Star Trek: Insurrection Review
by Ryker Phillips (ryker AT devo DOT sfasu DOT edu)January 8th, 1999
Star Trek: Insurrection was released to the general populous on December 11 and opened to the tune of 22 million dollars. Star Trek: Insurrection is a great story; especially since the Federation are in the middle of a war with the Dominion. In fact, that is the only reason this movie floats over so well.
If you are not certain about this war, let me briefly tell you about it as it has been portrayed on Deep Space 9. Well, The Dominion are a powerful governing force that came into existence due to a race of shape-shifters that were tired of being persecuted by solids. The shape-shifters are the governing force. Their "senator" types are the Vorte, a race of clones that are impervious to poison and lead the almost-indestructible Jem'hidar, which is the foot soldiers of the Dominion. The Jem'Hidar are born aggressive and addicted to a narcotic called Kitrocyl White. The Cardassians, after getting booted out of the Bajoran system cause of a treaty, losing their intelligent agency due to a preemptive strike on the Dominion, and getting dogged by the Klingons look to the Dominion and form an alliance to conquer the Federation. The war with the Dominion has been going on for about a year and it looks kind-of like a desperate time for the
Federation.
Now onto the movie Star Trek: Insurrection. The story floats because the Federation makes an alliance with the SOna, which are a race that are chiefly responsible for the production of Kitrocyl White in the Alpha Quadrant. Due to the closing of the wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant, they are extremely important to the duration of the Jem'hidar soldiers. The Federation decide to force a relocation on the Baccuu people who live on a planet that has unique metaphasic radiation that rejuvenates humanoids to a younger state of existence and holds them there for as long as they live in that system. As history has told us in the past, forced relocations don';t work very well and lead to tragedy such as the forced relocation of the Cherokee tribe and the subsequent Trail of Tears episode.
Star Trek, in the past, has done a good job of taking a story and making relate to things going on in the present time situations. For example, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country paralleled the breakdown of the Soviet Union in the early 90's. Unlike this situation, I see no relevance to any current situation therefore I do not see a point for this movie to exist. It is a good story and there are quite a few clever and humorous lines. It brings up a lot of good points. Maybe the intention is more a reminder than anything else of what could happen. All in all, I give this a 3 1/2 out of 5.
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"Has it ever occurred to you that the reason you believe the Founders are gods is because that's what they want you to believe? That they built it into your genetic code?"
"Of course they did. That's what gods DO."
Odo and Weyoun-6
Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Episode: Treachery, Faith and the Great River
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