There are ten films of the old crew. Six and a half of the films feature J.T. Kirk as captain or admiral of the Enterprise. The other three and a half films are Captain J.L. Picard, and this film is the only one where these two famous captains team up against evil to save a planet and the Enterprise
The Enterprise is not the first ship to bear that name. The ship's first, or rather second, captain was J.T. Kirk, who is actually the most famous captain in the entire time we've known the Enterprise existed. Kirk is the past and Picard is the future, and the future is something to live for. And the actors who played in the original series have aged. Almost beyond the grave, and so a new Generation, the so-called Next Generations, Picard, Riker, Data and other new characters must continue.
And so ST Generations brings together two of the Federation's most famous characters, Kirk, now retired, and Picard in his prime. Kirk is already old, and thanks to a planetary anomaly called the Nexus, he gets to go on his last voyage, the commissioning of the rebuilt Enterprise, to another dimension where time doesn't matter, age doesn't matter, and where life is beautiful and ageless. And what does Picard do, he gets to the Nexus by not preventing Soran (a classic bad guy) from returning to the Nexus and thus destroying not only the planet, but the crew of his entire ship.
And who is Soran anyway, one bad guy who doesn't age, who can live for many millennia, maybe even centuries, who was ripped from the Nexus, a paradise where there were no problems, no aging, thanks to Kirk, and Soran has been trying to get back for a long time. Which he manages to do, despite Picard's resistance.
But actually, thanks to the Nexus, you can change the past, it's a temporal anomaly thanks to which you can fix the future, destroy the bad guys and become the savior of the planet. So Picard and Kirk return just before Soran's success, and indeed the planet is not destroyed, only Kirk really dies in the course of his mission, for real this time, without returning, but not only the planet is saved, but the entire crew of the Enterprise, unfortunately not the ship, which is smashed against the rocks.
Let's not forget the side story in which Data, an Android – rather a robot, according to I. Asimov, implants an emotion chip, from his brother Lor, and makes him experience sensory emotions, and he's pretty much constrained by it throughout the movie, because he experiences fear, joy, and is quite affected by it.
Another thing is the promotion of Worf, who is the Klingon representative in the Federation. The Klingons and the humans are brought together by Kirk, so look forward to that sort of minor review of the previous film – The Undiscovered Country.
Star Trek VII: Generations is quite fun to watch because it shows all the StarTrek rules and actions, saving the planet, saving the crew, disobeying the Prime Directive. And what's great about this one is it's the first and last pairing of Kirk and Picard in the film and TV series. But other characters from TOS or TNG have teamed up in some episodes of TNG or DS9.
It may be about 10 years old now, but it still has a lot to say, it's better quality than the last Nemesis movie so far, and if you want to know more about StarTrek, or Kirk, or Picard, or just like a lot of SciFi movies from the future, go see this movie, rather get the DVD or VHS. If you're a Trekee, it's really a mistake not to have this movie.
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Original release of this article October 24, 2021 – Kritiky.cz
