re: #22 AlexRogan

Generations could have been a really good bridge between the TOS and TNG timelines (and in parts, it was fairly good), but overall, Berman and Braga wasted not only the main cast on a jumbled script, but Shatner and McDowell as well (who were a couple of the brighter spots in the movie, along with Whoopi).

First Contact, as the one that you apparently liked, was the best of the TNG movies; I loved James Cromwell as Zefram Cochrane, Alfre Woodard was great (especially in the scene in the ready room with Stewart), And Patrick Stewart was just badass. However, I agree with you that it did suffer from Action Movie-itis some.

A big part of the problem with Generations was all the pressure they were under to convert the TNG series into a big screen series of films. It was decided that the Ent-D model wasn’t detailed enough, so they had to come up with an excuse to blow it up. The TV uniforms were deemed to be insufficient, so they ended up playing “mix and match” with the DS9 uniform. Nimoy and Kelley wouldn’t appear for only a few lines apiece, so they had to shoehorn Koening and Doohan into the spots. And the plot itself might have worked well as an episode of the series, but on the big screen just seemed contrived and ultimately contradicted itself.