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The seventh Star Trek feature passed the torch to a new crew. Decades after the original "Trek," the skipper of the fourth USS Enterprise is Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), who investigates a massa... read more read more...cre at a science outpost. The only survivor is Dr. Soran (Malcolm McDowall), who perpetrated the event to cover up his invention: a bomb he launches into a nearby sun, exploding it. As Soran escapes with Klingon cronies, Picard learns that Soran's plan is to summon a heavenly energy ribbon called the Nexus. Those who enter it live forever with every wish fulfilled. Attempting to stop Soran, Picard ends up inside the Nexus, where he discovers former captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), believed to have been killed in an accident 78 years earlier. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

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Directed by: David Carson

Release Date: November 18, 1994

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  • fb100002384654145
    November 23, 2011
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    A two part TNG episode that never fully takes advantage of it's film medium. The acting is overall decent and the visuals are entertaining to look at. However, the movie is plague by episodic writing, questionable character motivations, and a nonsensical plot device(The Nexis).... read more The movie is meant to pass the torch from the old Star Trek crew to the new one. It fails as a goodbye to the old crew because Captain Kirk's death is character insulting and emotionally un-fullfilling. Picard and Kirk don't meet until the last twenty minutes and the movie barely bothers to establish a certain chemistry with the two. The movie also does little to introduce the TNG cast to movie audiences. The character Data is severely misused because he is mostly used as petty comic relief. The only funny moment with him is when he said "Oh, shit". Unless you've watched the show, the only character that may compel you is Captain Picard, and that is only because of Patrick Stewarts great acting. One thing I liked about Star Treks 2-6 was they were self-contained stories that didn't rely too much on the continuity of the TV show. Fans of TNG may enjoy this regardless but overall this is a very average Star Trek movie.
  • blacksheepboy
    April 12, 2010
    blacksheepboy
    The first Next Generation film is unfortunately a big mess that uses a confusing plot device to bid a ridiculous adieu to Captain Kirk while giving space to the uncharismatic crew of Captain Picard in the Star Trek movies - and not even the unnecessary subplot makes it worth seeing.
  • SirPant
    September 21, 2009
    SirPant
    I think Kirk deserved a better death than that! Didn?t he always used to say "I?ll never die alone"!?
    Apart from that, this is a well handled hand over to The Next Generation.
  • stormyweather980
    August 15, 2009
    stormyweather980
    "Star Trek Generations" is an instant classic in my book. Crews from the original Star Trek series and from The Next Generation team up to try and stop a madman from putting an end to the world.
    What I liked the best about this movie is that it has some classic scenes that most... read more Star Trek fans have probably been waiting for. When Captain Kirk and Captain Picard finally meet, that's what you call classic. They both find out what Nexus is and travel to the past to where they both have a family and a place to live on earth. It's even better when they team up to try and stop the madman.

    "Star Trek Generations" is only the fourth Star Trek movie I've seen so far, so I can't say whether it's my favorite Trek movie of all, but so far out of the ones I've seen, I like this one and "Wrath of Khan" the best. If you're a Star Trek fan or if you like sci-fi movies, I recommend getting "Star Trek Generations" as soon as you can. NOTE: That was my Amazon review from the year 2000. Never been a big fan of the Star Trek series other than The Original Series (never watched any of the others much, to be fair and honest), but I loved this movie and plan to own it one day.
  • superclerk25
    November 30, 2008
    superclerk25
    Upon viewing this flick after a long period of avoiding it I have come to the conclusion that it's not as bad as I thought. I still think the opening is awesome and then the movie goes south but the story isn't as stale as I thought.
    It didn't feel like a step up from the tv sho... read morew though and this brings it down. It should have been grander.
    Plus I still hate how Kirk dies. It wasn't the massive heroes death that he deserved. I wanted more.
  • matertenebraum
    October 29, 2008
    matertenebraum
    I always loved this movie. From the very first time I saw it, at the age of 10, I absolutely adored it. It took a big risk, admittedly, in bringing the Original Series and TNG together, but I believe it did it extremely well and with a lot of ingenuity.

    The first part of the ... read moremovie seems to pick up where "The Undiscovered Country" left off; and it does so on a somewhat sour note. Retirement does not sit at all well with Captain Kirk, and he hates the idea of being a "legend" and having the namesake of his beloved ship run by a bunch of inexperienced kids and a skeleton crew (the running "tuesday" gag is hilarious). I think Walter Koenig and James Doohan were marvellous in the first part of this movie, and the scene where they arrive on deck 15 and find themselves staring into the void of space is chilling.

    After this, it picks up with the Next Generation Crew, and boy, does the camera love the Enterprise D. It's emotional to see the crew going through the changes this movie throws at them, and by the time Geordi's kidnapped and Data's emotions are uncontrollable, my heart was in my throat.

    It's also a pleasure to see Whoopi Goldberg reprise her role as Guinan, and as far as humor goes, Data's newfound sense of humor had me on the floor.

    I LOVED Picard and Kirk's interactions and the segment in Kirk's cabin is an absolute hoot. (Picard: "This is not your bedroom.") Soran is a great villain, truly ruthless and threatening. Out of all the Next Gen films, this is probably my favorite. It has an atmosphere about it that's very appealing to me, and the only other TNG film that had the same feeling was Nemesis, which I still maintain was a WICKED movie.
  • cancercapricorn2002
    December 5, 2007
    cancercapricorn2002
    Some plot spoilers here ********************************************
    STAR TREK: GENERATIONS serves neither the original TREK series or the 'Next Generation' crew very well, but producer Rick Berman had a nearly impossible task: to satisfy the fans demanding a Kirk/Picard story, ... read moreand to please the followers of the popular spin-off. Berman and Paramount had no desire to see the original cast in any more features (it would be difficult enough to provide ample screen time for both large casts), but Paramount demanded that he create a 'transition' between crews, so he wrote, with Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga, an opening sequence featuring Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, with a climax that would supposedly have Kirk 'die' alone, in space, thus fulfilling his prophecy from STAR TREK V.

    As another link between TREKS, Leonard Nimoy was asked to direct GENERATIONS, a wise decision, as he had worked in both TV series, had directed two successful TREK films, and co-written a third. But after reading the script, he said, bluntly, it was TERRIBLE! He offered suggestions, but Berman, struggling to complete the last episodes of TNG, as well as put the film together, did not want to burn up any more production time on rewrites, politely informing Nimoy to shoot what was written. Nimoy turned down the assignment, showing DeForest Kelley the script. After reading it, Kelley stated that he felt THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY was a far more suitable finale for Dr. McCoy, and passed on it, as well. Shatner, getting a HUGE paycheck to revive Kirk a last time, remained committed, and James Doohan and Walter Koenig were hastily called in for the opening sequence (which was why Scotty called Kirk 'Jim', and Chekov was suddenly gifted with medical skills). Kirk's disappearance still packed a wallop, but the absence of Spock and McCoy blunted much of the scene's dramatic power.

    With TNG director David Carson now in charge, a larger-scaled yet mediocre 'Next Generation' film emerged, with Picard and Data getting most of the screen time, and La Forge suffering the kind of physical abuse that Chekov routinely got in the earlier TREK films. Picard experiences a personal tragedy, and, as he had, far more memorably in the TV series, ruminates about the life he 'could' have had, had Starfleet not keeped calling. Meanwhile, evil Dr. Tolian Soran (Malcolm McDowell), having discovered a benevolent entity, the Nexus, that would allow him to 'live' with his dead wife in an eternal state of bliss (a la George Clooney's SOLARIS), decides to destroy a planet to reroute the entity to him (why he didn't just hijack a spaceship and fly into it is not well explained). Utilizing two whacked-out Klingon sisters and their 'Bird of Prey', he soon attacks the Enterprise, and when Picard attempts to stop him on the planet's surface, the captain fails, with the pair sucked into the Nexus.

    Picard finds himself in the idyllic family life he'd always dreamed of, but, through willpower and the intervention of a 'ghost' of Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg), he comes to his senses, and is told the 'help' he needs to defeat Saran is in the Nexus...in the form of James T. Kirk, sucked into the entity nearly eighty years before...

    While the 'Meeting of the Captains' offers the 'strengths' of both actors (Shatner shows his signature physicality and cockiness, Stewart, as always, is quiet and intellectual), the scenes are enjoyable, and both Captains share a horseback ride (something Shatner had wanted to do since STAR TREK V). Of course, Picard convinces Kirk to join him against Saran ("It sounds like fun," Kirk admits).

    In yet another continuity glitch, the two captains leave the Nexus BEFORE Picard's initial confrontation with Saran (if the Nexus has any power over time, why didn't they just reappear prior to Saran's arrival...or why did Picard need Kirk, at all, if he could have just returned, alone, and blasted Saran?) Of course, as Berman wanted to finish Kirk off, once and for all, he had to bring him out, as well...

    Speaking of Kirk's death scene...In the FIRST cut of the film, after a short but exhausting fight sequence (clearly showing Kirk as too old and out of shape for hand-to-hand combat), Saran pulls out a hidden blaster, and shoots him in the back...while the dying Captain stalls the villain long enough for Picard to save the day, the Enterprise's most famous Captain dies, in a most unheroic manner (perhaps an honest indication of how Berman felt about Kirk!).

    Berman had NO idea how popular Captain Kirk was, however, and the preview audience was so outraged by the sequence that Paramount, sensing a potential disaster, demanded the scene be rewritten and re-shot, a costly (as the film had already 'wrapped') but necessary move.

    The second version offered far more of the 'Classic' Captain Kirk that fans had come to expect, facing Saran fearlessly, duking it out, and proving himself far more of a match for the alien than Picard had been. He ends up 'saving the day', although there is a sense of irony that a man who'd spent most of his life on a 'bridge' would die when a bridge he's on collapses!

    While this ending was FAR superior to the first version, it still seemed an ignoble climax to a legend. Even William Shatner, after viewing it, considered killing Kirk a bad move, and offered a screenplay for a sequel where Kirk would be resurrected...which Berman, wanting NOTHING more to do with him, refused.

    So Kirk dies, his body covered with stones by Picard, and the 'Next Generation' crew is evacuated from yet another destroyed Enterprise.

    STAR TREK: GENERATIONS could have been a much better film, but in his haste to finish it, and move on, Rick Berman disappointed both series' fans. Fortunately, the best of the 'Next Generation' films, FIRST CONTACT, would soon be made
  • puffchunk
    October 1, 2007
    puffchunk
    been a while. I'm sure it wasn't that great.
  • YosemiteSamFan
    July 7, 2007
    YosemiteSamFan
    A truly magical movie as the old crew of the Enterprise pass the torch to the Next Generation. It's a damn shame most of the crew couldn't be around for the end of an era; their send-off happened in the previous Star Trek 6 film.

    The look of the film was eye-popping; I was ex... read morepecting the clean flat brightly-lit video look of the Next Gen television series, but they upped the cinematic look with deep blacks and rich colors - bravo to that!

    Plotwise, the opening sequence begins in Captain Kirk's era, and his apparent death scene, which would be recorded in history. Little known, he was whisked away to another dimension by a time Nexus space phenomena.

    The plot shifts to the Next Generation era, where the Time Nexus is going to intersect with Captain Picard's destiny. He too, would get taken into the Nexus, and meet up with Captain Kirk, for a first-ever meeting and one-last fateful adventure.

    The link between the two eras is Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) and a determined mad scientist Soren (Malcolm McDowell). Guinan has vital information about escaping the Nexus, and Soren is the one who is trying to harness the Nexus for his own selfish reasons.

    There's subplots about the death of Picard's son, the installation of an emotion chip in Commander Data's brain (which makes him totally unstable), some rogue Klingon sisters, and the spectacular crashing of the Enterprise saucer section on a planet's surface.

    It's a great ride throughout. I loved the fantasy sequences inside the Nexus dimension. It's great seeing Kirk and Picard working together to stop Soren. The ending was very touching. With the original series out of the way, the ending becomes a fresh open door for future Next Gen movies.
  • Beefy
    April 25, 2007
    Beefy
    Rubbish, but entertaining rubbish acted by a cast of pros.

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Critic Reviews

Leonard Klady
May 19, 2008
Leonard Klady, Variety

Star Trek Generations has enough verve, imagination and familiarity to satisfy three decades' worth of Trekkers raised on several incarnations of the television skein. Full Review

Jonathan Rosenbaum
May 19, 2008
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

At least the special effects and outer space vistas are more handsome than usual. Full Review

Peter M. Nichols
May 20, 2003
Peter M. Nichols, New York Times

Generations is predictably flabby and impenetrable in places, but it has enough pomp, spectacle and high-tech small talk to keep the franchise afloat. Full Review

Desson Thomson
January 1, 2000
Desson Thomson, Washington Post

A rich and absorbing saga. Full Review

James Berardinelli
January 1, 2000
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

Mostly, Generations spends its running length searching for, and never completely finding, its niche. Full Review

Rita Kempley
January 1, 2000
Rita Kempley, Washington Post

A flawed but funky adventure involving a time warp known as the Nexus. Full Review

Roger Ebert
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Here is a movie so concerned with in-jokes and updates for Trekkers that it can barely tear itself away long enough to tell a story. Full Review

Lucy Mohl
January 1, 2000
Lucy Mohl, Film.com

The meeting of Patrick Stewart's Jean Luc Picard and William Shatner's James T. Kirk is worth the price of admission or video rental: it's the clash of the titans, Shakespeare meets the Sixties.

Betty Jo Tucker
January 29, 2012
Betty Jo Tucker, ReelTalk Movie Reviews

From the opening shot of a champagne bottle floating in space to the pulsating ribbon of an engulfing Nexus, the film's images dazzled me. Full Review

Scott Nash
July 5, 2010
Scott Nash, Three Movie Buffs

Doesn't work as a goodbye to Kirk or as a hello to Picard. Full Review

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