Description
Bold titles are previously unreleased tracks.
| 1. | Ba’ku Village | 6:53 |
| 2. | Out of Orbit / Take Us In | 1:44 |
| 3. | Come Out | 2:34 |
| 4. | In Custody | 1:14 |
| 5. | Warp Capability / The Planet / Children’s Story | 2:33 |
| 6. | The Holodeck | 4:35 |
| 7. | How Old Are You / New Sight | 6:14 |
| 8. | Lost Ship / Prepare the Ship | 2:39 |
| 9. | As Long as We Can | 1:40 |
| 10. | Not Functioning / Send Your Ships | 2:55 |
| 11. | Growing Up / Wild Flowers / Photon Torpedo | 2:55 |
| 12. | The Drones Attack | 4:15 |
| 13. | The Riker Maneuver | 3:15 |
| 14. | Stay With Me | 1:48 |
| 15. | The Same Race | 2:50 |
| 16. | The Collector | 1:10 |
| 17. | No Threat | 4:18 |
| 18. | Tractor Beam | 0:38 |
| 19. | The Healing Process (revised) | 5:04 |
| 20. | The Healing Process (original version) | 7:17 |
| 21. | End Credits | 5:30 |
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Total Time:
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71:37 | |
| Bonus Tracks | ||
| 22. | Ba’ku Village (alternate ending) | 3:53 |
| 23. | The Holodeck (alternate opening) | 1:12 |
| 24. | Growing Up (alternate) | 1:21 |
| 25. | Tractor Beam (alternate) | 0:38 |
| Total Time: | 7:25 | |
| Total Disc Time: | 79:02 |
STAR TREK: INSURRECTION was the third of four movies to feature the characters of the 1987-1994 television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. When Data malfunctions and goes renegade while assisting Starfleet Admiral Dougherty (Anthony Zerbe), Picard takes the Enterprise into a dangerous area of space called “the Briar Patch” to investigate. He discovers that Starfleet personnel – working in collaboration with the nomadic Son’a, led by Ru’afo (F. Murray Abraham) – have been spying on the peaceful Ba’ku in order to relocate them from their homeworld. The Son’a plan to use an immense orbital collector to focus the metaphasic radiation that keeps the Ba’ku eternally young, and providing a “fountain of youth” for themselves and the citizens of the Federation. After recovering Data and befriending Anij (Donna Murphy), a Ba’ku leader, Picard decides to disobey Starfleet orders and defend the Ba’ku from Dougherty and the Son’a.
Michael Piller (who devised Insurrection’s story in conjunction with executive producer Rick Berman) set out to create a Star Trek movie that harkened back to the allegorical, message-laden stories favored by franchise creator Gene Roddenberry. Piller’s early inspirations included Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness (which famously inspired Francis Ford Coppola’s move Apocalypse Now) and the classic western The Magnificent Seven (in which a disparate group of gunfighters defend a village of peaceful farmers from a marauding bandit gang). Piller’s screenplay went through numerous drafts, initially focusing on the Heart of Darkness aspect with Data “going native” and disappearing on the Ba’ku planet, requiring a lengthy and mysterious search that reveals the secrets of the Ba’ku and the Son’a/Starfleet conspiracy. Through numerous rewrites, Piller shifted focus to the Magnificent Seven aspect, with Picard and his loyal Enterprise crew teaming up to defend the Ba’ku. Coming on the heels of the dark and violent Star Trek: First Contact, Berman and studio executives encouraged Piller to lighten the tone of Insurrection and to find more room for humor in the script. Piller focused on the rejuvenating effects of the metaphasic radiation, which causes the Enterprise crew-members to regress physically and emotionally, resulting in some of the most offbeat humor of all the Next Generation films.
-from the extensive liner notes by Jeff Bond, of which more can be seen here.
