Movies (1994)

GENERATIONS

Stardate: 48632.4 - 48650.1
Rating: 15 Humour: -- Action: + Tension: ++ Romance: --

Alternate Titles: "STAR TREK VII"
German: "TREFFEN DER GENERATONEN"

Producer: Rick Berman
Executive Producer: Bernie Williams
Co-Producer: Peter Lauritson
Director: David Carson
Writers: Brannon Braga
Ronald D. Moore
Story Writers: Rick Berman
Brannon Braga
Ronald D. Moore
Composer: Dennis McCarthy
Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo
Editor: Peter E. Berger
Production-Designer: Herman F. Zimmerman
Costume-Designer: Robert Blackman
Art Director Sandy Veneziano
Camera Operator George Billinger III
Krishna Rao
Pernell Youngblood Tyus
Casting Junie Lowry-Johnson
Ron Surma
First Assistant Director Chris Soldo
Yudi Bennett
Foley Ken Dufva
Grip Tom Bookout
Make-up Brian McManus
Jane Haymore
Make-up Supervisor Michael Westmore
Music Editor Mark Banning
Neil Norman
Music Scoring Mixer Robert Fernandez
Orchestra Supervisor Dennis Yurosek
Orchestration Brad Warnaar
Mark McKenzie
William Ross
Property Master Douglas Fox
Re-recording Mixer Adam Jenkins
Chris Jenkins
Mark Smith
Script Supervisor Judi Brown
Second Assistant Director Daniel Silverberg
Set Decorator John M. Dwyer
Sound Mixer Thomas Causey
Special Effects Terry D. Frazee
Steadicam Operator George Billinger III
Stunt Co-ordinator Bud Davis
Stunt Double Patricia Tallman
Supervising Dialogue Editor Joseph A. Ippolito
Supervising Sound Editor James Wolvington
Title Design Dan Curry
Unit Production Manager Bernie Williams
Robert Grand
Visual Effects Art Director William George
Visual Effects Co-supervisor Alex Seiden
Visual Effects Producer Roni McKinley
Visual Effects Supervisor John Knoll
Ronald B. Moore

Cast

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Patrick Stewart
Cmd. William T. Riker: Jonathan Frakes
Lt.Cmd. Geordi LaForge: LeVar Burton
Lt.Cmd. Worf: Michael Dorn
Doctor Beverly Crusher: Cheryl Gates McFadden
Counselor Deanna Troi: Marina Sirtis
Lt.Cmd. Data: Brent Spiner
Nurse Ogawa: Patti Yasutake
Guinan: Whoopi Goldberg
Dr. Tolian Soran: Malcolm McDowell
Lursa: Barbara March
B'Etor: Gwynyth Walsh
James T. Kirk: William Shatner
Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: James Doohan
Pavel Chekov: Walter Koenig
Demora Sulu: Jacqui Kim
Capt. Harriman: Alan Ruck
Transporter Chief: Granville Ames
Science Officer: Jenette Goldstein
Klingon Helm: Brian Thompson
Klingon Guard: Rif Hutton
Com Officer: Thomas Kopache
Ensign Hayes: Michael Mack
Security Officer: Henry Marshall
Navigator: Glenn Morshower
Girl With Teddy Bear: Brittany Parkyn
Journalist: Tommy Hinkley
Journalist: Christine Jansen
Journalist: John Putch
Lieutenant: Tim Russ
Lieutenant Farrell: Dendrie Taylor
Picard's Wife: Kim Braden
Picard's Kid: Matthew Collins (II)
Picard's Kid: Mimi Collins
Picard's Kid: Thomas Alexander Dekker
Picard's Kid: Madison Eginton
Picard's Kid: Olivia Hack
Rene Picard: Christopher James Miller
El Aurian Survivor: Marcy Goldman
El Aurian Survivor: Jim Krestalude
El Aurian Survivor: Judy Levitt
El Aurian Survivor: Kristopher Logan
El Aurian Survivor: Gwen Van Dam

Plot

In the late twenty-third century, the gala maiden voyage of the third Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) boasts such luminaries as Pavel Chekov, Montgomery Scott, and the legendary Captain James T. Kirk as guests. But the maiden voyage turns to disaster as the unprepared ship is forced to rescue two transport ships from a mysterious energy ribbon. The Enterprise manages to save a handful of he ships' passengers and barely makes it out intact...but at the cost of Captain Kirk's life. Seventy-eight years later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soren...who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soren's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years...

Goofs

  • A bottle of champagne in space will rotate around its centre of gravity, not its centre of geometry.
  • Picard's communicator disappears during his transport down to Veridian III. He leaves the Enterprise in a blue transporter beam, and arrives on the planet in a blue transporter beam, minus his communicator. The Klingon transporter, shown earlier when Dr. Soran beamed up to the Klingon Bird of Prey, is an orange beam, thus Picard didn't transport to the Klingon ship for them to remove the communicator.
  • Worf bends over twice when he uncovers Soran.
  • Geordi's right eye is momentarily visible through his visor just before he inserts Data's emotion chip.
  • A chemically-powered rocket launched from a planet inhabitable by humans would take significantly longer than 11 seconds to reach a yellow sun. The effects of the sun being destroyed would not be seen immediately on such a planet.
  • Worf's sash when he is blown over the console.
  • When Geordi is returned to the Enterprise, Dr. Crusher mentions something about a probe, a reference to a torture device of Soran's that was cut.
  • The model of the Veridian system that Data showed Picard indicated that the ribbon would miss Veridian III unless the sun was destroyed, and yet the ribbon entered Veridian III's atmosphere with the sun still in existance.
  • The ribbon should not have made any course changes due to a sun not being destroyed.

Trivia

  • Kirk's death scenes were re-shot after preview audiences reacted badly to the original version, wanting a more ``heroic'' death. Kirk originally died after being shot in the back by Soran.
  • The horse that Kirk 'William Shatner' rides is owned by Shatner.

Quotes

Kirk: "You left port without a tractor beam?"
Harriman: "It doesn't arrive until Tuesday."

Journalist: "How big is your medical staff, Captain ??"
Harriman: "The medical staff.... Dosn't arrive until Tuesday."
Chekov: "So what.." [Points at journalists] "You, you and you have just become nurses, let's go.."

Scotty: "An Anti-Matter explosion might get us free.."
Kirk: "Photon-torpeedos ??"
Scotty: [Yep]
Sulu: "Ehh, Captain.... We don't have any torpeedos..."
Kirk: [Looks at Harriman] "No don't tell me.... Tuesday ??"

Soran: "They say time is a fire in which we burn; right now I'm running out of time."

Soran: "Now if you'll excuse me Captain. I have an appointment with eternity and I don't want to be late."

Kirk: "I was out saving the galaxy while your grandfather was in diapers."

Data: [extremely enthusiastically] "I just LOVE scanning for lifeforms!" [sings] "Lifeforms, you teeny little lifeforms, you precious little lifeforms," [snaps] "where are you?"

Geordi: "I've never seen a solar probe with this kind of configuration, have you Data?"
Data: "No Geordi, I have not." [to his tricorder] "Have you?" [uses tricorder as a hand puppet] "No I have not. It is most unusual.... Mister Tricorder!"

Kirk: "Who am I to question the captain of the Enterprise?"

Soran: "They say that time is the fire in which we burn."

Picard: "Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all Number One, we're only mortal."
Riker: "Speak for yourself sir, I plan to live forever."

Release Dates

  • USA:18 November 1994
  • Germany:9 February 1995
  • France:29 March 1995
  • Australia:30 March 1995
  • Finland:29 September 1995

Revised: 14061997