Star Trek VII: Generations

Everything in this film is about halfway there... the story is amongst the lukewarm and downright long, the humor in the form of Data’s Emotions surprisingly works very awkwardly and even Kirk's meeting with Pickard is not a powerful event that would move this film forward a few light years. Moreover, legends should not die in such a common way... It is quite obvious in David Carson’s directing that he only made Star Trek VII: Generations in the style of the series and is somehow unable to break away from the "smallness" of the episodes. The excellent character acting of Patrick Stewart's remains an indisputable positive aspect of the film... There are also quite a few nice tricks, which include the effective crash of the Galaxy Class ship. You don’t see that every day. Not enough for a really good sci-fi movie, and just average for average Star Trek. (26/03/2007)

This crew is very difficult to get used to. Even more so because at the beginning, a fraction of the original crew flashes by and shows that they could still handle it. But time has moved forward quite a bit, and a sloppy story based on something called Nexus takes precedence, which ultimately contradicts all its principles. And when the viewer gets a direct comparison, Shatner, surprisingly overshadowed by Stewart, defeats him by a class difference? In the end, it is a shocking weakness that only gains points for Kirk and loses a lot for what it does with his character. The Next Generation's legs were cut out from under them before they even took their place on the silver screen. (26/05/2009)

Perhaps more than any other film in the Star Trek series, Generations can be said to be intended for and mostly embraced by the large community of TV series fans. Much is subordinate to this - especially the deliberate connection of the original (of course, significantly aged) series characters with the new generation of their successors. In terms of story, it is a weaker installment, although the choice of Malcolm McDowell as the villainous Soran helped a lot. Overall impression: 55%. (08/12/2008)

Again, it's more of a nostalgic episode. I enjoyed the passages here with Kirk and possibly with Chekov and Scotty, but there are unfortunately too few of them. I'm not really into the new generation of "Star Trek" and I don't have the same connection to those characters as I do to the original ones. Even though I didn't watch the series, I was captivated by the movies and it was nice to meet them again. At least with some of them. (10/04/2015)