InCole
In short Star Trek Generations is simply a big missed opportunity. Considering that just 3 years earlier Undiscovered Country came out and was hands down among the best Star Trek movies. This is a very weak follow-up of that film.The opening of the film is quite OK but from there it just goes downhill. There is a lot of boring screen time filler scenes that simply do not serve a purpose and while the movie is redeemed by some really great scenes and some elements that make Star Trek so great. Sadly this is just a film with so much missed opportunity.Considering they managed to bring together Kirk and Picard into one film you would expect so, so much more. Even if it was a film with just Picard it would have been quite mediocre.It just lacks focus and direction in the script writing and in general it just feels like they really had to pull out all movie clichés just to get the story to work.It is watchable and it can be entertaining at times so I would still say to give it a watch especially if you are doing a Star Trek Bluray marathon (like I am doing) but just be prepared to experience a mediocre Star Trek film.
Jack Vasen
I enjoyed this movie thoroughly back when it came out. I was immersed in the story which was fairly good especially when you take into account the things that were done to appeal to original TOS Trekkie's. So much Star Trek tradition. There are some original ideas in this story. The Nexus and the idea of getting back is a different kind of take on time travel. Of course there are a billion holes in the story too, but after all, it is Star Trek and time travel, but none of the holes affect the enjoyment. Uniting Kirk and Picard - who can resist. Learning some Kirk and Picard backstory - also good. What does affect the enjoyment, especially if you have see this before is the acting. Give Brent Spiner the award for the worst comedy ever in any Sci-Fi movie. I wonder if that was Spiner or the direction. Stewart overplays the sequence with Kirk and Picard, but seems like Shatner was dead on. The old TOS cast overplayed their parts but I suspect that was intentional. The TNG cast, especially Stewart, had highs and lows, and overall they were probably OK.
Rainey Dawn
This is another highly entertaining Star Trek film that brings together two captains of the Starship Enterprise face to face: Captain Kirk and Captain Picard. An El-Aurian scientist Dr. Tolian Soran is a madman and quickly becomes the nemesis of Captain Picard of the 24th century. What he seeks is the Nexus Ribbon and it's up to Captain Picard and crew to stop him but Picard needs the help of a man who's been dead around 80 years, that man is Captain Kirk. Note: The El-Aurian race are known for living a long time. A great film. I really enjoyed how they tied both generations together but my only wish is there was more interaction between both generations captains and with both crews. 9/10
SnoopyStyle
Retired Captain Kirk, Scottie, and Chekov are attending the maiden voyage of the new Enterprise with the media. They are surprised by a distress call. Kirk manages to save some of the refugees before losing himself to the energy ribbon. Two of the survivors are Tolian Soran (Malcolm McDowell) and Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg). Almost eighty years later, The Next Generation crew encounters Soran who is working with the Klingon Duras sisters for his own purpose of returning to the energy ribbon and Nexus.This movie achieves the needed goals of the franchise. It gives Kirk a final curtain call, and it gives a satisfying hand-off between the old crew and the new one. Kirk is one of the iconic characters of not only Star Trek but all of sci-fi. This movie basically gives him two death scenes and they are both classic Kirk. The hand-off is needed for the Next Generation to take over the movie franchise. Granted, it works best for fans who have seen both series. For non-fans, the characters would still make sense but it wouldn't be quite so satisfying. The movie itself has enough technical babble and sci-fi action for those familiar with the franchise. It is a bigger expansion of the new TV series but it's not different.
AD
