captured by the Son'a and Federation, he reveals to the Federation admiral that the Son'a are actually Ba'ku who were exiled from the planet 100 years ago and are simply out for revenge.

Notes/Trivia

• Music was scored by Jerry Goldsmith.
• The movie's filming locations included the Sierra Nevada. Specific filming locations were Convict Lake near Mammoth Lakes, California and Lake Sabrina.

External links

• Official Star Trek: Insurrection web page
• Star Trek: Insurrection at the Internet Movie Database
• Star Trek: Insurrection article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki