Star Trek Retrospective, Part 13: After the hit Star Trek First Contact, the Star Trek franchise was riding high as Deep Space Nine and Voyager both continued their successful TV runs concurrent to the movies. Following in the footsteps of the TOS movies, Paramount decided the next Star Trek movie should be a more lighthearted adventure. The resulting movie, penned by Michael Piller and once again directed by Jonathan Frakes proved to be a controversial entry in the film series: Star Trek Insurrection.