Review of Star Trek: Generations (1994) by Jsin — 10 Aug 2008

I'm not a massive Star-Trek fan, I certainly didn't grow up a Trekkie, though I do enjoy a bit of TNG every now and then. This film was sadly a bit of a non-entity really, there wasn't a great deal of pace and there were plot holes you could fly a Galaxy Class Starship through.

Patrick Stewart is an excellent actor and this comes across clearly when he's pitted against someone like William Shatner, who probably wouldn't make it past am-dram in a modern setting. The writers seem painfully aware of this, and have given all the funny lines in the film to Shatner, who completely screws them all up.

A minor plot deviation sees Data (Brent Spiner) getting an emotion chip inserted into his arm, which was presumably hysterical for hardcore trekkie fans but just down right irritating for the rest of us.

The film was watchable, it wasn't particularly good - but it wasn't terrible either. Mediocre, and Shatner made it so.