Star Trek: Generations (1994)

Simply Perfect

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I've just got off the heels of talking about the reboot films and I don't think they're as worth watching as the original stuff. While this does have problems in terms of story, it can sometimes get pretty interesting. The plot is that Kirk saves people from an anomaly in space before seemingly dying. 78 years later Captain Picard saves scientists from an attack where they seemingly left. Turns out the link between them that wasn't on the previous shows is Doctor Sorrin played by Malcolm McDowell, an alien who can live up to 300 years who will do anything and everything to get back into The Nexus, a place where the ultimate fantasies of anyone who enters it come true but any ship that enters it gets severely damaged at best, being that it's coming back he decides to altar the gravity and thereby it's path by imploding suns, killing at least trillions. It's up to Picard (and eventually Kirk) to stop Sorrin and put things right. If there's any complaints it would be that the story... lapses. Picard in this has to deal with being the last of them after his brother and family die in a fire... I've only watched the first season of TNG but the way it's done is so... rushed I didn't even know he had a brother. The same thing can be said for the climax of the movie wherein it's established Time doesn't exist in The Nexus so they can hop to anywhere at anytime so they go back to the time before Sorrin entered the Nexus, I don't know if this contradicts how time travel in Star Trek works but why not go back to the first sun he wiped out or the other lives he put in jeopardy in Kirk's time? And shouldn't there be 2 Picard's at the confrontation then? It also does seem unbalanced because Kirk really is barely in this or is any other cast member of the original series. So if you want that then this doesn't really deliver. This is a lot better than the newer films I've seen so far so I might recommend watching it if you're a fan of the older stuff but for me personally, if you want to see a better Next Generation film, watch First Contact or if you like the original series either Wrath Of Khan or The Undiscovered Country.

Sometimes a franchise and its characters have run its course to a point where new faces and fresh ideas are needed. Though the Star Trek franchise as a whole was at a high in 1994 with two acclaimed TV series airing and the films coming off a great finale in 'The Undiscovered Country', to me, 'Generations' wasn't the proper next step to take.Sure, it's hard to let go of beloved characters, but 'The Undiscovered Country' felt like the perfect send off for all of the original cast members, including Captain Kirk. Nonetheless he was brought back to past the torch to the next crew to man the Enterprise. Of course, that group being the cast from The Next Generation. Which is exactly where the film has most of its problems.Attempting to balance both timelines, Kirks being 75 years or so earlier, and Captain Picard's (Patrick Stewart) being present day, sometimes the film feels jumbled and bunched together. In other words, there's plenty of set up with the main antagonist played by Malcom McDowell, but the pay-off takes a great deal of time and exposition to get to. It's a much different universe, but Star Wars did an impeccable job blending both casts into The Force Awakens, so that's more along the lines of what I was hoping for.With all that being said, the new cast from the TV series definitely deserve their own individual film (which is obviously what they got a few years later). It's impossible to top the original crew, but there's enough personalities and likable characters, including Stewart's stern but sympathetic Picard.As far as the actual plot itself goes, it pretty much follows the same Star Trek formula, except for the trippy Nexus sequence where Picard and Kirk are stuck in a time loop. It's the most talked about and controversial scenes from the film, and for good reason. I don't necessarily think the sequence works the way it supposed to, but it is where we end up getting the most emotional pay off. So overall, Generations is a middle of the road Star Trek adventure, but at the very least, it gives the new crew some time to shine.+Picard & Kirk+Nexus+Beautiful score-Choppy first half-Formulaic6.3/10

I am new to TNG and recently watched the entire series. Then started watching the movies until I reached the Generations. Time traveling episodes are my favorite and Picard meets Kirk, what could go wrong.Captain Kirk, Picard's entire family, the Enterprise-D, and even the Duras sisters where killed in this movie and all of them deserved better. There are two other killings in this movie which bothered me the most: Data and Picard himself. They don't actually die but their characters are destroyed. The scene where Picard is sobbing uncontrollably was so unexpected that I thought this is one of those situations where an extraterrestrial phenomenon is affecting the emotions of the crew and took me a while to realize that was really happening. On the other hand Data installs his emotion chip and turns into a very bad and irritating comedian to the extant that he becomes intolerable after a few minutes.This is one of the worst episodes with the TNG cast and should be left out of the history and story line of Star Trek.

This should have been a good Captains' meeting, however, it was part of a "Next Generation" episode... and a too brief "Original Series" clip...However, as I enjoyed the image enhancement that the "TNG" group offered with this movie, I would have worked out the story. Paramount executives went a bit too fast to introduce Picard's crew into the big screen.Part of the Synopsis: 78 years after an event which took Captain Kirk's life, Captain Picard and his crew save a would-be scientist, which in fact is a madman who wants to enter a "Nexus" inside a deadly space ribbon. It is not his first experiment. He is backed up by an evil Klingon crew, headed by the Duras sisters, hungry for payback against the Enterprise.Though it was fun to see for once Data display emotions, thanks for Dr. Soong's microchip, the almost surrealistic meeting of Picard and Kirk deceives a bit: we would have loved to see both in a better setting than a back country landscape.I would not blame the actors here, but the storyline itself, a reminder of Star Trek V, which was too average: a madman looking for something apparently good, and the Enterprise crew must stop him.Sad that DeForest Kelley (health) and Leonard Nimoy (technicality) were absent for this movie.I would have renamed this movie: Star Trek Nexus. Given another year to release the movie, it would have been better...