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Summary: Simply "GRRRREAT!!"
Review: Not being a real Trekie (not a huge Star Trek freak), this movie blew me away way more than "First Contact". I found the concept and story line to be very refreshing. I highly recommend this movie even if you remotely like Star Trek.
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Summary: Best Trek Movie of'em All.
Review: Without a doubt, the best Trek film. This was the first, last, and only movie to feature the Enterprise D, which is THE ship that built "Star Trek: The Next Generation", and is better looking than even the new Enterprise E, no contest. Plus this movie had the move u-n-b-e-l-i-e-v-a-b-l-y cool lighting effects which you'll probably never see in a Trek film again. And let's not forget the multi-colored uniforms, not the DULL light blue uniforms currently in the Trek universe. Again, the best Trek film ever.
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Summary: Excellent Bridge Between The Old & The New...
Review: STAR TREK GENERATIONS (1994) took on a monumentally difficult task---namely, the passing of the legendary STAR TREK torch from the original cast to the "Next Generation" cast---and does it almost seamlessly. Despite what many self-professed "Star Trek experts" may say, there was no perfect way to accomplish this. Having recently viewed this film for approximately the 10th time, I am as impressed as ever at the job that director David Carson and screenwriter Rick Berman (who took over as head of the STAR TREK franchise after creator Gene Roddenberry died in 1991) did. I can honestly say that I couldn't have done as good a job at bridging the two generations---and neither could have any of these "experts" who choose to pick apart at it.If you're reading this review and others, you undoubtedly know what this film's about, so I'm not going into a rundown of plot here. I will, however, put in my two-cents worth of opinion about this film: it is a well-paced, fully realized cinematic vision, with great special effects, a compelling main plot, a humorous subplot and some excellent acting on the part of Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner and Malcolm McDowell. Even William Shatner is pretty good here---his acting *has* improved with age and experience! As Dr. Tolian Soren, Malcolm McDowell creates a villain for whom we can actually care; although we don't agree with what he does, we can certainly relate to the reasons why he does what he does. However, this does not make it any less compelling for Capts. Kirk and Picard to stop him from carrying out his destructive methods, leading to the extremely suspenseful---and, ultimately, sad---scene which is as inevitable as it is fateful. I really love STAR TREK GENERATIONS. It has a winning combination of intelligent storyline mixed in with action, suspense and---surprisingly---humor, and plays fair with the rules of the game and the legacy of the series. I really can't imagine any true STAR TREK fan not loving it. It may require some patience on first viewing, perhaps, but the rewards are great for sticking with it. Plus, it only gets better on repeated viewings. I can vouch for that! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Summary: Making Generations Better!!
Review: If your a Star Trek Fan, you will enjoy this film. This flim is a blending of the old to the new generation. It seems that at first William Shatner has a Cameo in the film's first half, but becomes a full member of the cast in the last half.
If your a TRUE Star Trek Fan, and want to enjoy this film even more, you MUST get the three books written by William Shatner. The first book is "Ashes of Eden." It takes place just before "Generations" and has Jim Kirk battling between his long Star Fleet Career and the lack of action in any retirement. In it Capt. Kirk find that he is still called to save worlds, even in his retirement. It fills the gap leading up to the first part of the film. It is true Captian Kirk in action. This book could have been made into a Star Trek movie by itself and can stand alone.
The second book, "The Return", takes place right after the death of Jim Kirk with Spock at his best friend's grave. As from the title, we all want Jim Kirk to live and he does "Return."
You can stop after this book too, if you want to have Jim Kirk dead. (Yes, he dies at the end) But, hold the phone, he will live again in the next book, "Avenger" to save the universe again. This time he has new friends. It's Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise TNG crew. Yes, Spock is logicly there to help Kirk(RET) save the universe again.
Read this and enjoy the movie even more.
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Summary: I Love This Movie
Review: This Movie is very good it is one of my favorite STAR TREK MOVIES Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard™ Jonathan Frakes as William Thomas Riker™ Brent Spiner as Data™ LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge™ Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher™ Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi™ William Shatner as James Tiberius Kirk™ Guest Cast: James Doohan as Captain Montgomery Scott Walter Koenig as Commander Pavel Chekov Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Tolian Soran Alan Ruck as Capt. Harriman Jacqueline Kim as Helmsman Demora Sulu Tim Russ as Lieutenant Majel Barrett as Computer voice Creative Staff: Story By: Rick Berman, Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga Screen Play By: Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga Director: David Carson
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Summary: I remember waiting as a kid for this one to come out.
Review: Season 7 ended in a bang with "all good things", and most trekkies felt pushed abruptly into the harsh cold "real" world. But then many migrated to the WONDERFUL DS9 in wait of the movie. When it did come out, I must have seen it hundreds of times. I still drop dead for this film. It may be just crazy fandom or maybe it's just a good film. I couldn't see any wrong, i was so glad to have my favorite cast of trekkers to continue on the silver screen. It was so sad to see the enterprise D go down crashing on an island like world (an island from the sailing sea's of the stars). Worf was promoted, Picard cried, Data cried, and even the romulans made an appearance! Then in the end, Frakes makes a reference to Gargoyles "Speak for yourself captain, i plan on living forever." I felt on the inside of a delicate circle of friends watching this film. I felt it was and is a valentine to Star trek fans. Famous guests from the show, whoopie, duras sisters, and then the revealing of the predecesor to the enterprise D. And then a backstory on guinnan. This movie remains one of my favorite Trek movies of all time.
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Summary: The best of the odd-numbered Star Treks
Review: It is a truism universally accepted in the Star Trek Universe that the odd-numbered films are inferior to the even numbered films. Wrath of Khan, Voyage Home, etc. are obviously superior to Search For Spock, Insurrection, et al. And although, objectively, Generations is inferior to the films immediately before and after it (First Contact and Undiscovered Country), I can't help but feel an irrational affection for it. Despite the scientific gaffs, despite the ending that just doesn't work, there is just something about the film that I like.
So, the problems with the film are easy to enumerate. Most serious is the entire last act, where Picard and Kirk team up to defeat the villain. There is no scene that doesn't work on its own, but the sum of the scenes is a bit silly and not heroic - not worthy of even one captain of the Enterprise, let alone two! Close behind is the seriously silly physics of the star-destroying weapon. At one point, we are led to believe that a planet is 8 light seconds (or less!) from it's primary, as opposed to the 8 light minutes distance that Earth is from the sun.
And yet, there are so many good parts that I'm willing to forgive the bad. The entire opening act, with Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov aboard the Enterprise-B is fantastic. Kirk's "death" on that ship is very dramatic and extremely effective. Data's struggle with his emotion chip is surprisingly effective, especially when Picard resorts to bullying him like he would a green midshipman. We get to see two of the greatest Next Generation villains - Lursa and Betor. And the end-battle is the best ST space battle since Kirk led Khan into the Mutara Nebula (narrowly edging Spock and McCoy performing "surgery" on a torpedo in ST VI).
Like the other special edition DVD's in the Star Trek series, this one is packed full of fun and interesting tidbits. The text commentary by the Okudas (writers of the ST encyclopedia) has a fancy new graphic that is both harder to read and more obtrusive - ARGH! Why do they overdesign something just to make it worse?! The audio commentary by the scriptwriters is quite interesting (my brother considers it the best of the Trek commentaries, but I still like Shatner and Nimoy together in ST IV). There are lots of making-of featurettes. Unfortunately, this late into the special editions, there is some repetition and it's not as interesting as previous commentaries. However, it does contain the all-important (to Trekkies) original cuts of the Nexus scenes and the climax scenes, both of which are legendary (as having to be significantly re-filmed) in Trek lore. That the new ending is far superior to the original ending is evident, and somewhat alarming considering how disappointing the final ending is! All-in-all, a good DVD edition of a movie that is, to me, unfairly maligned.
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Summary: Worst effort ever
Review: I'll keep this short and to the point. This film does more to destroy the franchise that bolster it.
It destroys the uniqueness of Data by giving him emotions. So now he ends up being like everyone else on the ship. OK, so he's an android, and he has yellow eyes. But that wasn't what differentiated him. One TNG icon bites the dust (The fact that the "emotion" chip is destroyed in later episodes is a testament that the idea to give Data emotions was ill conceived.)
Then they destroy the "D". I'm sorry, but in the real world, anyone who was a bridge officer on the flagship of the fleet when it met its fate would never, ever, ever be given a command position again. And Piccard and Riker both would be facing investigation and court martial. Especially if it was destroyed in the way that "D" met it's demise. The reaction of Piccard when he finds that the "D" is a pile of scrap is insane. He basically blows it off and says "Ah, what the heck, they'll build more." Gotta tell ya, if it were my bridge, my first officer would not leave the scrap pile in one piece.
The real killer here is that the destruction added absolutely nothing to the storyline, and was done simply becasue the writers and modelers wanted to go to something new in terms of a ship. Personally, everything they've come up with since has been a real yawn.
OK, so two icons of TNG are destroyed. I guess I could live with that if the story was any good. But it wasn't. True, Stewart is a tremendous actor and does a heroic job with the incredibly bad lines he's given, but its just not enough.
With so many opportunities for a really good story, this attempt is a dismal failure, and a huge disappointment.
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Summary: No Insert on Collectors Edition for Generations
Review: I just received my Star Trek: Generations DVD. I was amazed at how fast it came too. I have 1 concern though. It does not appear to be repackaged but on the inside of the front flap their was no insert like all my of ST Collector's Editions in the past. Has anyone else had this problem? This makes me conerned if these are seconds or something.
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Summary: slow & talky: typical TNG
Review: At last, the once and future captains of the starship Enterprise meet. The result? So what?
This first screening of the "The Next Generation" crew of Trek highlights everything that made that show such a snorer - generic characters and plots, talky scenes, technobabble, philosophy stitched onto a threadbare plot. "Generations" might have made an above-average episode of TNG, perhaps the penultimate episode, and a good lead-in for the finale, "All good things".
The Plot: ST:G begins in the waning days of Admiral Kirk's career. Along with Chekhov and Scotty, Kirk is feted at the launch of the newest incarnation of the starship Enterprise when disaster strikes. Responding to a distress call from two ships caught in a cosmic storm, the Enterprise-B is nearly trapped and destroyed as well. One of the survivors is Dr. Soran (McDowell), a scientist with more than a coincidental connection to the mysterious storm. In the ensuing firestorm that lashes his ship, Kirk disappears, and is believed dead. Nearly a century later, the crew of the Enterprise-D crosses paths with the same Dr. Soran, hard at work on a weapon that causes stars to collapse. Though this would give Soran immense power (a fact not lost on a crew of Klingons interested in acquiring the weapon), it's only a means for him to something bigger - control of the firestorm seen at the beginning of the movie. Not simply a cosmic storm, it's the gateway to an alternate dimension whose inhabitants can experience their happiest dreams. To steer the storm in a direction he seeks, Soran must detour it through a heavily populated star system, endangering the lives of millions. A first attempt to defeat Soran ends in disaster - the Enterprise is destroyed, its crew annihilated, and the storm steered towards that imperiled system. Only by leaping into the Nexus does Picard survive. At first enraptured by the sybaritic existence within the Nexus, Picard remembers his duty and enlists the only other denizen of that elysian dimension who can help him back in our universe: Captain Kirk.
Average special effects (with some effects just recycled from other Trek movies) and an undistinguished script, ST:G never gets past being a TNG episode designed solely to write Kirk into a story. The Nexus never gets past being a convenient device to return Kirk, and absorb Soran, and most of the story is just talk. Why Soran needs to cause such havoc to reunite with the Nexus is never really explained, and the meaningless of time within the Nexus only robs the story of the critical "countdown" phase. The Nexus itself was probably a nifty idea for sci-fantasy, but is totally ineffective for dramatic purposes - another example of TNG Trek that aspires to brilliance without ever being all that smart. If you want a more effective TNG movie, I'd suggest "First Contact".
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