Star Trek: Insurrection
Writer: Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman, Michael Piller
Directors: Jonathan Frakes
Release: December 10, 1998
Tagline(s): Meet the new face of evil.
The battle for paradise has begun.
Eternity awaits beyond the final frontier.
The ultimate battle between good and evil begins.
The future of the galaxy, and the survival of a race, depend on an act of rebellion.
Producer: Rick Berman
Co-Producer: Peter Lauritson, Michael Piller
Executive Producer: Martin Hornstein
Associate Producer: Patrick Stewart
Stars/Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis
Music by: Jerry Goldsmith
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Adventure, Thriller
ID: tt0120844
Rating: PG
Runtime: 103 minutes
Based On: Based Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Synopsis: When the crew of the Enterprise learn of a Federation conspiracy against the inhabitants of a unique planet, Captain Picard begins an open rebellion.
Declassified by Agent Palmer: Palmer’s Trek: Star Trek: Insurrection
Quotes and Lines
PICARD: Oh, so they need us to put out one more brush fire. Can anyone remember when we used to be explorers?
LAFORGE: Tell him we’ve received a communiqué from Admiral Dougherty. It’s about Data.
PICARD: Mister Worf, do you know Gilbert and Sullivan?
WORF: No sir. I have not had a chance to meet all the new crewmembers since I have been back.
PICARD: They’re composers, Worf, …from the nineteenth century.
SOJEF: Our technological abilities are not apparent because we have chosen not to employ them in our daily lives. We believe when you create a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man.
ANIJ: But at one time, we explored the galaxy just as you do.
PICARD: You have warp capability?
ANIJ: Capability, yes. But where can warp drive take us, except away from here?
PICARD: I …apologise for our intrusion.
DATA: They fixed me. …Captain, the boy is afraid of me.
PICARD: It is nothing personal, Data. You have to remember these people have rejected technology.
DATA: I am the personification of everything they have rejected.
PICARD: Until this week, that young man probably never saw a machine, let alone one that walks and talks.
ANIJ: We’ve always known that to survive, we had to remain apart. It hasn’t been easy. Many of the young people want to know more about the offland. …They’re attracted to stories of a faster pace of life.
PICARD: Most of my people who live that faster life would sell their souls to slow it down.
ANIJ: But not you?
PICARD: There are days!
ANIJ: You don’t live up to your reputation as an offlander, Picard.
PICARD: Well, in defence of offlanders, there are many more people like me.
ANIJ: Who wouldn’t be tempted by the promise of perpetual youth? …I don’t think so.
PICARD: You give me more credit than I deserve. Well, of course, I’m tempted. Who wouldn’t be? …But some of the darkest chapters in the history of my world involve the forced relocation of a small group of people to satisfy the demands of a large one. I’d hoped we had learned from our mistakes, but …it seems that some of us haven’t.
ANIJ: More questions. Always the explorer. …If you stay long enough, that’ll change.
PICARD: Will it?
ANIJ: You stop reviewing what happened yesterday, …stop planning for tomorrow. …Let me ask you a question. …Have you ever experienced a perfect moment in time?
PICARD: A perfect moment?
ANIJ: When time seemed to stop …and you could almost live in that moment.
PICARD: Seeing my home planet from space for the first time.
ANIJ: Exactly. Nothing more complicated than perception. …You explore the universe. We have discovered that a single moment in time can be a universe in itself, …full of powerful forces. …Most people aren’t aware enough of the now to even notice.
PICARD: I wish I could spare a few centuries to learn.
ANIJ: It took us centuries to learn that it doesn’t have to take centuries to learn it.
PICARD: There’s one thing I don’t understand. In three hundred years …you never learned to swim!
ANIJ: I just haven’t got around to it yet. …I wonder if you’re aware of the trust you engender, Jean-Luc Picard. In my experience, it’s unusual for…
PICARD: …an offlander?
ANIJ: For someone so young.
DATA: Saddle up. …Lock and load.
GALLATIN: They’re following the kelbonite deposits. Using the interference to block our transporters.
RU’AFO: Recommendations?
DOUGHERTY: Take me down. Let me talk to Picard.
RU’AFO: Talk! We should send down an assault team and take them by force.
DOUGHERTY: That is not an acceptable option. If people get hurt, all the support we have in the Federation…
RU’AFO: Federation support, Federation procedures, Federation rules. …Look in the mirror, Admiral. The Federation is old. In the past twenty-four months, they’ve been challenged by every major power in the Quadrant. The Borg, the Cardassians, the Dominion. They all smell the scent of death on the Federation. That’s why you’ve embraced our offer, because it will give your dear Federation new life. Well, how badly do you want it, Admiral? Because there are hard choices to be made. Now! If the Enterprise gets through with news about their brave Captain’s valiant struggle on behalf of the defenceless Ba’ku, your Federation politicians will waver, your Federation opinion polls will open a public debate, your Federation allies will want their say. …Need I go on?
GALLATIN: There is an alternative to an all-out assault. Isolinear tags would allow our transporters to lock on to them.
RU’AFO: We’d have to tag every one of them. That would take time and we don’t have it. The Enterprise is only nineteen hours from communications range with the Federation.
DOUGHERTY: I’ll order Riker to turn around.
RU’AFO: Picard’s first officer. Do you really believe he’ll listen? My ships are capable of intercepting the Enterprise before it reaches the perimeter. I could send them to …to escort it back, …but Commander Riker might not want to come.
DOUGHERTY: Send your ships.
ARTIM: Do machines ever play?
DATA: Yes, I play the violin …and my chess routines are quite advanced.
ARTIM: No, I mean, have you ever just played …for fun?
DATA: Androids do not have fun.
ARTIM: Look, if you want know what it’s like to be a child, you need to learn to play.
ARTIM: Data! …Don’t forget. You have to have a little fun every day.
RIKER: Good advice.