Star Trek Sundays: I Hate "Generations," and you should too
The absolute worst Star Trek movie, kicking off a terrible streak
It’s Sunday, and we’re going through all 13 theatrical STAR TREK films, a series that includes a number of pieces that have never appeared online before taken from my book 200 Reviews, available now in Paperback or on Kindle (which you should really consider buying, because it’s an awesome collection!). We continue today with the first Next Generation film, STAR TREK: GENERATIONS. Enjoy…
Star Trek: Generations
1994, Dir. David Carson
Originally published in 200 Reviews, based on notes from 2022
F*** this movie.
Few films flush their good ideas so aggressively down the toilet as Star Trek: Generations, a movie that arrives awash in potential and realizes absolutely none of it. For a story that at least wants to be about the weight of missed opportunities, the sad magnetic pull of the road not travelled and the perils of retreating into nostalgia, there is something almost poetic about how completely the film succumbs to the very things it asks its heroes to overcome.
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