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Star Trek: Insurrection
Mar. 21st, 2011 11:02 amMichael Piller, writer of Insurrection, wrote a manuscript detailing the writing process behind that film before his untimely death. It leaked to the internet, natch, where it makes for an interesting read how a premise about alternately A. Picard coming into conflict with his oldest friend, B. Picard being forced to kill Data, and C. Picard losing faith in his government and actively rebelling against it, became a light and fluffy movie in which Picard and co. fight for six hundred smug Space Amish to live forever while billions of others die. A lot of that seems to stem from Patrick Stewart's rather bizarre insistence on doing away with any emotional conflict for Picard (in the form of a very bizarre metaphor about cricket) in favor of him being a two-dimensional action hero .
Department of Irony: The emotional high point of the movie, Picard killing Data, was done away with, then in the next movie they killed him off in a much less interesting manner. Everyone on the production staff was against the usage of Romulans as the villains, feeling they weren't a fitting follow-up to the Borg; so they came up with a much-feared race of monsters no one had ever heard of before. Then the little-seen flop Star Trek 2009 featured Romulans as the villains. One of the studio notes was asking if Worf could get air-sick while he and Picard pursued Data in a shuttlecraft, and might shout suggestions to Picard while vomiting in the back. That's really only ironic in an Alanis Morrissette way, but I thought you should know.
But, most... actually, I have no idea how to set this up, so I'm just going to block quote.
We’ll explore the emotional, intellectual and sexual benefits of being young. For example, Riker’s libido will get more active and Troi will feel jealous as she sees him soaking buck-naked in a mud bath with two female ensigns. Later, she turns the tables when he sees her soaking in the same mud bath buck-naked with five male ensigns.
If that's what they cut out, then what they left in must be pure gold!
Department of Irony: The emotional high point of the movie, Picard killing Data, was done away with, then in the next movie they killed him off in a much less interesting manner. Everyone on the production staff was against the usage of Romulans as the villains, feeling they weren't a fitting follow-up to the Borg; so they came up with a much-feared race of monsters no one had ever heard of before. Then the little-seen flop Star Trek 2009 featured Romulans as the villains. One of the studio notes was asking if Worf could get air-sick while he and Picard pursued Data in a shuttlecraft, and might shout suggestions to Picard while vomiting in the back. That's really only ironic in an Alanis Morrissette way, but I thought you should know.
But, most... actually, I have no idea how to set this up, so I'm just going to block quote.
We’ll explore the emotional, intellectual and sexual benefits of being young. For example, Riker’s libido will get more active and Troi will feel jealous as she sees him soaking buck-naked in a mud bath with two female ensigns. Later, she turns the tables when he sees her soaking in the same mud bath buck-naked with five male ensigns.
If that's what they cut out, then what they left in must be pure gold!
