Jon Athey Review of Star Trek: Insurrection

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

I believe that Star Trek: Insurrection was the best of the TNG films

[7/10 · 12 December 1998]

There was much more comedy in this installment. Not since Voyage Home have I laughed so much at a Trek film. There was (lock and loads of) action, more than First Contact. And the chemistry between Picard and Anij was great! Donna Murphy is beautiful! F. Murray Abraham (who I thought was great in Amadeus) plays an excellent protagonist, and when that vein bursts on his forehead in Picard's ready room----really adds to the feeling of his desperate mission. What I didn't like: There was a question as to how Worf happened to be onboard the Enterprise E that was poorly explained. And anybody who has had a beard knows that you cannot easily shave it off with a straight razor without clipping it first. But that's nit-picking. This movie was great and I place it second on the list just after Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and before Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Go see it!