Star Trek: Insurrection: Difference between revisions

* [[Black and White Morality]]: Geordi uses this idea to describe the thought processes going through Data's head after having [[Techno Babble|his memory engrams damaged by a phaser blast]]. Which comes across as frightening when one considers that Data attacked Picard and Worf's shuttle, believing Starfleet personnel to be someone who would take advantage of his memory loss. It sets up a [[Black and Gray Morality]] theme for the whole movie ([[The Federation]] attempting to advance medical technology through the harm of the Ba'ku vs. {{spoiler|the Son'a, mostly Ru'afo, seeking revenge on the parents who exiled them from home}}) with the crew of the ''Enterprise'' as the only people trying to settle things reasonably. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|It also sets up how easily music can distract Data after experiencing his equivalent to a concussion.]]

* [[Character Shilling]]: The movie has the crew go on and on about how perfect and wonderful the Ba'ku and their society are, right down to the movie's tagline being "The battle for paradise has begun".

** It's also ''very'' similar to an episode of ''The Next Generation'' where Picard's stance on the exact same situation was the [[Broken Aesop|exact opposite]], although one can argue the strategic and scientific value of Ba'ku is a sufficient difference to change his mind.

*** The script has been accused of being racist in tone: the group who Picard was perfectly willing to deport were [[Ambiguously Brown]] while the Ba'ku are lily white yet they get to keep their planet. Many fans don't like turning one of the most peaceful and enlightened captains in [[Star Trek]] into a racist.

*** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

{{quote| '''Commander Riker''': We're through running from these ''bastards''!}}

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: The Ba'ku.

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