Star Trek Insurrection is a 1998 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the ninth feature film in the Star Trek film franchise, and is the third film in the series to star the cast of the television series Star Trek The Next Generation. In addition to that cast, F. Murray Abraham, Donna Murphy and Anthony Zerbe also appeared in main roles. The crew of the USS EnterpriseE rebel against Starfleet after they discover a conspiracy with a species known as the Sona to steal the peaceful Bakus planet for its rejuvenating properties.
Lieutenant Commander Data Brent Spiner is temporarily transferred to an undercover mission observing the peaceful Baku people. While on their planet, he malfunctions and reveals the presence of the joint FederationSona task force observing the Baku. Admiral Matthew Dougherty Anthony Zerbe contacts the USS EnterpriseE to obtain Datas schematics but adamantly states the presence of the Enterprise is not needed. Captain Picard decides to ignore these orders and takes the Enterprise to capture Data. After stopping Data, Captain JeanLuc Picard Patrick Stewart becomes suspicious of Doughertys insistence that the Enterprise is no longer needed. His crew investigates the cause of Datas malfunction. They discover that the Baku are technologically advanced, but have rejected its use to live simpler lives. Due to unique radiation or metaphasic particles emanating from their planets rings, they are effectively immortal. Doughertys allies, the Sona, are a decrepit race who use medical techniques to prevent death their excessive use of cosmetic surgery gives them a mummified appearance. The Enterprise crew also begin to experience the rejuvenation effects of the planet Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge LeVar Burton finds his eyes have regenerated and he no longer requires ocular implants Commander William Riker Jonathan Frakes and Counselor Deanna Troi Marina Sirtis rekindle their longabandoned relationship and Picard develops a romantic relationship with the Baku woman Anij Donna Murphy.Data and Picard discover a submerged and cloaked Federation ship containing a gigantic holodeck set up to recreate the Baku village. Datas malfunction stems from a Sona attack, received when he discovered the vessel. Picard confronts Dougherty and learns that top Federation officers and the Sona secretly planned to deceptively move the Baku to the ship and forcibly relocate them to another planet, allowing the Sona to collect the rejuvenating radiation but poisoning the planet in the process. Doughe
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