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| STAR TREK IX: INSURRECTION (1998) - PG
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by Lew Irwin
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Many critics appear to agree that Star Trek may be nearing the end of its trek and that what the producers are offering in Star Trek: Insurrection (No. 9) is mostly warmed-over stuff from previous film and TV episodes. Bob Strauss in the Los Angeles Daily News notes that the plot centers around the fact that "the fabled Federation of Planets is in decline, facing challenges from opportunistic alien forces on all sides." Then Strauss adds: "Is this art following life, or what?" (He notes that the Star Trek TV series now only attract a fraction of the audiences that they once did.) Jay Carr in the Boston Globe remarks that the film goes "comfortably where Star Trek has gone before," but finds nothing much wrong with that. But the problem, writes Tom Maurstad in the Dallas Morning News, is that the film's core fans, its legion of Trekkies, may find it disappointing. "They will have seen plenty of installments of the TV show that were better, richer and deeper than his feature-length film," he writes. |
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