Okay, so just two more to go and then it's time to finally write my review for the reboot so that I'll be all set for Into Darkness. So let's take a look at Star Trek IX: Insurrection.
Plot: The film starts off at a planet were a village of Ba'ku people are suddenly encountered by a malfunctioning Data who reveals the hidden presence of a Federation and Son'a task force who have been spying on the Ba'ku. Admiral Dougherty orders The Enterprise to try to find Data and find out what's wrong with him. But as they do so, Picard and his crew begin to realize that there's a radiation in the planet that makes the Ba'ku immortal, regenerates La Forge's eyes so he doesn't need implants, and...somehow causes Riker and Troi to begin to rekindle their long-abandoned relationship.
Okay, I think the way to say to start explaining this is that it's kind of a enjoyed it anyway despite it's flaws like Generations, but this time there's flaws that I really can't overlook. You see the flaws in Generations (for those of you who haven't read my review for that) were pretty silly, but were at the same time amusing so I for one can overlook them. But in this case, there we some that were weird in a not-so-great to bad way like how Riker and Troi kind of got back together, and then there are issues a little more serious like how this film seemed to contradict quite a few things from the show. Some of them I noticed for myself, but if you watch The Nostalgia Critic's review for this movie, his brother especially points out a lot of holes in a lot of what anyone says (Picard primarily) that contradicts certain points from the show. From what The Nostalgia Critic and his brother points out, this pissed off a lot of fans to the point where his brother considers this film worse then even The Motion Picture and The Final Frontier. I personally wouldn't go that far, but whatever flaws those two films had, they at least were true to their characters and their beliefs (for the most part). But this isn't entirely the case with this film so while I wouldn't go as far as being the worst, these facts do effect it a lot. Even that aside, looking back at the film, it definitely wasn't their best. Similar to how The Motion Picture turned out, the plot turned out to be roughly similar to other plots from other episodes such as "The Pegasus" and "Journery's End", the action wasn't all that great, and the character Anij was a little bland and did have some sort of ability that they didn't really go much into it as they probably should have.
And that's my review for Star Trek IX: Insurrection. It still may have a few things that make it entertaining just the way we like TNG, but otherwise it's more like an extended episode of the show that used some of the same plot as other episodes of the show, contradicted some of the beliefs and one or two other things that the show gave us, and otherwise was just a film that had some plot holes and certain aspects that were just weird.
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