History YMMV / StarTrekInsurrection

** The fight Picard and Ru'afo have in the harvester ship's core has a series of deep blue panels in the background. It's difficult to confirm if they were genuinely meant to be part of the set dressing, or if they were set up for another computer-generated effect that was never completed.

*** Note also, that there wasn't really much that said the Bak'u even had to leave! If you just use the radiation as is, well... you have a very nice medical planet and age treatment facility. Set up a hospital there, you can check about exposure.

* ExecutiveMeddling: A rare case of a positive subversion. One might initially assume that the problems with the plot stem from this, but in actuality, a memo between Paramount executives and the writers has the executives wanting clarification on why Picard is choosing to side with the Bak'u in what they call a "blood feud" that is "nothing more than a gang fight". [[FridgeHorror The executives even point out that, with such a small gene pool, the Bak'u will be extinct from inbreeding in a few generations.]]

* AngstWhatAngst: At the point where Worf is at in his ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' arc, he's just become a widow due to the death of Jadzia Dax and would still be in the grieving process in the subsequent season. The lack of acknowledgement on this was the result of justified ExecutiveMeddling, as the sixth season of [=DS9=] hadn't aired in the UK yet, meaning Jadzia's death would've been a spoiler for international audiences. Still, the fact that Worf does not seem even slightly despondent throughout the film is very odd.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: A lot of people consider the Ba'ku to be [[VillainProtagonist the true villains of the story]]. These people are idiots.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: A lot of people consider the Ba'ku to be [[VillainProtagonist the true villains of the story]].

* UnfortunateImplications: The characters repeatedly refer to the Ba'ku planet as a paradise and the people as perfect. All of the Ba'ku are skinny, have light hair, and are white. Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis even sarcastically point this out in their DVD commentary.

* IdiotPlot: The plot itself breaks down immediately due to the fact that there are only about 600 Ba'ku, [[{{Planetville}} living in a single village]], [[SpaceAmish with no advanced technology]]. This makes the entire plot a glaring case of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale, as it is never explained why the Son'a had not simply taken up regular residence someplace else on the planet decades earlier. There was no indication of how the Ba'ku could have forced them to remain offworld, even if they were not welcome in the community. Likewise, the Federation could have established entire cities elsewhere on the planet, thousands of miles away from the Ba'ku village, without them ever even ''knowing''!
** The concept of using one of the most iconic technologies in Star Trek, the ''Transporter'', to simply beam Data to a secure location once he starts going crazy would have prevented the entire plot from happening.

* JerkassWoobie: Ru'afo.
* MarySueTopia: The Bak'u, who live on a planet with fountain-of-youth powers and espouse a technology-free society. They still use all pre-industrial technology though, making them not as "primitive" as they'd like to claim.

** Anything Ru'afo does usually qualifies.

* SoOkayItsAverage: Of all the "bad" ''Franchise/StarTrek'' films, perhaps the one that has the fewest defenders ''or'' detractors, on account of being so ineffectual and forgettable.

** The fight scene in the projector, where they just left the bluescreen in instead of chroma-keying whatever was supposed to be there.

* MisaimedFandom: While Dougherty's motives are ultimately sympathetic, it's rather disconcerting for some that so many fans of the franchise see his plans - i.e., invading an occupied planet, kidnapping the entire population and stealing its resources in a way that will make the planet uninhabitable, and possibly completely destroying whatever made the resource so valuable in the first place - as completely reasonable simply because he has a couple of legal loopholes on his side. Most likely because, other than the ethical issues around the relocation, ''nobody'' in the actual movie even questions his assertion that the plan will actually work, despite the fact it was conceived of by known allies of the Dominion.

* FanPreferredCutContent: Michael Piller's original version is was very different from the final film. Inspired by ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'', it would have seen Picard tracking down an old academy friend who has allied with the B'aku against the Romulans. His first draft can be found in the unpublished book ''Fade In'' and is widely thought to be better than the actual film.

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/BrentSpiner wanted Data killed off, but was overruled. Reportedly, his script came with a note reading "Better luck next time." [[Film/StarTrekNemesis Well...]]
** This is not the last time we will see Creator/DonnaMurphy [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} playing a]] Really700YearsOld character.

* SpecialEffectFailure: ILM didn't come back for this film (in part due to being busy on ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', though Rick Berman said at the time that he wouldn't have hired them anyway, since he felt other FX houses could provide the same quality for cheaper) and the quality of visual effects suffered a major drop as a result. The effects aren't ''terrible'' for the most part, but they were considerably behind even what other film were doing with CGI in 1998.

*** It's also pointed out that the Prime Directive doesn't apply to the Ba'ku, since they are not prewarp (though they choose to live that way) and not indigenous to the planet, and it is not a purely internal matter since the Son'a are involved. But that's textbook LoopholeAbuse, using the letter of the law to defeat the spirit of the law. The letter of the Prime Directive doesn't protect these specific people in this specific instance, but the whole purpose of the Prime Directive is to protect people exactly like this from exactly this sort of exploitation. Much could be raised and debated about when the Prime Directive does and does not apply as opposed to where it ''should'' and ''should not'' apply, but it never is. Instead, with the revelation that Son'a are the Ba'ku, the loophole is closed as it is now a "purely internal matter."

** Possibly odd, but different people handle things in different ways. For Worf, this adventure would be another chance to be "like warriors from the ancient sagas", how he viewed the Enterprise. And considering he was in a pissy mood most of the time on DS9 anyway, it's not at all hard to see this as a thrilling vacation.

* Riker steering the ''Enterprise'' with an obviously [[OffTheShelfFX off-the-shelf joystick]].
** That, coming after Riker requests "Computer: Access manual steering column" and the joystick rises majestically out of the floor!

* {{Narm}}: Riker steering the ''Enterprise'' with an obviously [[OffTheShelfFX off-the-shelf joystick]].

* AngstWhatAngst: At the point where Worf is at in his ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' arc, he's just become a widow due to the death of Jadzia Dax and would still be in the grieving process in the subsequent season. The lack of acknowledgement on this was the result of [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] ExecutiveMeddling, as the sixth season of [=DS9=] hadn't aired in the UK yet, meaning Jadzia's death would've been a spoiler for international audiences. Still, the fact that Worf does not seem even slightly despondent throughout the film is very odd.

* MarySueTopia: The Bak'u, who live on a planet with fountain-of-youth powers and espouse a technology-free society. They still use all pre-industrial technology though, making them not as "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord primitive]]" as they'd like to claim.