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Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner

Capt. Picard, with the help of supposedly dead Capt. Kirk, must stop a madman willing to murder on a planetary scale in order to enter a space matrix.

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PG, 1 hr. 50 min.

Directed by: David Carson

Release Date: November 18, 1994

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  • SirPant
    September 21, 2009
    SirPant
    I think Kirk deserved a better death than that! Didn?t he always used to say "I?ll never die alone"!?
    Apart from that, this is a well handled hand over to The Next Generation.
  • bradwest
    October 31, 2008
    bradwest
    Kind of a waste really.
  • stopitgoaway
    October 29, 2008
    stopitgoaway
    I always loved this movie. From the very first time I saw it, at the age of 10, I absolutely adored it. It took a big risk, admittedly, in bringing the Original Series and TNG together, but I believe it did it extremely well and with a lot of ingenuity.

    The first part of the ...( read more)movie seems to pick up where "The Undiscovered Country" left off; and it does so on a somewhat sour note. Retirement does not sit at all well with Captain Kirk, and he hates the idea of being a "legend" and having the namesake of his beloved ship run by a bunch of inexperienced kids and a skeleton crew (the running "tuesday" gag is hilarious). I think Walter Koenig and James Doohan were marvellous in the first part of this movie, and the scene where they arrive on deck 15 and find themselves staring into the void of space is chilling.

    After this, it picks up with the Next Generation Crew, and boy, does the camera love the Enterprise D. It's emotional to see the crew going through the changes this movie throws at them, and by the time Geordi's kidnapped and Data's emotions are uncontrollable, my heart was in my throat.

    It's also a pleasure to see Whoopi Goldberg reprise her role as Guinan, and as far as humor goes, Data's newfound sense of humor had me on the floor.

    I LOVED Picard and Kirk's interactions and the segment in Kirk's cabin is an absolute hoot. (Picard: "This is not your bedroom.") Soran is a great villain, truly ruthless and threatening. Out of all the Next Gen films, this is probably my favorite. It has an atmosphere about it that's very appealing to me, and the only other TNG film that had the same feeling was Nemesis, which I still maintain was a WICKED movie.
  • FangsFirst
    May 16, 2008
    FangsFirst
    The story goes (as has been said many times!) that the "odd-numbered" Star Trek films are the inferior ones. In my recent re-watchings (I thought some would be new watchings, but none were), I found that this difference is--for me, at least--middling at best. Hard to nail down t...( read more)o a switch on that front, but with a definite feeling that the odd films with the original cast were more about concepts (the central mystery of the original, the idea of the Genesis project in the third and religion in the fifth) while the others were more simply engaging and action-oriented. I'm not opposed to the ones that have a central conceit that may outdo the rest of the script and possibly lackluster action, so I didn't take issue to those odd-numbered films.

    While there have been other meetings between the original and Next Generation cast (such as Nimoy's appearance in the latter's television show), this is the only film that fully crosses the two, beginning with an introduction that centers on Kirk, Scotty and Chekhov experiencing the launch of the Enterprise-B, commanded by Capt. John Harriman (Alan Ruck, of fame as Cameron in Ferris Bueller's Day Off)--as well as a Conn Officer played by Glenn Morshower, who later became 24's Aaron Pierce, and a Science Officer played by Jenette Goldstein, who had been Aliens' Vasquez and Diamondback in Near Dark. Of course, incompetency and traumatic danger both rear their ugly heads and Kirk is forced to move himself from observational stance to action, and in the process disappears into an energy ribbon known only as the "Nexus."

    Coming forward in time, we see the first film appearances of the Next Generation crew, all in mariner uniforms on the Holodeck, performing a period commencement and promotion. Soon they are drawn out and into awareness of the return of the Nexus, which they learn was the cause of the death of the legendary Captain James T. Kirk, and so Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), Commander William T. Riker (Jonathan Frakes), Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner), Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), newly Lt. Commander Worf (Michael Dorn), Commander Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden), and Commander Deanna Troi (Marina Siritis) must take action to stop the mad plans of Dr. Tolian Soran (the ever-effervescent Malcolm McDowell) to bring the Nexus back around so he can re-enter it.

    The problem with this film for me is that it is simply lackluster. I outgrew the Next Generation series in my youth because I got tired of the slick, clean, almost sterile environments and repetitive visual palette of those Starfleet uniforms and that same bridge all the time. Something just started to bother my eyes about the lack of colour, and a feeling that it lacked variation from episode to episode--I know I chalked a lot of it up, whenever the inevitable Star Wars/Star Trek debates came up, to the fact that it lacked the anatomical variety of that other famed series and so lacked the appeal that those things had in my younger days, when nothing but humans bored me to tears. I didn't see a return to that feeling with this movie, but that same feeling of slickness was present in another way--there was nothing overly engaging, it felt purely like "Hey, remember these characters? Look, they're on a big screen!"--luckily this did not descend to massive explosions and a big push to emphasize the greater budget or appearance, but as a result it felt like an overblown episode that tried to pretend it had a bigger budget, or did and wasted a lot of it. This sounds pretty harsh, and really is--it's an enjoyable movie. It's great to see Malcolm McDowell every time, and I have nothing against the Next Gen cast, who turn in solid performances as always, and the experiences of Kirk and Picard in the Nexus are quite well done and very interesting, addressing the ideas of paradise and perceptions of it quite well, but failing to live up to the promise of a crossover between these two titanic series. That's probably the biggest problem--it's so "meh," as we say these days, but we feel it should be something more because we are seeing two beloved crews interact--or at least two beloved captains in all the realms of geekdom. I don't know why they didn't do something more, but it does feel rushed, and perhaps that's exactly why.

    A shame, but not a bad movie--it just should have had more time and effort put into it, which was apparently Leonard Nimoy's complaint and reason for not appearing (a shame in and of itself). Ho-hum.
  • AgentLexi2132
    January 1, 2008
    AgentLexi2132
    Some good concepts and issues concerning mortality and living forever hidden in this sci-fi editon to the star trek universe.
  • kungfuquaker
    November 18, 2009
    kungfuquaker
    This is the movie that completely turned me off of Next Generation. It was a mistake to kill off Captain Kirk. It was a real slap in the face to all the Kirk/Shatner fans. I have to admit I was really pissed at Picard for just standing there and watching him die.
  • totalefreiheit
    November 9, 2009
    totalefreiheit
    La nueva generacion conoce a la de la vieja guardia..
    Dirán que no me gusta nada.. pero que creen?
    NO TIENE CHISTE!
  • amandaolson18
    November 6, 2009
    amandaolson18
    I like the original series movies better, they are at least funny.
  • banzaibrother
    October 1, 2009
    banzaibrother
    The passing of the torch between the original cast and TNG. Watching Capt. Picard and Capt. Kirk side by side was fun. I'm looking forward to the next three movies with TNG front and center!
  • danieltoy71
    September 25, 2009
    danieltoy71
    Awesomely ridiculous, insanely corny, stereotypical 90's sci-fi. Or in other words, way fun. Not a great movie by a long shot, but way fun.

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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Here is a movie so concerned with in-jokes and updates for Trekkers that it can barely tear itself away long enough to tell a story. full review

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  • terris85017
    December 8, 2007
    terris85017
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    My 3 favorite lines 1) "If you ever go there, you will never want to come back [referring the the "Nexxus"]...Gynen to Capt. Picard 2)"F*@#!" Spock trying to cuss! 3) "Wait! For your sake, you had better be iniating a mating ritual!" [Female Clingon leader to McDowell who slaps her! I have 3 favorite Star Trek movies...this is #1 (both Captains..James T. & Picard!) And Malcolm McDowell as lead villain & Gynen (Whoopi Goldberg)! Awesome story of fantasy "the ribbon" & unlived dreams!! Favorites #2 The Undiscovered Country & #3 The 1970's one [Star Trek IV The Voyage Home] with the humpback whale & their "song" missing in the oceans...
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