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RU'AFO: Raise shields. Something Latin. Patrick Stewart was 58 when Insurrection hit theaters, the same age Shatner shot his autohagiographical magnum opus. PICARD (OC): Is this the last group? Gal'na... Ro'tin... SO'NA OFFICER #2: All ship functions are off-line. PICARD: Prepare to enter the atmosphere. DOUGHERTY: Jean-Luc, there are six hundred people down there. PICARD: There are days! I need to speak with Data and Worf down on the planet. DOUGHERTY: Er... Just a few loose ends to tie up. It's strange to see Riker without his beard, especially after the first season. Gene Roddenberry was only 45 when Star Trek … ...That was three hundred and nine years ago. A small village sits under cloudless skies, nestled in the rolling, green hills of an alien planet: home to the Ba'ku. ENSIGN (OC): Captain. Template:Top icon Star Trek: Insurrection is a 1998 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. Star Trek: Insurrection PICARD: 'Just a few loose ends to tie up.' ARTIM: Data! We have the planet. DOUGHERTY (on viewscreen): He's not acknowledging any Starfleet protocols. You will return my men or this alliance will end with the destruction of your ship. (she aims a phaser at the rock fall) Like ...looking through the eyes of childhood again. Now! His bosom should heave and his heart should glow', DATA and PICARD/WORF (on intercom): 'And his fist be ready for a knock-down blow. PICARD: What the hell are you doing here? RIKER: I think I'm having a mid-life crisis. RIKER: They need us to mediate some territorial dispute. DATA: I was in an isolation suit gathering physiometric data on Ba'ku. (Troi has joined Riker at his console and is stroking his shoulder) Let's get him. DOUGHERTY: Order them to surrender, and I promise you won't be court-martialled. And don't tell me it's just because you haven't got around to it yet. But I would ask you to disarm yourselves. RU'AFO: And when we failed, you exiled us to die slowly. What's there to panic about? RIKER: RED ALERT! DATA (on intercom): 'and his heart should glow.' The system is designed to protect him against anyone who might try to take advantage of his memory loss. Do not delay the countdown. I have not had a chance to meet all the new crewmembers since I have been back. DATA: I beg your pardon, sir? TROI: Come in. PICARD: They're composers, Worf, ...from the nineteenth century. They all smell the scent of death on the Federation. How many people does it take, Admiral? We truly appreciate your support. RU'AFO: Stop! Not that we care about... SO'NA COMPUTER VOICE: Separation in thirty seconds. DANIELS: Shields at sixty percent! SOJEF: As you wish. RU'AFO: Deploy the collector. In three hundred years ...you never learned to swim! The Enterprise crewmembers try to shoot them down) I'd hoped we had learned from our mistakes, but ...it seems that some of us haven't. DOUGHERTY (on viewscreen): I know what Data means to Starfleet, Jean-Luc, but our crew is at the mercy of those people on the planet. CRUSHER: Thank you, Data. RIKER: Eject the core. PICARD: How could that be possible? ARTIM: Adapt? PICARD: I'm losing her. ...If you stay long enough, that'll change. ...You explore the universe. PICARD: Say the greeting again. Take a look at this medscan. ...Regulating thermal overload. WORF: Aye sir. PICARD: Mister Worf, destroy that thing. ANIJ: It's been three hundred years since I've seen a bald man. PICARD: Oh, so they need us to put out one more brush fire. FEMALE ENSIGN: Yes sir? ANIJ: Who are they? ...Partners. That might cause another cave-in. Intercept the android. PICARD: Take us into position. An assault would fail. They were never meant to be immortal. (Picard pauses to inspect some beautifully handcrafted quilts) DATA: I'm reading an oxygen-nitrogen flow behind that calcite formation, Captain. ...It's Ru'afo! RU'AFO: After today ...that won't be a problem ...for either of us. CRUSHER: Two life signs, ...one of them is extremely faint. (Data flings a pursuer into a pond) File whatever protest you wish to, Captain. WORF: Scanners are off line! ...It's turned you into a coward. PICARD: Well, in defence of offlanders, there are many more people like me. ...Keep moving! We have a long climb ahead of us. You know what that makes us? TARLAC OFFICER: They must have been locked and secured after we were beamed here. RIKER (OC): Geordi, the Captain would like you to come up here. PICARD: If our first attempt to capture Data fails, I will terminate him. The Son'a and the Ba'ku are the same race. PICARD: A mambo. DATA: Go with Tournel! That's why you've embraced our offer, because it will give your dear Federation new life. RU'AFO: I won't need any more genetic manipulation if our Federation friends will allow us to complete this mission. Deploy the collector. DOUGHERTY: It would take ten years of normal exposure to begin to reverse their condition. WORF: Captain? RIKER: Hold your course. WORF: Doctor Crusher asked to speak to you when you returned. [Ba'ku village hayfield] (Artim emerges from a pile of hay in a field with children playing hide-and-seek) BA'KU CHILD: There he is. WORF (on intercom): We're trying to get to you, sir. Back to your homes. PICARD/RIKER: On screen. (in the village the pursuing survey team scatter market stalls), CURTIS: Base to Commander Data. DATA: 'and his brow should furl. WORF: If we fire a tachyon burst, it may force him to reset his shield harmonics. ANIJ: Right beyond that ridge is where the caves begin. LAFORGE: In a sense, that's all he knew. Playing out more like an extended episode of the Next Generation TV series than anything else, Star Trek: Insurrection is entertaining in areas, but falls flat due to uninteresting characters, a dull script, and weak pacing, and the end result is simply forgettable. DATA: Yes sir. I'm twelve. LAFORGE: The message doesn't say. TARLAC OFFICER: Photon torpedoes. ANIJ: There's an unusual metaphasic radiation coming from the planet's rings. And it only took thirty-seven minutes. Ru'afo must have ordered the attack. (Data climbs onto a dam and opens a sluice gate which begins to drain the lake revealing the holoship) ', PICARD: 'His bosom should heave' We'll use the ionospheric boundary to shake him. RU'AFO: In six hours, every living thing in this system will be dead or dying. WORF: Aye sir. SOJEF: Artim, do you remember where you were on the day of lightning when the artificial lifeform appeared to us? ...We'll be safe there. ...Yes, Admiral. TARLAC OFFICER: I don't know. GALLATIN: It has to be detonated manually. ANIJ: I'm, going with you. Fifty thousand? Don't ask me to explain it. RIKER: Deck ten. DOUGHERTY: The Prime Directive doesn't apply. (an assault team of Son'a soldiers is seen on a nearby ridge) ...Data, this is Captain Picard. (the shock caused leaves Ru'afo swinging from a girder). The other is on fire, requesting assistance. (Picard and Anij are rescued having experienced another altered reality) Piller has left not just Trek fans, but aspiring screenwriters everywhere a great legacy in Fade In: The Making of Star Trek: Insurrection. DOUGHERTY: It's the concentration in the rings that makes the whole damned thing work. ANIJ: I am. It is the ninth feature film in the Star Trek film franchise, and is the third film in the series to star the cast of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. PICARD: I'm not pleading for my life, ...I'm pleading for yours. Sing, Worf, sing! As the Enterprise flies past and Picard is beamed out, Ru'afo is engulfed in the flames before the collector explodes). (the Enterprise veers away at the last second getting off two shots at the Son'a ship), (the countdown reaches 0:09) DATA: And have you noticed how your boobs are firming up? I only know they inject something into the rings that starts a thermolytic reaction. May I, ...may I? RU'AFO: No one hated them more than you, Gal'na. I'll take it from here, Ensign. PICARD: This way! PICARD: 'a dictatorial word.' WORF: We've lost three transport inhibitors. PICARD: We're not going anywhere. I am now operating within normal parameters. TOURNEL: The metaphasic radiation won't begin to affect him until he reaches maturity. ...Slow to one-third. ARTIM: Really? Star Trek Insurrection Script PDF - [1998-02-20] at Script Fly ($) Star Trek Insurrection Script PDF - [Rev 1998-03-12] at Script Fly ($) Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. It was all for the Federation. ANIJ: And you thought it would take centuries to learn. DATA: A child's specifications are never the same from one moment to the next. LAFORGE (on intercom): Tell him we've received a communiqué from Admiral Dougherty. ARTIM: No I want to stay with you. It's the android. STANDS4 LLC, 2021. PICARD and DATA (on intercom): 'or the tang of a tyrant tongue.' There's a gap in the field. We're pulling it like a zipper across space. WORF: Yes, he would. Well, how badly do you want it, Admiral? Why does it have to be this planet? 18 Apr. (Data takes a Son'a disruptor from one of the felled pursuers and fires to expose the control room behind the duck blind) PICARD: Data, what's the last thing that you remember? PICARD: Excuse me. PICARD: Roughly translated, puberty, although for a Klingon that scarcely does it justice. PICARD: You're really going to risk igniting the exhaust? Highly volatile. Take the shuttles and get everyone off the surface tonight. PICARD: I'm not letting go of him. PICARD: Why would they duplicate this village except to deceive the Ba'ku? ...Who would? This is going to end now. RIKER: Patch him through. PICARD: And yet he attacked us. PICARD: Our people have a strict policy of non-interference in other cultures. DATA: Yes, I play the violin ...and my chess routines are quite advanced. PICARD: Perhaps we can lure him away. ...They're attracted to stories of a faster pace of life. DOUGHERTY (on viewscreen): I wish I had better news. (the ship is rocked by another blast) SO'NA OFFICER #1 (on intercom): Bridge to Ahdar Ru'afo. He is ready for simultaneous transport. ...Move it! RU'AFO: Initiate separation protocols. LAFORGE: We won't be able to get a transmission out of here for at least another hour. RU'AFO: Admiral Dougherty will not be joining us for dinner. The Ba'ku need some rest, sir. ANIJ: But at one time, we explored the galaxy just as you do. Then, his fail-safe system was activated. ...There's something in the voice. PICARD: How is it you never married? LAFORGE: I had to reconstruct Data's neural net and replace these. GEORDI: He didn't take it with him. PICARD: Go ahead, Ensign. Set a course to rendezvous with us so you can transfer the crew and equipment on your way out. We believe when you create a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man. PICARD: Number One. How it's turned Ru'afo into a madman. But where can warp drive take us, except away from here? STARFLEET OFFICER #1: Base to Ensign McCauley and Ensign Gilles, please report to area seven and assist the edaphology team. ...And it will destroy the Ba'ku ...just as cultures have been destroyed in every other forced relocation throughout history. ...Hi. ...But these are ...perilous times for the Federation. Insurrection is many things, perhaps too many things. ARTIM: Won't he rust? PICARD: Thank you. PICARD: Decloak the holo-ship and engage a tractor beam. These are my officers, Doctor Crusher, Counselor Troi. DATA: Captain, tracking the watercourse may reveal another exit. They are eating the floral arrangements on the banquet table. PERIM: Two months ago, sir. RIKER: Can I get back to you, Mister Worf? ', DATA: 'His brow with scorn be wrung. DATA: I believe it is safe, sir. WORF: Sir? PICARD: Can you show us? (Picard, Troi, Crusher and an away team beam down into the village. ARTIM: No. PICARD: Make it so. Send the Admiral Data's schematics. GALLATIN: Sir, as the Enterprise left orbit, one of their support craft went down to the surface. LAFORGE: I wouldn't be surprised if history remembers this as the Riker Maneuver. OPENING CREDITS. They have the technology. DOUGHERTY: Ru'afo, why don't you let the Captain and me... PICARD: ...If he doesn't realise something's happening? WORF: The auto-sequencer was damaged by phaser fire! PICARD: How were damaged? ARTIM: Can he breathe under water? We're approaching the planet. PICARD: The Ba'ku. PICARD: Maximum power! RIKER: Do you think when we get away from this metaphasic radiation it'll change the way we feel? PICARD: Is it safe to move her? RU'AFO: On screen. And told the Ba'ku that we were a threat. LAFORGE: His ethical and moral subroutines took over all of his basic functions. ...Are the implants bothering you? DOUGHERTY (on console): You've done a terrific job, Jean-Luc. ...We'll have them rounded up in a day or two. ...A man who denies his own conscience. SO'NA COMPUTER VOICE: Unable to comply. DOUGHERTY: I'm ordering you to the Goren system. A small group of us set off to find a new home, ...a home that would be isolated from the threats of other worlds. Each one looking exactly as they did then. It's an attack upon its very soul. PICARD: Commander Worf and I are working on several tactical plans... WORF: Auto-sequencer realigned. GALLATIN: It doesn't matter where he is. Ru'afo and I have decided to send in an assault team. SO'NA OFFICER #1: Sir, the Federation ship is creating a disruption in our shields. ...I wonder if you're aware of the trust you endanger, Jean-Luc Picard. DATA: But they are in a constant state of growth. ...Have you been in a fight, Mister Worf? ...Don't let go of this moment. WORF: Take cover! FEMALE ENSIGN: Aye sir? DOUGHERTY: I prefer to wait until we can share the benefits with all the people of the Federation. Seven to beam up. My ships are capable of intercepting the Enterprise before it reaches the perimeter. (Worf fires a bazooka-like weapon, an isomagnetic disintegrator, to neutralise the team) RU'AFO: What is that? So the righteous Starfleet Captain finally released you. What's happening? When Data malfunctions while on a survey mission on an isolated planet, the Enterprise comes to aid in his capture but ends up uncovering a disturbing secret that causes the crew to question their loyalty to the Federation. PICARD: No, we're here to ...rescue them. We should send down an assault team and take them by force. ...When Doctor Crusher removed the ocular connections, she found that the cells around my optic nerves had... DATA: Another forty-three reported taken, sir. That'll put us right in the middle of monsoon season. ...Which one were you? RIKER: His future in Starfleet could depend on it. Non-Review Review: Star Trek – Insurrection. WORF: Captain! Transmit it to the ship. WORF: Worf to Picard! Do you find it difficult to adapt? Unknown origin. Any severe mood swings, unusual aggressive tendencies, ...you let me know at once. PICARD: I 'd like our guests to depart as soon as etiquette allows. We've seen how he responds to threats. LAFORGE: Our warp core is acting like a magnet to the tear. GALLATIN: He wouldn't? RIKER: Remind me to lodge a protest. PICARD: Fire! PICARD: He can fly a ship. (Ru'afo strikes Dougherty and hurls him over a railing) DOUGHERTY: Our procedures were in place to protect the planet's population from unnecessary risk. If Picard or any of his people interfere, ...eliminate them. SOJEF: Our technological abilities are not apparent because we have chosen not to employ them in our daily lives. I'm going to launch the injector. RIKER: Yuk? WORF: Aye sir. ...It's time to use the Briar Patch like Br'er Rabbit did. (as they exit the cavern five drones hover and, although some are shot down, Picard and Anij are transported). WORF (on intercom): Bridge to Riker. ...Hold your fire. ANIJ: More questions. RIKER: Why not? This village is a sanctuary of life. RIKER: Our guests have arrived. ...But I have three hundred and eighteen days of shore leave coming and ...I intend to use them. (Picard and Data climb onto a twin-hulled raft, Anij joins them) RIKER: Target their ventral engines and life support. SOJEF: We're not interested in such things. DANIELS: It's Ru'afo's ship. PICARD: Prepare the hostages for transport to the ship. TROI: It's an M-class planet, population three hundred million. ...Rested. 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