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Star Trek Generations

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is one of the best Star Trek movies yet
Review: This Movie is great,but it would be better if it were more like the book

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Next Generation
Review: After the latest entry of the series (Star Trek VI: The Undiscoverd Country, 1991), the producers and filmmakers wounted to continue the great science-fiction series, with "The Next Generation" cast, and they did right. This film is verry enjoyble and practically smart. 100% guareente. But the only bad point in this movie, is that Kirk ...dies. And its verry sad to see are legendary Captain be killed.

I hope that they will bring him back in Star Trek X (or iven in XI), with the basic story of the film to be inspired from William Shatner's best-selling novels. But, until then, enjoy "The Next Generation" sci-fi movies, starring Patrick Stewart and co.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It was Ok...
Review: I thought this movie was too much for an audience who doesn't know a lot about the characters and their background. Like, most people wouldn't know who Picards brother is, or how close a friendship Picard and Guinan had. The real messed-up part was that in ST:5, Kirk says "I've always known I'll die alone" but they couldn't even live up to that in the movie, he died next to Picard. Altogether it was a great movie with Lore's emotion chip in Data and what goes on when he has it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Where to start!
Review: Well. It sounds, looks and plays like an extended TV episode. Which is a damn shame, because the idea is reasonable, no-one acts badly (more than usual) and the effects are a must. But something, somewhere does not gel.

Perhaps what is needed is to look at the whole Star Trek NG thing from another angle. Star Trek First Contact goes some way (at least at the start). But this is lost by Insurrection.

Having said that. Down with wiggy, Long live Baldy!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: An uneven, but ambitious and touching high-concept Trek
Review: The second half-hour rambles, and they should have ditched the subplot with Data's emotions chip, but this film was still vastly more ambitious and emotionally moving than the Borg-based shoot-em-up that followed. Such moments as Ensign Sulu's shock and grief as she realizes that Kirk is gone, Picard's bereavement, and the grave moment in which Picard realizes the choice he has to make (stay in an illusion of the joyous family he always wanted, and allow 200 million to die in the "real" world, or leave to try again to save them), are intensely moving. For those who need a lot of white-knuckler explosions and crewmen flying over the railing, the half-destruction and crash landing of the Enterprise-D more than delivers. The cinematography is at times quite beautiful (Troi comforting Picard, the astral cartography room, and Picard's Christmas home), and even Dennis McCarthy's often subdued scoring seems appropriate to this more subtle installment. This movie requires an attention span and an interest in high-concept science fiction (the Nexus is a welcome derivative of P. Jose Farmer's "Riverworld"), and so bored to tears those for whom Star Trek only means space dogfights at warp speed and sparring characters. The planet in peril (Veridian 4) should have been something we saw and cared about (e.g., why not Vulcan?), the producers lost a great opportunity to have Riker, Troi and Worf standing on the surface of the ruined Enterprise, watching resignedly as the deadly shock wave rips across the planet to envelop them, and Kirk's death needed more bit more blaze-of-glory, but I still found myself dearly sorry for him as he muttered his last, "Oh, my..." For a fleeting moment, I held onto a touch of hope that the rumors were false. All told, an uneven but admirable, ambitious and touching adventure. As we left, my companion said, "I think I liked that one the best." I wouldn't go that far, but plot irregularities and all, it was science fiction for grown-ups.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: TWO CAPTAINS - ONE DESTINY
Review: The 7th 'TREK' film. The first to feature 'THE NEXT GENERATION' cast. The CLASSIC 1st meeting of 'KIRK' and 'PICARD'. And the 1st appearance of the 'U.S.S. ENTERPRISE: NCC - 1701 - B'. ALL of these qualities make for a GREAT 'TREK' movie.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A good movie, but plot needed work.
Review: It is not the best of the Star Trek movies. The plot was weak in spots and did drag a bit. There are just too many "why didn't they just do this" moments in the plot. Many people felt that the script was a rush job by Paramount in an effort to get a new Trek movie out in the wake of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's death. The concept of a hand-off movie of classic Trek to Next Generation was a nice idea, but not executed well enough. Despite this, if you just sit back and watch it as a fun movie, it does a great job and is very enjoyable to watch. Just don't over-analyze it and you will enjoy it greatly.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Check out the comic book version of this movie...
Review: ...there's a few alternative scenes in there. This is because the writers of the comic were given an earlier version of the script, and some scenes were later changed near the release date of the movie, when they'd already started scripting/drawing the comic.

For instance, it features an alternative opening sequense to the "spinning champange bottle", I'm not going to tell you the details, but the scene involves Kirk and Scotty...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: generations - favorite movie i can think of.
Review: 2 great themes: mortality and pleasure and how they relate to metaphysics and ethics. i love the part where kirk realizes that "it's not real" - symbolizing games/tv/movies as escape from reality.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A Travesty of Cosmic Proportions!
Review: Do you really mean to tell me Captain Kirk would be stuck in a wave for eighty years and not realize this fact until Picard came along and told him? If part of Guinan is in the wave (indeed, it's she who instructs Picard) wouldn't she have alerted Kirk to this fact as well? How come Captain Picard didn't tell anyone what happened between him and Kirk, leaving him buried under some rocks? Wouldn't a legend like Kirk deserve an official funeral? Of course there's a real question as to whether Kirk is really dead since part of him is in the wave. Ultimately the entire premise of this film makes no sense. Mr. Scott is alive and well and living in the time of the Next Generation cast due to having been caught in a damaged transporter. The first words out of his mouth when Geordi rescued him were, "I thought Jim Kirk had come to find me." How is this possible when Scotty is right there on the Enterprise when Kirk gets pulled into the wave? It's possible because the current producers of Star Trek don't respect the tradition and storylines of their own franchise. This film is a travesty that I don't give any validity to. One can only hope that said producers correct their mistake and return Kirk to life in his own time.


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