What should have happened at the end of Generations

[Captain59]

I think it would've been cool if Picard had died falling off a bridge and Kirk come back to command the Enterprise-E.

I like that even better! Then he could dump Riker, LaForge, and Crusher and bring back Spock, Scotty and McCoy.

 

[RyuRoots]

I think it would've been cool if Picard had died falling off a bridge and Kirk come back to command the Enterprise-E.

I like that even better! Then he could dump Riker, LaForge, and Crusher and bring back Spock, Scotty and McCoy.

To both of you:

I mean, really. Aren't we above this silliness? To prefer TOS is one thing, but...*see smiley*

 

[Gary Sebben]

I din't see why we needed to SEE Kirk's death so badly. TNG ignored the issue for 7 years. I never actually asked the question. I never cared. If he died in his sleep at the age of 104 I wouldn't give a shit. Ever hear the phrase old soldiers fade away? Kirk should have just faded away. Showing us that he indeed died was just a power trip on behalf of the writers to show they could kill him. It's pathetic.

 

[Gorn Captain]

It wasn't a power trip. They killed him because they wanted to close the door on the classic cast once and for all. If a TNG movie didn't work either commercially or critically, they would have been under pressure to reverse course and go back to the older, more expensive cast, and they didn't want to do that.

 

[Gary Sebben]

It seems to me the original cast was done, you know, when they signed their names on the back end of the 6th movie. The TOS cast was a joke by that point, being all in their late sixties. There was no chance another TOS movie would be made. And TNG was a mainstream success and better known at that point than TOS. There was no reason to think they would have a flop unless the movie just plain sucked. Oh, and guess what? It did.

 

[Gorn Captain]

I'm just passing along what has been stated as their rationale. Your points are logical in retrospect, but at the time the TNG cast was not yet established as being able to carry a movie, and there were still a lof of people who thought of the original Star Trek as the only Star Trek.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

It wasn't a power trip. They killed him because they wanted to close the door on the classic cast once and for all. If a TNG movie didn't work either commercially or critically, they would have been under pressure to reverse course and go back to the older, more expensive cast, and they didn't want to do that.

Basically they killed Kirk to stop what ended up happening anyway.

 

[Gorn Captain]

It wasn't a power trip. They killed him because they wanted to close the door on the classic cast once and for all. If a TNG movie didn't work either commercially or critically, they would have been under pressure to reverse course and go back to the older, more expensive cast, and they didn't want to do that.

Basically they killed Kirk to stop what ended up happening anyway.

Yep. And I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm glad the Berman people have been pushed aside. And the fact that Leonard Nimoy once again feels welcome and appreciated by the makers of Star Trek speaks volumes.