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    Star Trek: Generations (1994)

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    The film’s prologue is set in the 23rd century days of Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew – in this case, that means Scotty and Chekov (Leonard Nimoy and George Takei turned the film down, and DeForest Kelley was in declining health and could not get insurance in order to appear).

    The bulk of the film is then set 78 years later in the era of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart).

    The climax combines the ingredients and brings Kirk and Picard together to double-team the film’s nefarious villain, Dr Tolian Soran (Malcolm McDowell).

    This is made possible thanks to the presence of ‘the Nexus’ (aka the “energy ribbon”) – a “conflux of temporal energy” that passes through our galaxy every 38 years or so.

    All in all, Generations feels overlong, gimmicky and confusing but the visuals are spectacular. This was the final appearance of Wiliam Shatner as Captain Kirk – with Kirk finally going where he had never gone before . . .

    Captain Jean-Luc Picard
    Patrick Stewart
    Cmdr William Riker
    Jonathan Frakes
    Lt Cmdr Data
    Brent Spiner
    Lt Cmdr Geordi La Forge
    LeVar Burton
    Lt Cmdr Worf
    Michael Dorn
    Dr Beverly Crusher 
    Gates McFadden
    Counsellor Deanna Troi
    Marina Sirtis
    Dr Tolian Soran
    Malcolm McDowell
    Captain James T Kirk
    William Shatner
    Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott
    James Doohan
    Ensign Pavel Chekov
    Walter Koenig
    Captain John Harriman
    Alan Ruck
    Demora Sulu
    Jacqueline Kim
    Guinan
    Whoopi Goldberg

    Director
    David Carson

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