Review of Star Trek: Generations (1994) by Kenneth L — 18 Jul 2014

"Star Trek: Generations" is an okay film. It is enjoyable if your not thinking too hard, but once you start to question anything, it all falls apart. Soran is an decent villain, but he is nothing special at all.

I would have preferred a straight Duras sisters story instead of some weird tale where they kinda work with/for him and just die in an anti-climax explosion from the last film's climax. I feel this way about the whole movie.

Things just happen. Nothing too interesting does, but things DO happen. A lot of it doesn't make sense, and it is very disjointed. Data's emotion chip storyline is mostly god-awful. Picard's family storyline doesn't really pay off in anyway.

And the Nexus is kind of a boring sci-fi clichà (C). The whole sell of the movie hinges on Kirk and Picard getting to meet. Sadly it isn't all that great when they get together. I can watch "Generations", and if I don't think about it I can enjoy it, but it just is not up to the level of quality that TNG usually maintained.

I like it for nostalgia, but very little else.