Directed by:
David CarsonCinematography:
John A. AlonzoComposer:
Dennis McCarthyCast:
Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Malcolm McDowell, James Doohan, Walter Koenig (more)Plots(1)
A new version of the starship Enterprise is launched with Captain James T. Kirk as the guest of honor, but no longer calling the shots. But, within moments of take-off, the Enterprise receives a distress signal from two ships about to be obliterated, and Captain Kirk is asked to return to the helm. With his vast experience and expertise, he manages to save one of the ships. However, Kirk disappears in the process, and at least one of the passengers he saves is not all thankful. It seems that the rescue yanked him out of an idyllic world of perfect joy. Now he'll do anything, even kill, to return -- and it's up to Captain Jean-Luc Picard to prevent that from happening. (official distributor synopsis)
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Again, it's more of a nostalgia piece. I enjoyed the passages that are in there with Kirk and possibly Chekov and Scotty, but they are sinfully few. The new generation of Star Trek doesn't really grab me, and I don't feel the same connection to those characters as I do to the original ones. Even though I didn't follow the series, the movies got me interested, and seeing them again was nice. At least some of them.
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Everything in this film is about halfway there... the story is amongst the lukewarm and downright long, the humor in the form of Data’s Emotions surprisingly works very awkwardly and even Kirk's meeting with Pickard is not a powerful event that would move this film forward a few light years. Moreover, legends should not die in such a common way... It is quite obvious in David Carson’s directing that he only made Star Trek VII: Generations in the style of the series and is somehow unable to break away from the "smallness" of the episodes. The excellent character acting of Patrick Stewart's remains an indisputable positive aspect of the film... There are also quite a few nice tricks, which include the effective crash of the Galaxy Class ship. You don’t see that every day. Not enough for a really good sci-fi movie, and just average for average Star Trek.
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This crew is very difficult to get used to. Even more so because at the beginning, a fraction of the original crew flashes by and shows that they could still handle it. But time has moved forward quite a bit, and a sloppy story based on something called The Nexus takes precedence, which ultimately contradicts all its principles. And when the viewer gets a direct comparison, William Shatner, surprisingly overshadowed by Patrick Stewart, defeats him being an entire class better? In the end, it is a shocking weakness that only gains points for Kirk and loses a lot for what it does with his character. Star Trek: The Next Generation's legs were cut out from under them before they even took their place on the silver screen.
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Perhaps more than any other film in the Star Trek series, Generations can be said to be intended for and mostly embraced by the large community of TV series fans. Much is subordinate to this - especially the deliberate connection of the original (of course, significantly aged) series characters with the new generation of their successors. In terms of story, it is a weaker installment, although the choice of Malcolm McDowell as the villainous Soran helped a lot. Overall impression: 55%.
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