Star Trek: The Uprising
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| German title | Star Trek: The Uprising | ||
| Original title | Star Trek: Insurrection | ||
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| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1998 | ||
| length | 103 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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| Director | Jonathan Frakes | ||
| script | Michael Piller | ||
| production | Rick Berman | ||
| music | Jerry Goldsmith | ||
| camera | Matthew F. Leonetti | ||
| cut | Peter E. Berger | ||
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Star Trek: The Insurrection (Original Title: Star Trek: Insurrection ) is the ninth Star Trek movie and the third based on the television series Starship Enterprise: The Next Century . As before with Star Trek: The First Contact was Jonathan Frakes , who starred in William T. Riker, who directed the film. The film opened in German cinemas on December 31, 1998.
action
During a diplomatic mission, the Enterprise-E received a message that Lt. Commander Data apparently attacked and exposed a camouflaged Federation observation post in a rampage . The observation base was operated jointly with the Son'a people , was located on the Ba'ku homeworld , a planet in a region of strange cosmic phenomena known as the Briar Patch . The Ba'ku are apparently a “pre- warp civilization” that operates a pure agricultural culture , but has highly developed cognitive and motor skills. In addition, your planet has a special property: The radiation from the surrounding planetary rings causes permanent cell regeneration in the inhabitants and thus a practically infinite life.
The senior officer, Admiral Matthew Dougherty, requests Data's blueprints, but Captain Picard wants to find out for himself what happened to Data. The Enterprise crew finally succeeds in capturing data and restoring its original functions. Together they try to find out what caused his irrational behavior. You will find a camouflaged spaceship in a reservoir , in which a holographic simulation of the Ba'ku village is set up. They also find out that there is a conspiracy between parts of Starfleet and the leaders of the Son'a. The Son'a are a dying people who have previously been involved in many illegal activities such as arms trafficking with the Dominion . Together with the Starfleet they are trying to relocate the Ba'ku people, which consists of approx. 600 people, to another planet without their knowledge or consent in order to be able to use the regenerative properties of the Ba'ku homeworld for the convalescence of their race .
During their stay, the Enterprise crew noticed the special characteristics of the planet, for example Geordi La Forge's eyes regenerated , Worf entered the Klingon puberty, the Jak'tahla, and Picard was noticeably slimmer. The love between Cmd also flames . Riker and Deanna Troi up again. It turns out that the peaceful and simple living Ba'ku made a conscious choice to live with nature and against the development of advanced technologies that they once possessed. Picard: “You have the warp drive?” Answer: “Yes, but where would it take us? But only get away from here. ”Against Admiral Dougherty's order, the rebellious Enterprise crew around Picard begins evacuating the Ba'ku village in order to sabotage the kidnapping. At the same time, Riker sets out with the Enterprise to contact the Federation Council and prevent the project.
Picard is captured in a skirmish against Son'a drones and discovers that the Son'a are actually renegade Ba'ku. They left their home planet a long time ago when their race broke away from their superior technology and settled on the planet in the Briar Patch . Some Son'a were born on their new home planet, while others are still members of the original "refugees".
Meanwhile, Riker manages to warn the Federation, but loses the warp core in a battle against two heavily armed Son'a cruisers and, after innovative removal of the ship, has to make the slow way back to Picard and the crew.
At the same time, Picard discovers an injector in the orbit of the planet with which the Son'a want to "harvest" the regenerative radiation of the planet, but in the process poison its atmosphere. The captain manages to beam the Son'a around their nefarious leader Adhar Ru'afo into a simulation of their own ship without their knowledge, which runs in the holo spaceship that was originally intended for the Ba'ku and is now in the Space was promoted.
Picard can stop the start of the injector, but not Ru'afo, who beams himself from the holoship onto the injector and starts the countdown again manually. Picard follows him, and a fight ensues that he can win; however, the automatic self-destruction is activated. At the last moment Picard is rescued by the Enterprise , which returned in time , while Ru'afo goes down with his injector.
Thanks to the intervention of the crew of the Enterprise , the conspiracy can be uncovered and the abduction of the Ba'ku finally stopped. The Son'a return to the bosom of their original society.
Background and miscellaneous
- After the very successful action film Star Trek: The First Contact , Star Trek: The Uprising was more of a quiet episode in the history of Star Trek films. Planned under the working title "Prime Directive", it was a medium box office success with revenues of around $ 117 million versus production costs of $ 70 million.
- For the theatrical version, several scenes fell victim to the scissors. These are included on the special edition DVD of the film. These are the following scenes:
- Several shots with the barman Quark from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine played by Armin Shimerman are missing.
- The scenes with Riker and Troi in the ship's library are longer. The way they both continue to tease and throw paper balls at each other is missing. After they have been admonished by the librarian about this, a crew member who is also present also joins in and throws them both. The cast of the crew member from the planet Trill is Max Grodénchik , the cast of Ferengi Rom from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .
- The scene with Picard and Anij at the waterfall is longer as well. A subsequent kissing scene between the two is missing here. Picard actor Patrick Stewart was a bit cold about the removal of this scene and said in an interview that he was a good kisser, but that nobody could see it now.
- There was an alternative ending to the showdown between Picard and Ru'afo. Ru'afo fights his way up to injector control and drives Picard away. As he is about to restart the machinery, Picard triumphantly shows him a distant fuse. Picard is standing on a platform, which then moves back. The now ineffective injector is started and Ru'afo is shot with the projectile into the planetary rings. You can see how Ru'afo gets younger and younger through the power of the rings and finally crumbles into nothing. This was only realized in the novel.
- Many of the Enterprise E interior sets were variations on interior decorations from the Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager series . For the Son'a holding cell was a Voyager -Frachtraum, for the library of Voyager "The yacht the captain", which is flown mainly by Data -Maschinenraum and a Voyager used -Shuttle.
- Counselor Troi's office is also from the Voyager set , where it serves as Captain Janeway's ready room .
- The Enterprise E's infirmary is the same as that of Voyager .
- The set of the beauty operating room on the Son'a ship was seen again in the series Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager . In the episode 4x23 Living Witness (The Contemporary Witness) it served as a Kyrian museum.
- The interior set of Picard and Worf's shuttle was a modified runabout from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .
- It is the first Star Trek film that is not set in places on or around the world. It is also the first film in the series whose space scenes were created entirely on the computer.
- Matthew Dougherty actor Anthony Zerbe died nine years earlier, a similar film death as in Star Trek IX . In the James Bond thriller License to Kill , his head bursts in a decompression chamber while this time he is lifted to death.
- Ru'afo's henchman Gallatin was named after the hometown of Star Trek author Brannon Braga , Gallatin County, Montana .
- The scenes in which Data walks into the lake were shot on Convict Lake north of Mount Morrison in the Sherwin Range in California.
- While Captain Picard and Worf kidnap Data's spaceship, they distract it by singing the song "A british tar" from the operetta HMS Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan .
Reviews
"The ninth 'Star Trek' cinema adventure again draws on the rather noble humanistic sentiment of the series, but drama stumbles on the modest level of an average television episode."
“After the great, gloomy 8th film, Frakes also directed the 9th Star Trek Adventure, which unfortunately couldn't convince in terms of content or narrative. The apparently moral question is poorly worked out, the reason for the mutiny of the Enterprise crew is rather questionable. "
Roger Ebert noted in his December 11, 1998 review in the Chicago Sun-Times that the ethical conflicts in this film about the relocation of the 600 inhabitants of the Ba'ku planet were not elaborated in sufficient depth. Above all, he cannot see why the interests of the residents - who were originally not even supposed to be killed - should be rated higher than the possibility of the advantages of regenerative radiation - which would ultimately mean eternal life - for millions of people usable throughout the Federation. He calls the film unconvincing and gave it 2 out of 4 stars.
Andrew O'Hehir wrote for Salon.com that viewers unfamiliar with the Star Trek universe will find the film trivial and unexciting, while fans will enjoy it.
Denis Hoffmann, on the other hand, was much more benevolent in his review for Zelluloid.de:
“ Jonathan Frakes has already proven with 'Der Erste Kontakt' that he has a lucky hand as a director. His second mission can also be described as a success. He turned 'Der Aufstand' into a very entertaining film that offers both great special effects and solid action. "
Awards and nominations
Web links
- Star Trek: Insurrection in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Star Trek: The Uprising in the Online Movie Database
- Star Trek: Insurrection atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Star Trek: The Uprising in the Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha
- Review by Roger Ebert at rogerebert.com (engl.)
- Criticism from Star Trek Hypertext (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Star Trek: The Uprising. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Oliver Lysiak: Star Trek IX - The uprising on moviepilot.de
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert
- ↑ Review by Andrew O'Hehir
- ↑ Denis Hoffman: Star Trek The Uprising. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on May 1, 2017 ; accessed on August 22, 2018 .
