Star Trek: Generations

[chucklemeister]

I still like Generations better than any of the other TNG films. It has the Enterprise D and the crew are closer to their tv personalities. Plus it actually uses all the crew instead of the cardboard cutouts that were in the later movies.

I still hate that they destroyed the Enterprise D, killed Picard's family, and the crappy way that Kirk died. If they had to kill Kirk, at least let him go out on the Enterprise.

Oh and I liked the Enterprise B, I have always liked the Excelsior class.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Picard is a great man and should not die to give Shatner three more movies.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

If Kirk hadn't died, we might never have gotten DENNY CRANE.

 

[Cassie]

I didn't really mind the way Kirk died. He died saving millions of people, so his legend lives on. I think they should have extended the movie a little and had a big funeral ceremony with his body being shot out into space... perhaps landing on a magical planet, and later Spock finds his body and has sex with it, bringing him back to life.

 

[Dr Dave]

o.0

 

[bryce]

For years fans waited for the time when Kirk and Picard wold join frces, in a kind Butch Cassidy & Sundance way, to battle badness and save the galaxy.

And we got like maybe 10 minutes of them together at the end, and a lot of it was stuid galoping around on horses. (It's Kirks most longed-for dreams all realized - it should have been him with his son and Edith Keeler back alive, and both right by his side, along with Spock and co. as he once again commands the Enterprise. Not some lame boring farmhouse and some ponies.)

And sheesh, after all the let-down, what a fucking lame ass way to kill off Kirk, the Galaxy's Greatest Federation Hero? He falls off of a fucking rusty old bridge.

Say what!?

Couldn't some more creative writers have rewritten the script so that Kirks dies...I dunno, maybe while heroically manning the battle bridge against the Klingons, and/or heroically and flying the dammaged stardrive section away from the saucer, before it blows up, and thus giving his life to save...the Enterprise!?

Yeah, in real life things don't often happen that way - death is often meaingless and senseless, but this isn't real life damn it! It fantasy and it's Star Trek so reality be damned!

 

[CaptainWacky]

At least they didn't use the ending where he was just shot in the back.

 

[Gonad]

The novelization works around the lame horse fantasy.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

The movie looks like an especially sumptuous TNG episode, which is a big plus, but FC has a way better story and the least number of awkwardly bad "comedy moments" of the TNG movies.

 

[CaptainWacky]

"I think you got him!"

 

[Fuddlemiff]

"I ain't detectin no leak, foo!"

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

"There are no other ships in range, sir."

THEY JUST LEFT THE SOLAR SYSTEM. THERE ARE NO OTHER STARFLEET SHIPS NEARBY, NOR ANY SHIPS DOCKED AT EARTH? REALLY?

Movie over.

 

[whisky]

The other starfleet ships wont be installed till tuesday.

 

[The Tomtrek]

"There are no other ships in range, sir."

THEY JUST LEFT THE SOLAR SYSTEM. THERE ARE NO OTHER STARFLEET SHIPS NEARBY, NOR ANY SHIPS DOCKED AT EARTH? REALLY?

Movie over.

To be fair the exact same thing happens at the start of The Motion Picture. I think all the other starships just bugger off when Kirk in is town.

 

[whisky]

it never usually ends well for ships that aren't called enterprise when they are in the same scene as her.

 

[CaptainWacky]

"MAKE ROBERT LESS UGLY, PLEASE." - The Suits

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Robert who?

(It's on right now, on IFC. Cropped aspect ratio and with commercials. Yippee.)