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Line 7: {{tropelist}} * [[Adult Child]]: Ru'afo is basically a [[Spoiled Brat]] in a body dying of old age. * [[Badass Boast]]: "We're through running from these bastards." * [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Thanks to centuries of living with eternal youth, the Ba'ku look like catalog models Line 24 ⟶ 25: * [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: {{spoiler\|Dougherty is fine with forcibly relocating the Ba'ku, but draws the line at genocide. So Ru'afo kills him.}} * [[Evil Overlooker]] * [[Fan Sequel]]: The [[Long Runner\|sixty-episode series]] [[~~Hidden Frontier (Fanfic)\|~~Hidden Frontier]] takes place almost entirely in the Briar Patch and explores it extensively beyond Ba'ku, with an (obviously recast) older Artum joining Starfleet after developing a case of wanderlust from meeting Data. ''Many'' jokes can be made about it being superior to the actual movie, the show's shoestring-budget being the punchline. * [[Fan Service]]: Troi and Riker taking a bath together. ** Troi and Dr. Crusher talk about how much firmer their boobs are, using that exact word. The fans weren't exactly happy. Line 36 ⟶ 37: * [[Heel Face Turn]]: Galatin. {{spoiler\|Dougherty tries as well but Ru'afo kills him.}} * [[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." ** {{spoiler\|''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' indicates that Picard was born with a rare genetic condition that gives him supersensitive hearing. Although treated in his youth to ensure that even the slightest of sounds don't cause him pain, it's entirely possible that Picard would retain extremely acute hearing (by most human standards) into adulthood.}} * [[Mundane Utility]]: So its implied that all of the Ba'ku have developed the ability to significantly slow the passage of time. What is stopping them from using this to avoid being tagged by the seeker drones? * [[Nightmare Face]]: The Son'a with that face-stretcher device. Okay, maybe that's not being fair to them; how about {{spoiler\|''[[Cruel and Unusual Death\|Admiral Dougherty with that face-stretcher device.]]''}} Line 64 ⟶ 59: Made [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] since in [[Star Trek Online]] you can use a joystick to pilot your starship, and if you own the exact same model of joystick... On the other hand, this is exactly the job joysticks were created to do. We don't mock real-world fighter pilots for using them. * That's because fighter aircraft is designed with joysticks in mind. In Star Trek, this is the first time we've seen one used. It looks so narmishly out of place. ** Yet, years later, the NX-01 would be piloted by a joystick. I'm not even kidding. * [[Perfect Pacifist People]]: The Ba'ku, whose leader even says "The moment we pick up a weapon, we become one of them." ** Which is actually a nice bit of foreshadowing; the Son'a are just non-pacifist non-luddite Ba'ku. * [[Precision F-Strike]]: After {{spoiler\|detonating}} the warp core to {{spoiler\|neutralize the Son'a's sub-space weapon}}: {{quote\| '''Commander Riker''': We're through running from these ''bastards''!}} * [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: The Ba'ku. ** Which they subvert with the kid...who's twelve. The Ba'ku settle into age stasis [[Immortality Begins At Twenty\|sometime in their mid-20s]]. * [[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}} ~~[[Category:~~{{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~~: Insurrection~~]]