The 14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek: Insurrection

Nothing about the Ba’ku makes a lick of sense. First, there are only about 600 of them, and a population below several thousand individuals is likely to go extinct. Sure, their planet has magic fountain of youth radiation, but does that fix inbreeding too?

We're told the Ba’ku settlers chose not to use high technology in their daily lives, yet they identify a phase variance in Data’s positronic matrix, and profess to have the skills for repairing positronic devices. And despite this anti-technology stance they somehow exiled their rebellious children from the planet. This all suggests they have high-tech gizmos around but mostly don’t use them. If so, how does that tech go undetected by the sensors in the Federation and the Son’a “duck blind” observation post?

And even ignoring all that, how do the Ba'ku stay up to speed on this stuff? Perhaps the original settlers have unfading memories, but how do those born there know anything of high tech? Do they all study and work with technology and then just ignore it? And how do they repair these devices? With stone knives and bearskins?

Anij even states they have “warp capability,” but capability means they have the qualities required, not the capacity. Does that mean they have the knowledge to do it, but their agrarian lifestyle yields zero actual capacity to do anything with that knowledge?

It’s obvious no one applied two seconds of scrutiny to this whole silly state of affairs.