I watched Star Trek: Insurrection. It came out in the middle of December 1998 and my watched movie list says I didn't see it until May 28 1999. It was at Friday Night Movie night and I bet it was on VHS. I didn't care much for it then, I gave it a "yuck" in my one word comment. I wouldn't say that now but it's still not at the top of the ST movies. Some loose faced aliens talk the Federation into screwing over the peaceful inhabidents of some planet. Data, secretly on the planet to observe the people, finds out about a plot to move the people off the planet and take the life regenerating particles out of the planet's rings. It would destroy the planet and even if they move the population they would be condemmed to die. Jean Luc and the gang bust up the plan and save the planet. Riker and Troy get their romantic thing going on again and Data learns how to have fun. Jean Luc falls for a woman who doesn't age. That can't be good. I guess I liked the movie a bit better the second time but it's still not as entertaining to me as some of the earlier films with the original cast.
I put Star Trek: Nemisis on next and I still don't care much for it. It didn't do well at the box office. I saw this one on dvd and not in the theater. Stuart Biard directed this 2002 film. He's mostly an editor and he's only directed two movies before this one: Executive Decision (1996) with Kurt Russel and US Marshals (1998) with Tommy Lee Jones. I liked the later one. In ST:N the Romulan council is taken over by a human clone who heads the Remans. That's the subjugated race that lives on the twin planet to Romulus. Shinzon is a clone of Jean Luc and he needs the captain's blood. All of it or he'll die. An earlier version of Data turns up and when Data blows himself up to save everyone we have a place for him to resurface. There's a lot of running about but I still didn't care for the story very much. The effects are pretty good for the most part. I'm just not going to want to watch it very often. That was also the end of the ST:G crew in movies and a seven year break before 2009's Star Trek which I did like well enough.
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