The 14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek: Insurrection

The plan for moving the Ba’ku involved recreating their entire village and its surroundings in the guts of a Federation “holoship,” which is parked at the bottom of a nearby reservoir. What happened to the water it must have displaced? Did the Ba’ku not notice the downstream flooding? Moreover, it’s suggested that the Ba’ku will all be beamed into their illusory environs whilst asleep and never realize what’s happened. But if they’re going to be beamed, why does the holoship need to be down on the planet at all? It has a flipping cloaking device which renders it invisible, so why not just leave it in orbit?

More preposterous is the action of beaming the wide-awake Son’a bridge crew from their ship to the holoship without them realizing, and only a flash hinting at what happened. Even assuming you can’t “feel” a transporter or see its effects on others around you whilst beaming, just how and why would Worf and Data have a holo program that perfectly replicates the bridge of a specific alien vessel right down to how lumpy the upholstery is? Talk about your contrivances.

And speaking of that holoship…