10 Worst CGI Moments In Star Trek

This entry appears here not just for the obvious visual issue on display but also for the fact that this film should have delivered more.

Following on the heels of the fantastic Star Trek First Contact, Insurrection was a hotly anticipated sequel. The tone opted for a more upbeat and hopeful message, which was a bit jarring after the pitch blackness of the Borg plot. That aside, it is the first film in the franchise to rely entirely on CGI and it largely succeeds in delivering. The shots of the Enterprise E are beautiful and the Son'a fleet is terrifically rendered. The first CGI flaws start to show in the shuttle battle between Data, Worf and Picard but these are forgivable.

The Son'a skin stretching technology is less forgivable. When demonstrated on F. Murray Abraham's Ru'afo, the make-up in place takes some of the edge off of the CGI. The mask he wears is already stretched and pulled apart, so the CGI 'help' doesn't make much of an impact. However, when the full intact face of Anthony Zerbe's Admiral Dougherty is thrown down on the machine, the issues explode on the screen.

It is roughly five seconds long and it robs the scene of any dramatic impact. This old man had just received a beating, which was very uncomfortable to watch. The horror of his impending murder is looming and then, deflating everything, his face is stretched like putty. An unfortunate end to what should have been a tense and upsetting scene.