This is hardly worth mentioning, but it is a conflict. On Emergency Landing Of The Saucer Module, the book states that preferable landing sites include beach sand, deep water, smooth ice, and grassy plains on Class M worlds. In Generations, they crash the ship into a forest--with nasty effects upon the hull! This whole portion of the movie is bizarre in itself: first the secondary hull is destroyed and then a planet comes up on the saucer section apparently out of nowhere (at least this is how its presented to the audience) and they seem to have no alternative but to ground the saucer section. No attempt to lock into a stable orbit Or scan for a landing site.
