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Star Trek Generations

In the late 23rd century, the USS Enterprise -B is on her maiden voyage, and Kirk is no longer in the captain's chair. The ship must rescue El-Aurian refugees from a mysterious energy ribbon, but the rescue seemingly costs Kirk his life. Seventy-eight years later, one of the El-Aurian survivors leads the crew of the Enterprise -D into a deadly confrontation with the Duras sisters as he plots to re-enter the paradise of the ribbon that nearly destroyed him years prior.

1.1.1 23rd century (2293)
1.2.1 24th century (2371)
1.3 Act Two
1.4 Act Three
2 Log entries
3 Memorable quotes
4.1 Development
4.2 Preproduction
4.4 Costumes
4.5 Effects
4.6 Production
4.7 Reshoots
4.8 Deleted scenes
4.9 Official site
4.10 Reaction
4.11.1 Cast notes
4.11.2 References to other series and films
4.11.3 Sets and props
4.12 Apocrypha
4.13 Merchandise gallery
5 Awards and honors
6.1.1 Opening credits
6.1.2 Closing credits
6.2.1 Performers
6.2.2 Stunt performers
6.2.3 Stand-ins and photo doubles
6.2.4 Production staff
6.3.1 Other references
6.3.2 Meta references
6.3.3 Unreferenced material
6.5 Sources
6.6 External links

Summary [ ]

Prologue [ ], 23rd century (2293) [ ].

The launch of the new USS Enterprise -B

Floating in space , a bottle of Dom Pérignon , vintage 2265 , cracks against the hull of the new Excelsior -class USS Enterprise -B at the starship 's christening ceremony. On the drydock facility, various gathered civilians and Starfleet personnel applaud the christening. On the Enterprise -B bridge , three guests of honor, of the crew of the original USS Enterprise , Captains James T. Kirk and Montgomery Scott and Commander Pavel Chekov , emerge from the turbolift and are immediately surrounded by reporters asking the three legends of Starfleet questions all at once.

" I remember reading about your missions when I was in grade school. "

Their frantic questioning is interrupted by Enterprise -B's commanding officer , Captain John Harriman , who says there'll be plenty of time for that later – and welcomes the new arrivals to the bridge. He then tells Kirk how he's pleased to have welcomed a group of living legends aboard and how he read about their exploits when he was in grade school. After a rather awkward moment, Kirk asks if they can look around, and Harriman obliges. As the three men disperse, Chekov sees a young female Starfleet ensign and calls out her name. Kirk is asked by a reporter about how he feels for the first starship Enterprise in thirty years to be launching without him in command. Kirk says he's fine with it and that he's happy to be aboard to send the Enterprise -B on her way. Before he can be grilled further, an Enterprise -B crewman asks the reporter to let Kirk look around first and the former Enterprise captain stares longingly at the captain's chair .

Chekov then calls Kirk over and introduces him to the Enterprise 's helm officer, Ensign Demora Sulu . Demora tells Kirk that her father has told her some interesting stories about him. It surprises Kirk to learn that Hikaru Sulu is her father. Chekov reminds Kirk that he's met her before – which Kirk remembers, but didn't think it to be that long ago. Chekov tells Kirk it was twelve years previous . Kirk shakes Demora's hand and tells her, " It wouldn't be the Enterprise without a Sulu at the helm. " She thanks Kirk and Chekov tells her that her father must be very proud of her. She says she hopes so. As Demora returns to the helm, Chekov marvels at her, remarking to Kirk that he was never that young. Kirk agrees, but tells Chekov that he was younger. Scott walks by and remarks that the new Enterprise is a "damn fine ship." Kirk tells Scott he's amazed that Sulu found time to have a family. Scott says that just as Kirk would say, " If something's important, you make the time. " He then wonders if that might be what Kirk's problem is and that he might be finding retirement a little bit lonely. Kirk remarks that he's glad Scott is an engineer – because with tact like that, he'd make a lousy psychiatrist. Just then, Harriman steps up and tells Kirk and Scott it's time to go and if they would please take their seats.

Kirk – somewhat reluctantly – and Scott move away from the captain's chair and Harriman starts to order the ship out of dock. But then, Harriman turns and asks Kirk to give the order to get them underway. At first Kirk begs off, but Harriman persists. Kirk continues to try to get out of it, but Harriman insists and with the reporters all there, Kirk finally stands and orders to the helm, " Take us out. " After everyone on the bridge applauds, Chekov says " very good, sir " and Scott remarks " brought a tear to me eye " in regard to his choice of words, whereupon Kirk tells them both to be quiet. Then, the Enterprise -B leaves drydock on its maiden voyage around Earth's solar system . As the Enterprise -B cruises out of drydock and into open space , Kirk, Chekov, and Scott complete a full tour of the ship. Upon returning to the bridge, they're asked how it feels to be back after having seen the whole ship to which they all rather awkwardly reply " Fine. " Harriman informs the reporters that the Enterprise 's course today will take them out just beyond Pluto and then back to spacedock, " Just a quick run around the block. "

Three legends reunite

Just then, a distress call comes in over the com . The voice on the distress call notes that their ship, the SS Lakul , is one of two ships in their convoy that are currently trapped in a severe gravimetric distortion . They cannot break free and need immediate help. The voice also reports that it is tearing their ships apart before the transmission is cut off. Ensign Sulu tells Captain Harriman that the ships are only three light years away. At first hesitant, Captain Harriman asks to signal the closest starship; stating that Enterprise is currently in no condition to mount a rescue. At this, Kirk jumps up from his chair and stares at Harriman. The captain tells Kirk that they don't even have a full crew aboard. The operations officer notes that they are the only ship in range. Faced with this, Harriman reluctantly orders the Enterprise into action, having the ship accelerated to maximum warp. Kirk nervously shifts around in his chair. Scott notices this and asks if there is something wrong with his chair, implying that he knows of Kirk's desire to take over the situation. Not far out, the Enterprise encounters the two El-Aurian refugee ships, the Lakul and the SS Robert Fox , caught in a strange energy ribbon .

Faced with gravimetric distortions that threaten to destroy his ship, Harriman – at the urging of Captain Kirk – resolves to take the Enterprise into the ribbon. Once they get close enough, the ship finds both ships being battered by the energy ribbon. Kirk immediately suggests that the Enterprise use its tractor beam to pull the ships away, only to be told (much to his disbelief) that it hasn't even been installed yet, not until Tuesday . Harriman then tries a couple of safe maneuvers to try and free the ships, but to no avail before the Robert Fox explodes, killing all 265 people on board. Admitting that he's out of his depth, Harriman turns over control of the situation to Captain Kirk who immediately leaps into action and suggests they attempt to get close enough to meet transporter range and beam the El-Aurians off the Lakul . When Harriman points out the hazards, Kirk replies that danger is part of a Starfleet officer's life, especially if one is aboard the Enterprise and sitting in the chair. Harriman orders the ship in, however the initial attempt is made difficult as the El-Aurians life signs phase in and out of the space-time continuum . Scott begins a transport from the Lakul as it, too, explodes. He manages to save 47 – out of 150. Shortly afterward, the Enterprise herself gets trapped by the energy ribbon.

Chekov and Guinan

In sickbay, Chekov and two of the reporters he wrangled to be nurses (as the Enterprise 's medical staff also hasn't arrived) attempt to help wounded refugees as the ship is rocked by the gravimetric distortions. A distraught, middle aged man is particularly violent in his desire to return, and has to be sedated by Chekov. Also among the refugees is Guinan , whom Chekov notices standing in the corner of the room in distress and takes her to somewhere where she can lie down. On the bridge, Kirk, Scott, and the Enterprise crew frantically work to free the ship to no avail. Scott determines that a photon torpedo blast would free the ship… but once again, no torpedoes are present. " Don't tell me… Tuesday? ", Kirk retorts to Harriman. Scott suggests using the navigational deflector to simulate the effect of a torpedo blast.

" Your place is on the bridge of your ship. I'll take care of it. "

Initially Harriman volunteers to go to deflector control to make the necessary modifications, and asks Kirk to take command, but after Kirk savors the moment of sitting in the captain's chair one last time, he quickly realizes it's no longer his place and tells Harriman that he will go instead: Harriman's place is on his bridge.

The Enterprise hit by an energy discharge

In the bowels of the Enterprise , Captain Kirk charges to the rescue, climbing into the guts of the ship to modify the main deflector. The ship shakes and shudders under the stresses of the ribbon. When Kirk finishes the modifications, Harriman orders the deflector activated, creating a resonance burst that pushes the Enterprise free. As the ship begins to move away, an arc of energy lashes out, opening a gash along the hull . When they get free, they find out in the damage report from Ensign Sulu that the hull breach was located in the engineering section on decks 13, 14 and 15 – including the very section Kirk himself was in. Failing to contact Kirk by communication, a horrified Harriman and Scott rush to the scene.

Harriman, Scott and Chekov at hull breach, USS Enterprise-B

Harriman, Scott and Chekov survey the damage at the site of Kirk's apparent death.

When they get there, joined shortly by Chekov, they find nothing but mangled technology and empty space, with no sign of Kirk. Chekov incredulously asks if anyone was in here, and all Scott can muster is a grim sounding " Aye ." Scott, Chekov, and Harriman stare somberly out through the enormous breach as the damaged Enterprise begins its journey back home.

Act One [ ]

24th century (2371) [ ].

Picard and Riker honor Worf

78 years later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard , Commander William T. Riker , and the rest of the senior staff of the USS Enterprise -D have gathered on the ship's holodeck . Acting as the crew of a 19th century sailing ship , also named USS Enterprise , the Starfleet officers celebrate the promotion of Lieutenant Worf to Lieutenant Commander . As a rite of passage, Worf is made to jump while balancing on a plank to retrieve his hat which he does successfully and smartly dons it, but is then purposely sent into the water when Riker orders the computer to remove the plank. While the rest of the crew laughs, Data admits to Doctor Crusher that he doesn't understand why Worf falling into freezing cold water is so amusing to people. Crusher tells him that it's just a bit of harmless fun, and he should try and get into the spirit of things and "do something unexpected." Data tells her he understands, then suddenly pushes her overboard, falling into the sea, and taking Worf back in with her. Data turns expecting laughter, only to find the faces of his horrified crewmates Geordi La Forge and Deanna Troi , with La Forge telling him that was "not funny," leaving the android even more confused.

Savoring the simpler times the holographic ship represents, Captain Picard receives a personal message from Earth on the holodeck arch . While reading the communiqué , Picard's expression changes to one of obvious distress, which Deanna Troi picks up on. Picard looks out to sea in silence, and when Troi asks him if he is all right, he just replies that he's fine and abruptly leaves the celebration. Just after he's gone, a call comes in from the bridge: the Amargosa observatory is under attack. " Red alert ! All hands to battle stations, Captain Picard to the bridge! ", Riker orders while leaving the holodeck.

USS Enterprise-D approaches the Amargosa observatory

The Enterprise -D arrives at Amargosa

Arriving at the observatory orbiting the Amargosa star , Picard and company take their positions on the bridge still dressed in formal naval uniforms. Finding the station suffering from severe damage and casualties, a still visibly upset Picard orders the ship to stand down from red alert. He then has Riker and an away team head over to search for survivors and retreats to his ready room after snapping at Riker to "just do it" when his first officer tries to get more specific orders. This confirms Counselor Troi's suspicions that something is seriously wrong. Beaming over to the devastated Federation installation, Riker, Worf, Doctor Crusher, and security officers find an El-Aurian scientist , Dr. Tolian Soran , injured and buried among the wreckage. Elsewhere, Worf locates the remains of one of the station's attackers: a Romulan .

In his quarters , Data and Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge are sitting together at a table hard at work, despite frequent interruptions by the android's cat , Spot . Data ponders his difficulty with humor and other Human emotions and comes to the conclusion that he cannot continue to grow without the aid of Dr. Soong 's emotion chip . Despite the risks it poses to his positronic brain , Data urges La Forge to install the chip. La Forge reluctantly agrees. Meeting with Picard in his ready room, Riker reports that its obvious from the initial investigation that the Romulans attacked the station looking for something but have left no clues as to what, but a recovered tricorder may yield some answers. Picard tells Riker this may indicate that the Romulans are increasing their presence in that sector and orders him to contact Starfleet Command . Riker is surprised, given that this is normally done by Picard himself, but agrees before reporting that Dr. Soran urgently wishes to meet with the captain. Picard complies, but coldly rebuffs Riker when inquired as to what is wrong.

Picard meets Dr. Soran

Later in Ten Forward , Data is all smiles with his new emotion chip activated. He and La Forge approach Guinan at the bar and sample a new beverage from Forcas III . Immediately, Data experiences an emotional reaction: he hates it! As the two officers sample more of the revolting beverage, Captain Picard enters and finds Dr. Soran among the crowd. Soran implores the captain to let him return to the observatory to continue a critical experiment – time is running out and years of research will be lost. However, Picard is clearly not in the mood for an argument and tells him bluntly that he can only return once his officers have concluded their investigation. However, Soran cryptically tells Picard that " time is the fire in which we burn and right now, my time is running out. We leave so many things unfinished in our lives … I'm sure you understand. "

This eerie statement breaks through Picard's stony resolve and he agrees to see what he can do. After Picard leaves, Soran checks his pocket watch and starts to look around, and is shocked when he spots Guinan behind the bar and makes a quick exit. As he leaves, Guinan senses that something isn't right, but Soran is gone by the time she looks around. In engineering , Commander Riker checks on the status of the analysis of the retrieved Romulan tricorder that Farrell is examining. Worf reports that the Romulans were searching for a compound called trilithium , a substance capable of destroying a star. However, the Romulans never found a way to stabilize it. Riker doesn't understand why the Romulans would ransack a Federation facility for it, but orders Data and La Forge to have the observatory searched.

On the station, Data and La Forge use tricorders to search for trilithium. As they perform their scans, Data laughs incessantly and tells stupid jokes , including one he had heard La Forge tell on the bridge seven years previously during the Farpoint Mission that he just finally understood. He congratulates La Forge: " Very funny! " The punchline is " The clown can stay, but the Ferengi in the gorilla suit has to go. " Despite the distraction, La Forge finds a large hidden doorway that is magnetically sealed. Data is able to open it by reversing the polarity by attenuating his axial servo found on his wrist . After Data waves his wrist in front of the large door, it opens up. Found behind the door is a secret lab, filled with solar probes that show signs of trilithium. Data is doing nothing but laughing now and when an annoyed La Forge finally asks him to knock it off, Data says, while laughing, that he can't help it and something must be wrong and starts reeling in pain, before collapsing as his neural net has been overloaded by the emotion chip. Unable to contact help through a dampening field protecting the lab, La Forge is confronted by Soran, who knocks the engineer out and turns a phaser on Data, who is filled with fear and begs him not to shoot.

Troi and Picard mourn the dead

In the captain's quarters, Picard sits with his family photo album . Counselor Troi enters and he begins to tell her about his brother and nephew and his plans to get together with them on Earth in San Francisco the following month so he could show René Starfleet Academy . As he affectionately describes his nephew, he breaks down in tears and tells Troi that both Robert and René have burnt to death in a fire. Troi comforts him and Picard tells her that when he was growing up, he was always told about the Picard family line and his famous ancestors. When Robert got married and had a son, he no longer felt the responsibility to carry on the family line and as he got older and felt time creeping up on him, he took comfort in the fact that his family would go on. But now it won't; and once Jean-Luc is gone, there will be no more Picards. The somber mood is interrupted when suddenly the Amargosa star flashes brightly out the viewport . Arriving on the bridge, Picard and Troi learn that the observatory has launched a trilithium probe in the sun. The star has collapsed, all fusion reactions arrested, creating a level 12 shock wave that will destroy everything in the system. With the away team still on the station, Picard orders Riker and Worf to retrieve Data and La Forge.

The bridge when the Amargosa star goes dark

On the observatory, Riker and Worf find Data and La Forge held hostage by Soran who responds to the appearance of the Enterprise officers with phaser fire. Suddenly, a route to La Forge opens and Riker asks Data if he can get to the engineer, but the android is clearly paralyzed by fear and tells him he can't. Entering coordinates into a computer, Soran disappears in the transporter beam with La Forge… transporting aboard a Klingon Bird-of-Prey , de-cloaking near the observatory and warping away. As the away team returns to the ship with Data, Picard orders the Enterprise to warp just as the shock wave obliterates the Amargosa observatory.

Act Two [ ]

On the bridge of the Klingon getaway ship, the Duras sisters , Lursa and B'Etor , are admonished by Soran for allowing the Romulans to attack the Observatory (it emerges that the trilithium was stolen from a Romulan outpost by the sisters), reminding them that their plans to use trilithium to conquer the Klingon Empire are dependent on him. The El-Aurian demands they set course at maximum warp for a planet in the Veridian system and the sisters grudgingly comply. In the bowels of the ship, Soran holds La Forge captive. Marveling at the engineer's VISOR , Soran interrogates La Forge to learn all he knows about trilithium.

Guinan describes the "Nexus": " Like being inside joy. "

Back on the Enterprise , Dr. Crusher has done some research into Soran's background, telling Commander Riker that he was one of the survivors rescued by the Enterprise -B eighty years ago after the Borg destroyed their world and that Guinan was also listed on the passenger manifest. To learn more about the scientist, Captain Picard visits Guinan in her quarters. There she describes the energy ribbon as the " Nexus ," a blissful realm where time has no meaning, and a place Soran must be desperately trying to get back to. The experience left such an impact on Guinan that she suspects it has turned Soran into a dangerous threat. As he is trying to get back to the Nexus, this raises the question: Why destroy a star? Picard leaves after thanking Guinan for her help, but she warns him that if he goes into the Nexus, he will not care about anything. Not his ship, Soran, nothing. All he'll want is to stay in the Nexus – and he will not want to come back.

Picard and Data track the path of the Nexus

In the cavernous stellar cartography section of the Enterprise , Picard and Data work in front of a huge projection of space, and Picard asks for everything affected by the destruction of the Amargosa star. Data is clearly distracted and doesn't immediately respond, and when Picard asks the android if he's all right, Data admits that he is feeling intense guilt over his failure to save La Forge in the observatory. Composing himself, Data reports that one of the things affected was that the USS Bozeman had to make a minor course correction due to a change in the gravitational field. Picard asks Data to chart the ribbon's course. Data stands up and tells Picard that he cannot continue with the investigation, and asks to be deactivated until the emotion chip can be removed. Picard tells him that he is not willing to allow it and tells Data he must attempt to integrate the emotions into his life. Data tries to argue with this, but Picard matter-of-factly tells him that he will not be deactivated as he is a Starfleet officer on his ship and orders him to continue to perform his duties. Data agrees to try, and resumes his position at the console. Picard tells him that it takes courage to try and that courage can also be an emotion.

Data is able to chart the ribbon's course, and Picard asks if the Amargosa star's destruction was taken into account when he charted the course. Data tells him that he didn't, and makes the adjustment. However, when this is done, it becomes clear that the gravitational change has altered the ribbon's course. Unable to fly into the ribbon with a ship, Soran is attempting to make the ribbon come to him, and they find that the ribbon comes close to Veridian III . Data then simulates the course if the Veridian star was destroyed, and this causes the ribbon to come into direct contact with the planet. Now they know where Soran is going. Data points out that if the Veridian star is destroyed, it will also produce a shock wave that will destroy the system, similar to the one produced by Soran at Amargosa. This will claim the lives of the 230,000,000 people living on Veridian IV . Knowing they have to stop Soran, Picard taps his combadge and orders Worf to take the Enterprise to the Veridian system at maximum warp.

USS Enterprise-D in orbit of Veridian III

The Enterprise in orbit of Veridian III

Finished with the interrogation, Soran returns to the bridge of the Klingon vessel as they enter orbit of Veridian III: he provides the Duras sisters with the information required to make a trilithium weapon, though as a guarantee against betrayal, informs them he will only provide the means to decrypt it once the Klingons have transported him to the planet's surface. The discussion is interrupted by the arrival of the Enterprise , transmitting a message to the cloaked ship demanding the return of La Forge and threatening to destroy any probes fired at the Veridian star. Irritated by the interruption, Soran orders the sisters to destroy the Enterprise but they remind him that their Bird-of-Prey would stand no chance in battle against a Galaxy -class starship. Soran cryptically has a solution in mind to give the sisters the edge, an idea which involves La Forge's VISOR…

On the bridge of the Enterprise , the Klingon vessel decloaks on screen and Lursa and B'Etor greet the captain. Claiming they have merely had La Forge as a guest aboard their ship, they agree to a "prisoner exchange," taking Picard in his place. First, however, they agree to allow Picard to beam to Soran's present location, somewhere on the planet's surface. As the captain beams down, a stricken La Forge rematerializes on the Enterprise transporter pad and promptly collapses. Dr. Crusher and Nurse Alyssa Ogawa rush to his aid.

Appearing on an arid desert mountain top, Picard finds Soran hard at work on a solar probe launcher. Attempting to reach the scientist, Picard is blocked by a huge force field . Keeping his distance, the captain appeals to Soran, but the El-Aurian is unconvinced. On the Enterprise, Data visits La Forge to apologize for being too frightened to help him on the observatory, but La Forge assures the android he understands and notes that Data is now acting a lot more like a Human. Full of happiness, Data reports to his station to aid in the search for Picard and is so jubilant he plays his console like a piano as he scans for lifeforms causing the whole bridge crew to stare at him.

In space, the Duras sisters watch their viewscreen and see from the perspective of Geordi La Forge's modified VISOR. They watch impatiently as he moves from sickbay, to his quarters, then finally to engineering. As the engineer checks several readouts, the sisters discover what they have been looking for – the exact shield modulation of the Enterprise . With this new knowledge, they will be able to fire through the Enterprise 's shields by adjusting their torpedo frequency.

USS Enterprise-D evades the Duras sisters' Bird-of-Prey

The Enterprise under fire

On the Enterprise bridge, the search for Captain Picard on the planet below is interrupted as the Bird-of-Prey opens fire with photon torpedoes , which pass straight through the shields to hit the secondary hull. Disruptor blasts likewise pass directly through, hitting the portside nacelle . The Enterprise returns fire, but the Klingons' shields hold up against phaser fire. The bridge is engulfed in explosions, injuring Jae , the conn officer. Riker orders Counselor Troi to take the helm and to get the ship out of orbit, but the Duras sisters' assault is relentless and they pursue the helpless Enterprise , firing non-stop. Riker asks Worf if their ship, an older model, has any exploitable weaknesses, and Worf states that their Bird-of-Prey is a class D12, retired because of defective plasma coils . He doesn't see how they could use that information, but the plasma coil is a part of the D12's cloaking device .

Riker asks Data what effect an ionic pulse aimed at a defective plasma coil would have. Enthusiastically, Data realizes that a low-level pulse could reset the coil and trigger the ship's cloaking device, disabling its shields and weapons. As the Duras sisters continue their onslaught, Riker orders Worf to target their primary reactor with photon torpedoes; they will only be vulnerable for a few seconds at best and this is the Enterprise 's only chance. Making a few quick modifications, Data triggers the pulse just as a direct hit from the Klingons causes an aft bridge terminal to explode, hurling the hapless crewmember manning it over the tactical station and down onto the command chairs.

Aboard the Bird-of-Prey, Lursa and B'Etor triumphantly order the weapons targeted at the Enterprise 's bridge to deal the death blow, when their bridge officer reports with alarm that their cloaking device is engaging and their shields are dropping. The sisters are allowed only a few seconds of horrified realization, before the Enterprise fires a single photon torpedo from the aft torpedo launcher , and their vessel is completely destroyed, killing Lursa and B'Etor in a fiery explosion. The Enterprise crew stares silently at the remains of the destroyed ship, as Data triumphantly exclaims " Yes! "

Meanwhile, on Veridian III, Picard carefully walks around the force field's edge as Soran continues to work on his probe. Picard nonchalantly throws a small rock into the force field, prompting Soran to look up and ask if Picard hasn't got anything better to do. At that, Picard sits down and Soran resumes working. While Soran is distracted, Picard notices a small hole in the rocks and tosses another rock through it and sees the force field doesn't cover it, providing a way in. Picard waits for Soran to move away so he can try to get through that hole unnoticed.

" Oh, shit! "

In engineering, La Forge finds a new problem: the magnetic interlocks have been ruptured, and while he's reporting this to Riker, plasma coolant begins violently leaking out of the warp core. Evacuating engineering, La Forge tells Riker that he can't shut it down and gives an estimate of five minutes until a warp core breach , rolling out of engineering as the last one out just in time before the isolation door comes down to the floor. On the bridge, Riker orders Troi to evacuate everyone to the saucer section and Data to prepare to separate the ship . The crew and their families hurry to evacuate their doomed stardrive section with Dr. Crusher leading her staff and patients out of sickbay and La Forge guiding the crew to safer locations. As the breach nears critical and with the crew cleared of the stardrive section , the ship separates and begins to move out of range. However, just as Troi begins engaging the impulse engines the core breaches prematurely, completely destroying the damaged stardrive section of the Enterprise and creating a ion shock wave that disables the entire saucer section including all helm controls and pushes the saucer into the atmosphere of Veridian III. On the bridge, the Enterprise crew watches in horror as they begin to plummet toward the surface of the planet. Data, for the first time, swears.

USS Enterprise-D falls toward Veridian III

The saucer section of the Enterprise falling into the atmosphere

As Picard climbs through the hole in Soran's force field, he jostles the rocks which sets off the field. Soran, spotting Picard caught in the hole, fires his weapon, sending rocks raining down on the captain. Careening out of control towards the planet, the bridge crew desperately attempts to regain control of what's left of their starship as the rest of the crew seeks safety as best they can on the lower decks. Data is able to route the remaining auxiliary power to the lateral thrusters in an attempt to stabilize the Enterprise 's descent as Riker warns the crew to brace for impact. As the ground rushes towards them on the viewscreen, the saucer impacts off a slight rise in the terrain, briefly forcing it back in the air. As the crew fights to regain control, the saucer nosedives into a large hill, destroying all remaining ship functions and knocking the crew to the deck.

Riker, arising from the destroyed bridge of the Enterprise

The saucer section of the Enterprise crash landed on Veridian III

With their fate now left to chance, the bridge crew protects themselves any way they can as the Enterprise skids through a heavily forested area, cutting a large swath of destruction. Fires burn and structural supports rain down from the top of the bridge as the crew weathers the horrific ride, completely sensor blind and only lit by the fires and emergency lighting. With one final violent lurch forward, the momentum slows and the saucer finally comes to a stop. Data and Troi regain their senses first and survey the damage. What was once an immaculate nerve center for the flagship of the Federation is now largely destroyed; the large viewscreen has been shattered, consoles and displays are burnt out, chairs have been ripped out from the deck and the only light comes from the broken top of the bridge dome as the blue Veridian sky shines in from above. The Enterprise is down.

Soran enters the Nexus

Miles away from the crash site, Dr. Soran looks out over the rugged terrain of Veridian's desert only to be surprised by Picard who attacks him outright. The two men struggle, and Picard manages to disarm Soran quickly, but is knocked back by Soran's blows and thrown down a hill, landing face down in rock and sand as the Nexus appears in the sky. Picard recovers, and tries again to get up to the launcher to stop the countdown… however he is too late as Soran's launcher engages and his solar probe streams into the sky. Watching from the surface, Picard is horrified as the probe finds its target and the star is destroyed, darkening the sun in seconds. Soran climbs to a high platform and throws his arms into the air as the Nexus changes its course. Sweeping down toward the ground, the ribbon envelops everything, taking Soran and Picard along with it. Gliding away from the planet and out into space, the Nexus departs the system just before the shock wave hits, which destroys the entire planet, taking the Enterprise saucer section, its crew, as well as the rest of the solar system, with it. Soran has succeeded.

Act Three [ ]

" What… where is this?! Where am I? " Captain Picard's voice echoes as he transitions from the real world to the Nexus. A hand reaches toward him from space and removes his blindfold to suddenly find himself in a Victorian -style house where his wife and children greet him on Christmas morning. Picard quickly allows himself to be absorbed into the fantasy, enjoying a perfect life with a wonderful family. René, also present, gives Picard a gift. Picard happily receives it, then remembering what happened gives his nephew a loving hug before sending him to help his aunt.

Picard finds himself in his own Nexus

Later Picard strolls through his home, into a study and to large bay windows overlooking snow-covered trees, decorated with colorful lights and bulbs. Standing at the windows, Picard finds himself staring into a strange, surrealistic world, the bulbs on the trees containing small stars that flash brilliant bursts of light and begins to realize that something is wrong. Suddenly, he turns to find Guinan standing behind him in the study. The El-Aurian bartender tells the captain that she exists both here and in the real world, a part of herself she left behind so many years ago – an echo of her former self. Picard is unable to believe how perfect the fantasy is around him, knowing that although he never had a family, he knows the children are his own. Guinan tells him that in the Nexus time has no meaning, so he can travel to any point in his children's past or future as he wishes.

An "echo" of Guinan in the Nexus

With the appearance of Guinan, Picard is at first divided, tempted by the prospect of staying in the Nexus and living out this fantasy life. But he soon realizes that action must be taken to save the hundreds of millions of people who would be killed if Soran destroys the Veridian star and asks Guinan if he can leave the Nexus. Guinan tells him that the timeless nature of the Nexus would allow him to go any place, any time. Picard knows exactly where he wants to go: to the mountaintop on Veridian III to stop Soran from destroying the star, but he will need some help. As she already exists in the real world, Guinan tells the captain that she cannot go with him. But she says there is somebody who can help, who as far as they are concerned, just arrived in the Nexus themselves…

Kirk meets Picard

Suddenly Picard finds himself standing outside a rustic cabin in the woods, daylight shining down through the trees. A few feet away, James T. Kirk stands, chopping wood with an ax. Seeing Picard, Kirk smiles, " Beautiful day. " Picard agrees and helps Kirk chop wood. Kirk is then drawn inside the cabin, hurrying into the kitchen where eggs are burning on the stove. Kirk tells Picard to come on in, this is his house – at least, it used to be. He had sold it some years prior.

Two captains, one breakfast

Picard steps inside and into the kitchen, helping Kirk prepare a fresh set of scrambled Ktarian eggs on the stove. Picard hesitates momentarily, then introduces himself as captain of the Enterprise , from what Kirk would consider the future, the 24th century . Kirk is too distracted by the memories of the past to fully take in what Picard is telling him, excited to be in his old home, with his beloved dog Butler , who seemingly died seven years ago . A woman calls down to him and he instantly knows who it is: Antonia , a lost love. While Kirk is preparing breakfast, Picard asks " How long have you been here? " Kirk isn't quite sure; one second he was aboard the Enterprise -B, the next thing he knew, the bulkhead in front of him disappeared and he was here, chopping wood, right before Picard walked up. Picard then tells Kirk that history records him as dying while saving the Enterprise -B and that both of them are caught in some kind of temporal nexus. He then tries telling Kirk of the dire situation on Veridian III, but as Kirk tries to get his head around the situation, he realizes that he has gone back to the day he told Antonia he was leaving her to rejoin Starfleet… but this time he won't make the same mistake, now he intends to go upstairs and propose to her. The two argue, as Picard tells him that as a Starfleet officer he has a duty to help him, but Kirk argues that all duty ever got him in the end was an empty house and figures that after all he's done for the galaxy, it owes him a favor. Kirk then enters Antonia's bedroom, noting that this time, it is going to be different.

Picard follows Kirk up the stairs and after a moment's hesitation, opens the bedroom door and walks into a barn on Earth. " This is not your bedroom, " Picard half asks Kirk, who says that it is even better: his uncle's barn in Idaho . Noting this as a spring day eleven years prior – the day he met Antonia – Kirk grabs a saddle, jumps onto a horse , and gallops out into rolling hills. Picard, no stranger to horseback riding himself, grabs a saddle and rides after him. Ahead of Picard, Kirk and his horse come to a deep ravine. Without equivocation, Kirk jumps the ravine, then turns around and jumps it again, stopping to consider it. As Picard rides up, Kirk knows something is wrong: " I must have jumped that fifty times, scared the hell out of me each time. Except this time, because it isn't real. Nothing here is. Nothing here matters. " He looks up and sees Antonia mounted on her own horse on the horizon, waiting. " She isn't real either. " Kirk moves his horse next to Picard and gives the new Enterprise captain a once over. " Captain of the Enterprise , huh? "

The two men sit on horseback and discuss the situation. Kirk admits that he does not miss the house or the family he never had, he misses his days on the USS Enterprise , and offers Picard some advice; to never retire, accept a transfer, or get promoted out of the command chair of the Enterprise , because it is only as the Captain of the Enterprise that they can truly make a difference. Picard appeals to Kirk, " Come back with me, help me stop Soran – make a difference again. " Kirk considers it, then agrees, " Who am I to argue with the captain of the Enterprise ? "

Kirk and Picard leave the Nexus

" I take it the odds are against us and the situation is grim, " Kirk says. Picard admits that it is. Kirk continues, " You know, if Spock were here, he'd say that I'm an irrational, illogical Human being for taking on a mission like that… " and then grinning, adds, " sounds like fun. " Together, they ride off and a beam of light envelops them as they exit the Nexus.

" Just who the hell are you? " " He's James T. Kirk. Don't you read history? "

The immediate past replays; the Enterprise -D saucer section crash-lands and Picard crawls through the hole in the force field. Soran stands on the Veridian III mountaintop and checks his pocket watch when a lone figure steps toward him. Soran looks up at the man and scowls, " Just who the hell are you? " Behind him, Picard appears, " He's James T. Kirk. Don't you read history? " Soran knows he is in trouble and jumps away, down onto the rocks below and makes a quick retreat. Picard heads for the launcher as Kirk sets off in pursuit of the El-Aurian.

Soran fires his phaser

Rounding a corner, Kirk is caught by Soran who shoves a phaser in his face. " Actually I am familiar with history, " Soran growls, " and if I'm not too mistaken… you're dead! " Picard jumps down behind Soran, catching him off guard long enough for Kirk to get in several blows. Kirk and Soran fight, exchanging punches until Kirk is able to knock Soran off a cliff. Grabbing onto a dangling rope, Soran saves himself, entering a command into his PADD that cloaks his rocket launcher. Suddenly the rope snaps and Soran drops suddenly, then jolts to a stop, losing his control PADD which falls onto a metal bridge spanning a chasm.

Kirk and Picard work together to stop Soran

Realizing they must decloak the launcher in order to prevent it from launching, Kirk and Picard run onto the bridge toward the PADD. A volley of phaser fire flies through the air, narrowly missing the two Starfleet captains and slicing the bridge in half. Picard is thrown clear, but Kirk hangs on to what is left of the bridge. With all his might, Picard pulls Kirk to safety and the two collapse on the ground, noticing the PADD intact on the other half of the bridge, a deep chasm away. They then see the Nexus begin to appear in the sky. Kirk volunteers to go, telling Picard to get to the launcher and prepare to deactivate it once it is decloaked. Picard maintains Kirk will never make the jump himself and that they should work together to get the PADD. Kirk reminds Picard that they are working together and to trust him. He tells Picard to call him "Jim." Picard smiles at the Starfleet legend and heads for the launcher.

Kirk thinks before he leaps

Gingerly stepping out onto the broken bridge, Kirk stands at the edge, preparing to jump over the chasm to the other half. As the delicate bridge collapses under his weight, Kirk leaps, catching himself on the other half of the bridge and grabbing hold of the PADD. Entering in a command, Kirk decloaks the rocket launcher and begins to try to climb up. But it is too late. The bridge buckles and careens down the rock face, taking Kirk with it.

Soran's launcher explodes

Running up a platform and onto the launcher, Picard frantically works the controls, trying to prevent it from launching. Aiming his phaser at Picard, Soran demands the captain step away from the launcher. Picard jumps down and runs around a rock face and out of sight. Soran heaves himself onto the launcher, just in time to read the display screen: the locking clamps have been engaged. Soran only has time to recognize his doom as the launcher fires and explodes in an enormous fireball that covers the entire area in a thick cloud of smoke and dust. With the Veridian sun still intact, the Nexus passes the planet, never making contact.

Captain Kirk dies

Emerging from the cloud, Picard makes his way down into the chasm where the bridge has collapsed. Digging through the twisted metal wreckage, Picard uncovers Kirk, laying broken among the debris. Kirk is bloody and faint, " Did we do it? Did we… make a difference? " Picard assures him they have and thanks the captain. " The least I could do, " Kirk says, " for the captain of the Enterprise . " He manages a weak smile, " It was… fun, " then turns and faces his destiny, " Oh my. "

Picard at Kirk's grave

Burying Kirk beneath a cairn of large rocks on the mountaintop as the sun sets, Picard stands and keeps silent vigil.

The following day, Picard begins trekking through the desert until a shuttlecraft locates the captain and picks him up.

" Perhaps the chip is malfunctioning. "

At the saucer crash site, Starfleet rescue shuttles have begun a salvage effort. In the ship's destroyed cargo bay , crewmembers carry out salvageable equipment, belongings, and patients out while Deanna Troi and Data use tricorders to search for survivors. Data tells Troi that after experiencing 261 distinct emotional states, he believes that he will be able to control his feelings in the future so he has decided not to remove the emotion chip. As Troi wishes him luck, her tricorder detects a faint lifeform in the wreckage. Tearing through the debris, Data finds his cat, Spot, alive and well. As he cradles his pet in his arms, Data begins to break down in tears. When Troi asks if he's all right, Data tells her that he is unsure – he is happy to see Spot, yet is crying. Data thinks that perhaps the chip is malfunctioning but Troi kindly reassures him that she believes the chip is working perfectly.

" I'm gonna miss this ship. She went before her time. "

In what is left of Picard's ready room, Commander Riker and Captain Picard retrieve the Picard family album under broken pieces of the room's furniture and then move out onto the bridge, a burnt-out shell of its former glory. Riker laments that the Enterprise went before her time, and Picard relates to his first officer his thoughts, " Someone once said that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives, but I rather believe that time is a companion that goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. " They stand near the center seats and survey the damage. Picard holds his family album close and smiles, " What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal. " Riker grins mischievously, " Speak for yourself, sir. I plan to live forever. "

" Somehow I doubt this will be the last ship to carry the name Enterprise . "

Riker is disappointed that he will no longer have the chance to command this Enterprise and stands near the ruined captain's chair, but Picard assures his first officer that he very much doubts that this will be the last ship to bear the name. After nearly eight years of calling the Enterprise -D home, Picard and Riker take one last look around their destroyed starship and Picard signals the Nebula -class starship USS Farragut for two to beam up. The Farragut , along with a Miranda -class starship and an Oberth -class starship, goes to warp leaving Veridian III behind. While the Enterprise -D may be gone, her legacy , like the name, will live on .

Background information [ ]

Development [ ].

Star Trek: The Next Generation Executive Producer Rick Berman was approached by Paramount Pictures executives (first by Brandon Tartikoff , and subsequently by his immediate successor Sherry Lansing ) in the fall of 1992 (during the series' sixth season ) in regards to a seventh Star Trek film . While the studio intended Star Trek VII to be a TNG vehicle, Berman and Tartikoff felt the outing was an opportunity to "pass the baton." In February 1993 , Berman and the studio commissioned two stories and three writers. A fourth, TNG writer and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine co-creator Michael Piller , passed, objecting to what he viewed as "competition" for the assignment.

As written by former TNG writer/producer Maurice Hurley , the film had Captain Picard recreating Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) on the holodeck to help him solve a dilemma involving an interdimensional species wreaking havoc by crossing into our realm. [1] Then-current TNG writing staffers Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga , whose script was ultimately greenlighted, chose to feature Kirk appearing in the flesh, as well as (initially) the entire Star Trek: The Original Series cast.

Though Moore and Braga at first bandied about ideas which involved the two Enterprise crews battling each other, the pair of writers quickly abandoned this concept. Ron Moore explained, in 1994 :

Rick Berman and Whoopi Goldberg discuss the script on set

Braga and Moore nonetheless continued searching for a major "event" to anchor the film. Recalled Moore:

As proposed by Moore and Braga, the film would feature Kirk and his Star Trek: The Original Series shipmates in a prologue, with Kirk later appearing at the film's climax. Berman later recalled the process:

Berman and the studio pursued the Moore/Braga story. Early drafts of the script took shape under the guidance of Rick Berman and with input by Shatner. The film's villain, "Moresh", was later changed to Dr. "Soran" to avoid recalling David Koresh , the infamous cultist. ( Information from Larry Nemecek )

A first draft script was completed during TNG's sixth season hiatus, dated 1 June 1993 . As of 1 October of that year, the scripted prologue contained Kirk, Spock , McCoy , Scott , Uhura , Sulu , and Chekov . The script was in its third draft by 6 December 1993 , and the third draft's first revised pages (colored blue) were added to the screenplay on that date. ( Information from Larry Nemecek )

The early scripts featured large action set pieces that were later removed. Among them was the Romulan attack on the Amargosa observatory, cut when TNG writer (and Star Trek: Voyager co-creator) Jeri Taylor suggested something more "charming". ( citation needed • edit ) Another major revision to the script revolved around the Duras sisters and their crew: surviving the destruction of their ship, they would have battled the Enterprise -D crew in the jungles of Veridian III. ( AOL chat , 1998 )

The producers eventually chose to pare the appearances of the TOS cast down to two select cameos. This decision was made by 28 January 1994 , when the fourth draft of the script was issued, with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy in the prologue. ( Information from Larry Nemecek ) The producers then sought their guest stars. While William Shatner agreed to appear pending script approval, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley – the two preferred cameo appearances – were less eager to return. Stating that they had felt their characters made sufficient exits in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , both actors declined to appear in Star Trek VII . Leonard Nimoy – having been offered the director's chair – reportedly requested script changes, but was rebuffed. In his memoir Star Trek Movie Memories , William Shatner wrote:

In an interview with Trekmovie.com 's Anthony Pascale in July 2007 , Nimoy explained the issues he had with the Generations script and why he declined to appear. After proclaiming that "there was no Spock role in that script", he elaborated:

After DeForest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy declined to appear, the final draft of the film's script was submitted on 16 March 1994 . Its prologue featured Scott and Chekov along with Kirk, as it stayed from then on. ( Information from Larry Nemecek )

Later drafts of Generations and the full TNG finale " All Good Things... " were written simultaneously. This often led the writers to mix the stories up. In their joint 2004 commentary for the Star Trek Generations (Special Edition) DVD , they admitted that they felt "All Good Things…" turned out to be the superior effort. During the scripting stages, however, the studio had few qualms and pre-production proceeded even as filming on Star Trek: The Next Generation was winding down and Deep Space Nine continued.

Preproduction [ ]

David Carson surrounded by Klingon-playing actors, including Barbara March, Gwynyth Walsh and Guy Vardaman

Whoopi Goldberg, John Alonzo and Malcolm McDowell

John Alonzo with Whoopi Goldberg and Malcolm McDowell

With the start of pre-production, Berman battled the studio over budget figures, the film cut in cost to an estimated US$35 million. [4] Hopes for location shooting in Hawaii and Idaho were dropped in favor of more local shoots in Hollywood, Marina del Rey, Pasadena, Lone Pine, and the Valley of Fire State Park near Las Vegas, Nevada. By 16 March 1994 , Moore and Braga's script reflected budget and cast changes.

In place of first choice Leonard Nimoy, veteran TNG and DS9 director David Carson was hired, in turn recruiting veteran cinematographer John Alonzo of Chinatown and Scarface fame. Herman Zimmerman – who designed the initial TNG and DS9 sets – was called back into service on the film, working with Alonzo and illustrator John Eaves to refresh the aging TV sets. Budgetary constraints reined in some of the proposed sets; the new stellar cartography set reduced from three levels to two. As with most of the previous Trek movie installments, visual effects giant Industrial Light & Magic was hired to produce space and spaceship shots, while TNG mainstay CIS Hollywood was brought in for phaser shots, transporter effects, cloaking and decloaking transitions and the Picard family Christmas ornament.

Last minute decisions included the hiring of actor Malcolm McDowell as the man who would (at least in the final draft script) gun down Captain Kirk, reportedly later receiving death threats from obsessed fans. [5] The actor's nephew and DS9 star Alexander Siddig later said during an interview that McDowell thought the script was "shit". [6] (X) McDowell had previously explained his reason for accepting the role:

Stellar cartography on screen and in real life

Despite its reuse of sets built, in some cases as early as 1978 for Star Trek: The Motion Picture , production designer Herman Zimmerman and his art department – namely John Eaves – began designing and redesigning as early as December 1993 . One of the first and most elaborate sets generated from Paramount's motion picture art department was the two story stellar cartography room . Initially conceived of after a visit to Griffith Park's Laserium in Los Angeles, the room was imagined as a large sphere, eventually becoming a more budget-friendly cylinder. John Eaves described the process in his book, Star Trek: The Next Generation Sketchbook: The Movies :

While a hoped-for floating platform proved to be too expensive and impractical, the set was realized with a combination of large, back-lit graphics and blue-screen projection created at ILM. The set was created in sections with wild walls that could be moved in and out. Lighting elements were integrated into the ceiling requiring little modification from shot to shot. A small section of Enterprise -D corridor was erected behind the upper level platform.

Also conceived of in December, the Enterprise -B's deflector control room was designed to be a large, vertical area dominated by large machine elements, a second-level observation balcony and access panels built into the stage floor. Again, as the film's budget tightened, the design team returned to the drawing boards in February 1994 to design a smaller, vertical access shaft. David Carson recalled:

The bridge of the Enterprise-D as it appeared in season 1

Regarding the most visible section of the Enterprise -D, the main bridge, Zimmerman and Eaves took the opportunity to alter the set. Echoing modifications it received in the TNG episode " Yesterday's Enterprise ", the bridge gained additional computer stations situated along the port and starboard bulkheads. John Eaves:

Worf, however, did finally receive a chair to sit on at his post. The set was also repainted and recarpeted with handrails added near the doors to the observation lounge and aft turbolift, working video monitors were incorporated into many of the ship's status displays. The captain's ready room, adjacent to the bridge, received a new, larger fish tank built into the wall and a larger window. Other sets aboard the Enterprise received only minor reworking. Engineering was connected to another corridor set by removing the "plugs" from the walls. The four red-alert lights in the hallway of the engineering set were also illuminated during the engineering scenes, even when the ship was not in battle, as well as some of the beige beams being painted a darker copper colour around the engineering pool-table. Overhead lighting was reduced in all of the sets, with display screens popping from the darkness. Of the modifications, Zimmerman said:

Following the end of production, the interior sets of the Enterprise were struck and replaced with those belonging to a new starship, the USS Voyager , for the upcoming series Star Trek: Voyager . Of the original sets, only small sections of the corridors, sickbay, transporter room and engineering were left standing, although the new sets were constructed directly over the basic framework and floor plan originally designed and built for the aborted Star Trek: Phase II . Of those remaining sets, only a small piece of the Enterprise -D sickbay (the ceiling) remained in use during Star Trek: Enterprise . However, the Enterprise -D observation lounge set (the only TNG set not used for the film) was spared the wrecking ball and saved against future need, eventually appearing (in modified form) as the observation lounge of the Enterprise -E in First Contact and Nemesis .

The interior of the Amargosa observatory was a redress of the Enterprise -B main bridge, which was itself a redress of the USS Enterprise -A main bridge from Star Trek VI . Details built into the observatory set were meant to imply that it had been built around the time of TOS, with jeweled buttons and labels similar to those used on the original Enterprise . A half-globe map of the cosmos used in the Enterprise -D stellar cartography lab on the TV series appears in the wreckage of the observatory, along with an elevator from Data's lab.

Costumes [ ]

As his first task when recruited for the pre-production phase of Star Trek Generations , John Eaves created several new combadge designs, first creating a flip-top version like the communicators of TOS. Told to first review tapes of TNG to become more familiar with the new show, Eaves ultimately redesigned Rick Sternbach 's oval-shaped communicator badge that appeared in the TV series and early DS9, refining it into the oblong-backed design later used in DS9 , VOY , and later TNG movies: Star Trek: First Contact , Star Trek: Insurrection , and Star Trek Nemesis , as well as the early flashback episodes of PIC .

Costume designer Robert Blackman , working simultaneously on the outgoing, current and incoming series as well as the film, reworked Starfleet's uniforms. ( AOL chat , 1997 ) The uniforms, however, were all scrapped at the last minute for fear of introducing too many new facets to the universe. Unaware of the change, Playmates Toys went ahead with production of action figures for the film, depicting the TNG cast in the unused uniforms. The producers opted instead to use a combination of the uniforms from Star Trek: The Next Generation and the uniforms from the early episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and throughout Star Trek: Voyager . Because filming was set to begin shortly, Jonathan Frakes and LeVar Burton had to borrow Avery Brooks and Colm Meaney 's costumes respectively, but neither of them fit very well on Frakes and Burton as Frakes had the sleeves on Brooks' costume rolled up and the sleeves on Meaney's costume was way too big on Burton.

The new Starfleet uniform worn by Patrick Stewart was auctioned off in the It's A Wrap! sale and auction [7] (X) along with LeVar Burton's. [8] (X) Also auctioned off was Dr. Soran's costume upon arriving on the Enterprise -B. [9] (X)

Effects [ ]

A digital Enterprise -D

Between the release of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and the preproduction phase of Star Trek Generations , several advancements had been made in the art of motion picture visual effects. Primarily spurred by steps forward in computer-generated animation in films like Jurassic Park and Terminator 2: Judgment Day , Generations marked the first Star Trek production in which many starships were rendered digitally by ILM. Despite this advancement, physical models were utilized for the majority of effects shots.

Unpacking the original six-foot model they built for " Encounter at Farpoint " in 1987 , the ILM effects team completely overhauled the Enterprise -D. In order to stand up to high-resolution film cameras and a big screen project, the starship was repainted and redetailed, receiving a new interior lighting scheme. Once again resulting from budgetary cuts, stock footage shots of the Enterprise -D were interspersed with new model photography and CG imagery, specifically during the first captain's log segment and the start of the saucer separation sequence. Stock footage from the previous film was also used to depict the destruction of the Duras sisters' Bird-of-Prey, as well as that ship's escape from Amargosa.

Also reusing the original USS Excelsior miniature from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock , ILM and John Eaves were tasked with redesigning the ship to be used as the Enterprise -B:

For the single shot of the Enterprise -B at warp, footage of the Excelsior from the previous film was re-used. A computer-generated model of the Enterprise -B was also created for scenes that required it to interact with the digital Nexus energy ribbon.

An all-new miniature was created by ILM, designed by John Eaves, to represent the Amargosa stellar observatory. The model was later reused with minor alterations in DS9's " Destiny " as the wormhole relay station . The Enterprise -B model also turned up on that series as the USS Lakota . ( DS9 : " Paradise Lost ") Yet another refurbished model appeared as the drydock the Enterprise -B was moored in, repainted and reconstructed from its first appearance in Star Trek: The Motion Picture .

Arguably one of the film's most memorable sequences, the crash of the Enterprise -D was shot almost entirely live by ILM. Storyboarded by Mark Moore, the shots were achieved through the creation of a twelve-foot model of the Enterprise -D saucer section and a large landscape model. Suspended by large cables, the saucer model was repeatedly flown into the landscape, shot with high speed cameras and then slowed down in post production and mixed with several composite shots of Veridian III. A major sequence in the script, the crash of the Enterprise saucer section was inspired by drawings of an emergency saucer landing in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual .

Following the crash, effects master John Knoll and his team donned Starfleet uniforms to appear as crew members of the Enterprise -D, standing on a large blue tarp draped over the ILM parking lot. Footage of the team was later integrated into shots of the Enterprise hull and the Veridian landscape.

Production [ ]

William Shatner, Rick Berman and Patrick Stewart at the Valley of Fire location

With production on TNG's seventh season still underway, cameras rolled on Generations . ( citation needed • edit ) Principal photography began on 28 March 1994 . ( Information from Larry Nemecek ) Scenes focused on Scotty, Chekov and Kirk aboard the USS Enterprise -B and the later deleted orbital skydiving sequence. A ten-day hiatus followed the conclusion of production on The Next Generation before that series' cast went to work. Shot on a relatively short schedule, the film was slated for only fifty days of production. ( citation needed • edit ) The last day of the main filming was 9 June 1994 . ( Information from Larry Nemecek )

Location filming in the Valley of Fire was required for reshoots, which took place over eight days in September. ( Information from Larry Nemecek ) For these reshoots, Director David Carson's production offices temporarily moved to a Las Vegas hotel. Suffering through the 110-degree heat and dust storms of the Nevada desert, the behind-the-scenes crew quenched their thirst with Gatorade until the sports drink began attracting bees. Carson was forced to wear an eye patch for at least one day of filming when his cornea was damaged during a surprise sand storm. More comfortable filming days were spent in Pasadena at the Nexus fantasy Picard home, a week aboard the Lady Washington for Worf's promotion in Marina del Rey, and in the mountains of Lone Pine for Kirk's cabin – a real residence that acquired a new kitchen and staircase built specifically for the shoot. ( citation needed • edit )

Reshoots [ ]

The original death of Captain Kirk: Soran shoots him in the back

Completing principal photography in the summer of 1994 , rough cuts of Star Trek Generations were screened for test audiences. Despite generally favorable reactions to the bulk of the film, audience comments reflected negatively on the film's finale. In their joint DVD audio commentary, Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga recalled a feeling of disconnect washing over the audience, " We'd lost them. "

Returning to the motion picture head Sherry Lansing's office on the Paramount Lot, Rick Berman, Moore and Braga were told, " You have a great movie, but a bad ending. " The production was given a budget of US$5 million and told to reshoot the ending, specifically scenes in which James T. Kirk is shot in the back by Soran. Forced to utilize the same location, the writers struggled to insert a brand new finale into the framework already established. In late September 1994 , the production crew and cast of Generations returned to the Valley of Fire and James T. Kirk was killed all over again. Having recently grown his hair for another project, Patrick Stewart wore a specially fashioned hairpiece which covered his longer hair during these scenes. Additional shots at the Pasadena "Picard family home" location were also required to clarify plot elements. Ronald D. Moore commented:

Deleted scenes [ ]

Picard and La Forge board the shuttlecraft Hawking in a deleted scene

Along with the original ending, several minutes of footage were left on the cutting room floor. Some of this footage is available on the Star Trek Generations (Special Edition) DVD. Most of the deleted scenes were minor character moments set following the crash of the Enterprise -D. Among the deleted material were sequences involving Dr. Crusher and Nurse Ogawa returning to sickbay, Geordi La Forge and Worf piloting a damaged shuttlecraft to rescue the captain, additional footage aboard the Enterprise sailing ship and an alternative version of the Nexus Christmas segment.

Scripted and shot at the request of William Shatner, the film's original opening featuring Kirk skydiving from orbit to find Scott and Chekov waiting on the ground below was also cut, replaced with the champagne bottle opening.

The original script also called for a more extensive torture scene between Soran and La Forge, involving Soran injecting nanoprobes into La Forge's chest which caused his heart to stop for 5 seconds. While this scene did not appear in the movie, Soran's comment of "his heart just wasn't in it" references the torture as does Doctor Crusher's medical examination where she discusses how she has "removed the nanoprobes" and that La Forge has suffered some myocardial damage.

Walter Koenig recalled filming an emotional scene with Doohan in which Chekov and Scott reacted to Kirk's demise, which was also ultimately cut, much to Koenig's dismay. [10]

Official site [ ]

The official website for Star Trek Generations , created on 28 October 1994, was the first site on the internet to officially publicize a feature film. After being personally approved by then-Paramount Motion Picture chairman Sherry Lansing, the site was constructed by a team at Paramount Media Kitchen in Palo Alto, California, using press kit materials, videotapes of the film's trailer, and two dozen slides. The site was an immediate success and prompted Paramount and other motion picture studios to create sites for their own films.

Two versions of the official site were available for view, a graphics-rich version and a text-only version. Upon entering either version, the viewer was taken to a brief synopsis of the film followed by a greeting and an explanation of the site. From there, the viewer could watch the two movie trailers, view production stills, and listen to clips and music from the film. A behind-the-scenes page included sections on the history of Star Trek , cast and crew biographies, production notes, film credits, and a downloadable interactive multimedia kit. In addition, there was a Star Trek shop promoting Star Trek merchandise and an input page where viewers could send comments via forms or email.

The site was a collaborative production of Paramount Pictures , Viacom Consumer Products, and Viacom Interactive Services. The site credits are as follows:

The site was last updated on 23 November 1994. It has since been removed and a section at StarTrek.com has become the film's official web destination. [11] (X) StarTrek.com, before its recent overhaul, provided a copy of the original 1994 site, along with commentary. Portions of it are still accessible. [12] (X)

Reaction [ ]

The release of Star Trek Generations was widely covered in the news media, with Patrick Stewart and William Shatner appearing in character on the cover of Time Magazine in the winter of 1994 . On its opening weekend, the film reached number one at the box office with a first weekend gross of US$23,100,000. [13] Critical reception, however, was mixed.

The film earned a split decision from Siskel & Ebert ; Gene Siskel gave the film thumbs up, while Roger Ebert gave it thumbs down. Writing for the Chicago Sun Times , Ebert said of the film, " The "Star Trek" saga has always had a weakness for getting distracted by itself, and "Star Trek Generations," the seventh film installment, is undone by its narcissism. " Giving the film two stars out of a possible four, Ebert concluded:

The film review website Rotten Tomatoes calculated a 47% overall approval rate for Generations . [15] BBC reviewer Tom Coates ranked the film at two out of a possible five stars' "Generations feels like three lacklustre episodes of the TV series mashed together with one of the earlier Star Trek movies. Devotees may find it necessary (if depressing) viewing, but there's little here for anyone else. " [16] FILM.COM's Lucy Mohl however said of the film, " The meeting of Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard and William Shatner's James T. Kirk is worth the price of admission or video rental: it's the clash of the titans, Shakespeare meets the Sixties. " [17]

Regarding some of the oft-mentioned plot discrepancies within the film, Ronald D. Moore commented:

Moore and Braga further elaborated on this during the film's DVD commentary, saying that the question kept coming up and they even asked themselves, " Why would they go back to a point when their life would be in danger? Why not just go back a couple of months or so, find Soran in the bathroom or somewhere and take him out? " They also said that questions like that apply to films like The Terminator and you have to just hope that your film is compelling enough that the audience does not start asking questions like that.

The film went on to gross a total of US$75,668,868 in the US, totaling US$120,000,000 worldwide. [18]

Generations premiered in the United Kingdom on 10 February 1995 . It became the highest grossing Star Trek film in that territory up to that time with £7,340,239. [19]

Cast notes [ ]

The only people, aside from the regular cast, to participate in both this film and the final TNG film, Star Trek Nemesis , are Majel Barrett and Whoopi Goldberg . In both films Barrett voiced the Enterprise computer and Goldberg appeared as Guinan .
This is William Shatner's only appearance as Kirk without Leonard Nimoy.
Though the film marks the final canon appearances of William Shatner and Walter Koenig (Chekov), both appeared again in the computer game Star Trek: Starfleet Academy .
This is James Doohan 's last appearance as Scotty, although he had previously appeared in the role in TNG : " Relics ". The events of that episode chronologically take place well after the events of the first act of Generations.
Uhura is the only major character from Star Trek: The Original Series not to appear or be referenced in dialogue.
This is Whoopi Goldberg's first appearance as Guinan since TNG : " Suspicions ". DS9 : " Rivals " (in which the name El-Aurians is first established) was originally intended to feature Guinan as Martus Mazur 's mother, but Whoopi Goldberg was unavailable.
Tim Russ appeared aboard the Enterprise -B in the opening of the film. He had previously appeared in TNG : " Starship Mine " and DS9 : " Invasive Procedures " as different characters and would soon after be cast as Tuvok in Star Trek: Voyager .
Robert and René Picard were portrayed by different actors in the photographs in Picard's album, and in the Nexus scene as in the episode " Family ".
Christopher James Miller plays the film version of René, Captain Picard's nephew. He had previously portrayed William Shatner's son in an episode of seaQuest DSV .
According to The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) , Patrick Stewart was aided in his portrayal of Picard's grief by the script for Jeffrey , which he was reading on set.
Shots of Picard standing over Kirk's grave did not actually feature Patrick Stewart , but rather Dennis Tracy . Tracy acted as Stewart's stand-in and appeared earlier in the film as an unnamed Bolian waiter in Ten Forward.
Although Data is the owner of Spot the cat, Brent Spiner objected to the scene where Data finds Spot in the wreckage of the Enterprise , saying " Does he have to find the cat? Can't he find, like, Geordi or something? "
The captain of the Lady Washington (the ship used for the sea vessel "Enterprise") appears during the holodeck sequence of the film, taking over the helm from Deanna Troi.
Generations marks the deaths of several major characters: Captain James T. Kirk, Robert Picard, René Picard, and the Duras sisters, Lursa and B'Etor. It also marks the destruction of the Enterprise -D and the final appearance of La Forge's VISOR.
After the release of Generations , William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy made a joint appearance on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee . Host Regis Philbin asked Nimoy if he would appear in another Trek film to which he replied " if he [Shatner] shows up, I'll be there. " Shatner then quipped: " You are such a liar! I showed up and you didn't! " Ironically, Nimoy later appeared in both the 2009 film Star Trek and the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness , without Shatner.
Of the two Duras sisters, only Lursa's name is ever mentioned within the context of the movie. B'Etor's name is never spoken. The only time her character is actually identified is in the closing credits.
Malcolm McDowell (Tolian Soran) is the real life uncle of Alexander Siddig , who played Julian Bashir throughout Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .

References to other series and films [ ]

According to Soran's file, he and Guinan were fleeing a Borg attack on the El-Aurian homeworld. That event was first referred by Guinan in the episode TNG : " Q Who ".
Footage of the interior of the Bird-of-Prey being destroyed appeared again later in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes " Tears of the Prophets " and " What You Leave Behind ".
Though not heard on screen, the name of the Lakul 's counterpart was the SS Robert Fox , named for Ambassador Robert Fox from TOS : " A Taste of Armageddon ".
The scene in which Picard buries Kirk's body on a cliffside under rocks is reminiscent of Kirk burying Gary Mitchell in " Where No Man Has Gone Before " and D'Amato in " That Which Survives ".
After Data's emotion chip is installed, he references a joke La Forge told during their mission at Farpoint . The punchline of the joke had to do with a "Ferengi in a gorilla suit." This must have happened during the events of the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode " Encounter at Farpoint ", although the actual joke was not heard on screen.
Doctor Soran ridicules and uses Geordi's VISOR as a transmitter to gain a tactical advantage on the USS Enterprise leading to the ship's destruction. Geordi chooses to replace his VISOR with ocular implants for Star Trek: First Contact .
Kirk's retirement, relationship with Antonia, and decision to return to Starfleet might have occurred in a (previously unreferenced) period of his life, between Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan .
When the past version of Guinan appears to Picard in the Nexus, she acts as if she already knows him. This is because, from her point of view, she sees him for a second time; she first met Picard when she lived in 19th century Earth in TNG : " Time's Arrow, Part II ".
The dress worn by Antonia was previously worn by Fenna .
The film takes place one year after the events in the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation , " All Good Things... ".
The destruction of the Enterprise -D is very similar to its alternate timeline counterpart from " Yesterday's Enterprise ". Both ships meet their ends at the hands of a Klingon Bird-of-Prey and both as a result of a coolant leak. The main timeline Enterprise crew was able to escape because, unlike its counterpart, the battle was over when the coolant leak began.
This is the only TNG film to not feature the gray-shoulder uniform or the USS Enterprise -E , as they are not introduced until Star Trek: First Contact .
Worf is the only male main TNG cast member from the main cast to not wear the DS9 uniform in this film. However, he wore it upon joining the main cast of DS9 itself in its Season 4 premiere episode, " The Way of the Warrior ", albeit in command red rather than the operations gold that he wears in this film.
None of the women from the TNG main cast wear the DS9 uniform in this film.
Kirk's line to Picard, "I was out saving the galaxy when your grandfather was in diapers", echoes Scotty's line to Geordi from " Relics " (I was drivin' ships while your great-grandfather was in diapers), aired 2 years previously.
The destruction of the Enterprise -D was mentioned by Worf and Sisko in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4 premiere episode, " The Way of the Warrior ".
This is the only time where the Enterprise battle bridge is not used during the saucer separation sequence, mainly due to the warp core breach in the stardrive section. It is also the only time where Wesley Crusher and Miles O'Brien are absent during the saucer separation sequence.
Picard's DS9 uniform looks a lot different than the ones seen on the early seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager in this film as he wears a black velcro belt around the waist, making it the only time where a black velcro belt is worn on the DS9 uniform.
Picard, Riker, Data and LaForge are the only four characters of the TNG main cast to wear the DS9 uniform in this film. Alyssa Ogawa is the only female to wear the DS9 uniform in this film.
Riker's DS9 uniform in this film has his sleeves rolled up (similar to Miles O'Brien 's in the early seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ).
Spock , Leonard McCoy , Hikaru Sulu , and Nyota Uhura are briefly seen in a photograph (along with Scott, Chekov, and Kirk himself) on Kirk's trophy wall when Kirk first enters his cabin in the Nexus. The photograph was a publicity photo for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country . The wall (including the photo) is only briefly seen in the film, though it is showcased in The Art of Star Trek on p. 288. Star Trek Beyond would later more prominently feature a publicity photo of the same crew members taken for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier .
The time travel in the movie works differently than time travel depicted in similar events previously and later. When Picard goes back in time, he should also see a previous version of himself at that time. If somehow the time travel when Nexus is involved is different, then it would have been impossible to find Soren on the planet because the future version of him is already in the Nexus. This inconsistency is never explained.

Sets and props [ ]

A bottle of Saurian brandy can be seen in the reception room at the christening of the Enterprise -B.
Captain Picard's chair was stolen from the set mere hours before shooting was scheduled to commence. A new one was quickly fabricated. This incident became infamous enough that novels relating to Star Trek: The Next Generation written after the movie often have Picard's chair being stolen for one reason or another.
Data's emotion chip has varied in shape and size since its last appearance in TNG : " Descent, Part II " (which, in turn, was different from its previous appearance in TNG : " Brothers "). Also, Geordi inserts the chip into Data's head, while in "Brothers", Dr. Soong implanted the chip in Lore 's (whom he thought was Data) neck. The piece itself seen in this movie was a gold-plated plastic weapon common in the Zoids model kit line from Japan and America. ( citation needed • edit )
Among the items visible in Captain Kirk's house are a painting of the original Federation starship USS Enterprise , the ship's dedication plaque, a publicity photo of the cast of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , a Klingon bat'leth , a Starfleet phaser from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , and a Jem'Hadar weapon from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
While searching through the wreckage of the Enterprise -D's bridge, Picard happens upon the top half of the Kurlan naiskos originally seen in TNG : " The Chase " and places it back on the floor.
A box of video tapes, which includes the graphic displays such as RADAR and subspace scan from the Enterprise -B's red alert sequence, was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [20] (X)
A tank full of water seen briefly in the background at the Enterprise -B's sickbay would later be reused in VOY : " Phage " in the USS Voyager 's sickbay.

Apocrypha [ ]

Coinciding with the film's marketing campaign, a hardcover novelization was released by Pocket Books . Written by frequent Star Trek fiction contributor J.M. Dillard , the novelization differed from the movie on a number of minor points, but was generally faithful to the structure and dialogue of the original screenplay. The reshoot of the climactic Kirk scenes meant that the hardcover, and the Simon & Schuster Audioworks adaptation, had already gone to press with the originally scripted version. Dillard was asked to rewrite the final chapters for the eventual paperback release of the novelization to agree with the theatrical version of the movie.
In the novel all other members of the original cast are part of the story. Chekov contacts Sulu aboard Excelsior to tell him about Kirk. In their conversation, Chekov tells Sulu that Scotty is contacting Uhura and Kirk's nephew . McCoy and Spock are also seen arriving early to the memorial service for Kirk.
Also in the novelization, but missing from the film, a scene between Chekov and Guinan occurs in which she tells him that his friend is still alive within the energy ribbon.
In the novelization, Picard successfully defeats Soran hand-to-hand; however, by the time he defeats him the rocket takes off to plunge into the sun. The movie depicts Soran as being a better fighter than Picard.
In the original ending of the film, the fight between Kirk and Soran is much longer and they are much more evenly matched in terms of fighting skills. In the original ending, it's Kirk who's knocked off the cliff and is forced to climb back up the mountain to stop Soran.
In Engines of Destiny , following the events of " Relics ", Scott travels back in time to rescue Kirk in a Bird-of-Prey recovered from a distant solar system, believing that he can save Kirk by approaching the Enterprise -B in a shuttle and beaming Kirk to safety after he has reconfigured the tractor beam, thus preserving Kirk's disappearance while changing the exact cause of it. However, this change in the timeline allows the Borg to almost completely overtake the Alpha Quadrant , as, without Kirk's aid, Picard died during the confrontation with Soran. Consequently, Earth is conquered by the Borg during the time-travel events of Star Trek: First Contact . Aided by the Enterprise -D crew after they followed Scotty's stolen Bird-of-Prey through its slingshot maneuver and arrived in the new timeline, as well as alternate versions of Guinan and Sarek , Scott is forced to return Kirk to the Nexus, restoring the original timeline at the moment the Enterprise is destroyed by a Borg fleet.
In the novel The Return , the Romulans and Borg went back in time and copied Kirk's brain waves before he died. They later stole his buried body, inserting the brain waves and using some Borg modifications to re-animate his body, turning him into a killing machine to hunt down Picard. At the conclusion of the novel, Kirk is freed from the brainwashing and his life is saved after a final attack on the Borg central node, disrupting the connection that keeps every branch of the Borg Collective in contact with each other and thus limiting the threat they will pose in future.
According to Star Trek Online , the unseen child of Lursa has been born by the events of the film; Online also establishes that his name is Ja'rod and he survives to become an influential soldier of the Empire.
In the novel The Star to Every Wandering , Kirk's death is interrupted by a converging temporal loop, caused by an excessive amount of chronometric particles in Kirk's body and of his trip in and out of the Nexus destroying all of spacetime between the places where he entered and exited the Nexus (near Earth and Veridian III) and from those times as well (2293 to 2371). Kirk, pulled back into the Nexus just before he could die, has to find a way to stop the converging temporal loop and save untold billions of lives without altering the timeline, managing to do so with the aid of his own echo in the Nexus who leaves and travels through time via the Guardian of Forever in order to maintain the timeline without destroying it.

Merchandise gallery [ ]

Awards and honors [ ]

Star Trek Generations received the following awards and honors.

Links and references [ ]

Credits [ ], opening credits [ ].

Patrick Stewart
Jonathan Frakes
Brent Spiner
LeVar Burton
Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden
Marina Sirtis
Malcolm McDowell
James Doohan
Walter Koenig
William Shatner as " Captain James T. Kirk "
Junie Lowry-Johnson , CSA and Ron Surma
Dennis McCarthy
Peter Lauritson
Robert Blackman
Peter E. Berger , ACE
Herman Zimmerman
John A. Alonzo , ASC
Bernie Williams
Gene Roddenberry
Rick Berman & Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga
Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga
Rick Berman
David Carson

Closing credits [ ]

Picard – Patrick Stewart
Riker – Jonathan Frakes
Data – Brent Spiner
Geordi – LeVar Burton
Worf – Michael Dorn
Beverly – Gates McFadden
Troi – Marina Sirtis
Soran – Malcolm McDowell
Scotty – James Doohan
Chekov – Walter Koenig
Kirk – William Shatner
Capt. Harriman – Alan Ruck
Demora – Jacqueline Kim
Science Officer – Jenette Goldstein
Com Officer – Thomas Kopache
Navigator – Glenn Morshower
Lieutenant – Tim Russ
Tommy Hinkley ( #1 )
John Putch ( #2 )
Christine Jansen ( #3 )
Ensign Hayes – Michael Mack
Lieutenant Farrell – Dendrie Taylor
Nurse Ogawa – Patti Yasutake
Transporter Chief – Granville Ames
Security Officer – Henry Marshall
Girl with Teddy Bear – Brittany Parkyn
Computer Voice – Majel Barrett
Lursa – Barbara March
B'Etor – Gwynyth Walsh
Klingon Guard – Rif Hutton
Klingon Helm – Brian Thompson
Marcy Goldman
Jim Krestalude
Judy Levitt ( Survivor #3 )
Kristopher Logan
Gwen Van Dam ( Survivor #9 )
Picard's Wife – Kim Braden
Picard's Nephew – Christopher James Miller
Matthew Collins ( Matthew Picard )
Mimi Collins ( Mimi Picard )
Thomas Alexander Dekker ( Thomas Picard )
Madison Eginton ( Madison Picard )
Olivia Hack ( Olivia Picard )
John Nowak (Stunt double for Patrick Stewart)
Randy Hall (Stunt double for Malcolm McDowell)
Pat Tallman (Stunt double for Gates McFadden and Gwynyth Walsh, and an Enterprise -D officer )
Don Pulford (Stunt double for William Shatner)
Bernie Pock (Stunt double for William Shatner)
Eric Stabenau ( Bridge Crewman )
Michael Haynes (Stunt double for Malcolm McDowell)
Robert Grand
Yudi Bennett
Chris Soldo
Daniel Silverberg
Ronald B. Moore
Michael Westmore
Michelle Wright
Sandy Veneziano
John M. Dwyer
Robert Fechtman
Ron Wilkinson
Dianne Wager
Michael H. Okuda
Pernell Youngblood Tyus
Krishna Rao
George J. Billinger III
Gregory W. Smith
Jeffrey P. Greeley
Alan Gitlin
Jorge Sanchez
David Goldstein
Elliott S. Marks
Stuart Spohn
Frank X. Valdez III
Scott McKnight
Jesse Tango
James R. Renfro
Robert E. Griffith
Joseph Dianda
Scott Mayhugh
John W. Harmon II
Thomas D. Causey
Joseph F. Brennan
Richard Kite
Terry D. Frazee
Donald L. Frazee
Logan Frazee
Eugene Crum
Greg Curtis
Donald E. Meyers, Jr.
Brian McManus
June Haymore
Debbie Zoller
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Carolyn L. Elias
Patricia Miller
Laura Connolly
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Bill Cancienne
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Denise Okuda
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Victoria Wilson
Carolyn M. Dahm
Dawn Velazquez
Cheryl Gluckstern
Jackie Edwards
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Music by Alexander Courage
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Special Artwork provided by The Philip Edgerly Agency
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Uncredited [ ]

Performers [ ].

Sam Alejan as El-Aurian survivor
David Keith Anderson as Armstrong
Kimberly Auslander as J. Jonah Jameson
Lena Banks as operations ensign
Buzz Barbee as maiden voyage official
Enterprise -D civilian
Klingon officer
Joe Baumann as Garvey
Rina Bennett as Starfleet officer
Eddie Berman as Bolian boy
Tom Berman as Vulcan boy
Pam Blackwell as El-Aurian survivor
Joey Box as Enterprise -D command officer
Steven Boz as security ensign
Brandy as Spot
Debbie David as Enterprise -B crewman
Cameron as Kellogg
Tracee Lee Cocco as Jae
Steve Diamond as command officer
Andrew DePalma as El-Aurian survivor
Mizarian civilian
operations division ensign
Michael Echols as Klingon bridge officer
Tarik Ergin as Medical technician
Gunnel Eriksson as sciences officer
Margaret Flores as civilian
Kevin Grevioux as Starfleet security officer
Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan
Darrell Hall as Enterprise crewman
Star Halm as Enterprise -D lieutenant (uncredited)
Adolphus Hankins as maiden voyage official
Command officer
Kerry Hoyt as security ensign
Gary Hunter as Vulcan civilian
Penny Juday as Woman in Ten Forward
D. Kai as sciences officer
Dale Kasman as Starfleet officer
Bill Larson as Enterprise helmsman
Nora Leonhardt as civilian
Stewart W. Lew as crewman in Ten Forward
M. McCahill as Starfleet officer
Mary Meinel-Newport as Bolian woman
Lorine Mendell as Enterprise -B crewman
Rad Milo as Enterprise -D ensign
Monster as Spot
Karlotta Nelson as El-Aurian survivor
Michael Papajohn as Enterprise -D command officer
Jim Portnoy as Enterprise -D civilian
Jerry Quinn as Enterprise -B crewman
Keith Rayve as command crewman
Raul Reformina as command officer
Allen Rice as Enterprise -B crewman
Rick Ryan as Fletcher
Richard Sarstedt as command officer
Lou Simon as operations officer
Spencer as Spot
Noriko Suzuki as Enterprise -D engineer
John Tampoya as Enterprise -B crewman
Dennis Tracy as Bolian waiter
Darien Wallace
D. Danny Warhol as engineering crewman in hallway
Terryl Whitlach as civilian during saucer section crash
Harry Williams, Jr.
S. Williams as Starfleet officer
Zoe as Spot
Alien evacuee
Enterprise -B crewman
Enterprise -D bridge officer (voice)
Enterprise -D communications officer (voice)
Two Human maiden voyage officials
Romulan corpse
Six Starfleet officers
SS Lakul comm voice
Starfleet officer
Ten Human launch spectators
Thirteen Enterprise brig crewmen
Twenty-three El-Aurian survivors
Two journalists
Vulcan woman

Stunt performers [ ]

Jane Austin as stunt double for Gates McFadden
Joni Avery as stunt double for Marina Sirtis
Jay Caputo as Enterprise -D bridge crewman
Eugene Collier
Erik Cord as stunt double for William Shatner
Chris Durand as Enterprise -D bridge crewman
Norman Kent as stunt double for William Shatner ( deleted sky diving scene )
Rusty McClennon as stunt double for Michael Dorn
Jeff Mosley as stunt double for Michael Dorn
Denney Pierce as Enterprise -D flight controller
Mark Riccardi as stunt double for Jonathan Frakes
Pat Romano – stunt rigger
Lynn Salvatori as Antonia
Cris Thomas-Palomino as Enterprise -D crewmember
David Wendler as stunt double for William Shatner (horse jump)
Brian J. Williams as stunt double for Brent Spiner
Merritt Yohnka as Enterprise -B crewman
Unknown animal actors as Nexus horses

Stand-ins and photo doubles [ ]

Stand-in for LeVar Burton
Stand-in for Tim Russ
Margaret Flores – stand-in for Marina Sirtis
Lauren C. Kim – stand-in for Jacqueline Kim
Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis
Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden
James Minor – stand-in for Michael Dorn
Kevin Reed O'Hara – photo double for Walter Koenig
Keith Rayve – stand-in for Brent Spiner
Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes
Dennis Tracy – stand-in for Patrick Stewart
Guy Vardaman – body double for Brent Spiner
Philip Weyland – stand-in for William Shatner

Production staff [ ]

Dave Archer – Artwork Provider: Paintings
Rey Barrera – Rigging Electrician
Rob Bloch – Animal Trainer: Critters of the Cinema
Tom Bookout – Grip
Kelli Cole – Animal Trainer: Critters of the Cinema
Bernie Dresel – Orchestra Drummer
Christopher Flick – Foley Editor
Edward J. Franklin – Special Effects Artist
Bill Hawk – Prop fabricator
Jack Haye – Modelmaker
Joe Lombardi – Special Effects Artist: Full Scale Effects
Jim W. Pearson – Advisor
Dan Purinton – Rigging Gaffer/Lot Best Boy
Clark Schaffer – Production Illustrator
Karen Thomas-Kolakowski – Animal Trainer: Critters of the Cinema
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Captains Kirk and Picard meet in a strange "Nexus" that defies time and unites forces to save a planet from destruction.

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The “ Star Trek ” saga has always had a weakness for getting distracted by itself, and “Star Trek: Generations,” the seventh film installment, is undone by its narcissism. Here is a movie so concerned with in-jokes and updates for Trekkers that it can barely tear itself away long enough to tell a story. From the weight and attention given to the transfer of command on the Starship Enterprise, you’d think a millennium was ending – which is, by the end of the film, how it feels.

The movie opens during a maiden run for the Enterprise B; plans call for it to take a little dash around the solar system with some reporters on board. But then a call for help is received, and there’s polite jockeying for position between the newly appointed Capt. Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) and the just-retired Capt. Kirk ( William Shatner ). Kirk is obviously better-equipped to handle the crisis, but alas the ship itself is unequipped, unmanned and unready for an emergency.

The emergency involves a free-floating coil of space energy, which has captured two ships in what I think was called its Gravametric Field. (“Star Trek” has never been shy of polysyllabic pseudoscientific gobbledygook, and “Generation” bathes in it; the victims’ “life signs are phasing in and out of our space-time continuum”!) One of the survivors is the intense Dr. Soran ( Malcolm McDowell ), of the El Aurian species, who insists he must get back to the ship. It explodes in the Nexus force field, however, and the story leaps forward 78 years. Capt. Picard now finds himself on a rescue mission to an observatory where Dr. Soran is again rescued, and again insists he must return, and lo, here comes the Nexus again, along with an explanation by Guinan ( Whoopi Goldberg ), the Enterprise’s resident mystic, who says that those caught in the Nexus are “bathed in joy.” We learn that Soran will do anything for that joy, including destroying stars and their planets with millions of inhabitants, just to nudge the Nexus a little out of its way. His calculations are astonishingly precise: By using Solar Probes to destroy an entire solar system, he can steer the Nexus so that it brushes right above a rickety steel platform he has constructed in an alien desert, and he can sort of leap up into it and be absorbed in joy.

Meanwhile, there is a lot happening aboard the Enterprise, which has a way of being constantly buffeted by force fields and Gravametric explosions ex cept when Quietly Meaningful Dialogue is being exchanged; at such times the ship is perfectly still. I would estimate that the command deck is being buffeted, filled with smoke, and showered with electri cal sparks, a good third of the time, with the computers all flashing superfluous “Alert!” warnings, just when you want them to tell you something helpful.

The “Star Trek” series has always specialized in hilariously klutzy hardware, but outdoes itself this time; the TV cameramen in the opening scenes wear little lights on their heads which illuminate only the centers of the faces of their subjects (surely by the 21st century Man, even Newsman, will not have forgotten how to light a whole face?). And the computer controls aboard the starship now seem modeled on the multiple-choice cash registers at McDonald’s, where you just push the Big Mac button instead of needing to know how much it costs.

The running joke this time involves Lt. Cmdr. Data ( Brent Spiner ), a computerized android who tries out a tricky emotion chip and suddenly understands jokes he was told years ago. This notion could have led to some funny scenes, but doesn’t, and the scene where Data shorts out (or his chip crashes, or something) is acted and directed so uncertainly it is positively puzzling.

The “Star Trek” movies and TV shows always consider at least one Big Important Human Question, and this time it has to do with the Choice Between Happiness and Reality. When you get sucked into the Nexus, see, you think you are living once again through the most joyous days of your life. This would be great, except you kinda know you’re not, and so both Capt. Kirk and Capt. Picard must choose between the hazards of reality and the seductive dream world. There’s a lesson here somewhere. Hell, there’s a lesson here everywhere.

I will not be giving away any secrets if I reveal that Capt.

Kirk dies in the course of the movie. Countless Trekkers have solemnly informed me of this fact for months, if not years. Leave it to Kirk to be discontent with just one death scene, however. Kirk’s first death is a very long silence, but he has dialogue for his second one. Oh, my, yes he does. And slips away so subtly I was waiting for more.

I, for one, will miss him. There is something endearing about the “Star Trek” world, even down to and including its curious tradition that the even-numbered movies tend to be better than the odd-numbered ones. And it’s fun to hear the obligatory dialogue one more time (my favorite, always said by someone watching the giant view screen, where an unearthly sight has appeared: “What . . . the . . . hell . . . is . . . THAT?”).

“Star Trek” seems to cross the props of science fiction with the ideas of Westerns. Watching the fate of millions being settled by an old-fashioned fistfight on a rickety steel bridge (intercut with closeups of the bolts popping loose and the structure sagging ominously), I was almost amused by the shabby storytelling. Why doesn’t more movie science fiction have the originality and imagination of its print origins? In “ Stargate ,” the alien god Ra was able to travel the universe, yet still needed slaves to build his pyramids. In “Star Trek: Generations,” the starship can go boldly where no one has gone before, but the screenwriters can only do vice versa.

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In the late twenty-third century, the gala maiden voyage of the third Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) boasts such luminaries as Pavel Chekov, Montgomery Scott, and the legendary Captain James T. Kirk as guests. But the maiden voyage turns to disaster as the unprepared ship is forced to rescue two transport ships from a mysterious energy ribbon. The Enterprise manages to save a handful of he ships' passengers and barely makes it out intact...but at the cost of Captain Kirk's life. Seventy-eight years later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soren...who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soren's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years...

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Beyond the Nexus .

Star Trek Generations is a 1994 American science fiction film directed by David Carson and based on the franchise of the same name created by Gene Roddenberry . It is the seventh film in the Star Trek film series , as well as the first to star the cast of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation . In the film, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise -D teams up with his predecessor, Captain James T. Kirk , to stop a villain from destroying a planet.

Parts of the film were shot at the Valley of Fire State Park near Overton, Nevada , Paramount Studios , and Lone Pine, California . While the film received mixed reviews from critics, it performed well at the box office

In the year 2293, retired Captain James T. Kirk , Montgomery Scott , and Pavel Chekov attend the maiden voyage of the Federation starship USS Enterprise -B , under the command of the unseasoned Capt. John Harriman . During the voyage, Enterprise is pressed into a rescue mission to save two El-Aurian ships from a strange energy ribbon. Enterprise is able to save some of the refugees before their ships are destroyed, but the starship becomes trapped in the ribbon. Kirk goes to deflector control to alter the deflector dish, allowing Enterprise to escape, but the trailing end of the ribbon rakes across Enterprise ' s hull, exposing the section Kirk is in to space; he is presumed dead.

In 2371, the crew of the USS Enterprise -D celebrate the promotion of Worf to Lieutenant Commander. Captain Jean-Luc Picard receives a message that his brother and nephew were killed in a fire, meaning the storied Picard family line will end with him. Enterprise receives a distress call from an observatory in orbit of the star Amargosa, where they rescue the El-Aurian Dr. Tolian Soran. The android Data and engineer Geordi La Forge discover a compound called trilithium in a hidden room of the observatory. Soran appears, knocks La Forge unconscious, and launches a trilithium solar probe at Amargosa. The probe causes the star to implode, sending a shock wave toward the observatory. Soran and La Forge are transported away by a Klingon Bird of Prey belonging to the treacherous Duras sisters , who had stolen the trilithium for Soran in exchange for the designs for a trilithium weapon. Data is rescued just before the station is destroyed by the shock wave.

Guinan , Enterprise ' s bartender, tells Captain Jean-Luc Picard more about Soran; they were among the El-Aurians rescued by the Enterprise -B in 2293. Guinan explains that Soran is obsessed with reentering the "Nexus", an extra-dimensional realm where time has no meaning and anyone can experience whatever they desire. Picard and Data determine that Soran, unable to fly a ship into the ribbon due to the uncertainty that the ship will survive long enough to ensure his success, is instead altering the path of the ribbon by destroying stars, and that he will attempt to re-enter the Nexus on Veridian III by destroying its sun—and, by extension, a heavily populated planet in the system.

Upon entering the Veridian system, Enterprise makes contact with the Duras Bird of Prey. Picard offers himself to the sisters in exchange for La Forge, but insists that he be transported to Soran's location first. La Forge is returned to Enterprise , but he inadvertently reveals Enterprise ' s shield frequency, allowing the Duras sisters to inflict crippling damage on Enterprise . Enterprise destroys the Bird of Prey, but has sustained irreversible damage to its warp core. Commander William Riker orders an evacuation to the forward saucer section of the ship which separates from the star drive. The shock wave from the star drive's destruction sends the saucer crashing to the surface of Veridian III.

Picard fails to talk Soran out of his plan and is too late to stop him from launching his missile. The collapse of the Veridian star alters the course of the Nexus ribbon as predicted, and it sweeps Picard and Soran away while the shock wave from the star obliterates everything in the system. In the Nexus, Picard finds himself surrounded by the family he never had, including a wife and children, but realizes it is an illusion. He is confronted by an "echo" of Guinan. After being told that he may leave whenever he chooses and go wherever and whenever he wishes, Guinan sends him to meet Kirk, also safe in the Nexus. Though Kirk is at first reluctant to leave, Picard convinces Kirk to return to Picard's present and stop Soran by assuring him that it will fulfill his desire to make a difference.

Leaving the Nexus, the two arrive on Veridian III minutes before Soran launches the missile. Kirk distracts Soran long enough for Picard to lock the missile in place, causing it to explode on the launchpad and kill Soran. Kirk is fatally injured by a fall during the encounter; as he dies, Picard assures him that he made a difference. Picard buries Kirk before a shuttle arrives to transport him to the wreckage of the Enterprise saucer. Three Federation starships enter orbit to retrieve Enterprise' s survivors.

Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk
Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker
Brent Spiner as Lieutenant Commander Data
LeVar Burton as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Commander Worf . Unlike his TNG co-stars, this was his second Star Trek film, having appeared on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , portraying his TNG character's grandfather, Colonel Worf, who defended Kirk and McCoy at their trial.
Gates McFadden as Chief Medical Officer Commander Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as ship's counselor Commander Deanna Troi
Alan Ruck as Enterprise -B captain John Harriman
Malcolm McDowell as Tolian Soran
Jacqueline Kim as Ensign Demora Sulu , helmsman of Enterprise -B and the daughter of the original Enterprise ' s helmsman, Hikaru Sulu . Kim consulted with art supervisor Michael Okuda to make sure her hand movements and manipulations of the ships' controls were consistent and accurate. [4 ]
Barbara March and Gwynyth Walsh as the villainous Klingon sisters Lursa and B'Etor
Patti Yasutake as Enterprise nurse Lieutenant Alyssa Ogawa
Whoopi Goldberg (not credited) as Enterprise bartender Guinan

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"It may not "boldly go where no one has gone before," but Star Trek Generations has enough verve, imagination and familiarity to satisfy three decades' worth of Trekkers" Leonard Klady : Variety
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May 1, 2013 by That Film Guy Leave a Comment

Picard or Kirk? The age old Star Trek debate. Who is the better Captain of the USS Enterprise? This debate can send fans of the franchise into a full-blooded rage, but in 1994 they got to experience both Captains together in the same film, Star Trek: Generations . It represents William Shatner’s last official portrayal of the iconic Captain Kirk and Patrick Stewart’s first foray into the film franchise acting as the bridge in the films between the Original Series crew and the Next Generation.

During the maiden voyage of the USS Enterprise-B, a strange ˜ribbon-like’ wave of energy strikes, transporting those unfortunate enough not to escape, including former Captain James T. Kirk (Shatner) into the ˜nexus,’ an endless time-loop reality. In the future, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Stewart) is alerted to an attack by Romulans on a research facility and must find scientist Soran (Malcolm McDowell), a survivor of the Enterprise-B, who is planning to destroy several stars, thus diverting the path of the ˜Nexus’ and allowing him to finally achieve his goal of entering.

For a film sold on the premise of having both iconic Captains in the same film, Star Trek: Generations does deliver. It takes around an hour and half for them to actually share the screen, but both men give a good account of themselves and no doubt send some Trekkies into a mild delirium. It’s an interesting dynamic of the stoic, duty-bound Picard and the passionate, veteran Kirk and provides the true highlight of the narrative. Resident android Data (Brent Spiner) gets a chip implant that gives him human emotions, which proves to be a mixed bag in terms of success, while Soran is about as cardboard cutout a villain as you can get, given some life by veteran character actor McDowell.

The rest of the film is concerned with macguffins and pseudo-scientific speak that basically builds to a fist fight on a steel rig. But fans wanted Kirk and Picard in the same film and that’s exactly what they got if not a lot else. It’s a real shame that the combination of the two captains, while excellently teased, hinders what could have been one of the strongest entries in the entire canon of Star Trek films. Instead, Star Trek: Generations continued the rule that odd numbered installments were far lesser than their even counterparts.

As for who ˜wins’ between Kirk and Picard, the film-makers fudge any significant showdown, presenting both Captains as ˜good’ and the result is neither are ˜great.’ Stewart may just edge it in terms of acting performance, but there’s plenty of scenery-chewing Kirk goodness to satisfy his fans too. In the end, it doesn’t matter who the better Captain is, because fans of the series will continue to debate the answer regardless of the events of Star Trek: Generations and then all we are left with, is a wholly unsatisfying film that is better left forgotten. Picard is the best though.

Thomas Patrick

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Star Trek movies in order: Chronological and release

Number One, show me a list of all the Star Trek movies in order — both chronological and release — engage!

Star Trek movies in order (Image shows The Original Series James T Kirk, The Next Generation's Jean Luc Picard, and the Kelvin era's James T Kirk & Spock

Chronological order
Prime Timeline

The Original Series movies

The next generation movies.

Kelvin Timeline
Release order

Upcoming Star Trek movies

Raise shields, red alert — we’re going to try and put all the Star Trek movies in order. And we do mean try.

When they were focused on the Original Series era, the Star Trek movies were so easy to watch in order — the movies were numbered, everything was nice and simple. Then Picard comes in with his Next Generation buddies and suddenly numbers are out, subtitles are in. And that’s before we get all the time travel shenanigans that gave birth to the Kelvin timeline , an alternative timeline that splits off from the main canon.

It's been a long while since we've had a new Star Trek movie, with the last release — Star Trek Beyond — coming out back in 2016. Over eight years! Voyager got home from the Delta Quadrant in less time than that! Mercifully the drought is nearly over, with the Discovery spin-off movie Star Trek: Section 31 due to launch in early 2025.

So while we wait for Trek's silver screen return, we’re going to break down the various timelines and help you watch the Star Trek movies in either chronological or release order —- the Temporal Prime Directive be damned. Oh and we’re not making any judgements on the quality of the movies here, so head over to our Star Trek movies ranked list if you want to fight about whether the Kirk or Picard era movies are better.

All of the Star Trek movies are available to watch on Paramount+, along with almost all the shows — check our Star Trek streaming guide to find which nebulas the exceptions are hiding in.

Star Trek movies: Chronological order

Below is the quick version of our list if you just need to check something to win an argument, but it comes with a lot of in-universe time travel-related caveats that we'll explain below.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: Insurrection
Star Trek: Nemesis
Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Beyond

Star Trek: Prime Timeline

The first thing you need to know about the Star Trek films is that while they travel back and forth in time, they also diverge into two (for now) different timelines. The films of the original crew (well, the first iteration of them, anyway – more on that later) are all in what is known as the Prime Timeline.

Within the Prime Timeline, the movies are then split between The Original Series movies and The Next Generation movies.

1. Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Crew in Star Trek: The Motion Picture_Paramount Pictures

Release date: December 8, 1979
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley

This is the film that brought the voyages of the U.S.S. Enterprise to the big screen. An energy cloud is making its way toward Earth, destroying everything in its path. Kirk and crew intercept it and discover an ancient NASA probe at the heart of the cloud. Voyager – known as V’ger now – encountered a planet of living machines, learned all it could, and returned home to report its findings, only to find no one who knew how to answer. It’s a slow-paced film, and the costumes are about as 70s as they come, but there’s classic Star Trek at the heart of this film.

2. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Ricardo Montalban in Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan (1982)_Paramount Pictures

Release date: June 4, 1982
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban

Ask a Star Trek fan what the best Star Trek movie is and more often than not, you’ll get Khan as your answer. A sequel to the events of the “Space Seed” episode of The Original Series, Khan is a retelling of Moby Dick with Khan throwing reason to the wind as he hunts his nemesis, James T. Kirk. Montalban delivers a pitch-perfect performance, giving us a Khan with charisma and obsession in equal parts.

3. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Walter Koenig, William Shatner, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, and George Takei in Star Trek III The Search for Spock (1984)_Paramount Pictures

Release date: June 1, 1984

Spock might have died in The Wrath of Khan, but this third entry set up the premise for his return, with the creation of the Genesis planet. Essentially a heist movie in reverse, Search for Spock has the crew defying orders from Starfleet in an attempt to reunite Spock’s consciousness with his newly-rejuvenated body. It’s not a great movie, but it does include two very important events: the rebirth of Spock and the death of Kirk’s son at the hands of the Klingons. That’ll be important a few flicks from now.

4. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Walter Koenig, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, and Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek IV The Voyage Home (1986)_Paramount Pictures

Release date: November 26, 1986
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Catherine Hicks

If Star Trek fans don’t say Khan is the best Star Trek movie, odds are very high they say Voyage Home is. It’s a funny film where the mission isn’t destruction, but creation – or more accurately, repairing the devastating effects of humankind’s ecological short-sightedness.

A probe arrives at Earth, knocking out the power of everything in its path as it looks for someone to respond to its message (yeah, it happens a lot). This time, however, the intended recipient is the long-extinct blue whale. To save Earth, Kirk and co. go back in time to 1980s San Francisco to snag some blue whales. The eco-messaging isn’t exactly subtle, but it doesn’t get in the way of a highly enjoyable movie.

5. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, and Laurence Luckinbill in Star Trek V The Final Frontier (1989)

Release date: June 9, 1989

A writers’ strike and Shatner’s directorial skills (or lack thereof) doomed this film before a single scene was shot. The core plot is actually pretty good: Spock’s half-brother hijacks the Enterprise so that he can meet God, which he believes to be… himself. Some Star Trek fans have an odd fondness for this movie, as it showcases the camaraderie of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy when they’re off-duty.

6. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, and Christopher Plummer in Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country (1991)_Paramount Pictures

Release date: December 6, 1991
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Christopher Plummer

Right, so if that Star Trek fan you’ve been talking to doesn’t choose either Khan or Voyage Home as the best Star Trek movie ever, they almost certainly name Undiscovered Country (and if they don’t, they have highly questionable taste, frankly). The Klingon moon of Praxis explodes, putting the entire Klingon race at risk. The Enterprise hosts a diplomatic entourage of Klingons, much to Kirk’s discomfort.

Remember how Klingons murdered Kirk’s son? Well, he certainly hasn’t forgotten. Kirk’s lingering rage makes him the perfect patsy for the murder of the Klingon Chancellor, sending him and McCoy to a prison planet and setting the stage for war. Christopher Plummer is perfection as a Shakespeare-quoting Klingon general with no taste for peace.

7. Star Trek: Generations

Malcolm McDowell, Brian Thompson, and Gwynyth Walsh in Star Trek Generations (1994)_Paramount Pictures

Release date: November 18, 1994
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner

And thus the torch is passed from the crew of The Original Series to that of The Next Generation. It’s a bit of a fumble, to be honest, but they all did their best to get Kirk and Picard into the same film and have it make sense. Malcolm McDowell plays Soran, a scientist who will stop at nothing to control the Nexus, a giant space rainbow that exists outside of space-time.

Soran lost his family when his home world was destroyed and he wants to re-join them (or at least an illusion of them) in the Nexus. He’s not so much a villain as a tragic figure, but the Nexus makes a meeting between Kirk and Picard possible. Not all that sensible, but possible.

8. Star Trek: First Contact

U.S.S. Enterprise battling the Borg in Star Trek First Contact (1996)_Paramount Pictures

Release date: November 22, 1996
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Alice Krige

Okay, no, for real, if your Star Trek pal didn’t pick Khan or Voyage Home or… oh, nevermind. Cueing off the iconic two-part episode “Best of Both Worlds,” in which Picard is assimilated by the Borg, First Contact sees the collective traveling back in time in order to disrupt First Contact, the day Earth’s first foray into space attracted the attention of the Vulcans, kicking off the events that would eventually lead to Starfleet’s victory over the Borg. The Borg Queen torments Picard with visions of the past and tempts Data with humanity, going so far as to give him some human skin.

The fight with the Borg aboard the Enterprise is thrilling, and the work on the surface to get first contact back on track is fun. Plus, there’s just nothing like Patrick Stewart turning it up to 11 as he lashes out at the enemy that haunts his dreams.

9. Star Trek: Insurrection

Brent Spiner and Patrick Stewart in Star Trek Insurrection (1998)_Paramount Pictures

Release date: December 11, 1998
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, F. Murray Abraham

Essentially an episode inflated for the big screen, Insurrection is about the Federation conspiring to displace a planet’s population in order to harvest the planet’s unique resource – super healing metaphasic particles. In addition to the rejuvenating natural resource, the Ba’ku also have access to exceptional technology, which they shun in favor of a more simple lifestyle.

Data malfunctions, the villains are Federation allies (and former Ba’ku!), Picard gets to knock boots with a local – Insurrection is the very definition of “fine.” Chronologically, Insurrection is relevant for rekindling the romance between Riker and Troi, but not much else.

10. Star Trek: Nemesis

Patrick Stewart and Tom Hardy in Star Trek Nemesis (2002)_Paramount Pictures

Release date: December 13, 2002
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Tom Hardy

Before he mumbled his way into our hearts as Bane, Tom Hardy was Shinzon, a clone of Picard the Romulans created in an eventually abandoned attempt to infiltrate Starfleet. Shinzon is dying, and all that will save him is a transfusion of Picard’s blood. Unfortunately, Shinzon also happens to be a megalomaniac who happens to want to destroy all life on Earth and maybe a few other planets, too, if he’s feeling saucy.

Nemesis is notable mostly for killing Data with a noble sacrifice, only to resurrect him moments later in a duplicate body found earlier by the Enterprise crew.

Star Trek: Kelvin Timeline

The last of the Prime Timeline movies failed to impress at the box office, so it was a few years before anyone tried to bring the Enterprise back to the big screen. Rather than lean on any of the TV crews, this new slate of movies would serve as a reboot, welcoming new audiences while honoring long-time fans. Welcome to the Kelvin Timeline. (For all the ins and outs, check out our Star Trek: Kelvin Timeline explained article).

11. Star Trek

John Cho, Simon Pegg, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, and Chris Pine in Star Trek (2009)_Paramount Pictures

Release date: May 8, 2009
Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban

Back to the beginning! Star Trek introduces us to James T. Kirk, Spock, and “Bones” McCoy as they meet and join the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Though the plot is a relatively straightforward affair of a Romulan named Nero trying to destroy the Earth. His anger borne out of grief, what matters most is how it all came to be. In the future, Spock – the Prime Timeline version – tries to save Romulus from being destroyed by a supernova, but fails. Both his ship and Nero’s are kicked back in time, setting off a chain of events that diverge from the original, “true” timeline.

The name “Kelvin” refers to the U.S.S. Kelvin, the ship heroically captained by Kirk’s father, which is destroyed in the opening moments of the movie.

12. Star Trek Into Darkness

Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, and Chris Pine in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)_© Zade Rosenthal_Paramount Pictures

Release date: May 16, 2013
Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch

The benefit of the Kelvin Timeline is that it not only allows Star Trek to explore canon material – such as Khan (he of the Wrath) – but to do something completely new with it. Khan features heavily in Into Darkness, but he has no beef with Kirk. Instead, a Starfleet Admiral is threatening the lives of Khan’s crew, forcing them to craft weapons of mass destruction.

Khan inevitably eludes captivity and strikes out against Starfleet, killing Captain Pike (and a bunch of others) in the process. Kirk and company eventually take Khan down, but not before Kirk sacrifices himself to save his crew. Don’t worry, these things don’t last in either Star Trek timeline, as Kirk gets better moments later thanks to *checks notes* Khan's super blood.

13. Star Trek Beyond

Idris Elba and Chris Pine in Star Trek Beyond (2016)_© Kimberley French_Paramount Pictures

Release date: July 22, 2016
Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Idris Elba

Beyond leans into the camaraderie of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy now that they’ve had some time together, much to the movie’s benefit. The Enterprise is lured to Altamid under false pretenses, leading to much of the crew being marooned on the planet. The architect of the deception was Krall, who wants an opportunity to return to a galaxy where war is the order of the day.

Beyond is a significant point in the timeline for two reasons. First, it sadly marked the death of Spock Prime due to the passing of Leonard Nimoy. Second, it culminates in the Enterprise embarking on the five-year-mission that started everything back in 1966.

Star Trek movies: Release order

If you can't be bothered remembering two different orders for the Star Trek movies then we've got good news for you — the release order is identical to the chronological order that we've shown above (accounting for the Kelvin timeline as it's own entity anyway).

Star Trek 4

The crew of the Enterprise in Star Trek Beyond

The full run of Star Trek films currently tops out at 13 entries; the fate of the 14th was hidden within a nebula of conflicting information. “Star Trek 4” was slated for December 22, 2023, but given that filming had yet to begin as of July 2022, it seems inevitable that date will change. Back in February 2022, Paramount that the principal cast would be returning for the fourth installment of the Kelvin timeline, a claim quickly disputed by the agents of those selfsame actors. Awkward.

Soon after, however, Chris Pine eventually signed on the dotted line, and his shipmates reached their own agreements. As of right now, Kirk (Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), McCoy (Karl Urban, assuming he can make it work around filming of The Boys), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Uhura (Zoe Saldaña), and Sulu (John Cho) are all ready to beam up and get filming. Sadly, this will be the first of the Kelvin films to not feature Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov. Yelchin died in an accident at his home in 2016. It’s currently unclear if Chekov will be recast or if a different character will take his place on the bridge of the Enterprise.

Though the Kelvin timeline is often referred to as “J.J. Abrams Trek,” he won’t be directing Star Trek 4; Matt Shakman will take on that responsibility, leaving Abrams to produce. As for what it will be about, that’s anyone’s guess, but Chris Pine told Deadline he hopes this one tells a smaller story that appeals to the core Trek audience. “Let’s make the movie for the people that love this group of people, that love this story, that love Star Trek,” he said. “Let’s make it for them and then, if people want to come to the party, great.” It’s a strategy that makes sense; the disappointment with recent Trek films hasn’t been their content so much as their box office. A Trek film with a smaller scope (and budget) would almost certainly have a very healthy profit margin while also resonating with the fanbase.

With no new announcements coming from San Diego Comic-Con 2022, it seems that we’ll have to wait for any more insight into the next Star Trek film. Sill, recent comments from Paramount CEO Brian Robbins have us cautiously optimistic: “We’re deep into [Star Trek 4] with J.J. Abrams, and it feels like we’re getting close to the starting line and excited about where we’re going creatively,” he told Variety .

Still, recent comments from Paramount CEO Brian Robbins have us cautiously optimistic: “We’re deep into [Star Trek 4] with J.J. Abrams, and it feels like we’re getting close to the starting line and excited about where we’re going creatively,” he told Variety.

Since then, there hasn’t been much in the way of updates, which leaves us with the worrying prospect of Star Trek 4 being stuck in development hell. During a 2023 appearance at the 57-Year Mission convention in Las Vegas (reported by TrekMovie ), Zachary Quinto explained that creative differences were the cause of the numerous delays.

“I think there’s a lot of other stuff, creative things. It’s complicated. The fact that anything good gets made is kind of a miracle. I think it’s about different people having different agendas and ideas about what it will be.“

Star Trek: Section 31

Image showing Michelle Yeoh starring in the Section 31 movie. Here we see the actress next to large white text which reads 'Section 31.'

In the meantime, we are getting the Star Trek: Section 31 movie staring Academy Award-winning actress MichelIe Yeoh. She is reprising her role as Emperor Philip Georgiou, her character from Star Trek Discovery (well one of them anyway, mirror universes and all that). This spin-off from the TV series is coming out of warp in early 2025.

Check out our guide to Everything we know about Star trek Section 31 for more info on the upcoming movie.

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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country unexpectedly foreshadows Captain James T. Kirk's (Chris Pine) favorite song in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movies. Star Trek VI is set in Star Trek 's Prime timeline, whereas J.J. Abrams' Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness , and Star Trek Beyond are set in the alternate Kelvin Timeline. However, Star Trek VI takes place in 2293, over 3 decades after J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movies happen in the alternate reality, which span from 2258-2263. Yet the word "sabotage" is curiously relevant in Star Trek VI , which was produced in 1991, 18 years before J.J. Abrams directed his first Star Trek movie.

"Sabotage" is a popular song by Beastie Boys, released in January 1994 as the first single from their album Ill Communication . Although "Sabotage" never came close to hitting number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Beastie Boys' track was a huge hit on MTV thanks to its music video directed by Spike Jonze. "Sabotage" was nominated for 5 moon men trophies at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards, and "Sabotage" the song has become a pop culture touchstone in the last 30 years, including being featured in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek (2009) and the Justin Lin-directed Star Trek Beyond in 2016.

With 13 entries in the Star Trek movie series from 1979-2006, there are a couple of ways to watch the films chronologically.

Star Trek VI Unexpectedly Sets Up Chris Pine Kirk’s Favorite Song

Lt. valeris explains the etymology of "sabotage".

Amusingly, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country explained the etymology of the word "sabotage," and it can be seen as an unexpected foreshadowing of Beastie Boys' song in Star Trek (2009) if the Star Trek movies are being watched chronologically in theatrical release date order. In Star Trek VI , Lt. Valeris (Kim Cattrall) explains where the origin of "sabotage" comes from to Lt. Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) and Scotty (James Doohan):

400 years ago on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation flung their wooden shoes called sabots into the machines to stop them. Hence the word "sabotage."

It's funny how "sabotage" c omes up in Star Trek VI, and then pops up again so distinctively in the form of Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" in Star Trek (2009). Along with pretending Starfleet communications are scrambled in Star Trek VI , another significant act of sabotage occurs in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock . Scotty sabotages the USS Excelsior's transwarp drive, which allows the USS Enterprise to be hijacked by Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew.

Beastie Boys' “Sabotage” Makes A Comeback In Star Trek: Beyond

"it's a good choice.".

Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" being featured in Star Trek (2009) was divisive. General audiences were entertained by the audacity of the young James T. Kirk (Jimmy Bennett) stealing his stepfather's convertible and driving it off a cliff in an act of defiance. Many long-time Star Trek fans, however, didn't enjoy a contemporary track spotlighted in a science fiction film set in the 23rd century. But that didn't stop Star Trek Beyond from reprising "Sabotage". This time, the adult Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) nods approvingly while "Sabotage" disrupts the swarm army of Krall (Idris Elba), allowing the USS Franklin to attack and destroy them.

Watching the Star Trek movies can give fans a full appreciation for what "sabotage" means to Star Trek .

The lyrics to Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" are about their producer who "was the worst person ever and how he was always sabotaging us and holding us back," according to the 2020 documentary, Beastie Boys Story . This fits with the young Kirk stealing a car and blasting "Sabotage," as Jim hates his domineering stepfather and wants to get away from him. From Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country to J.J. Abrams' trilogy, watching the Star Trek movies can give fans a full appreciation for what "sabotage" means to Star Trek.

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In the Kelvin timeline of Star Trek Films, Captain James Tiberius Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the U.S.S. Enterprise crew return to fight a new enemy who puts everything they and the Federation stand for to the ultimate test. This third installment of the rebooted Star Trek films marked the 50th anniversary of the classic sci-fi franchise.

Star Trek Legend William Shatner Has Two Conditions To Return As Kirk - And They're Big

William Shatner on Star Trek: The Original Series

When it comes to "Star Trek" characters, there's no one quite as legendary as James Tiberius Kirk, the Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise on the very first "Star Trek" series back in 1966. Played by William Shatner, the character became a cornerstone of a greater franchise universe — the captain who really set the tone for all of the other captains to come. Shatner last played the character onscreen in the 1994 film "Star Trek Generations," which was a complicated and controversial send-off for Kirk . However, he told The Hollywood Reporter in March 2024 that he is open to playing the character again ... with two major conditions.

Bringing back an older version of Kirk back would be sort of difficult since the character died in "Generations." Of course, given that various timelines and time travel are a part of the "Star Trek" universe, it isn't entirely out of the realm of possibility. It would just boil down to the 92-year-old Shatner being game to film, and everyone being willing to follow his pair of rules.

The two conditions for Shatner's return as Kirk

William Shatner in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country

During the interview, Shatner was asked if he would ever be interested in reprising the role of Kirk like Patrick Stewart did with Jean-Luc Picard for "Star Trek: Picard," and he explained his restrictions:

"Leonard [Nimoy] made his own decision on doing a cameo [in J.J. Abrams' 2009 'Star Trek']. He's there for a moment, and it's more a stunt that Spock appears in a future. If they wrote something that wasn't a stunt that involved Kirk, who's 50 years older now, and it was something that was genuinely added to the lore of 'Star Trek,' I would definitely consider it."

In the 2009 "Star Trek" film , Nimoy appears as an older version of Spock due to some timeline-jumping (creating the "Kelvin timeline"), but it is more or less an extended cameo. It's understandable that Shatner would want something a bit more substantial, perhaps more in line with the "Picard" series, which gave Stewart a chance to say goodbye to his character in a truly profound way. Sure, Stewart had his own rules for returning as Picard and producers eventually broke one of them big time, but if there was a way to bring back an older, wiser Kirk and give him the same treatment, it sounds like Shatner would be interested.

Would an Old Kirk story work?

Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, and Jeri Ryan on Star Trek: Picard

So, how would a show about Kirk at Shatner's current age even work? While "Star Trek: Picard" served as both a great goodbye to the crew of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and a potential way forward for some of the other legacy characters like Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) from "Star Trek: Voyager," it's hard to imagine a way for writers to bring back Kirk in the same manner. Kirk's preserved body appeare d in "Picard," which means it's possible for the franchise to try and resurrect him in some way, although it's more likely that he would be cloned or something to similar effect. After all, there's probably a limit to how many "Star Trek" fans would tune in to watch a bunch of old folks scooting around the galaxy. There's only so much nostalgia can do.

All things considered, it seems pretty unlikely that we'll ever see Shatner reprise the role of Kirk again in any meaningful way, but we did get a lot of great performances from him before he bowed out. Live long and prosper, sir, and don't worry about playing ole James T. again. Your legacy is secure.

Long Before Lost, Terry O'Quinn Was In Star Trek: The Next Generation

I n the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Pegasus" (January 10, 1994), Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes) is reunited with Admiral Erik Pressman (Terry O'Quinn), his former commanding officer on board a ship called the U.S.S. Pegasus. Pressman is visiting the Enterprise to reveal that Starfleet intelligence has located the missing Pegasus, presumably destroyed 15 years ago. It's their mission to either salvage the Pegasus or destroy it before nearby Romulans can cannibalize its technology.

In some meaningful asides, Riker and Pressman talk about the "final mission" of the Pegasus, and how there are some things they have been keeping secret for the last 15 years, hoping that Starfleet never finds out. Like most Admirals on "Star Trek," Pressman is up to something shady, and he had convinced a young Ensign Riker to go along with it. Because Pressman is played by Terry O'Quinn, audiences were likely suspicious immediately; O'Quinn was an expert at playing dark characters with terrible secrets.

It's eventually revealed that the U.S.S. Pegasus is half-fused (!) with a distant asteroid. It seems that, 15 years earlier, Pressman had installed an experimental new cloaking technology on the ship that would allow it to become invisible and pass through solid matter. This was a big no-no by Starfleet rules, as cloaking technology had been expressly forbidden by a very old treaty. It's not Starfleet's M.O. to sail around in secret. Admiral Pressman, however, felt that the anti-cloaking treaty put Starfleet at a disadvantage, and developed a cloaking device in secret.

Sadly, the "phasing" aspect of the cloaking device -- the element that let it pass through matter -- malfunctioned and stranded the ship inside an asteroid. Most of the crew was killed. Pressman convinced the survivors to lie for him, and it had been a secret ever since.

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Of course, Commander Riker does the right thing and calls out Pressman's fatal lies from years before. Also, Pressman says that he wanted to locate the Pegasus because the phase/cloak device still worked and should still be put on Starfleet vessels, despite still being illegal. Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) eventually puts Pressman under arrest. He exits the show saying that he has a lot of friends at Starfleet willing to defend him. Picard, unimpressed, merely says that he's going to need them.

O'Quinn has always been an intense actor, capable of playing killers and heavies with aplomb. His best-known role is probably playing the secret-keeping John Locke in the hit TV series "Lost," for which O'Quinn was nominated for three Emmys, winning one. "Lost," a series about the survivors of a plane crash and the supernatural qualities of the island on which they landed, change the shape of pop TV, inspiring a slew of "mystery box"-style imitators that stretched ineffable questions for multiple seasons. O'Quinn was, functionally, an antagonist on the show, although -- like everything else on "Lost" -- his character isn't that simple.

Of course, O'Quinn was a prolific and successful actor even before he appeared as Admiral Pressman in 1994. O'Quinn took the horror world by storm in 1987 with the release of "The Stepfather," a bleak, psychological thriller wherein Quinn played the titular stepfather, who was secretly a serial killer. He would move from family to family, changing his name each time, looking for a perfect suburban family unity to rule over. When the family (inevitably) failed to live up to his standards, he'd kill them and move on. O'Quinn was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his performance.

Terry O'Quinn's Amazing Career

"The Stepfather" was enough of a hit to warrant O'Quinn's return for "Stepfather II" in 1989. That film wasn't as well-received. O'Quinn did not appear in "Stepfather III" or the 2009 "Stepfather" remake either.

O'Quinn began his professional film acting career in 1980, appearing in the notorious flop "Heaven's Gate." O'Quinn continued to appear in films and on TV at a fairly regular clip, showing up on "The Doctors" and in "All the Right Moves." He was also on shows like "Miami Vice," "Moonlighting," and "The Twilight Zone," as well as films like "Young Guns," "Blind Fury," and "The Rocketeer," in which he played Howard Hughes. It didn't take long for O'Quinn to become a widely recognized Hollywood supporting player, proving time and again that he is wholly devoted to whatever movie or TV show he's in.

O'Quinn was also open to all kinds of work, appearing in prestige Hollywood productions like "Tombstone" and "Primal Fear," but still willing to take gigs in "Amityville: A New Generation" or "Death of a Cheerleader." For O'Quinn, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was just another feather in his cap. After "Trek," he landed the plum role of Peter Watts in the "X-Files"-adjacent series "Millennium." He appeared in 41 episodes of the series. This was in addition to recurring roles on "JAG," "Harsh Realm," and "Alias."

By the time "Lost" came around, O'Quinn was a "get," providing the new series with some much-needed star power. Ever since "Lost," he's continued to work prolifically on TV, appearing in recurring roles on the "Hawaii Five-0" reboot, "Patriot," "Perpetual Grace, LTD," "Resident Alien," and several others. O'Quinn has yet to return to the "Star Trek" franchise -- although given the number of "Star Trek" shows on streaming, there's no reason to believe he won't again.

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The 10 Best Captain Picard Episodes in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation,' Ranked

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Star Trek: The Next Generation isn’t just one of the best installments in the Star Trek franchise, but one of the greatest drama shows of all time . While the original Star Trek series was sadly canceled after the end of its third season, Star Trek: The Next Generation was given the chance to keep pushing the story forward for over seven years.

Although there are many beloved characters in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Patrick Stewart’s performance as Captain Jean-Luc Picard turned him into the greatest hero in the history of the Star Trek saga . Stewart crafted a complex, vulnerable hero who was defined by his dedication, principles, and willingness to hear both sides of any given dispute; he’s simply a character that everyone should aspire to be like. Here are the ten best Captain Picard episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation .

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10 “The Measure of a Man”

Season 2, episode 9 (1989).

There are few relationships in the Star Trek franchise that are more profound than the dynamic between Picard and Data ( Brett Spiner ), the android who serves as one of the most important officers on the U.S.S. Enterprise. “The Measure of a Man” featured Picard serving as Data’s defender in a legal case in which he must defend his right to exist. The discussion about the merits of artificial intelligence is just as relevant today as they were when the episode first aired in 1989.

“Measure of a Man” showed that Picard was willing to stand up for the rights of those that were mistreated , as Star Trek has always been an incredibly progressive franchise when compared to other science fiction properties. This episode solidified the fact that Picard was willing to risk his own livelihood if the safety of one of his crew members was ever placed in danger.

9 “The Best of Both Worlds”

Season 3, episode 26 & season 4, episode 1 (1990).

“The Best of Both Worlds” is one of the most important episodes of any Star Trek series, as the first installment of the two-parter that ended the third season had a massive cliffhanger that had viewers screaming at their televisions. The episode featured Picard being captured by the Borg, with his replacement Captain William T. Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) put in a position that could end his life.

“The Best of Both Worlds” was the first instance in which Picard felt completely vulnerable , as it was feasible that he could get killed off and replaced by Riker for the rest of the show. Although Picard ended up surviving the incident, his feud with the Borg as a result of his torture left him with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder that he continued to deal with for the rest of the series.

8 “Family”

Season 4, episode 2 (1990).

“Family” was a critical episode that helped to humanize Picard and showed what his family life looked like for the first time. Although Picard rarely discussed his personal motivations and background with members of his crew during the first three seasons of the show, “Family” saw him returning to visit his family farm after his traumatic encounter with the Borg in “The Best of Both Worlds.”

“Family” was an important shift in tone for Star Trek: The Next Generation that helped follow up the action of “The Best of Both Worlds,” and did a great job at showing how Picard was dealing with his personal mental health in the series after such a frightening incident. Stewart is arguably at his most profound and emotional in “Family,” as the episode strips away all the duties of command from Picard and examines what it is like for him to live a normal life outside of Starfleet.

7 “The Drumhead”

Season 4, episode 21 (1991).

Star Trek has always been a very political franchise that touches on hot-button issues, and “The Drumhead” explores a scary situation about the denial of truth that has proven to be just as relevant today in an era of political divisiveness and fake news. After a member of his crew is accused of being a traitor, Picard is forced to prevent a representative of Starfleet from badgering everyone under his command and impeding their civil liberties.

“The Drumhead” plays out like a legal thriller, and feels just as exciting as the courtroom dramas that dominated the 1990s . While it is relatively light on action compared to some of the more intense episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “The Drumhead” proved that the series was capable of developing nuanced ideas about what the future would look like under Gene Roddenberry ’s vision.

6 “Darmok”

Season 5, episode 2 (1991).

“Darmok” is perhaps the most intimate episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation , as it sees Picard being trapped in a primitive world where he can only communicate with the native species using rudimentary language. The episode shows just how effective of a hero Picard can be, even if he seems to enjoy being in the company of a crew that supports him.

Star Trek: The Next Generation is well known for making interesting genre deviations, and “Darmok” feels like the closest that the series ever got to a Western adventure story . Although some viewers may have felt the same exact confusion and frustration that Picard did when the premise was first established, “Darmok” ends with one of the most powerful emotional revelations about the ability that Picard has to inspire others in all seven seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

5 “Conundrum”

Season 5, episode 14 (1992).

“Conundrum” is one of the most imaginative episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation , as it takes place after a mysterious alien virus forces the entire crew to forget their memories, leaving them helpless in the middle of space. This was an episode that essentially showed how the Enterprise crew could be built again from the ground up, as Picard is the first one to assess the parameters of the mystery and start developing a solution to keep everyone safe.

“Conundrum” was one of the best episodes that showed Stewart’s generosity as an actor , as even though it is Picard’s moment to shine as a leader, every single member of the cast is given a standout moment. The success of “Conundrum” in combining the emotional with the practical is a major reason why the fifth season is often cited as the best that Star Trek: The Next Generation ever aired.

4 “Cause and Effect”

Season 5, episode 18 (1992).

Time travel is notoriously a concept that is very difficult to capture on screen in a compelling way, as it is very easy to get so confusing that viewers struggle to understand what the stakes are supposed to be. However, “Cause and Effect” presented a brilliant time travel storyline in which Picard and the crew of the Enterprise are trapped in a recurring loop that could doom them for eternity.

“Cause and Effect” was a great example of Star Trek: The Next Generation showing Picard’s abilities as a strategist . While many of the captains established in other shows and films in the Star Trek franchise earned their rank through military conquest, it's Picard’s intelligence and ability to make rational decisions while under pressure that make him such an all-time great character. “Cause and Effect” succeeds because Stewart understands this fundamental truth about the character.

3 “The Inner Light”

Season 5, episode 25 (1992).

“The Inner Light” is perhaps the most emotional episode of the entire Star Trek franchise, and would have earned Stewart a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series had the Television Academy not been so notoriously biased against science fiction and other genre shows. The episode takes place entirely in Picard’s mind, as he begins to live out different fantasies about what an alternate life could look like when he is unconscious.

“The Inner Light” revealed truths about Picard as a character , showing how his unflinching willingness to perform his duty against mitigating circumstances put a severe detriment on his ability to start a family. There isn’t another episode more tear-jerking as “The Inner Light,” as Stewart reveals how Picard is dealing with the burdens of his sacrifices, and how it has been taken for granted by those who serve under him.

2 “Tapestry”

Season 6, episode 15 (1993).

“Tapestry” was an integral episode that revealed that Picard himself was flawed , as his encounter with Q ( John de Lancie ) allows him to travel back to moments from his past and reflect on the mistakes that he made as a young man. Essentially serving as a coming-of-age story about Picard’s youth, “Tapestry” showed that even someone that noble had elements of their past that they had buried deep within their minds.

The dynamic between Q and Picard is one of the show’s most interesting, as the two have completely different outlooks on humanity and its potential. While Q uses the mistakes that humanity has made as evidence that they are beyond reason, Picard argues that humans are capable of being empathetic, compassionate, and willing to redeem themselves. It’s Picard’s faith in others and general optimism about the future that makes him such an inspiring character.

1 “All Good Things…”

Season 7, episode 25 (1994).

There aren’t many shows that end on a perfect note, as many acclaimed programs like Game of Thrones , House of Cards , Killing Eve , and Battlestar Galactica had such underwhelming series finales that fans questioned why they were ever loyal to the shows in the first place. However, Star Trek: The Next Generation ended on a perfect note with “All Good Things…,” an episode that featured a profound moment where Picard was able to thank every member of the crew for their dedication to the Enterprise .

“All Good Things…” showed that Star Trek: The Next Generation was more interested in developing great characters than overwhelming the viewers with action, as it takes a far more philosophical approach to a series finale than some may have expected. A final shot of Picard playing cards with various crew members was the perfect way to wrap up the show.

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Production Begins For ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’

| August 26, 2024 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 136 comments so far

The next Star Trek series for Paramount+ has started shooting today. It’s been a long road since the idea of a YA-focused Starfleet Academy series was first mentioned as part of a growing “Star Trek Universe” back when the shows were streaming on CBS All Access. Now a cast of newcomers mixed with big-named Hollywood stars and some familiar Trek faces have come together in Toronto to shoot the first season.

The Academy is open

News of the beginning of production was first shared by the official Star Trek on Paramount+ social media accounts, followed up with an official announcement which included two new images of the cast. The first photo appears to be from a table read, featuring members of the cast, showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau, as well as additional producers. At the center of the photo below is Discovery (and Section 31 ) producer/director Olatunde Osunsanmi. Kurtzman is directing the first two episodes.

Academy cast and producers at table read (John Medland/Paramount+)

And the second shows members of the cast in front of the Star Trek Stage at Pinewood Studios in Toronto. Pinewood renamed one of the stages regularly used by Star Trek: Discovery the “Star Trek Stage” last year.

Academy cast and producers at Star Trek Stage (John Medland/Paramount+)

The above photos feature Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter, who is playing the captain and chancellor of Starfleet Academy. Flashing double Vulcan salutes is Academy Award-nominee Paul Giamatti, who has a recurring guest star role as the main villain for season 1. Also featured is Star Trek: Discovery’s Oded Fehr, who has a recurring guest star role as Admiral Vance, and Star Trek: Voyager’s Robert Picardo, a series regular as The Doctor. Actors pictured above playing cadets include George Hawkins, Zoë Steiner, Bella Shepard, Kerrice Brooks, Sandro Rosta, and Karim Diané. Also pictured is British actress and comedian Gina Yashere, who plays an Academy instructor in a recurring guest star role. Not pictured above but also returning for Academy are Discovery’s Tig Notaro as a series regular and Mary Wiseman as Tilly, as a recurring guest star.

The new series is set in the 32nd century (as established in Star Trek: Discovery ) at a newly revived Starfleet Academy in San Francisco. Here again is the official synopsis for the series:

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy introduces viewers to a young group of cadets who come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.

The Starfleet Academy campus has been built on Pinewood’s 45,900 square foot “Mega Stage,” the largest in North America. The set reportedly contains a “central academic atrium, a sprawling, two-story structure that will include a mess hall, amphitheater, trees, catwalks, multiple classrooms and a striking view of the Golden Gate Bridge in a single, contiguous space.”

Pinewood’s Mega Stage, home to to Starfleet Academy

The first season includes 10 episodes so production will likely extend into 2025. Paramount+ has not set a release date for the new series, but Alex Kurtzman has said it may not arrive until 2026.

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Here’s hoping 🤞 can’t say right now I’ll be tuning in, but I want to see it succeed and draw in the new fans it’s aimed for

Same here. Hope it does well.

Yes I agree! Glad to see some returning faces and to see what the new ones will bring to the franchise. Ultimately, pics aside though, it will be the stories that keep me coming back.

I rather hope that it is ‘done well’ but given everything else they’ve made recently…

We all know you’ll be watching,

Exactly! :D

Lol I literally haven’t watched any Nu Trek except for Disco season 1 and Picard season 3. Believe me, I will not be watching. But I will be checking Trekmovie religiously as I have since 2008…I now experience Nu Trek vicariously through the comment boards. I don’t need to watch anything when I hear the fan reaction loud and clear!

Maybe in the first few years of nu-trek, but I stopped after the first 5 episodes of DIS season 3. I just couldn’t take it any longer.

As this has gone on, I’m now looking forward to this show. Robert Picardo clinched it for me.

Even though I was already excited about the show before his inclusion, it is amazing how much his presence has excited the fan base to this show now. There is a huge change in the mood over it everywhere online. It still may suck but people are now more curious about it.

Which proves as much as some people still don’t like him, Kurtzman knows what he is doing.

Tiger he is such an awesome and genuine and talented man it is hard not to get excited lol. I’ve been his fan ever since The Wonder Years!

Yep for sure. And I completely forgot he was in The Wonder Years and I watched it every season but haven’t seen an episode since its original run.

Mr Arnold!!!

Ah yes, Mr. Arnold. Thanks for the reminder.

Nope — he was PE Coach Ed Cutlip

Seconded about Picardo

Third it bro…third it!

He’s the bestest!

Legacy characters, of course.

They could do the absolutely craziest thing and have Giamatti play a Xindi Primate but have him play him more ape-like, using his training from Planet of the Apes.

That sounds awesome but somehow I don’t see that happening. I may be wrong but IIRC he’s always wanted to be a Klingon. And we haven’t seen on in the 31st century yet

We didn’t.

Paul G. looks so happy, cool!

This cast already has charm and chemistry based solely on the pics here. I’m beginning to really look forward to this.

It’s Happening !!!!!😁

Star Trek’s new Flagship show.

PIcardo is gonna nail it!

Lol the only reason fans are now excited in this show, legacy characters.

For me it depends on who the legacy character is. Kirk? The Doctor? I’m all there. Neelix? Nah,

This fan was excited before the announcement of any legacy characters.

To be frank, the announcement of Holly Hunter really got my attention. Paul Giammati is probably a closet Trekkie, so I wasn’t as surprised, but Hunter being on board was more than I expected.

As for Picardo, it’s not like he’s got much else to do than run around on the convention circuit…

As long as it doesn’t have too much Tilly, it’ll be terrific!

Annnnnnd??? What is wrong with having a legacy character? You say that like it’s a bad thing. He isn’t the lead. The show isn’t revolving around him. Stop shaming people for actually LIKING characters from a past show. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it at all. Let me ask you, Harry, how did you choose your name? Legacy trek character?

It looks like class of 319(??) has arrived!

I have been a big supporter of this show since day one. But now even more so seeing how excited Paul Giamatti is there lol. Robert Picardo giving the thumbs up this will be a winner while holding Holly Hunter has made me more hopeful.

I certainly understand it has a large amount of doubters out there but I am hoping with this cast at least that people will be a little more open minded about it. Either way, the future begins…again!

Wow, I actually agree with you. I can’t wait to see this, but my heart belongs to Section 31.

Wow, so SFA is really happening, cool! Another series now in production and both S3 of SNW and S31 in post production. It is good time to be a Star Trek fan. Let’s hope we get some more Prodigy, even though I am still waiting to see S2 up here north of the border.

Also happy the cast and crew get to enjoy a little Canadian summer and fall in the city instead of dreary winter, even though winters in Toronto are not exactly the cold and snowy type that we had when we were kids.

Yes so true DeanH!

It’s not at the level it was back in 2021 but there are still things happening of course. And a Prodigy season 3 would definitely be a HUGE plus!!

It’s still shocking you guys never got it. I did listen to the All Access Podcast and they say the show is selling on Itunes in Canada at least and at the time of recording it was listed #1 (I assume for TV shows but maybe for everything). It proves this show definitely has an audience, but maybe still not high enough to get another season. But I put all my faith in Kahless and hope that won’t be the case.

An attractive and diverse group to be sure. Here’s to a successful launch!

Being Asian Canadian, it would be nice to see some Asian rep in SFA, but quite honestly no big deal. This is after all an American franchise that just happens to be made in Toronto, so good to see both African and Euro Americans well represented in the cast. And of course S31 is in post production and S4 of SNW is also coming, so it is a good time to be a Star Trek fan.

It is interesting considering that Sulu and Kim were both great characters, but I haven’t really thought about the fact that there hasn’t been any strong Asian characters in NuTrek. This seems like a good place to do just that – especially since San Francisco has a pretty big Asian population. And since this is a bit different future, this could have been a fun time to bring in San Fransokyo (Disney reference, so yes, I get why Paramount couldn’t do it)…

there hasn’t been any strong Asian characters in NuTrek.

La’an Noonian-Singh and Philippa Georgiou being chopped liver?

I can already see that Kerrice Brooks will be my favorite.

Looking forward to the series.

Ahhhh! I have to know! Are we getting OG Doctor or Living Witness Doctor?????

I hope Living Witness personally

I seen you post this before but didn’t they confirm it’s the OG Doctor. I think Kurtzman himself said it and that he’s just been active for the last 800 years. Yeah it’s a stretch, but it’s Star Trek, so….

I’m OK with whoever we get as long as Picardo is playing him lol.

Oh, I don’t remember that

I still want both Doctors. If it is the Living Witness Doctor, then where is the OG Doctor?

Well, the way I see it, the Living Witness Doctor woke up around this era so he makes sense. The OG one? Who knows what might have happened with him over 700 years. Also, a 700+ yr old Doctor should have learned amazing things over the centuries and would be way harder to write for than the Living Witness Doc.

LOL didn’t we have this discussion on the other site. I’m pretty sure it’s the original Doctor. As I said, they made clear the Doctor on this show already had experience teaching kids at the Academy. And that makes more sense it would be the original Doctor, especially his life post-Voyager as we seen in Prodigy. And there is no Academy in the 31st century.

But maybe we will see both of them. I’m totally into that idea too!

Ya that’s what Tiger just told me too. If it is the original then I hope we somehow get both.

Hopefully we will. What can be better than one Doctor? Two Doctors…even if the Voyager crew disagrees haha.

I was excited when Holly Hunter was added to the cast, but now the show is even more legitimized for me with the addition of Robert Picardo returning as the Doctor. I’ll be watching.

Yay for legacy characters!

I still wish they added him when Discovery jumped to the 32nd century. Maybe I would’ve liked the show more for a change. But better late than never.

And I’m not sure when the word ‘legacy characters’ have become a bad word in the fandom. Once Dr. McCoy was showed walking with Data down the corridor in Encounter at Farpoint has made legacy characters an integral part of the franchise for decades now. If fans don’t want to see more legacy characters, they should’ve just stayed in the JJ verse then (shudder). But they exist plenty in the Prime universe and a huge reason fans wanted to go back to it.

I’m always happy to see them and can’t wait to see more, hopefully more DS9 and ENT characters will show up too; although we’ve had Daniels on Discovery for 3 years now but didn’t know it lol.

McCoy being in a 60 second scene in TNG as a handing over the baton type thing, is a little different to what’s going on now where nostalgia, references and legacy characters have literally taken over the various shows.

How are they taking over?

Prodigy: Janeway, Chakotay, the Doctor, Voyager etc Lower Decks: Literally only exists so that it can reference previous Trek every 10 seconds Strange New Worlds: Kirk, Spock, Uhura etc Picard: Shelby, Moriarty, Lore, Tuvok, the entire TNG crew, the Enterprise D, the Borg Queen etc etc etc

You’re blind if you think that modern Trek isn’t 100% based on nostalgia, references and legacy characters. This comment section pretty much proves the only reason people are looking forward to this show is because it has a classic character in it.

I could say the same of pretty much any other franchise. Luke, Han and Leia in the sequel trilogy?

And…? What is wrong with that?

Harry, Emily, whatever your name is these days, that’s not what he was saying and you know it. The reality is though legacy characters, when it was just TOS basically, was still part of the franchise. Obviously they couldn’t be used that often since all the new shows took place literally a century later. But the fact they kept finding ways to include them said it all. Why do you think that is? Because shockingly fans of a franchise still wants to see older characters while embracing new ones. TNG had the biggest hurdle of them all and now that show is more popular than TOS in many circles today which again proves your point moot.

People have no issues being introduced to new characters, but we now live in a franchise that is 60 years old and has had millions of people watching since TOS started, nostalgia will always play a part in anything that old. It can’t be avoided.

No one is ‘taking over’ these shows since the Doctor is the only legacy characters on this show and NOT the star. He sounds like he will have a big part in it but probably supporting like the Doctor had on Voyager and Prodigy.

The reality is though legacy characters, when it was just TOS basically, was still part of the franchise.

They showed up exactly three times during TNG (admittedly, not counting McCoy’s one-minute passing of the baton in “Encounter at Farpoint”): Sarek, Spock, and Scotty. (And Sarek was far from a series regular. He probably got more screen time in TNG than TOS itself.) Star Trek bingo this was not.

Sarek and Spock were also used organically and had grown considerably since their TOS days. Sarek effectively showed up with *dementia*. Spock had not been in Starfleet for decades and was perceived as a *defector*. The only appearance milked for nostalgia was Scotty’s, six seasons in, and even then, it was handled in a thoughtful and respectful way, in the context of a story about aging, not as fodder for commemorative plates (have those even existed since the 1990s, anyway?).

Some nostalgia was appropriate for PICARD, and I don’t deny that Picardo is one of Trek’s best actors, and I wouldn’t bet against him living up to that reputation here.

But it’s difficult to read his inclusion as anything other than the producers (1) becoming desperate to ensure that existing Trekkies tune in, and (2) lacking, for understandable reasons, any confidence that the latest iteration of NuTrek can stand on its own two feet. The TNG producers, by contrast, expressly said they went out of their way to avoid many TOS references until “Sarek,” exactly because they knew the series had to be its own thing.

Then there’s GENERATIONS, which resembled screenwriting-by-committee and remains mostly poorly received, flawed by Braga’s own admission, and one of the worst Trek movies. (“Thank God for Insurrection,” to paragraph what New Mexicans say about Mississippi.)

60 years old and has had millions of people watching since TOS started, nostalgia will always play a part in anything that old. It can’t be avoided.

This statement approaches an admission that the Trek franchise is in irreversible decline, a la GLORIA or 704 HAUSER.

And again it’s so eye rolling and hypocritical how you have no problem with the constant revolving door of legacy characters in all the Star Wars shows and movies (did you catch Yoda in that awful Acolyte show:? I didn’t because I stopped watching it but he was apparently there).

You constantly want to put down Star Trek for doing it but completely silent over Star Wars doing literally the exact same thing in every project. Why is that exactly?

This is why I really wish we get an ignore button. People like you are just insufferable.

I want a like button too

I think I stopped after episode 4 or something. I honestly can’t remember. I didn’t know Yoda showed up in it. But it’s now cancelled so who cares lol.

I give NuTrek grief at times but even Discovery is a higher quality show compared to what’s coming out of Disney+ and most of these Star Wars shows. The only two I can say I fully liked so far were Mandalorian and Andor. And it took awhile to like Andor because it felt so slow but it’s a great show for sure.

The rest though….meh.

Yeah the SW shows have just been generally bad. Acolyte was so bad I stopped after episode 5; the first show I just completely gave up on.

I don’t understand why it’s so hard to make better shows given the resources and ridiculous money they get. That show was reported to get $180 million for 8 episodes and yet it felt like something you watch on ABC. Star Trek shows would kill to have that kind of money.

The only shows I liked so far was also the first two seasons of Mandalorian and Andor and that’s basically it. I heard Bad Batch is decent but haven’t watched it. Ashoka was OK but I was just bored by the end.

I can certainly give the new Trek shows grief at times too (with the exception of Prodigy because it’s too awesome) but overall they are way better than what Disney has been putting out with Star wars lately. It’s not even close in my book.

Ashoka is one of my favorite characters Iin Star Wars and The Clone Wars show finally git me to care about the prequels. I can’t tell you how excited I was for that show only to see it crash and burn halfway through. I just don’t know why it’s so hard to make a compelling show, especially when most are only 6-8 episodes?

Just do much bad writing. Acolyte is the perfect example of how bad off the rails that franchise has become.

Because when Star Wars does it, it’s natural and in service to the story. The Enterprise-D showing up and kicking ass, is not.

And btw, Yoda was on screen for about 3 seconds in an entire series of new characters.

Lol yeah ‘natural’ like when Obi Wan met a 10 year old Leia on that show although in ANH it was obvious she never met the guy before.

And I call out when Star Trek shoehorns characters when they don’t belong there all the time like all the legacy characters in SNW that clearly shouldn’t be on the Enterprise this soon like Kirk or shouldn’t be interacting with others.

And they were clearly setting up Yoda to be in season 2 before the show got canceled. And regardless SW stuff in legacy characters for the exact same reasons ST does it, because of fan service. To pretend otherwise is eye rolling.

You’ll such a hypocrite which I wouldn’t care about if you didn’t spend all your time here harassing people for having the nerve to want to see Kirk or Janeway on a show.

You have had nothing interesting to say here for a year now.

How exactly? A ship being recovered to prevent the contamination of a species is less natural than The same 4 characters of Star Wars showing up across the galaxy all the time because *reasons*? LOL NO!

picard appeared in DS9’s pilot ep, quark in the one for Voy and Zefram Cochrane appears in the pilot for Ent

For one scene.

Not an entire series.

How about Worf being on DS9 for four seasons then? 🙄

And O’Brien being on DS9 for all 7 seasons.

i meant they did as with mccoy’s cameo in TNG pilot, to hand over the baton to the next ST show. though picard had more screen time in ’emissary’

As it’s been said a hundred times over, legacy characters are a big part of every old franchise these days. Studios are hurting, streaming is not the golden ticket they all thought and the only way they know will draw people back in long term is nostalgia. Again, the fact that Star Trek is back and with a half a dozen new shows to boot already makes that clear. It doesn’t necessarily keep them but it’s a big marketing push to drive interest as we are seeing with the Doctor.

And as I ALSO said, I think most old fans will watch either way, it just gives them an extra incentive. When the first Kelvin movie happened, I’m pretty sure everyone who went to see it would’ve saw it regardless if Nimoy as Spock didn’t show up in it. But once he did, that just created bigger hype for the movie and a bit more excitement. I was certainly going opening day and I didn’t even want a TOS reboot lol. So I don’t think the movie would’ve made $100 million less because an 80 year old retired actor who hasn’t played the role in two decades was going to make or break the film. But it did excite the old fans at least and gave the film more attention.

Exactly the same thing here. Yes, I definitely think this show has had a bigger division in the fandom for a number of reasons…but everyone was going to at least check it out in the beginning. But now the Doctor is there, genuine interest has definitely gone up, that can’t be denied. Every site I gone to, from here to YouTube, people are openly thrilled he’s there. It helped to get a few more additional headlines it probably wouldn’t have gotten. In a world with so much new content coming out every single day you have to find a way to stand out. That said, no the show isn’t going to make or break if the Doctor showed up or not, but it’s a bonus regardless.

The reality is they are trying to appeal to the millions of Star Trek fans who found it in the 90s when they were coming of age that probably makes up the bulk of the fandom today. Yes they want new fans, hence this show, but it’s been pretty evident they have not shown up in any large way since Discovery launched. And until that happens, those fans will stay the franchise masters and they clearly knows it judging by all the nostalgia and legacy characters in all these shows now. Kurtzman is only mulling over a 25th century live action comedy show (and being made by two 90s era fans btw) to placate them and certainly not new fans.

The funny thing is I remember getting into an argument with a former poster here pre-Picard who used to say shows like Voyager will not be represented at all in modern Trek outside of maybe a reference somewhere because it wasn’t ‘mainstream’ enough which was just a ridiculous argument. If you lasted for 7 seasons and decades later the reruns are still getting high viewings on sites like Netflix and Amazon while still making merchandise and books, it’s certainly mainstream enough for Star Trek lol. I don’t think any of these new shows have gotten half the viewers Voyager has gotten over the years. And since Voyager is represented to some degree in 4 of the 6 new shows (minus SNW and Discovery for obvious reasons) and fans are still begging for a Seven lead Legacy show, then clearly that argument proved faulty.

Honestly I love that Mr Picardo is here but they had me at Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti.

And obviously me as well. But it’s all great news to me. And if people need Picardo/the Doctor to get more excited about the show, fine. That’s obviously why he’s there and even better news its working.

I was very excited about SNW for example when we just knew about Pike, Spock and Una. But once I knew Uhura and Chapel were in it as well, I got even more excited (I didn’t care about M’Benga either way but really love him now). That’s how these things works. If people are angry at me because I had the gall to be excited to have Uhura and Chapel on the show, that’s not really my problem.

I think your last paragraph was probably argued by an old TOS fan who couldn’t let go and basically wanted the franchise to stay mostly TOS.

I could be wrong of course but I remember hearing this same argument on another defunct site I used to post on when the first JJ verse movie was starting. I heard you and others mention this before too and that people just wanted to ‘erase’ the 24th century shows completely and even the prime universe because they wanted a universe where TOS and the 23rd century was the only show in existence again; as if every fan found the show in the 1970s lol.

It was so short sighted and just old people yelling at clouds to me. You mean you are going to erase hundreds of hours of shows that people like me found and grew up with so we can have these empty soulless popcorn movies where Fratboy Kirk fights comic book villains and doing space jumps in every movie? Inner Light, Yesterdays Enterprise, Timeless, The Visitor, Measure of a Man, Duet and on and on and on will just pretend like that never happened so we can watch the new universe and all the great drama of Uhura fighting with her boy toy Spock for the next 10 years.

Some people really really had no problems with this lol. It’s OK if they didn’t like those shows, fine. I didn’t love them all either at first. But to just try and wipe them from existence for the next 20 years always bothered me. I had no problem with JJ verse existing. I had no issues with Discovery existing. I didn’t like them but I understood others did because it brought them back to that era they grew up with. But its when those people only wanted to focus on those eras ignoring all the stories, characters and aliens that’s been around for literally decades at that point that put off the rest of us who didn’t have the same nostalgia for it.

Same thing happened with Star Wars too. When Disney got a hold of it, there were a lot of old OT fans saying they should ignore the prequels because they thought they sucked and pretended like they never existed. They just wanted more Han and Luke again, less Padme and Ashoka. And I hated the prequels too lol. In this situation I was the old OT fanboy who hated Jar Jar as much as I hated Neelix. But I knew plenty of younger people where the prequels were their first SW loved them. They grew up with them and became fans of SW thanks to them just like people became fans of Star Trek thanks to TNG, DS9 and etc.

You can’t just pretend they no longer exist when they have spent about a billion dollars in merchandise for a decade lol. It just doesn’t work that way.

And like what is happening with Star Trek today, the prequels ended up the same way. Now those characters and storylines are part of the new stuff. When you got Hayden Christensen showing up in multiple SW shows and fans WANT it shows the tide have changed lol.

LOL it is funny the full circle the prequels have made in the fandom. Or even George Lucas himself. There are people out there, I know because I talked to them, that had no idea how much people hated the prequels back then.

And to be as accurate about this, the specific poster (and he’s been gone YEARS ago now and I highly doubt he even remembers me much less our conversation lol) was saying because the other spin offs like DS9, VOY and ENT didn’t reach the highs as TNG did then it was probably smart to just focus on the more popular shows. He wasn’t trying to ‘erase’ them, just making the point that these new shows (and this was when it was only Discovery at the time although Picard had been announced) should appeal to newer audiences and that they would probably never watch the older shows much so why confuse them with canon only us hardcore fans would know or care about?

So that’s a somewhat different argument. But my point then as it is now and has been proven, these shows are made for those fans who watched those spin offs first and foremost. Yes they want new fans but once Picard was announced, it made it very clear the audience was really the 90s fans. And for the record I’m not one of them lol. I’m a oldie whose been watching since the 70s so I’m not arguing it from my personal perspective at all. But I look at this stuff objectively and they are the ones carrying these modern shows today and so you want to appeal to them more because, yeah, money and viewer numbers. So the LAST thing you want to do is ignore those stories and characters they have known for 20+ years now.

And my argument back in 2019 has been proven to be more true even today. Because every show since Picard has been nothing but a nostalgia fest of the 90s shows and TOS (which most people in the 90s became big fans of too, including several of my friends who started with TNG and VOY. It wasn’t JUST about TNG, but that was the bigger focus because yeah it was actually made for that, sorry, generation).

But I also know there were definitely other fans like you mentioned who did want a ‘clean slate’ so to speak and to only focus on the Kelvin universe and characters. And I didn’t really disagree with that either if the aim was to reach new fans. I think that approach made the most sense because Star Trek is a very intimidating franchise to get into these days. It’s already the type of show that really asks you to pay attention to its stories in a way that Star Wars, DC or Marvel doesn’t. And yes, that’s part of the reason it’s always had trouble with the masses. And also yes, that’s why the Kelvin movies consisted of basically stopping an evil villain every movie with lots of explosions and action set pieces and very little else. But the TNG films had that rap as well from old fans.

So I never had any problems with the Kelvin movies or that universe being the gateway for the masses. It made sense from a marketing and viewer perspective. But like you, I never once believed you had to completely abandon the Prime universe either which is what others were in fact suggesting. But that was always a ridiculous idea because old fandom would want those characters and types of stories again. I assumed the Kelvin universe would actually expand and we get spin off movies, maybe 1-2 shows, etc as the Prime universe also got more shows and even movies again. In other words both universes would just grow and be their own separate things kind of like the DCEU and Arrowverse did.

But that wasn’t the case, the Prime universe is king again. But it has also been expanded in ways we have never seen before. I just can’t imagine the Berman era having shows like Lower Decks or shows in the 32nd century like Discovery and now SFA. I think these are all positive things regardless how people feel about them personally.

I do think in time we will get Legacy once the money and Paramount is just in a better place. But I also don’t have a problem with the 25th century comedy show. Maybe it will be bad but it’s good to see the franchise take chances.

So if you want to do something different but still want to keep those 90s fans in the loop pining for more 24th century Trek, bringing a character like the Doctor in SFA just makes perfect sense.

Per usual, you hit it on the head.

I agree with nearly all of this, these shows are mostly geared to 90s fans because we probably make up the majority of the fan base today. This site and Trekcre skewers a bit older. But if you go to places like Reddit, Twitter or Facebook where there is a much higher number of people and I’m on all three it’s obvious it’s mostly people from that era who watches these shows now.

This is anecdotal but I’m on a private FB group and there are maybe 60-70 of us. I would say out of that group 70% of us started watching Trek in the 90s. The other 20% are older and a few watched TOS starting in the 60s and 70s. The last 10% are younger and started watching Trek in the last 10 years or so by finding it on Netflix or Hulu. But not a single one started watching it since Discovery started so far. Only one became a fan through the JJ verse movies and his dad was a big TNG fan and how he got into it.

That’s not exact or anything, just a rough estimate. That’s why when I come here I feel so young and I’m in my 40s lol. And even though most of them started with a 90s show most people love TOS and watch it religiously too. It’s not like they hate the show or anything, just the opposite, but it wasn’t the show they first watched or their favorite like it is for so many of you here. And no one has ever suggested not to make it canon anymore because that’s the show that started it all.

That’s why I rolled my eyes when people suggested the Prime universe didn’t matter anymore. Well thank God it does now because JJ verse imploded years ago and even if they actually get their stuff together and make another one, they already said that’s the end of it anyway. I still don’t see the point of making another one when they can just make more movies in the prime universe or just streaming movies like that awful looking Section 31 movie or a Legacy movie. That’s what fans seem to really want.

But most people I know want stories and characters mostly from the 24th century because that’s the era where Trek really expanded. And many like me just hate prequels in general although about half of the group watch SNW and seem to like it. And Kurtzman seems to finally understand that too. Most want to go forward but anything post Nemesis at least is fine. It’s not like we want to redo TNG or DS9 but to continue those stories a little works too. To see what happened after Voyager got home or where things are after the Domion war ended. That’s also why he has people like Matalas, McMahan and the Hageman brothers making these shows because they were all young enough when TNG and the others started. I think they were all TOS fans first but it’s obvious the Berman era had a bigger impact on them. Matalas worked on Voyager and Enterprise so very obvious for him.

So it was smart to add the Doctor on this show. Many people there didn’t really seem very excited about it until Picardo was announced and just like here most seem more excited about it. Some were into it before like you and others still hate it but like this thread the majority are more positive now.

But like Amirami said, I got more interested once Hunter and Giamatti joined and I said that in my OP. But we still don’t know who their characters are besides a name. But we know the Doctor very well and after having him back on Prodigy and wishing he got to do more on that show, it’s exciting to have him in live action again and let Picardo be Picardo lol.

And if you can bring back the Doctor in live action, there is no excuse not to bring back Janeway now. For me, that’s still the biggest get along with Archer and T’Pol after they brought back Picard, Spock, Q, Worf, Seven and now the Doctor. I would say Kirk too…but ugh.

Good discussion as usual!

This is a good analysis. In fact I remember this so well when Picard started and the argument became ‘it’s not going to be a TNG reunion. No one really wants TNG anymore. It’s going to just focus on Picard and be it’s own thing because that’s what ‘new’ audiences wanted.”

Season 3 came and is now the highest rated season lol. Apparently Prodigy season 2 is now rated higher which is great but the point I’m making is for the majority of fans out there who is watching these shows grew up on TNG and exactly why that show was the second one announced once Discovery aired. And even though people certainly liked Discovery, they could see how the majority responded to it and yeah it wasn’t great. Not all horrible obviously but the three biggest take aways were they wanted a post-Nemesis show, something that feels closer to old canon and wanted more legacy characters again. So, not shockingly, they abided on both Discovery season 2 and then Picard.

Think about it, both shows pushed on those three mandates after the first season of Discovery.

As for Picard, of course Stewart famously didn’t want a reunion show and we got the first two seasons we got, which btw, most fans were still very excited about, including me. But it was very obvious every season they made it closer to TNG as they could get it until season 3 they just said screw it, begged Stewart to just give the fans (and the show runners) what they want and we got more TNG in the end.

But again it’s just more proof these shows are being watched by old fandom and not new fans because you don’t dump 80% of your new and younger cast two seasons in unless you thought 70+ year old actors would have a wider appeal. And look at that…they did lol.

I know I end up having this same conversation many times, but Star Trek does indeed have a problem attracting new fans and they clearly know it. Early DIS and PIC did at least feel like they were trying to appeal to newbies as well as the old guard. But from LDS to SNW it was basically attracting the older fans. Yes Prodigy famously went after the pre-teen group but we saw how badly that worked out. And I’m sure the overwhelming majority who watches it now are old Trek or Voyager fans. I’m sure many have tried to get their kids to watch but let’s not kid ourselves, it’s mostly the same group watching Picard, SNW and LDS end of the day.

Maybe SFA will turn the tide but I doubt it. I hate to say it but I’m just being honest. And they have their doubts too, hence the Doctor. And yes I read that about the new show runner too. But again, Kurtzman knows what he is doing. He’s not just picking people who has seen Trek, he’s picking hardcore fanboys and fangirls to run it these days. And while I’m sure some will disagree with me, the shows are connecting to hardcore base, certainly much more than early PIC and DIS were. Yeah, it’s not perfect and I know some of the contrarians want to pretend otherwise, but the majority of these seasons are highly rated today. Doesn’t mean everyone loves them, but it’s working more than not working IMO. People gave SNW season 2 crap including me, but it’s actually not rated much lower than season one was. That says a lot.

Even Discovery found a way to get the 90s fans more involved when they made season 5 built around ‘The Chase’ and brought back the Breen. In fact, every episode of season 5 revolved around canon from a previous show. Again, new fans aren’t going to care about canon from shows that’s been off the air decades now. That was clearly made for the people in your FB group.

Because like it or not, they are driving nostalgia to the hardcore bunch and they are very receptive to it. Maybe if early DIS and even PIC had a stronger reception then we would have newer shows focused more on new stories, aliens and strange new worlds and less tie ins to 30+ year old TNG era episodes and characters like we got in Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy and Discovery last seasons. But once again, all those seasons most people here responded well to, yes, including Discovery.

So how that will all translate to SFA itself, it will be interesting to see to say the least.

But this has been a fun discussion for me too. Any reason to geek out on Trek on any level lol. Thanks.

I forgot to add the reason the Doctor is even there because the new show runner was also a 90s Trek fan and she said Voyager was the show she grew up on and the Doctor was one of her favorite characters. So it’s not even just a marketing thing, but like Matalas and McMahan before her, she became a Trekkie in that era and just wanted characters she grew up with to be on the show.

But it’s just more and more proof why these shows are so geared to these TNG era characters because the people making them along with most of the people watching them are from the same era.

Right? Why is “Legacy” such a bad thing???? James T Kirk is the OG legacy character and I remember his remains in Picard S3.

Please stop calling it Legacy. Call it what it really is. Old Star Trek actors.

You mean Star Trek characters …

Yeah, I don’t understand how it is a bad thing to have legacy characters on the new shows. For me it is like seeing old friends again. To each their own I suppose.

Because it’s not. It’s something that happens in every IP out there. Yes they can definitely do too much of it to the point new main characters lose focus as I was worried about when they brought on Spock and Pike on Discovery. I ended up being proven wrong thankfully.

So weird. And Tiger2 is right, there are legacy characters in everything now, not just Star Trek. Everything is about nostalgia today and most people watching Star Trek now are people from the 90s.

I’ve actually been joking for awhile don’t be shocked if we saw an 800 year old synth Riker pop up on this show in a recurring role because Frakes is that persuasive lol.

But we are now getting an 800 year old EMH instead. Still works for me!

Let’s get all the old characters back. Who cares about utterly undermining the new cast.

How is it ‘undermining’ the new cast?? What does this even mean. Do you not see people just as excited for Paul Giamatti and Holly Hunter?? Obviously you didn’t read my OP because I cited them specifically along with Picardo. Correct?

Since you clearly missed it, I will quote it here:

But per usual, you oddly ignore anytime people actually praise new actors and characters so you can have the same fight for the 800th time.

This is why you are so so soooo annoying. Why do you constantly do this? Changing your handle doesn’t make you any less annoying from before lol.

Do you really think Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti would be undermined?

Yes, I think it’s certainly possible.

The film EXECUTIVE DECISION, which is probably memorable only to fans of the airplane disaster genre, was billed as a huge blockbuster vehicle co-starring Kurt Russell and Steven Seagal. The latter’s character was killed off after about five minutes. I suspect that undermined the film, at least among non-aviation buffs.

not 5 mins, more like 50 mins into the film.

I meant that Segal had about five minutes of screen time!

Stop being a troll.

HA! Who knows, maybe they turned Riker into a hologram Academy instructor!

LOL yeah I can see that. People have theorized others like Janeway or Archer could show up as holograms. I don’t think it will but if it does it could just be for an episode or something. And what stops them from doing it? Nothing.

It’s the 32nd century, everything is possible.

I’m hoping for a hologram Janeway at some point.

LOL just mentioned that to Amirami as well. Why not? We have one on Prodigy.

Legacy. All fans care about.

So say we all! Oops wrong franchise lol

LOL! Loved that show.

I was coming around when I heard Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti joined the cast.

But the day we learned Robert Picardo was returning as the Doctor was the day I finally decided to care about this show. It was the smartest move they could’ve done to get a lot of cynical Trekkies like me to care about it.

I am feeling more confident about it these days. It’s still a Discovery spin off so I remain skeptical about it but I am hoping for the best and we get a great show out of it. The way things are going, it may be the ONLY Star Trek show around lol.

Can’t wait to not watch this.

I’m not looking forward to this, but I will watch. I’m a glutton for punishment when it comes to Trek.😁

But, at the very least, hopefully the characters are interesting.

Keep the Star Trek coming.

I’m never satisfied.

I hope that the show is good. Making it a spinoff of Discovery makes me skeptical, but maybe they got some good people to run this show. Good luck to them, and look forward to seeing how it turns out in a year.

So excited.

I met Robert Picardo at Dublin Comic con last weekend , he was such a nice dude . I hope this venture in the star trek franchise is successful

I’m wondering if they de-age Robert Picardo. Actually, the HAVE TO, ’cause The Doctor is a hologram.

It doesn’t matter IMO. Maybe he just decided to look older. It’s not like the Doctor looked super young on Voyager either. He was already a middle age looking man.

That would be a waste of budget If they deaged him in every scene he’s in.

And yeah it’s a Hologram it can literally take any form it wants and we seen both on Voyager and recently Prodigy.

I understood Data aging was a bit more of an issue. But Holograms don’t have the same problem to explain it away.

cadets, turn to the right!

Look at Giammati, happy as a clam…

Loved that photo. I hope his character isn’t covered up with prosthetics. He’s way too excellent of an actor to be buried under latex.

Isn’t he on record saying that he wants to play a Klingon?

This report mentions that Olatunde Osunsanmi is directing the Pilot. Didn’t Alex Kurtzman mention in an Interview posted on Trekmovie a few month ago, that he would be directing the first two episodes?

And the article has been updated to clarify and we have reconfirmed. Tunde is an EP and director for the show but Alex is directing the first two episodes

Thanks for clearing that up.

I’m excited about the new show, even though it’ll be awhile before we get to see it.

A friend of mine got a job as a professor at Harvard after having taught at a couple of other universities. She was very surprised when she taught her first day there, and some students came up after class and said, “I see by the syllabus that there’s no term paper required for this course, but this would be such a cool course to write a term paper for!”

Students at the other universities where she’d taught always complained if they had to write a term paper, but her students at Harvard ASKED FOR ONE.

I would expect that Starfleet Academy students would be just as gung-ho about their education as Harvard students. I really hope that the writers take that into account and don’t give us students who don’t care about class or who don’t want to study or whatever. Only the very best — from all over Alpha Quadrant — get admitted to Starfleet Academy, and the writing should reflect that.

I’m excited about the show and hope they do it right. Make starships special again, rebuild the Federation, make the universe something to explore. Allow for some flawed characters to learn. Let’s see some space colonization, etc. Consider Academy having to use older starships, the new ones look like bad CGI. Maybe assign them the Mirror Enterprise complete with functional bridge. No more worrying about canon, that is a real plus, leave that baggage in the past!!!

Just avoid the time travel nonsense, no musicals, let’s get back to Star Trek (unless you go back in time and get rid of time travel episodes).

Towny Newsome who is Mariner on LDS and also a writer on this show said a big part of her job is to keep the canon straight.

So whatever the story is it probably will be canon heavy like the last season of Discovery was.

Being in the 32nd century doesn’t make all that goes away.

Well you don’t need to worry about what happens in the future at least. Though disappointed to see Robert Picard attack SpaceX today… you’ve got a guy who pretends for a living equating electronic components to life attacking people actually providing internet to the poor, missile tracking in Ukraine and putting people in Space. I’m soo tired of Star Trek being anti science with all the magic mushrooms = space travel, space is easy, humanity is so great as is with nothing to learn. Just ugh. It’s really just a comedy cartoon series but I remember it was about humanity. Enough with canon, canon is a joke. Hell by their own logic just say it’s a multiverse or someone went back in time and changed it.

Well what can I say, welcome to NuTrek! 😂🙄

Once you had some of the laziest science happen in the JJ verse movies and one of the head writers writing all that bad science now making all these new shows you can’t expect too much.

At least the spore drive is now in a century where it makes sense in. But oddly it’s so advanced no one else has it 900 years in the future! 😂

Discovery was such a ridiculous show at times.

Paul Giamatti and Holly Hunter are fantastic actors. Great additions to the Trek family. Looking forward to a southern accent in Trek.

no Tilly in the photos….thats a promising start

But will the EMH have a name?

“Joe? It took you 33 years to come up with Joe?”

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Synopsis. In the year 2293, retired Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Montgomery Scott, and Pavel Chekov attend the maiden voyage of the Federation star ship USS Enterprise-B, under the command of the unseasoned Capt. John Harriman (Alan Ruck). During the voyage, Enterprise is pressed into a rescue mission to save two El-Aurian ships ...
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2,824 IMDb 6.6 1 h 57 min 1994. X-Ray UHD PG. Action · Fantasy · ... STAR TREK 3-MOVIE COLLECTION. Buy. Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption. Buy. Star Trek: The Animated Series. Buy. Cast and Crew. David Carson. Star Trek Generations Free trial or buy. Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption ...
Star Trek: Generations
Synopsis. 1994 • PG. Captains Kirk and Picard meet in a strange "Nexus" that defies time and unites forces to save a planet from destruction.
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Overview. 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. David Carson. Director.
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Roger Ebert. November 18, 1994. 5 min read. The " Star Trek " saga has always had a weakness for getting distracted by itself, and "Star Trek: Generations," the seventh film installment, is undone by its narcissism. Here is a movie so concerned with in-jokes and updates for Trekkers that it can barely tear itself away long enough to ...
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Released November 18th, 1994, 'Star Trek: Generations' stars Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton The PG movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 57 min, and received a user score ...
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In the late twenty-third century, the gala maiden voyage of the third Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) boasts such luminaries as Pavel Chekov, Montgomery Scott, and the legendary Captain James T ...
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It is also possible to rent "Star Trek: Generations" on Microsoft Store, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Spectrum On Demand online and to download it on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store. Synopsis 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.
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Star Trek Generations
Star Trek Generations is a 1994 American science fiction film directed by David Carson and based on the franchise of the same name created by Gene Roddenberry. It is the seventh film in the Star Trek film series, as well as the first to star the cast of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation. In the film, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS ...
Star Trek Generations (1994)
For US ratings information please visit: Star Trek Generations is a film directed by David Carson with Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton .... Year: 1994. Original title: Star Trek Generations. Synopsis: In the late twenty-third century, the gala maiden voyage of the third Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) boasts such ...
Star Trek: Generations
[15 Nov. 1994] Read More By David Hunter 67. Austin Chronicle Star Trek: Generations is a successful entry in the series, and a darn good film on its own. ... There's something foul about a Star Trek movie so apparently slapdash: the creators know that legions of fans will show up, no matter what. [18 Nov. 1994] Read More By Elizabeth Renzetti ...
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
James Doohan. Captain Montgomery "Scotty" Scott. Walter Koenig. Commander Pavel Chekov. Alan Ruck. Captain John Harriman. Thomas Dekker. Picard's Kid. Cameron Oppenheimer.
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The seventh film, Star Trek Generations (1994), was designed to serve as a transition from the original cast to that of the next series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. The next three films just starred the cast of The Next Generation, and ended with Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), which disappointed at the box office.
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Picard or Kirk? The age old Star Trek debate. Who is the better Captain of the USS Enterprise? This debate can send fans of the franchise into a full-blooded rage, but in 1994 they got to experience both Captains together in the same film, Star Trek: Generations.It represents William Shatner's last official portrayal of the iconic Captain Kirk and Patrick Stewart's first foray into the ...
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2. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. (Image credit: Paramount Pictures) Release date: June 4, 1982. Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban. Ask a Star Trek fan what the best Star ...
Chris Pine Wonders How 'Star Trek 4' Will Deal With Kirk Now That He Is
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Star Trek Legend William Shatner Has 2 Conditions To Return As Kirk
When it comes to "Star Trek" characters, there's no one quite as legendary as James Tiberius Kirk, the Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise on the very first "Star Trek" series back in 1966. Played by ...
Long Before Lost, Terry O'Quinn Was In Star Trek: The Next Generation
I n the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Pegasus" (January 10, 1994), Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes) is reunited with Admiral Erik Pressman (Terry O'Quinn), his former commanding ...
10 Best Captain Picard Episodes in 'Star Trek The Next ...
Patrick Stewart's Captain Jean-Luc Picard is the greatest hero in the Star Trek saga, as proven by his best episodes like "Tapestry" and "Conundrum."
The Crow Is Getting Roasted by the Original Film's Director
To say 2024 has been a big year for expensive movie swing and soul-crushing box office bombs would be a bit of an understatement. ... the director of the 1994 ... Doug Jones ponders if Star Trek: ...
Production Begins For 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy'
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