Happy (nearly) 30th birthday to Generations!
Posted by No-Reputation8063@reddit | TNG | View on Reddit | 85 comments
Posted by No-Reputation8063@reddit | TNG | View on Reddit | 85 comments
Southern_Country_787@reddit
I watched it again today. It still holds up extremely well!
Kulban@reddit
This movie will always give me memories of going to see it in the theaters with my high school Trek friend Blake. We shared a love of Trek even when it was not socially acceptable to do so.
He died only 10 years later. And since no other Trek movie reminds me of him, this movie is the greatest of them all by default, in my mind.
Big-Restaurant-623@reddit
Yo that movie suuuuuucked
launcher19@reddit
I don’t care what anyone says, I liked this one a lot.
3720-To-One@reddit
Yeah, it’s honestly my favorite of the TNG movies
It was the only one with the D
Which is a character as far as I’m concerned
I just had no emotional attachment to the E
_Clem__Fandango_@reddit
Yeah when they brought the E out we were heading towards the late 90s trend of everything has to have go faster angular lines and look shinny and sleek. Even though it was basically a shit design
Donjeur@reddit
What does that even MEAN?
Meka-Speedwagon@reddit
I liked when Picard said "it's generation time" and everyone but Data generated
rob132@reddit
I know it's 30 years ago, but the line was' it's Geneanorbin time'
OscarDivine@reddit
Data was generating cats guy had like Spot the 12th or something
Luis-Dante@reddit
The film made over one generillion dollars
3720-To-One@reddit
Yeah, it’s honestly my favorite of the TNG movies
It was the only one with the D
Which is a character as far as I’m concerned
I just had no emotional attachment to the E
ConsciousWhirlpool@reddit
Could you say that again? I didn’t quite get it the first three times.
3720-To-One@reddit
Wut?
ChewieLee13088@reddit
This movie was great!!!
Solumnist@reddit
I like this one up to the point that Picard goes into the Nexus. After that the movie ceases to make any satisfying sense at all anymore.
glassgost@reddit
I did like his dream house in the nexus, but I agree with you.
BabyMakR1@reddit
The first one where the bridge was on the captain instead of the other way round.
_Clem__Fandango_@reddit
It was weirdly beautifully shot, particularly the bridge scenes and the scenes around the star.
sysaphiswaits@reddit
Now I do feel old. Saw it in a movie theater with my best friend it college. We’re still friends! It was a fun night.
Donjeur@reddit
It was…fun
HughofBoar@reddit
This movie does some good things, but overall it's a bit of a mess and tries to do too much. I wish they would have either done a total standalone TNG movie, or if they were going to bring in Kirk, then just bring in the entire original cast and make the entire movie about the Ent-A and Ent-D crews working side by side to solve time travel shenanigans.
Soran and The Nexus stuff was always the weakest part of the movie for me. The Data emotion chip and Ent-D destruction was the best parts.
Piehatmatt@reddit
I lost my virginity the day it came out.
Donjeur@reddit
It was like being inside joy
HotepYoda@reddit
It was….. fun…..
Luftgekuhlt_driver@reddit
Damn you. Took it from me. 😂
SirStocksAlott@reddit
Your virginity?
Luftgekuhlt_driver@reddit
Nah. That was the unalived hooker behind the theater…
Kiki1701@reddit
🤣🤣🤣
Donjeur@reddit
I felt uneasy that the uniforms kept changing and people had different uniforms with people on the same shift as them and it was really random.
ZealousidealDingo594@reddit
Bridge on the captain
wesmackmusic@reddit
“Captain on the bri- sorry backwards. Bridge on the captain!”
Montag_451@reddit
Probably the one of the least memorable TNG movies.
ChewieLee13088@reddit
One of my favorites!
Republiconline@reddit
I still love this movie. The soundtrack is great. It was such a treat to see the D on the big screen.
Clever-Name-47@reddit
Anyone who says the D was destroyed because “it didn’t look good on the big screen” (as I have seen repeated probably hundreds of times by now) is a gibbering idiot. She was glorious.
Republiconline@reddit
I’ve never heard that and I would fight anyone who says that. They meticulously restored the D model to prepare her for the big screen. She looks perfect in 4K. The real tragedy is that nobody rotated the shield frequency.
kamdan2011@reddit
This was my first Star Trek outing at the theater at age 5. We saw it over Thanksgiving break and I remember that our kindergarten class had a stuffed toy rabbit that each one of us got to take home for the weekend and have our parents write in a diary what we did with him all weekend. I was the lucky one who got the rabbit for the extended weekend and I wanted to him to the movie. After some hesitation over me potentially losing him, I was allowed to as long as I kept track of him. I had him sit in the chair next to me and I remember when the girl on the Enterprise loses her teddy bear, I immediately grabbed the bunny and held tight to him when all of the mayhem of the Enterprise crashing took place. It was nice to have that there with me, especially when Kirk passes away, which was right around the time that my grandpa passed away as well. I always figured I had a good sense of mortality thanks to this film and seeing at an impressionable age.
Character_Lychee_434@reddit
They did the Big D dirty in that movie
kamdan2011@reddit
How else was the big E going to come into play?
SituationThen4758@reddit
Always loved generations, watched it when I was 8 years old, I don’t understand the hate.
Clever-Name-47@reddit
Well, let’s see:
—They killed off my favorite ship for no fucking reason. Particularly galling in that they could have used time-travel shenanigans to keep her around while still having the cool crash sequence.
—They killed off Robert and Rene Picard offscreen for a bit of cheap pathos.
—They dropped the elegant and dynamic Rick Sternbach communicator/Starfleet logo in favor of John Eaves’s uninspiring design… which they proceeded to keep for the rest of 24th century Trek.
—It’s just a tonal and emotional mess. Too many things happen for anything to develop properly and land with the proper weight.
I actually don’t hate the film, and I think it gets a lot of things right. But it gets a lot of things wrong, too, and somehow adds up to less than the sum of its parts.
jpowell180@reddit
Anybody else here who would rather have had three more seasons of TNG instead?
HoserJay@reddit
Did we do it? Did we make... a difference?
kkkan2020@reddit
Time is the fire in which we burn
SirStocksAlott@reddit
Space is the desire in which we yearn.
chocobosocialclub@reddit
I used to pore over the TNG Technical Manual as a kid, and it outlines how a saucer slideout works. When I saw the saucer section lurch into the atmosphere I was like OH SHIT THIS IS HAPPENING
SirStocksAlott@reddit
Me too! 14 year old me in the theater, see it all the on the big screen. Those were they days.
jsonitsac@reddit
Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga thought that too. They wanted the crash to occur for the season 6 cliffhanger until the VFX team came back with a cost estimate for that. They kept it in mind for the movie.
chocobosocialclub@reddit
Oh wild, so the Borg would have destroyed the ship and we probably would have had a new Enterprise for season 7? I guess I'm glad they buttoned the series with the D.
jsonitsac@reddit
It was a different plot entirely ironically pitched as “All Good Things” which would have seen the Enterprise-D retired and the crew dispersed. Then it would have been a cruise ship pressed into action for some reason and the saucer would have crashed. Jeri Taylor did most of the work on the Descent episodes.
karituba@reddit
I watched this 30 Years ago at the end of a Star Trek movie marathon at the local theater. 7 movies… one day… lots of popcorn
SirStocksAlott@reddit
Make it so!
International_Link35@reddit
I just remember that when this movie came out, I was so excited that they were FINALLY GOING TO DETACH THE BRIDGE SECTION!
BabyMakR1@reddit
Shut your mouth!!! There is no way this is 30 years old. I watched it in cinemas when it first came out, that was like last week! I'm sure it was only last week.
PalateroMan8@reddit
Me: Yes, exactly, this movie is revolting! I hate it!
Paramount: Do you want another one?
Me: Yes, please.
ThePizzaNoid@reddit
I was 16 when I saw it in the theater on opening weekend and I absolutely loved it. For all it's faults this movie is still fun to watch. The lighting of the movie is spectacular. The Enterprise D has never looked better then it did in this movie and Jerry Goldsmiths score is just so beautiful.
lapis_lateralus@reddit
Holy shit, I remember when this movie first came out I absolutely loved it 🤣 now I can't stand it
kathmandogdu@reddit
deadnotsleeping77@reddit
Masterpiece
savorytreksymphony55@reddit
Saw it, Thanksgiving evening, 1994. Was it the best Star Trek film? No. Was it exactly what this fan needed from the franchise at that point in time? I think yes.
GargamelLeNoir@reddit
Wow that is devastating towards 1994 fans, what did they do that was so awful they deserved to see Kirk getting bridged like an idiot?
SplendidPunkinButter@reddit
Eh. The ending could have been better. I still liked it a lot more than most people seemed to though.
GargamelLeNoir@reddit
Nothing happy about that horrible movie. I can't imagine what people enjoyed about it. The plot was dumb, the villains unthreatening and it made fools of Picard, Kirk and the entire Enterprise ship.
ComesInAnOldBox@reddit
Captain on the bridge! Whup, bridge on the Captain!
CmdrRikerBones@reddit
My go to on Christmas day.
tonymagoni@reddit
PC_FPC@reddit
This may not be the best written or the most entertaining TNG film, but it's the one with the deepest meaning. The philosophies explored are far greater than the revenge themes in First Contact. It's something that everybody goes through: we all come to a point in our lives when we seem to have no use anymore, and we wonder if we'll ever be useful again. Even when Picard got back on the Enterprise-D bridge in Picard season 3 and "accepted the field demotion" to Captain, I got flashbacks to when Kirk told him "Don't let them promote you! Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do ANYTHING that takes you off the bridge of that ship because while you're there...you can make a difference." Picard once again made a difference and saved the Federation because he had that drive and the means to be useful, even in his old age when many people saw him as a failure of a man with "sheer f**king hubris."
Overall_Falcon_8526@reddit
I think it's underrated for some reason. Only some Nexus-logic issues hold it back from complete greatness (the same issues as must "fondest dream/paradise" episodes for the most part).
Lancaster1983@reddit
Kiki1701@reddit
Maybe I'm a little strange, but I definitely loved watching Data swear. It brought a bit of order and stability to my universe to see him and the rest of the crew acting as human as the rest of us.
Count3D@reddit
Saw this in theatres when it came out and it’s my favourite film in the franchise really cried at the ending.
avg_sinistea_stan@reddit
I saw this one in the theater with my dad. It will always have a special place in my heart.
CharlieDmouse@reddit
30… years…. Nawwww can’t be! Scanning for Temporal anomalies!!!! Awwww sh*t, no temporal anomalies detected….
zerocool359@reddit
Gulp. 30 years? What sort of uncharted temporal anomaly did I just pass through?
Inspiredwriter26@reddit
Damn, I was 10 when I saw this on a small town theater owned by close family friends. Boy this makes me feel old 👴
Badmal0111@reddit
Please don’t remind me that this movie exists.
legotheoffice@reddit
I love this movie. I mourned the destruction of the D but it went out (temporarily) with a bang. The saucer crashing on Viridian III was brilliant.
swh1386@reddit
Man I feel old! I unapologetically love this movie! That crash scene on Viridian 3 is visually stunning to this day!
KitchenNazi@reddit
I always remembered the saucer section crashing looking like a lawnmower cutting grass. I saw it in the theater and have never rewatched it but did see that scene a few weeks ago and it didn't look as bad as I remembered!
kkkan2020@reddit
2034 generation will hit the big 40
ForceGhost47@reddit
Come back with me. Make a difference again
donkeyhoeteh@reddit
It's a tossup between this and Insurrection which i like more. But I absolutely love this movie.
jsonitsac@reddit
It should be a crime that there’s no big screen rerelease. I feel like 29 years of home media has unfairly shrunk the movie and of all the TNG movies this one has been harmed the most.
Also it’s a crime we aren’t getting a 7th season of Lower Decks as I would love to see their take on this poster.
Lancaster1983@reddit
I just finished a rewatch of TNG followed by Generations today. This and FC are my favorites by far.