Star Trek IX: Insurrection (1998)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1998
	Director: Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek VIII: First Contact)
	Actors: Patrick Stewart (X-men 1-3), Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Donna Murphy (Spider-Man 2), Anthony Zerbe (The Matrix 2-3)
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: 23.09.2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: When Data (Spiner) is going berserk on a planet under study, Picard (Steward) and the crew of the Enterprise-E come to investigate.
Review: This movie reminded me a lot of the Stargate SG-1 TV-series, showing how much the baseline story has popular in the late 90's: a crew of Terrians exploring new worlds (via spaceships or Stargates) to study them, making alliances (The Federation) within which they have common enemies (The Borg or the Goa'uld). The explorers also sometimes fall in love with inhabitants of the foreign worlds. Insurrection reminds me in particular of the episode Brief Candle (season 1, episode 9, actually produced after the Star Trek movie), in which a small group of people on a foreign planet live happily but only for 100 days. Interestingly, in Insurrection the livespan is on the other extremity of the scale, but the way of life of the inhabitants looks the same.  Aside from this comparison, I would say that the movie follows the spirit of the previous ones and in particular the last one. A lot seems to have happen between the two movies (new enemies, new allies) because of the TV-series running in parallel. Steward is as good as always and the story is interesting, even if limited in ambition.
Rating: 6 /10