How much of the "Back to the land movement" did Piller incorporate INS

[Good Will Riker]

How much of the "Back to the land movement" did the late-Michael Piller incorporate into Star Trek: Insurrection?

"Back to the land movement" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_land

Piller appeared to have been the right age at the time to have been aware of the said movement which was prominent throughout the 1960's and 1970's in the United States.

In a lot of ways, the people of Ba'ku reminded me of the colonists lead by Alixus in the 2nd season DS9 episode "Paradise" written during Piller's executive producer years on the show. However, in the case of the Ba'ku, they were more like "retreaters" in terms of their care of ecology and their laidback existence, while Alixus's extreme group acted more like "survivalists."

"Star Trek: Insurrection" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Insurrection

"Paradise" (DS9) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_(DS9_episode)

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Re: How much of the "Back to the land movement" did Piller incorporate

Hmmm...that is an interesting theory...

 

[JNG]

Re: How much of the "Back to the land movement" did Piller incorporate

Reading your post made me think that it's interesting to consider how immortality would affect the notion of survivalism.

(Must really take the edge off.)

 

[Good Will Riker]

Re: How much of the "Back to the land movement" did Piller incorporate

The question here is why wasn't Michael Piller more objective when it came to writing the screenplay for the 9th Star Trek film, because he subscribed too much of the philosophies of this obscure movement into this major motion picture?

The film really came off like M. Night Shyamalan's The Village meets "Star Trek: The Next Generation" for me in retrospect. What is wrong with advanced civilizations and technology -- progress? Picard really could have taken this opportunity to show the Ba'ku how far humanity has advanced peacefully on Earth throughout the centuries, and how living a luddite existence for centuries quite frankly is a step backwards in terms of social and cultural evolution. The Ba'ku is what sociologists would deem an arrested society and culture.

 

[Candlelight]

Re: How much of the "Back to the land movement" did Piller incorporate

The question here is why wasn't Michael Piller more objective when it came to writing the screenplay for the 9th Star Trek film, because he subscribed too much of the philosophies of this obscure movement into this major motion picture?

Patrick Stewart vetoed a lot of material for Star Trek 9 so I guess we never saw a 'true' version of what Piller would've wanted.

 

[Nebusj]

Re: How much of the "Back to the land movement" did Piller incorporate

The question here is why wasn't Michael Piller more objective when it came to writing the screenplay for the 9th Star Trek film, because he subscribed too much of the philosophies of this obscure movement into this major motion picture?

I had been under the impression part of the point of hiring artists was to be exposed to philosophies and ideas that one had never heard of or would never have thought of on one's own.

(Mind, I agree that Insurrection didn't make a good case for `the simple life' or much of anything else; but I'm open to stories that do make one.)