Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

It's like one of those not-quite-favorite episodes from the series that you might enjoy watching again if it happens to air during a marathon, but it comes nowhere near achieving the best that Star Trek can do..."

It's back to boring basics for the Gene Roddenberry franchise.

It's an interesting story, more accessible to non-Trekkers than previous entries.

Genial, well-crafted tribute to the moral values Gene Roddenberry instilled in his sci-fi series, that suffers from a recurring flaw in the franchise, a lack of real threat and danger.

Despite the usual strained stabs at topical social significance, Frakes maintains a brisk pace, staging the battle scenes with panache and undercutting the absurd techno gibberish with crass but leavening humour.

Most of the television episodes have been smarter.

This is really just a pretty good episode of the series, which is not really a bad thing.

Not one of the most successful of the "Star Trek" films, it's always nice to see the cast reunite.