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Star Trek: Generations

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Star Trek: Generations (1994)

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Reviews Counted:42

Fresh:19

Rotten:23

Average Rating:5.5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Synopsis: A new version of the starship Enterprise is launched with Captain James T. Kirk as the guest of honor, but no longer calling the shots. But, within moments of take-off, the Enterprise receives a... A new version of the starship Enterprise is launched with Captain James T. Kirk as the guest of honor, but no longer calling the shots. But, within moments of take-off, the Enterprise receives a distress signal from two ships about to be obliterated, and Captain Kirk is asked to return to the helm. With his vast experience and expertise, he manages to save one of the ships. However, Kirk disappears in the process, and at least one of the passengers he saves is not all thankful. It seems that the rescue yanked him out of an idyllic world of perfect joy. Now he'll do anything, even kill, to return -- and it's up to Captain Jean-Luc Picard to prevent that from happening. [More]

Starring: Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner

Starring: Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Malcolm McDowell, James Doohan, Walter Koenig

Director: David Carson

Director: David Carson

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Reviews for Star Trek: Generations

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It's nice to see Kirk one last time.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
05/19/08
Channel 4 Film
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The series' dullest instalment.

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02/09/06
Time Out
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Devoted Trekkers will have to see it to keep abreast of the ships’ logs, but Saturday night at the flicks fun-seekers are apt to concur this one only fires on stun.

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09/15/04
Angie Errigo
Angie Errigo
Empire Magazine
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The plot holes are obvious and disconcerting, the sub-plots feel tacked-on, and the characters are both thinly-drawn and badly-played.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
09/10/01
Tom Coates
Tom Coates
BBC
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Star Trek: Generations suffers from the feeling that it is only a bigger budgeted episode of the television show, one that fails to use the full potential of the cinematic medium.

Full Review Source: Cinefantastique | comment Comment
05/15/09
Steve Biodrowski
Steve Biodrowski
Cinefantastique

The seventh Trek extravaganza emerges as a disappointment, slightly better than the inept Star Trek V but markedly inferior to Parts II and VI.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
05/03/09
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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I had hoped Generations would rescue Star Trek from its pervasive dullness, but somehow things have gotten even more boring

Full Review Source: LarsenOnFilm | comment Comment
04/09/09
Josh Larsen
Josh Larsen
LarsenOnFilm

a little stiff but still good

Full Review Source: sbs.is | comment Comment
07/05/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
sbs.is

Star Trek Generations has enough verve, imagination and familiarity to satisfy three decades' worth of Trekkers raised on several incarnations of the television skein.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
05/19/08
Leonard Klady
Leonard Klady
Variety
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At least the special effects and outer space vistas are more handsome than usual.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
05/19/08
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

No review available.

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11/25/07
Susan Granger
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No review available.

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05/07/07
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
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10/15/05
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
Zap2it.com

No review available.

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09/24/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

I could think of two dozen "Next Generation" episodes that are a lot better than this flick.

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04/17/05
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

No review available.

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03/25/05
Greg Maki
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

Rewards long-time fans but contains basic flaws likely to trouble general audiences.

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12/17/04
Forrest Hartman
Forrest Hartman
Reno Gazette-Journal

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12/14/04
Todd Jorgenson
Todd Jorgenson
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)

This entry isn't particularly strong, but it isn't terribly weak, either -- it's probably the best of the "odd number" Trek movies ever made

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09/07/04
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

Shatner is godly ( and he gets to say "Dillweed"!), but he deserved a better sendoff from Star Trek than this.

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11/28/03
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times
 
 
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