True, that.
Twenty years on, I'm still surprised that Shatner agreed to do Generations. On the DVD commentary, Moore and Braga talk about how Shatner pointed out that Kirk isn't necessary to the film's story and how they never solved the problem.
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True, that.
Twenty years on, I'm still surprised that Shatner agreed to do Generations. On the DVD commentary, Moore and Braga talk about how Shatner pointed out that Kirk isn't necessary to the film's story and how they never solved the problem.
On some level Braga and Moore's inexperience with motion pictures shows too readily throughout Generations. The movie is structured like a TV script, with William Shatner as this week's Special Guest Star, and frankly he isn't terribly well integrated into the main plot at all. The scenes with the Enterprise-B are fine in isolation, and the scenes in the TNG era are also fine to a point, but neither segment gells together very well in the final product and the Nexus scenes that are supposed to justify a link between the two simply results in a anticlimax.
Both writers have readily admitted that they weren't experienced enough on Generations, and that they applied a lot of the lessons they learnt from the writing of it when they scripted First Contact. By then they were *ready* to deliver a movie script.
Both writers have readily admitted that they weren't experienced enough on Generations, and that they applied a lot of the lessons they learnt from the writing of it when they scripted First Contact. By then they were *ready* to deliver a movie script.
How it should have ended was with Kirk using the Nexus to go back to right after he was originally lost, climbing back up to E-B sickbay, and beating Malcolm McDowell to death. That saves both himself and the E-D from destruction.
