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Line 38: * [[Hidden Elf Village]]: The Ba'ku's planet. * [[Human Alien]]: The Ba'ku, they look exactly like humans. * [[Hypocrite]]: The Ba'ku's clothing looks nice for a race that doesn't believe in technology like a loom. Their crops benefit from an irrigation system, and that stone dam with a wheel and chain system can't possibly be technology. Also note that they don't seem all that ungrateful of being saved my medical technology when crushed by rocks. They're tools that need to be operated by hand, not machines. Big difference. * Not really. Especially the thing by the dam with the wheel and chain system. Any tool of sufficient complicated nature is technology. Heck, depending on one's definition, a ''hammer'' can be considered technology. If the Baku meant "fully automated machines" they could have been more clear. Irrigation is typically considered technology, as is a dam. * In fact, the wheel, inclined plane, wedge, screw and lever are all what are typically known as "Simple Machines," the basis of all more complex devices. A truly machine-free society would be more primitive than a stone-age society, with no tools. It's ironic that Picard protests the relocation of the Ba'ku by... staging a relocation of the Ba'ku. *** [[Fridge Brilliance\|Well, after that, what reason does]] [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero\|Ru'afo have to continue trying to capture the population?]] * [[Immortality Begins At Twenty]]: The magic radiation takes some time to have its full effect allowing children to age normally. * [[Invisibility Cloak]]: In the opening scene Data runs around cloaked while being chased by several cloaked away team members. Then later they find a cloaked ship hidden in a lake. * [[Jerkass Has a Point]]: In their argument, Admiral Dougherty actually makes a valid point that Picard seemingly ignores. {{quote\|'''Dougherty''': They are not indigenous to this world, they were ''never'' meant to be ''immortal!''}} ** Except that it's none of his business what they were "meant" to be. Who, exactly, made Dougherty the arbiter of who was meant to be immortal? So no, the jerkass does not have a point... [[Take That\|and neither does Dougherty, So'na fanboys]]. * [[Love Transcends Spacetime]]: Anij's ability to slow down time seems linked to how romantic it makes the moment. * [[Ludd Was Right]]: The Federation are portrayed as the villains, using their advanced technology to bully peaceful agrarian settlers. [[Atop the Fourth Wall\|Linkara]] stated that this was one of his least favorite Star Trek films because of this trope, as it was a blatant contradiction to Gene Roddenberry's original intent of embracing technology. * [[The Magnificent Seven Samurai]]: Complete with "Seven to beam up." Hmm.... * [[Machine Empathy]]: Picard detects that the ship's torque sensors are ''slightly'' out of alignment just because "they don't sound right." Line 75 ⟶ 69: * [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler\|When Admiral Dougherty develops a sense of morality, Ru'afo kills him.}} * [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: The Ba'ku have discovered a planet with amazing healing/rejuvenating powers, which would surely help billions more, but keep it to themselves because... they believe a life without technology is better? ** Yes. Yes they do. And they don't "keep it to themselves", they just live there. They have no obligation to run around the galaxy going "HEY, MOVE TO OUR PLANET!" * [[Series Continuity Error]]: Troi saying she's never kissed Riker while he had a beard. Number of times this happened in the series: ''four''. You'd think at least Frakes (who was also directing, remember) or Sirtis would point this out. * [[Space Amish]]: the Ba'ku. * [[Theme Tune Cameo]]{{context}} * [[The Needs of the Many]]: The last tropes you'd expect to be subverted in Star Trek. Picard chosing to help 600 Ba'ku when the technology studying the planet would bring could save literally billions. ** Especially since this was taking place at around the same time as [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine\|The Dominion War,]] where such advanced medical technology would have been especially useful in the war that the Federation ''was losing.'' * [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: Not while [[Patrick Stewart Speech\|Picard yet breathes]], it doesn't! ** The tagline was ''The Battle For Paradise''. * [[Villainy-Free Villain]]: With the sole exception of {{spoiler\|killing Admiral Dougherty,}} Ru'afo really doesn't do ''anything'' but [[Wangst\|complain and moan]] throughout the movie. {{reflist}} {{Star Trek Franchise}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Science Fiction Films]] [[Category:Films of the 1990s]] [[Category:Hugo Award]] ~~[[Category:Star Trek: Insurrection]]~~ [[Category:Film]] [[Category:Star Trek]]