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This week on Trekcast, we’re kicking off our Star Trek: The Next Generation movie reviews with Star Trek: Generations. Does the film still hold up after all these years? We’ll share what we loved, what didn’t age so well, and what we’d change. Plus, Starfleet Academy finally has an official premiere date!
One Star Trek actor opens up about how intimidating their role really was.
And believe it or not, we almost got an evil version of Captain Kirk on Enterprise! All that and more in this week’s episode of Trekcast: The Galaxy’s Most Unpredictable Star Trek Podcast!
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https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/evil-kirk-star-trek-enterprise/Star Trek Generations is a 1994 American
science fiction film and the seventh film in the
Star Trek film series.
Malcolm McDowell joins cast members from the 1960s television show
Star Trek and the 1987 sequel series
The Next Generation, including
William Shatner and
Patrick Stewart. In the film, Captain
Jean-Luc Picard of the
USS Enterprise-D joins forces with Captain
James T. Kirk to stop the villain Tolian Soran from destroying a
planetary system in his attempt to return to an extra-dimensional realm known as the Nexus.
Generations was conceived as a transition from the original cast of the
Star Trek films to the cast of
The Next Generation. After developing several film ideas concurrently, the producers chose a script written by
Ronald D. Moore and
Brannon Braga. Production began while the final season of the television series was being made. The director was
David Carson, who previously directed episodes of the television series; photography was by franchise newcomer
John A. Alonzo. Filming took place on the
Paramount Studios lots, and on location in
Valley of Fire State Park,
Nevada, and
Lone Pine, California. The film's climax was revised and reshot following poor reception from test audiences. The film uses a mix of
traditional optical effects alongside
computer-generated imagery and was scored by regular
Star Trek composer
Dennis McCarthy.
Star Trek Generations was released in the United States on November 18, 1994. Paramount promoted the film with merchandising tie-ins, including toys, books, games, and a website—a first for a major motion picture. The film opened at the top of the United States box office in its first week of release and grossed a total of $118 million worldwide. Critical reception was mixed, with critics divided on the film's characters and comprehensibility to a casual viewer. It was followed by
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