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You really have to be a fan of TV's STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION to zoom, with any degree of enthusiasm, to the farflung sci-fi realm that the recast-and-redirected film series from Paramount wants to take you. It's a far different "final frontier" from the original Shatner-Nimoy-and-gang feature films.
But if you are a fan, then this second offering with the TV cast was programmed to please you and fulfill all your expectations.
In this, the eighth overall entry in Gene Roddenberry's neverending creation, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (British Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart, doing a classical bang-up job as usual) and his crew (Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis) helm the USS Enterprise back in time to Earth in the 21st Century to prevent The Borg (led by Queen Borg, played with oozing menace and sexuality by Alice Krige) from conquering Earth.
Then there's a subplot about the Earthman who discovered Warp Drive (played by James Cromwell in a most singular manner) and his attempts to launch a funky rocket into space to carry out his experimentation.
Producer Rick Berman opted to keep the series firmly grounded in the attitudes and style of the TV series he produced for 178 episodes (from 1987-1994), and hence this suffers somewhat from limitations of scope and clarity--a problem that Frakes, doubling ably this time out as director, can't always overcome in working with the script by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore.
Quibblings include Sirtis seeming especially out of her character as Counselor Troi (she gets drunk yet, and is really difficult to relate to), and Picard's link to The Borg (it was all explained in the TV series long ago) a bit too convenient for plot machinations.
Ah, well. Eternal STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION fans will "engage"; nonfans won't be in the theater, anyway. If you must see it, "Make it so!"