My Review of "Star Trek: Generations"

Star Trek: Generations came out back in 1994. I remember this was the first Star Trek movie that I saw in the theatres. It's kind of strange because I still wasn't really into Star Trek back then. My brother knew more about Star Trek: The Next Generation TV show and that's why I went. I kind of knew the characters but not really well.

The movie starts off with captain Kirk for possibly the last time. That's what I said in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country though. Still it's not the full crew. We have Scotty and Chekov but the rest of the crew are doing something different. It's the Enterprise's maiden voyage yet again. Now with a really young crew. Kirk is to send it off for good programming.

Of course there has to be a hitch. This time we get a distress call and of course the Enterprise has to come to save the day. Unfortunately this time Kirk isn't so lucky in his heroic efforts. He was able to save the day but disappears as a result.

80 years later we get introduced to the new crew of the Enterprise. It's the crew from the latest TV show at the time. This time we have Picard, Riker, Data, Geordi and the bunch. They also get a distress signal that leads them to barely saving a few people from broken down station.

One of those "saved" from the station is a guy named Soran. Unfortunately for Soran is a bit of a sneaky guy. He wants to go back to this Nexus from the opening scenes of the movie. He's willing to do anything to get back in there. It's basically a place where your deepest fantasies are fulfilled for life. Who wouldn't want to stay in such a place?

In the meantime while all this is happening things are happening to the crew. Data who is a cyborg gets implanted with an emotion chip that he can't seem to handle. This is played off as sort of the comic relief throughout the movie.

Picard has been given grave news concerning loved ones. This is used to talk about the consequences of public service that captains have to deal with in the Federation. His story kind of parallels Kirks as they value duty over their own personal existence. There's a moral story here asking if you would be able to do things all over again would you do it all over again.

It's a fun movie that is a bit uneven at times. The end portion of the movie feels a little flat. I found that they kind of lost all momentum in their writing and just created some Ex Machina devices to fulfill the obligation to end the movie. Logic is thrown out the window with the ending and it kind of really sets this movie back a bit. I don't really remember this back when I first saw it but now as an adult it's pretty evident.

They did the odd thing of not really introducing the characters again in this first outing of the new crew just like they did in the original. It's assumed that you know all the characters and their quirks from the very beginning. that kind of sucks for newcomers to the series because they might get lost immediately with these characters. They don't have any immediate attachment to them.

Another weird thing that I noticed was that Worf from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered CountryAnother weird thing that I noticed was that the Worf character in the Star Trek VI movie is now in this new next generation crew as Worf. The difference is that in the previous movie he was a lawyer defending Kirk and Bones and in this movie he's a federation officer of the Enterprise about 100 years in the future. Super weird but whatever.

Overall, I was still able to enjoy this movie but there seems to be a lack of charisma in the new characters that I miss from the original crew. Maybe it's just me trying to adapt to the new guard. I'll have to get used to it because the next few movies star this new crew. I have to give this movie a 6.5 out of 10. I don't know if I could revisit this one over again.