Very Cool!!!

Simply Perfect

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Movie Review: "Star Trek: Generations" (1994)In an ingeniously-received screenplay by thirty-years-and-younger screenwriters Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga, also responsible for producing an unfortunately epic-failing prequel "Enterprise" television series from 2001 before given his former employee the death-wish-stapping with a never-seen-before parodic entrée created by stand-up-comedian Seth MacFarland "The Orville" in season 2017/2018; nevertheless here with serious as highly-emotional feature installment for Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his faithful, seven season approved crew under slow-but-solid former-television-episode director David Carson.Actor Patrick Stewart as already incorporated Captain Jea-Luc Picard carries this unusually-metaphysical, mind-stretching approach of a newly-received "Star Trek" science-fiction entertainment movie proudly presented by "Dom Perignon" granting Hollywood Major "Paramount Pictures", when a beauty of a timeless spaceship "Enterprise NCC-1701-D" gets inaugurated under watchful eyes of now more Admiral James T. Kirk and Senior-Warp-Engineer Montegomery Scott, in heart-warming appearances of whispering legend with William Shatner, James Doohan (1920-2005) and Walter Koenig as Chekov, before a conspiracy-suspense-plot thickens, driving by fulminate character role for the ages Soran, portrayed by Malcolm "Clockwork Orange" McDowell to become a marvel of a generations-overlapping parallel universe called "The Nexus", when finally the scene of all scenes between Patrick Stewart's Picard and William Shatner's Kirk accurs to become a calm Shakespearean chamber play in a rural carpentered wood shack, in reminiscence to an even further exceeding interior diner scene with just black coffee reception as warmer redeemer between Al Pacino & Robert De Niro in "Heat" (1995)."Generations" in its 110-Minute-Cut has become an professionally-received editorial by Peter E. Berger, making full use of splendid cinematography by John A. Alonzo (1934-2001), when this 35-Million-Dollar upscale of a Hollywood production, retrieves from many believed-to-be the best "Star Trek" television episodes given, really exceeds any science-fiction-lovers expectations with sequences of action to the maximum of metal-into-earth proportions and on the other side pure wisdom on fading lights of the most-appreciated character of former leisure-chamber-owning Guinan, so-formidably portrayed by Academy-Award-Winner Whoopi Goldberg to let this "Star Trek" become one of full-circling, mountain-peaking endeavors.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

This, the seventh 'Star Trek' film, opens with Kirk, Scotty and Chekov visiting the Enterprise B to help celebrate its launch. While they are aboard a distress call is received from two ships that are being destroyed by an 'energy ribbon'; many people are saved; including a man named Soran and a familiar woman… Guinan. Unfortunately there was a price to be paid; Captain Kirk was lost presumed dead when a bulkhead ruptures.Seventy eight years later a new crew on a new Enterprise also receive a distress signal, this time from a space station; once again one of the survivors is Soran. It turns out he is the same long-lived species as Guinan and he will do anything to get back to the energy Ribbon. Guinan explains to Captain Picard that it is something known as the Nexus and inside it time has no meaning and life is permanently joyful. Before his plans can be exposed Soran captures Geordi and beams aboard a Klingon ship operated by the Duras Sisters. The events that follow see the destruction of the Enterprise and Picard entering the Nexus where he meets a familiar person… he also learns that he can leave at any time he likes so may have a second chance to stop Soran; even if the cost will be high. If all this wasn't enough Data is having to come to terms with having emotions after installing an emotion chip.After the conclusion of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' series it was of no surprise that its crew would return on the big screen. The way the baton was metaphorically handed from Kirk to Picard was effective although the cinematic introduction to the new crew was a bit surprising; we first see them on the holodeck where they are aboard an old sailing ship. The scene wasn't without humour though; Data pushing Dr Crusher overboard was hilarious even if those around him weren't amused. The cast does a fine job; most notable Brent Spiner who gets to do something different as Data comes to terms with emotions. Malcom McDowell is impressive as Soran although I'm sure nobody will be surprised when it emerges that he is the bad guy. As one would expect there is a good amount of action including the destruction of the Enterprise D; the ship that survived seven seasons of 'The Next Generation'. Overall this was fun despite being messy at times as events are contrived to bring the two famous captains together.

Retired Captain Kirk, Scottie, and Chekov are attending the maiden voyage of the new Enterprise with the media. They are surprised by a distress call. Kirk manages to save some of the refugees before losing himself to the energy ribbon. Two of the survivors are Tolian Soran (Malcolm McDowell) and Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg). Almost eighty years later, The Next Generation crew encounters Soran who is working with the Klingon Duras sisters for his own purpose of returning to the energy ribbon and Nexus.This movie achieves the needed goals of the franchise. It gives Kirk a final curtain call, and it gives a satisfying hand-off between the old crew and the new one. Kirk is one of the iconic characters of not only Star Trek but all of sci-fi. This movie basically gives him two death scenes and they are both classic Kirk. The hand-off is needed for the Next Generation to take over the movie franchise. Granted, it works best for fans who have seen both series. For non-fans, the characters would still make sense but it wouldn't be quite so satisfying. The movie itself has enough technical babble and sci-fi action for those familiar with the franchise. It is a bigger expansion of the new TV series but it's not different.

This should have been a good Captains' meeting, however, it was part of a "Next Generation" episode... and a too brief "Original Series" clip...However, as I enjoyed the image enhancement that the "TNG" group offered with this movie, I would have worked out the story. Paramount executives went a bit too fast to introduce Picard's crew into the big screen.Part of the Synopsis: 78 years after an event which took Captain Kirk's life, Captain Picard and his crew save a would-be scientist, which in fact is a madman who wants to enter a "Nexus" inside a deadly space ribbon. It is not his first experiment. He is backed up by an evil Klingon crew, headed by the Duras sisters, hungry for payback against the Enterprise.Though it was fun to see for once Data display emotions, thanks for Dr. Soong's microchip, the almost surrealistic meeting of Picard and Kirk deceives a bit: we would have loved to see both in a better setting than a back country landscape.I would not blame the actors here, but the storyline itself, a reminder of Star Trek V, which was too average: a madman looking for something apparently good, and the Enterprise crew must stop him.Sad that DeForest Kelley (health) and Leonard Nimoy (technicality) were absent for this movie.I would have renamed this movie: Star Trek Nexus. Given another year to release the movie, it would have been better...