STAR TREK: INSURRECTION  (1998)  **1/2

Reviewed 12/12/98

Star Trek: Insurrection is hokey, sentimental, and has just tolerable special effects, but I found its relentless idealism infectious enough to be disarming. After all, there's something about the gall of having characters who don't hesitate a second to throw away their careers to do the right thing. That and the movie didn't really take itself seriously. It was almost a comedy. The worst thing is that Jonathan Frakes is incessantly annoying both as actor and director. The series needs a director who can actually put together a suspenseful sequence. After several ample opportunities to kiss the love interest, Captain Picard never gets around to it, once and for all proving, he's certainly not Kirk.