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Early tomorrow morning, hundreds of students will wake up, grab breakfast and trek through the slush to sit for a final exam. It is a ritual that will be repeated tens of thousands of times in the next 10 days, as first-years and seniors, Quad and Mather residents alike find out whether those hours of cramming and concentration will...
...other hand, seasoned Star Trek fans will flock to the theaters simply to have another chance to see the Enterprise crew in action. And from that standpoint, the film succeeds. To an audience that knows the TV program well, these are not actors playing roles - they are the characters. We don't see accomplished Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart successfully portraying a science fiction character; we see our old friend, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise...
...addition to the high quality acting, the production as a whole is quite slick. After seeing other science fiction films like Men in Black and Independence Day, we tend to take high powered special 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...
...three Next Generation movies so far, Star Trek: Insurrection stays closest to the spirit of the television program, incorporating themes and plot devices common throughout the Star Trek series. It relies on a storyline with a strong moral dimension--the quality which truly sets Star Trek apart from most other science fiction TV programs and movies. Like the TV series, this movie is also full of nineteenth and twentieth century references: when Data malfunctions, Captain Picard calls him back to reality by singing Gilbert and Sullivan. In the twenty-fourth century universe of Star Trek, such references might seem anachronistic...
...some ways, Star Trek: Insurrection is more like a two-hour TV show than a movie; it seems made for an audience familiar with the characters, and it lacks a certain pizazz which made some of the older Star Trek movies more engrossing and accessible to a broader audience. Even so, it's a better than the average science fiction film Hollywood churns out today--at least it's entertaining and despite its futuristic setting is nevertheless quite relevant...