Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.
Star Trek: Generations serves as a handoff film between the classic crew and The Next Generation cast, but the seams show badly. The Nexus concept is intriguing but poorly executed — its rules feel arbitrary, undermining dramatic stakes. Kirk's death is widely criticized as anticlimactic and unworthy of the character, dragging the Ending score down. Acting is solid from Stewart and Shatner, though the villain Soran (Malcolm McDowell) is given thin material. Cinematography is competent theatrical upgrade from the TV series but unremarkable. Novelty suffers as the film feels like an elongated TV episode with a high-concept gimmick rather than a truly cinematic vision — the franchise crossover premise had been done in other media and the execution is formulaic.