History Film / StarTrekInsurrection

* UnwittingPAwn: [[spoiler: Dougherty and Starfleet don't realize they're being used as accessories to a blood feud between the Ba'ku and their prodigal offspring. When a horrified Dougherty learns the truth from Picard, he (futiely) tries to stop it.]]

* SurroundedByIdiots: Ru'afo's reaction to Doughtery's proposal for stopping the ''Enterprise''-E before it exits the Briar Patch and communicates with the Federation Council. Dougherty states that he'll simply order Riker -- i.e. Picard's most loyal and trusted officer and one who's clearly sided with the Captain's insurrection -- to just turn around. An incredulous Ru'afo turns to Gallatin, giving his subordinate a look that ''screams'' 'Can you ''believe'' this moron?!'.

* SurroundedByIdiots: Ru'afo's reaction to Doughtery's proposal for stopping the ''Enterprise''-E to turn back before it exits the Briar Patch and communicates with the Federation Council. Dougherty states that he'll simply order Riker -- i.e. Picard's most loyal and trusted officer and one who's clearly sided with the Captain's insurrection -- to just turn around. An incredulous Ru'afo turns to Gallatin, giving his subordinate a look that ''screams'' 'Can you ''believe'' this moron?!'.

* SurroudedByIdiots: Ru'afo's reaction to Doughtery's proposal for stopping the ''Enterprise''-E to turn back before it exits the Briar Patch and communicates with the Federation Council. Dougherty states that he'll simply order Riker -- i.e. Picard's most loyal and trusted officer and one who's clearly sided with the Captain's insurrection -- to just turn around. An incredulous Ru'afo turns to Gallatin, giving his subordinate a look that ''screams'' 'Can you ''believe'' this moron?!'.

* WhatAnIdiot: Ru'afo's reaction to Doughtery's proposal for stopping the ''Enterprise''-E to turn back before it exits the Briar Patch and communicates with the Federation Council. Dougherty states that he'll simply order Riker -- i.e. Picard's most loyal and trusted officer and one who's clearly sided with the Captain's insurrection -- to turn around. An incredulous Ru'afo turns to Gallatin, giving his subordinate a look that ''screams'' 'Can you ''believe'' this moron?!'.

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Upon being exiled, the Son'a always intended to return and exact vengeance upon the Ba'ku. Their long-term plan, however, didn't take into account the larger geo-politics of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants -- or that the Briar Patch and its region of space might end being claimed by one of said great powers. This forces the Son'a to bargain with the Federation for access to their old stomping grounds, leveraging their methaphasic collector technology against the Federation's own inability to harvest the radiation (to say nothing of their Dominion War-era desperation.]]

* ForgottenPhlebotinum:
** Why is Starfleet committing huge sentient rights violations to gain control of a planet capable of restoring youth, when transporters have been [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E7UnnaturalSelection shown]] -- ''[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E7Rascals twice]]'' -- to be able to restore youth before?
*** It's possible that it's an effect that is extremely hard to duplicate, not to mention that the subject's previous transporter scans needed to be available for it to be applied.
** Instead of transporter tag darts, why not arm your [[AttackDrone attack drones]] with stun beams?
*** The point was still to capture and remove the Ba'ku, and Ru'afo's MotiveDecay hadn't yet progressed to the point that he was fine with a KillEmAll solution.

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Upon being exiled, the Son'a always intended to return and exact vengeance upon the Ba'ku. Their long-term plan, however, didn't take into account the larger geo-politics of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants -- or that the Briar Patch and its region of space might end being claimed by one of said great powers. This forces the Son'a to bargain with the Federation for access to their old stamping grounds, leveraging their methaphasic collector technology and the Federation's own inability to harvest the radiation (to say nothing of their Dominion War-era desperation.]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Upon being exiled, the Son'a always intended to return and exact vengeance upon the Ba'ku. Their long-term plan, however, didn't take into account the larger geo-politis of the Alpha/Beta Quadrant -- or that the Briar Patch and its region of space might end being claimed by one of the great powers. This forces the Son'a to bargain with the Federation for access to their old stamping grounds, leveraging their methaphasic collector technology and the Federation's own inability to harvest the radiation.]]
** The entire film and the exposure of TheConspiracy only happen because [[spoiler: Data follows a group of Ba'ku children into the hills and come across the cloaked Holo-Ship. Even then, events could've played out any number of ways if a Son'a grunt hadn't shot Data in the head and accidentally activated his Ethical Subroutines as a memory fail-safe.]]

** Likewise, [[spoiler:Gallatin, Ru'afo's second-in-command, wants revenge on the Ba'ku just as much as his boss. He's even happy to see them relocated to a world without the rejuvenating metaphasic radiation. But when Ru'afo abandons that intended revenge in favor of parricide, even Gallatin's unnerved]]. Luckily for everyone, Picard picks up on this.

** This receives some follow-up on the surface, when Crusher finally gets to use her tricorder on some Son'a that Worf took out with his bazooka.

* {{Bookeneds}}: 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.

* SpannerInTheWorks: [spoiler: Upon being exiled, the Son'a always inteneded to return and exact vengeance upon the Ba'ku. Their long-term plan, however, didn't take into account that the Briar Patch and its region of space might end being claimed by another major power in that interim -- such as the Federation. This forces the Son'a to bargain for access to their old stamping grounds, leveraging their methaphasic collector technology.]]
** The entire film and exposure of TheConspiracy would not have happened if [[spoiler: Data hadn't followed a group Ba'ku children into the hills and come across the cloaked Holo-Ship. Even then, events could've played out any number of ways if a Son'a grunt hadn't shot Data and activated his Ethical Subroutines as a memory fail-safe.]]

* BaldOfAwesome: Equals Bald of Sexy in this case. Anij strokes Picard's head while noting it's been 300 years since she's seen a bald man.

** Anij wears an extremely deep V-neck wraparound, save for a night scene in a gown that looks suspiciously like lingerie. She also gets a brief SexySoakedShirt moment.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The Ba'ku. Which they subvert with the kid ... who's twelve. The Ba'ku settle into age stasis [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty sometime in their mid-20s]]. (It's left unexplained why Anij, among others, looks almost 40, but possibly to avoid the squick factor of Picard having a love interest 1/3 his age.)

* BatterUp: Worf uses the stock of his phaser rifle to swat a Son'a transporter drone out of the air.
-->'''Worf:''' Definitely feeling aggressive tendencies, sir!

* BatterUp: Worf uses the stock of his phaser rifle to swat a Son'a transporter probe out of the air.

* HollywoodDrowning: When Picard throws Anij out of the cloaked ship to protect her from enemy fire. By the time the fight is over and he discovers her struggling in the water, she still manages to yell, "Help! I can't swim!"

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