Word: sons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...junkie, mostly by prescription; a hedonist, generally by inclination; and a profligate, largely by longing. He wanted to be the naughty boy and the good son both. He carried his collection of police badges with him everywhere, a putative peace officer who loved to disturb the peace. He was afraid of the dark, so he slept in the day, explaining, "I know in the daytime when I go to sleep that it's dark in my room, and I pretend like it's night, but I know it's daytime, and I'm not afraid to fall asleep...
...story sets Picard and the crew of the Enterprise against the grotesque Son'a, a race so ravaged by the effects of age that they must undergo frequent face-lift procedures in order to prevent their skin from sagging off their faces. The Son'a have developed technology to harvest the metaphasic radiation which permeates the Ba'ku planet; this radiation acts as a fountain of youth, giving eternal life to the Ba'ku. Unfortunately, the Son'a's plan to harvest the radiation for their own use will instantaneously destroy the planet...
...course, there are also plenty of shoot-outs between the Enterprise and the Son'a fleet. In traditional Star Trek fashion, though, the movie is about more than a battle between "good" and "bad" guys. Picard repeatedly warns against the historically proven dangers of forcibly relocating a group of people to serve the needs of another race. Moralistically, the one thing missing from this movie is the influence of the non-human, "rational" viewpoint--usually provided by Spock in the old Star Trek series and by the android Data (Brent Spiner) in the Next Generation. In this film, far from...
...McFadden) and all the rest. Frakes also commands strong performances from the non-Enterprise-crew cast members. F. Murray Abraham, winner of an Academy Award for his role as Salieri in Amadeus, is easily the most engaging character in the movie as Ru'afo, the diabolical leader of the Son'a. Two time Tony award winner Donna Murphy, who plays Picard's love-interest, the wise and strong Anij, also carries off her role gracefully...
...effects for granted. Despite these high expectations, the creators of Star Trek: Insurrection still manage to produce some impressive visuals: Data walks around as a head without a body after removing part of his invisibility suit; Worf clubs an attacking drone ship out of the sky; truly evil-looking Son'a spaceships surround the Enterprise with the colorful backdrop of a nebula; and, as usual, the make-up artists have created a variety of strange-looking aliens...