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Review Summaries
"Combining a "drive out the peaceful, primitive Native Americans" motif with a fountain of youth story, this film has the Next Generation crew rebeling against the Federation in order to honor the Prime Directive. Higher-ups in the Federation have conspired with an alien race known as the Son'a to roust the peaceful and anti-technological Ba'ku from their planet (whose environment turns out to prolong life considerably). Picard and the crew disobey Federation orders and choose to defend the Ba'ku against the disturbance. The story includes escape into and battle in the mountains, further entertaining scenes with Data (including Picard coaxing him into singing "A British Tar" from Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore"), and a love interest for Picard among the Ba'ku named Anij (beguilingly played by Murphy). This ninth Trek movie lacks the sense of real threat of "First Contact" (F. Murray Abraham makes only a so-so villain), but is one of the better of the "bad" odd-numbered features."
David Loftus, Resident Star Trek Scholar
"Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew fight to save a race of people whose environment is going to be destroyed to benefit an evil race of plastic-wrap faced aliens."
steve, Resident Star Trek Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 30% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 40% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- science fiction story
Spying - Investigations
Yes
What is main char. doing?
- unraveling a conspiracy
Technology/$$$$/Info hunt
Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying
- cure/disease
Invasion from human defender POV?
- overt invasion (very visible of monsters/aliens)
War and Invasion
Yes
Major kinds of combat:
- spaceship battles
- laser battles
Part of a series?
- Star Trek
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- navy soldier
- military officer, senior
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- bald
Hair type
- (man) bald
Body type
- very skinny (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- English/British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Robot
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male Alien
Age:
- long-lived adults
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- bald
Hair style
- (man) bald
Body type
- average (man)
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average Intelligence
Physical condition
- physically sick
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Spaceship setting:
- futuristic human warship
A substantial portion of this movie takes place on a non-Earth planetary body:
- inhabited by friendly aliens
- unfriendly aliens
- empty, or nearly empty world
Planet outside our solar system?
Yes
Takes place in spaceship?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Kinds of F/X
- Things that change shape/morph
- exploding spaceships
- exotic alien landscape
Is this movie based on a
- TV show
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