Star Trek Generations PG
David Carson brings the generations of The Next Generation, with Captain Picard and the new Enterprise D, to meet Captain Kirk from the Enterprise B, who was presumed dead 78 years earlier. The space Nexus comes around every 33 or so years, suggesting that it has a very close orbit in subspace. Then the planet Picard goes to, Veridian 3, with Soran, seems like it is light years from where the old ship was 78 years earlier. Soran is an evil scientist that apparently wants to get back to this nexus thing and allies with two evil Klingon sisters to get what he wants. Picard must stop Soran’s plans before he blows up a star, but Riker is left in charge of the ship while he beams down, and the Klingons blow the ship out of the sky, and she crash lands. Picard is seemingly destroyed but is pulled inside the Nexus, where time and space can be altered at whim, but nobody goes back to the beginning and just arrests Soran! The Nexus itself though, was even stranger. Picard wouldn't have wanted a Christmas in his fantasy. He never let on about that until this movie. Kirk would not have wanted a cabin in his. Shatner maybe, but not his character, Kirk. No, Kirk would have wanted a space nightclub with alien babes, or to be on the bridge of the Enterprise. The convoluted plot bothers even some fans, who blame the writers for ending it on such a dreary note. Killing Kirk was really, really a bad move. Yeah, that was a bad ending. But it wasn’t a terrible movie, just merely a decent TNG episode with Kirk in it. Review by Adam Browne
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