Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Jack Vasen I enjoyed this movie thoroughly back when it came out. I was immersed in the story which was fairly good especially when you take into account the things that were done to appeal to original TOS Trekkie's. So much Star Trek tradition. There are some original ideas in this story. The Nexus and the idea of getting back is a different kind of take on time travel. Of course there are a billion holes in the story too, but after all, it is Star Trek and time travel, but none of the holes affect the enjoyment. Uniting Kirk and Picard - who can resist. Learning some Kirk and Picard backstory - also good. What does affect the enjoyment, especially if you have see this before is the acting. Give Brent Spiner the award for the worst comedy ever in any Sci-Fi movie. I wonder if that was Spiner or the direction. Stewart overplays the sequence with Kirk and Picard, but seems like Shatner was dead on. The old TOS cast overplayed their parts but I suspect that was intentional. The TNG cast, especially Stewart, had highs and lows, and overall they were probably OK.

Filipe Neto This film is the seventh of the franchise and renews almost everything, as we advance in time to follow the adventures of Captain Picard, played by Patrick Stewart, the new protagonist. Okay, in this film William Shatner still makes a brief appearance, but this happens in a context that the script clearly specifies, and which may (or may not) make logical sense. Either way, the film deserves a positive note regarding the use of new special effects and technologies. They have proved to be very useful to the film. I also liked the new improved sets and costumes. As far as the actors' work is concerned, Stewart does not disappoint, giving us a good participation, but I also really enjoyed the performance of Malcolm McDowell as the villain and Brent Spiner as Data, a humanoid robot who has difficulty understanding feelings. The franchise, thus, takes up a new breath, and this is a good promise for the future.

Thomas Drufke Sometimes a franchise and its characters have run its course to a point where new faces and fresh ideas are needed. Though the Star Trek franchise as a whole was at a high in 1994 with two acclaimed TV series airing and the films coming off a great finale in 'The Undiscovered Country', to me, 'Generations' wasn't the proper next step to take.Sure, it's hard to let go of beloved characters, but 'The Undiscovered Country' felt like the perfect send off for all of the original cast members, including Captain Kirk. Nonetheless he was brought back to past the torch to the next crew to man the Enterprise. Of course, that group being the cast from The Next Generation. Which is exactly where the film has most of its problems.Attempting to balance both timelines, Kirks being 75 years or so earlier, and Captain Picard's (Patrick Stewart) being present day, sometimes the film feels jumbled and bunched together. In other words, there's plenty of set up with the main antagonist played by Malcom McDowell, but the pay-off takes a great deal of time and exposition to get to. It's a much different universe, but Star Wars did an impeccable job blending both casts into The Force Awakens, so that's more along the lines of what I was hoping for.With all that being said, the new cast from the TV series definitely deserve their own individual film (which is obviously what they got a few years later). It's impossible to top the original crew, but there's enough personalities and likable characters, including Stewart's stern but sympathetic Picard.As far as the actual plot itself goes, it pretty much follows the same Star Trek formula, except for the trippy Nexus sequence where Picard and Kirk are stuck in a time loop. It's the most talked about and controversial scenes from the film, and for good reason. I don't necessarily think the sequence works the way it supposed to, but it is where we end up getting the most emotional pay off. So overall, Generations is a middle of the road Star Trek adventure, but at the very least, it gives the new crew some time to shine.+Picard & Kirk+Nexus+Beautiful score-Choppy first half-Formulaic6.3/10

kart jarth I am new to TNG and recently watched the entire series. Then started watching the movies until I reached the Generations. Time traveling episodes are my favorite and Picard meets Kirk, what could go wrong.Captain Kirk, Picard's entire family, the Enterprise-D, and even the Duras sisters where killed in this movie and all of them deserved better. There are two other killings in this movie which bothered me the most: Data and Picard himself. They don't actually die but their characters are destroyed. The scene where Picard is sobbing uncontrollably was so unexpected that I thought this is one of those situations where an extraterrestrial phenomenon is affecting the emotions of the crew and took me a while to realize that was really happening. On the other hand Data installs his emotion chip and turns into a very bad and irritating comedian to the extant that he becomes intolerable after a few minutes.This is one of the worst episodes with the TNG cast and should be left out of the history and story line of Star Trek.