Generations had a bigger budget than ST6, so why...

Save for in TUC, which would have been the most recent adventure and most on their minds.

Yes, yes it is.

 

Since TNG and Nimoy did "Unification" the producers could've had that version of Spock in the movie than him on board the 1701-B. Spock could've been crazy enough to have tried to stop Soran from destroying worlds in the 24th Century?

 

Well, okay, but I know for sure I'd want to be on cocaine if I were in his situation!

 

McDowell mocked the producers for asking him to read for the role (“This isn’t Shakespeare”) and later told Alexander Siddig he thought the script was bad and did it only because he got to kill Kirk, so he at least may not have been overly concerned at its quality.

I recall from the DVD commentary that many of the problems for the producers came from them essentially being given a whole list of things to cover by the studio, which invariably interferes with the creative process.

 

Like Wing Commander (which I love this isn't a knock on those games) was Shakespeare?

 

That's probably the point; I very much doubt that he was asked to read for Wing Commander.

 

This is why I always describe Star Trek Generations as a film that was made with a check list and not a script. And while I'll always credit Moore and Braga as competent writers, the fact that this was their first film showed how they were all too willing to take a producer's advice on what to do no matter how bad it was (Jeri Taylor calling their opening with a competent Ent-D crew 'predictable' thus resorting to a totally random and idiotic Ent-D crew instead).

 

McDowell was right about the script. I can see why he did it, though. "I killed Kirk!"

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I think that's why they wanted inexperienced (to film) screenwriters. More experienced writers, who weren't in their 20s, and had more films under their belt, would've pushed back.

 

You may have seen him in such films as...

 

I believe he refused because he felt that his presence wasn't sufficiently important to Spock's character, and that he could have been replaced by anyone. Given that that's exactly what they did, he was probably right.

 

Paramount really could have left it a year or two before they jumped into doing TNG movies.

 

Yes the film was rushed and contrived but I think doing pretty much any crossover any time would necessarily feel pretty contrived, doing it to do it, and given that lower expectation I think the filmmakers did at least decent in both doing a crossover and also introducing the series characters to more general viewers.

And as part of crossover of eras I think it actually does make sense to use Klingons as villains one more time, though now pretty different kind of Klingons, rogues/outcasts of the Empire with limited resources, and them also being only some of the villains. Though they still could have felt a little more significant and personal rather than succeeding so much based on just luck.

 

I wish Berman had had the vision, or maybe the political capital, to say, "Suits, I want to do TNG movies right, I want to do the franchise right. 1996 is the 30th-anniversary and I want to do that right. Let's hold TNG in the movies to 1996. We do the big crossover, passing-the-torch movie then, we get the script right, and we do a movie in 1994, maybe an original movie, maybe one with some of the original cast, to hold up interest." I don't know what Berman would have put in 1994, but maybe picking up Bennett's "Starfleet Academy" would have worked as a bridge between VI and a 1996 crossover.

However, that wasn't going to happen.

 

Doing another full original cast movie (let alone *after* they had their film finale) just to fill the time, make that date does feel quite a bit artistically worse and doing a one-off prequel with recasting could maybe work but feels a lot commercially worse.

 

I know the film was made as a "passing the torch" eve, my question is why?
TNG was on for seven years, had it's following and was strong enough to have a film without any TOS spliced in.
ST6 had a good farewell to the original cast, leave it there and let's move on with the TNG movies