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* [[Creator's Pet]]: The Bak'u.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QigWNr2bS0k theme] for the [[Big Bad|Son'a]] is just ''grand''.
* [[Deader Than Disco]]: When it was first released, it had pretty positive reviews, with some reviewers even saying that it broke the "Trek movie curse" (even-numbered movies good, odd-numbered bad). But as time passed, [[
* [[Draco In Leather Pants]]: The "sympathetic" Son'a... y'know, the guys who have enslaved at least two civilizations, want to destroy a planet at least partly out of petty spite, murder casually and without remorse...
* [[Fan Dumb]]: Many of the Son'a's fanclub attempt to use the Star Trek phrase "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" to justify the oppression of the Bak'u and the attempted destruction of their culture. Nevermind that this has been the excuse for every single mass land theft and forced relocation in history, which Picard specifically calls out in the movie itself. But hey, healthcare! Need it gotta have it kill anyone who stands in the way!
* [[Growing the Beard]]: An extremely fitting inversion, as the very beard that inspired the phrase is shaved off right around the point that the entire franchise started to decline.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Brent Spiner wanted Data killed off, but was overruled. Reportedly, his script came with a note reading "Better luck next time." [[Star Trek: Nemesis|Well...]]
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* [[Narm]]: Riker steering the ''Enterprise'' with an obviously [[Off-the-Shelf FX|off-the-shelf joystick]].
** Troi and Crusher's girly girl exclamations about how their boobs are no longer sagging.
* [[Ron the Death Eater]]: The relentless villainization of the Bak'u by the fandom, and by association Picard and the rest of the crew. This extends to both inventing things (the idea that the Bak'u were "refusing to share 'their' planet", while the opposite is stated in the movie) and to shouting over or deleting corrections and pointing out scenes from the movie that contradict painting the Ba'ku as mustache-twirling healthcare thieves.
** It's odd that the idea of a large, powerful military force declaring it owns whatever it wants and is going to drive out any pathetic low-tech savages who don't really appreciate it is apparently ''good'' when you toss the concept of "healthcare" into the mix, considering that such an idea would normally be abhorrent to ''Star Trek'' audiences.
* [[Special Effect Failure]]: ILM didn't come back for this film (in part due to being busy on ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'', though Rick Berman said at the time that he wouldn't have hired them anyway, since he felt other FX houses could provide the same quality for cheaper) and the quality of visual effects suffered a major drop as a result. The effects aren't ''terrible'' for the most part, but they were considerably behind even what other film were doing with CGI in 1998.
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