Star Trek: Insurrection undid First Contact's gains for the TNG film franchise. The following movie, Star Trek Nemesis, never really had a chance.
Star Trek: Insurrection undid Star Trek: First Contact's gains to the Star Trek: The Next Generation film franchise so that its follow-up, Star Trek Nemesis, was likely doomed to failure no matter its quality. After six largely successful films starring the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series, the torch was passed to the highly popular cast of TNG in Star Trek Generations, which finally saw Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Jean-Luc Picard team up in the film's climax.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY The next entry in the TNG film franchise, Star Trek: First Contact, was a huge critical and financial success, seemingly justifying Paramount's decision to end TNG's television run early and pursue big-screen adventures. Unlike the more thoughtful, introspective TNG television series, First Contact was an unabashed action movie, revamping Captain Picard as something of a 24th-century John McClane as he battled the Borg aboard the USS Enterprise-E.
The end result of Star Trek: Insurrection confused even its cast, with a story lacking focus, compelling antagonists, and centered on some murky moralizing on the part of the beloved TNG crew. Frakes seemingly took a step back as a director, grappling with lousy-looking CGI effects and bland locations that looked a lot more like Southern California than alien worlds.
Insurrection Misunderstood The Appeal Of TNG Star Trek: Insurrection ultimately framed the TNG crew as righteous rebels taking on a jaded, out-of-touch Starfleet Command that wanted to relocate a few hundred colonists from the planet Bak'u. It's a trope Star Trek has revisited often, and when Patrick Stewart starts making speeches about sovereign rights and non-interference, it's easy to get swept up in Captain Picard's passion.
Star Trek: Insurrection was greeted with middling reviews and soft box office, which kicked off a general decline in Star Trek's popularity in the late 90s. DS9 and Voyager were never the ratings powerhouses that TNG was, and Star Trek: Enterprise was canceled after season four. Insurrection's lukewarm reception and the overall slide of the franchise created a four year gap after Insurrection before Star Trek Nemesis hit theaters.
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