Star Trek Generations [Blu-ray]

Director: David Carson David Carson

Overview

The seventh Star Trek feature passed the torch to a new crew. Decades after the original "Trek, the skipper of the fourth USS Enterprise is Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), who investigates a massacre at a science outpost. The only survivor is Dr. Soran (Malcolm McDowall), who perpetrated the event to cover up his invention: a bomb he launches into a nearby sun, exploding it. As Soran escapes with Klingon cronies, Picard learns that Soran's plan is to summon a heavenly energy ribbon called the Nexus. Those who enter it live forever with every wish fulfilled. Attempting to stop Soran, Picard ends up inside the Nexus, where he discovers former captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), believed to have been killed in an accident 78 years earlier.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/30/2013
UPC:	0097360728941
Original Release:	1994
Rating:	PG
Source:	Paramount
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:57:00
Sales rank:	27,798

Special Features

Commentary by: director David Carson and Manny Coto; Scoring Trek HD; Next Generation designer flashback: Andrew Probert HD; Stellar cartography on Earth HD; Brent Spiner: data and beyond part 1 HD; Trek roundtable generations HD; Starfleet academy: trilithium HD; ; Blu-ray exclusives: ; Library computer; Star Trek IQ (BD-live); ; Plus over 3 hours of previously released content

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Patrick Stewart	Picard
William Shatner	Kirk
Malcolm McDowell	Soran
Jonathan Frakes	Riker
Brent Spiner	Data
LeVar Burton	Geordie
Michael Dorn	Worf
Gates McFadden	Beverly
Marina Sirtis	Troi
James Doohan	Scotty
Walter Koenig	Chekov
Alan Ruck	Capt. Harriman
Jacqueline Kim	Demora
Tim Russ	Lieutenant
Glenn Morshower	Navigator
Whoopi Goldberg	Guinan
Jenette Goldstein	Science Officer
Thomas Kopache	Com Officer
Tommy Hinkley	Journalist
John Putch	Journalist
Christine Jansen	Journalist
Michael Mack	Ensign Haynes
Dendrie Taylor	Lieutenant Farrell
Patti Yasutake	Nurse Ogawa
Granville Ames	Transport Chief
Majel Barrett Roddenberry	Computer
Henry Marshall	Security Officer
Brittany Parkyn	Girl With Teddy Bear
Barbara March	Lursa
Gwynyth Walsh	B'Etor
Rif Hutton	Klingon Guard
Brian Thompson	Klingon Helm
Marcy Goldman	El Aurian Survivor
Jim Krestalude	El Aurian Survivor
Judy Levitt	El Aurian Surviovor
Kristopher Logan	El Aurian Survivor
Gwen Van Dam	El Aurian Survivor
Kim Braden	Picard's Wife
Christopher James Miller	Picard's Nephew
Matthew Collins	Picard's Kid,Picard's Child
Thomas Alexander Dekker	Picard's Child
Madison Eginton	Picard's Child
Olivia Hack	Picard's Kid
Dennis McCarthy	Composer

Technical Credits

Brannon Braga

Ronald D. Moore

Gene Roddenberry

David Carson	Director
Brannon Braga	Screenwriter
Ronald D. Moore	Screenwriter,Special Effects
Rick Berman	Producer
Bud Davis	Stunts
Terry Frazee	Special Effects
John Knoll	Special Effects
Junie Lowry-Johnson	Casting
Ron Surma	Casting
Bernard Williams	Executive Producer
Gene Roddenberry	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Even though the Star Trek series dropped the Roman numerals with this, the seventh installment, Star Trek Generations is often thought to continue the trend of the odd-numbered sequels being weaker than the even ones. Still, there's a lot to like in this film, and not just because it gives fans the chance to bid a fond farewell to three folks from the original Enterprise: James Doohan's Scotty, Walter Koenig's Chekov, and, most poignantly, William Shatner's Kirk. But taking center stage this time is the crew from Star Trek: The Next Generation, led by Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard, and it's a pretty convincing theatrical debut, even if the characters are used unevenly. It's smart that we get a big dose of Brent Spiner's Data, the heretofore emotionless android, who installs an emotion chip in order to become more human. This allows Spiner excellent leeway to explore the android's wacky potential -- when, for example, he first tastes a disagreeable beverage, he revels outrageously in how much he dislikes it, then asks for seconds just to experience the thrill. Similarly delightful Data moments do draw screen time from such stalwart crew members as Worf (Michael Dorn), Riker (Jonathan Frakes), and Troi (Marina Sirtis), but the screenwriters only have so much time to dole out. The storyline is typically hyperbolic, as Trek movie storylines go -- Malcolm McDowell blowing up stars, to alter the path of a ribbon-shaped portal floating through space, ends up being both cool and surprisingly plausible, by Trek standards. David Carson, a veteran of numerous episodes of several Trek series, brings it all to the screen with workmanlike competence. Maybe it was just that odd-numbered curse that caused history to view this as a lesser Trek film.

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