3.5 Stars Year Released: 1998 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 103
minutes Click to Expand Credits:  Well, I can see why all the
geeks on the Internet didn’t like it. This is the first “Star
Trek” date film and they may have some trouble coming up with
their end of that deal. Paramount’s misguided marketing campaign
is trying to sell it as an action movie, but the action scenes
are totally superfluous and the same geniuses didn’t make their
big push until after everyone had seen the superior “Star
Wars:Episode I” trailer. The movie opens with what appears to be
some hippie renaissance fair in Marin County, California, where
the completely human looking settlers are harvesting, preparing
food, making arts and crafts, yadda, yadda, yadda, when a
cloaked individual, Data (Brent Spiner) goes postal, firing on
several other cloacked individuals that are part of a Federation
survey team in cahoots with some decaying, dying race. Cap’n
Picard (Patrick Stewart) comes to stop him, then join him on the
side of the locals.