History Film / StarTrekInsurrection

*** Why can't the villains just take the resources without bothering the Ba'ku at all, considering their numbers are miniscule and they occupy only a tiny are of land in the first place?

** The fact that the Ba'ku planet is a ''planet'' at all makes the logic of the story very tenuous:

*** Why can't the villains just take the resources without bothering the Ba'ku at all?
*** What possible claim could the Ba'ku have to the whole world when they are only the size of a small village?

* CoolButInefficient: Worf's Giant Purple Space Bazooka equals about the power of one modern hand grenade. Bear in mind that hand phasers have been seen to be capable of taking the sides off cliffs and is compact enough to attach to a belt and you start to see the problem here.

** In addition to the acknowledgments of the Dominion War, there's also a subtle Worf-centric acknowledgment of the events of [=DS9=]'s [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E21SoldiersOfTheEmpire "Soldiers of the Empire"]] (which premiered after ''First Contact''). Worf's bladric now bears the crest of the House of the Martok rather than the now-defunct House of Mogh.

* PlotInducedStupidity: The mystery plot depends on the discovery of the Holoship in a nearby lake, even though they could have parked it in orbit without the Ba'ku or Data (plus whatever other Starfleet crew weren't in on it) ever discovering it.

* ContinuityOverlap: The film was released during Season 7 of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' and Season 5 of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. Only the former is acknowledged through nods to Worf's relocation to [=DS=]9, the then-ongoing Dominion War, and Doughterty wearing the new post-''First Contact'' Starfleet Admiral's Uniform (which had debuted on [=DS9=] the previous year).
** In addition to the acknowledments of the Dominion War, there's a subtle Worf-centric acknowledgment of the events of [=DS9=]'s [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E21SoldiersOfTheEmpire "Soldiers of the Empire"]] (which premiered after ''First Contact''). Worf's bladric now bears the crest of the House of the Martok rather than the now-defunct House of Mogh.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[CoversAlwaysLie Actually NOT]] a movie about the ''Enterprise'' fighting a [[FloatingHeadSyndrome giant ghost face in space]].[[note]][[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Where_Silence_Has_Lease_%28episode%29 Anyway, they already have.]][[/note]]]]

*** [[spoiler: Gallatin being part of the Son'a contingent of the Duck Blind mission also ends up ultimately derailing the conspiracy. Before the mission, Gallatin was just as dedicated to achiving the Son'a's longtime goals of revenge against their elders. But spending time among the Ba'ku -- among the people he once knew, loved, and called friends -- as a 'prisoner' leaves Gallatin feeling conflicted. This conflict slowly grows over the course of the film (and in direct contrast to Ru'afo slowly going more and more off the deep end). Picard, seeing the internal conflict after being capturde, successfully persuades Gallatin to switch sides.]]

** Not to mention that their stifling way of life in itself is what causes the danger of their extinction as it led to the Son'a's rebelling and exile, umable to maintain stable relations or protect themselves from their own offspring. They couldn't even protect their society from themselves! So it was an unstable situation to begin with.

* ManOnFire: Some poor schmuck in Engineering during the battle. Fortunately, Geordi and his fire extinguisher save him from going the full {{Redshirt}} route.

** As per Starfleet's conditions for the alliance, the Sona' won't being harvesting the metaphasic radiation from the rings while the planet is still inhabited. Picard and his senior officers work to ensure the Ba'ku ''remain'' on the planet (and to also buy time for Riker to make it out of the Briar Patch and signal the Federation Council). It eventually gets subverted, though, after Ru'afo decides to just launch the procedure even while the bulk of the Ba'ku are still on world. [[spoiler: Justified, given his temper, mental instability, and personal hatred of his own people.]]

** How Worf's involvement in this film is explained compared to the previous one. He just so happens to be away from [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space 9]] on matters involving the Manzar colony, but is interrupted before he can explain further. Later, Picard makes a formal request for Worf to join them on their mission rather than return to [=DS9=], but what function Worf provides that any current crew member couldn't isn't really made clear.

* LoopholeAbuse: Because the Ba'ku are warp-capable and not native to their planet, Dougherty and his superiors decided the Prime Directive doesn't apply, giving them carte blanche to relocate them.

*** Building on this is, the ''Enterprise'' only becomes involved because [[spoiler: Dougherty requested Data's tech specs. He expected Geordi would transmit them and he and the Son'a could try and neutralize the android on their own. The Admiral ''didn't'' expect that Picard would instead creatively interpret his orders (to mediate the Goren System dispute) and detour to the Briar Patch to have their own crack at stopping Data.]]
*** [[spoiler: Gallatin being part of the Son'a contingent of the Duck Blind mission also ends up ultimately derailing the conspiracy. Before the mission, Gallatin was just as dedicated to achiving the Son'a's longtime goals of revenge against their elders. But spending time among the Ba'ku -- among the people he once knew, loved, and called friends -- as a 'prisoner' leaves Gallatin conflicted. This conflict grows over the course of the film as Ru'afo slowly goes more nad more off the deep. Picard, seeing the internal conflict after being capture, successfully persuades Gallatin to defect.]]

* SoloMissionBecomesGroupMission: Picard plans to go down to the planet by himself to save the Ba'ku from the Son'a. But his senior officers, including Lt. Commander Worf, catch him and say "no uniform, no orders."

*** Building on this, [[spoiler: Gallatin being part of the Son'a contingent of the Duck Blind mission also ends up ultimately derailing the plan. Before the mission, Gallatin was just as dedicated to achiving the Son'a's goals of revenge against their elders. But spending time among the Ba'ku -- among the people he once knew, loved, and called friends -- as a 'prisoner' leaves Gallatin conflicted. This conflict grows as Ru'afo slowly goes off the deep end and Picard, seeing it, successfully seizes upon those doubts to get Gallatin to defect.]]

* ContinuityOverlap: The film was released during Season 7 of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' and Season 5 of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. Only the former is acknowledged through nods to Worf's relocation to [=DS=]9, the then-ongoing Dominion War, and the new post-''First Contact'' Starfleet Admiral's Uniform (which had debuted the year before with Admiral Ross).

* {{Bookends}}: A Meta one for Michael Piller. He got his start with ''Star Trek'' a decade earlier as the ''Next Generation'' showrunner for Season Threee. So, it's fitting that his ''Trek'' swansong is one more outing with the TNG characters.

* ContinuityOverlap: The film was released during Season 7 of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' and Season 5 of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. Only the former is acknowledged through nods to Worf's relocation to [=DS=]9 and the then-ongoing Dominion War.