6.4
When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to defend the planet's people as well as the very ideals upon which the Federation itself was founded.
Patrick Stewart
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Brent Spiner
Lt. Commander Data
Michael Dorn
Lt. Commander Worf
Jonathan Frakes
Commander William T. Riker
F. Murray Abraham
Ad'har Ru'afo
Anthony Zerbe
Vice-Adm. Dougherty
Gregg Henry
Gallatin
Donna Murphy
Anij
Marina Sirtis
Counselor Deanna Troi
Gates McFadden
Doctor Beverly Crusher
LeVar Burton
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
Daniel Hugh Kelly
Sojef
Stephanie Niznik
Perim
Rico Bueno
Starfleet Officer (uncredited)
Michael Welch
Artim
Mark Deakins
Tournel
Michael Horton
Lt. Daniels
Bruce French
Son'a Officer #1
Breon Gorman
Lt. Curtis
John Hostetter
Bolian Officer
Rick Worthy
Elloran Officer #1
Larry Anderson
Tarlac Officer
D. Elliot Woods
Starfleet Officer
Jennifer Tung
Female Ensign
Raye Birk
Son'a Doctor
Peggy Miley
Regent Cuzar
Claudette Nevins
Son'a Officer #2
Greg Poland
Elloran Officer #2
Kenneth Lane Edwards
Ensign
Joseph Ruskin
Son'a Officer #3
Zachary Isaiah Williams
Ba'ku Child
McKenzie Westmore
Ba'ku Woman
Phillip Glasser
Young Ru'afo
Sam Arnold
Lieutenant Landis (uncredited)
Wanda Roth
Starfleet Lieutenant (uncredited)
Director
Jonathan Frakes
Original Series Creator
Gene Roddenberry
Screenplay
Michael Piller
April 18, 2018
10
Plot : As Jean Luc Picard attends festivities onboard the Enterprise welcoming a new race to the Federation. He receives an urgent call from Admiral Dougherty about Data, that was sent on an observation mission of the Ba'Ku race. The Federation has installed there a hidden outpost and the So'Na race is there too. Data has gone out of control and reveals the federation outpost to the natives. Picard and his senior officers get on the planet to discuss with them to surrender the Federation personnel.
He is welcomed by the (extremely) peaceful Ba'Ku that are represented by Anji and Sojef, that explain the history and philosophy of their people. They have settled on this planet generations ago and have benefited from a local radiation extending their life greatly. Picard is pushed by Dougherty to leave the planet to let the "observation" mission without interference. Picard smells deception and will have to disobey orders to defend one of the Federation's basic principles. I know most people don't like this movie and rank it low among the Star trek movies. Of course there's not much action and fights. The new characters are either very boring or too obviously "evil".
But the main point here is to defend the "prime directive" (= not to interfere in the development of a civilization that is inferior in technology. There is not much else here than a deep analysis of what the Federation is and when it must or not intervene. So there's a light love story wit Picard and Anij, Data befriends a kid in his discovery of humanity's young age behavior.
After many movies about the Klingons, Romulans ... I found it fresh to have two (?) new races with different histories and ways of life. And having the movie centered on the "prime directive", and how a cunning race can twist it (after all, the Ba'Ku are not really "natives" of the planet and shouldn't be protected by the prime directive), and how one superior officer, if misleaded, can lead to eradication of hundreds of people.