Picard: How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes wrong?
If memory serves me right, it was Isaac Asimov who stipulated that a good science fiction yarn may require one major suspension of disbelief. In Insurrection's case the leap required is believing that there's a humanoid-friendly planet whose rings emit regenerative powers. Okay, we'll give 'em that one.
The problem here is that the 600 smiley-goofy Luddites who have settled on this planet and created an agrarian utopia are getting in the way of those who'd like to take these powers and spread them around for the greater good. With this in mind, a Starfleet contingent has secretly undertaken to relocate them, over the considerable objections of Picard and company, who stage a you know what.
Which is a fairly entertaining piece of Star Trekian yarn spinning, although the portrayal of the utopian yokels might as well have been lifted from a toddler's picture book.
If I had gone about things in a somewhat less ass backward way, I probably wouldn't have watched the ninth Trek movie before the first eight and I probably wouldn't have watched a TNG movie before tuning in to any of the other TNG movies or TV episodes. But things seemed to stand on their own well enough that I didn't feel like I was wandering in the wilderness too much.
(viewed 04/19/2008)
