STAR TREK: INSURRECTION (1998) MOVIE NEWS & REVIEW
star trek: insurrection (1998) movieGenre | Science Fiction
Classification | PG
Running time | 103 minutes
Released | 11 December 1998 castPatrick Stewart ... Picard Jonathan Frakes ... Riker Brent Spiner ... Data LeVar Burton ... Geordi Michael Dorn ... Worf Gates McFadden ... Beverly Marina Sirtis ... Troi F. Murray Abraham ... Ru'afo Donna Murphy ... Anij Anthony Zerbe ... Dougherty Gregg Henry ... Gallatin Daniel Hugh Kelly ... Sojef Michael Welch ... Artim directorJonathan Frakes writerGene Roddenberry ... (creator: "Star Trek") Rick Berman ... (story) & Michael Piller ... (story) Michael Piller ... (screenplay) cinematographerMatthew F. Leonetti ... director of photography musicJerry Goldsmith film editorPeter E. Berger box office resultWorldwide $112,587,658
Australia $ not available
North America $70,187,658 movie minutiaeSir Patrick Stewart wanted his life-long friend Brian Blessed to play Admiral Dougherty. Blessed did over eight hundred hours of astronaut training at Star City in Russia, and remains the number one civilian on the wait list for the International Space Station.
According to a leaked manuscript, "Fade In: The Writing of Star Trek: Insurrection" (written by Michael Piller years before his death, and never released because of studio concerns about the content of said manuscript), initial concepts for this movie were far removed from the final product. The first treatment (called "Star Trek: Stardust") involved Picard and a fellow cadet named Hugh Duffy (who were friends at Starfleet Academy) meeting up after almost three decades because of different circumstances. Duffy has become a renegade who has tried to provoke a war between the Federation and the Romulan Empire, and Picard must travel to the Neutral Zone to bring him back. Picard eventually finds Duffy and risks his career to help the other officer thwart a plan by the Romulans to take over a planet housing "the fountain of youth". At the end, Picard gets arrested (and stripped of his rank) by Starfleet due to his actions during this movie. The plot was similar to Heart of Darkness, and featured numerous references to various episodes of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987).
This is the first of only two "Star Trek" movies not to feature any scenes on or near Earth. The second being STAR TREK BEYOND (2016). related movies |
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