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It's derivative, but then Star Trek itself is derivative of IPs like Forbidden Planet, so as long as the obvious tips of the hat to previous films or books are well-made and good stories I couldn't care less. Good TV and movies don't have be even 90% original to be good.
 
Plus, you have some great character scenes with Picard having to face not only his own mortality but that of his family lineage, now that he is the last Picard. That's not a small thing to comes to grips with.

I agree. I especially love the scene were he cries when looking at his family album. To be honest I think what drags the movie down the most is Data and his emotion chip. I did laugh at some of the jokes like 'Oh Shit" but most of them were lame. Also as a TNG fan I was wanting to see the Data I knew from the show. It's almost like a brand new character the moment he turns on the emotion chip. Which we really only saw on the holodeck old ship scenes. I did love the scene when he pushed Crsuher into the water. That to me seemed both like classic Data but also something Berman would have likely said no to on the show.
 
I do think that Generations is the best TNG film — and not only that, easily the best TNG film — if mainly because it’s the one that’s the most about something in the traditional Star Trek manner (basically, time as burning us vs time as seeing us through). (I’d even argue that it’s the only one that’s particularly about something.)

First Contact — well, the first ten minutes are great, I’ll give it that, and Jerry Goldsmith provides the last lovely additional Trek theme of his career. But then it turns into a 90s Catchprase Action Movie. (The next film has a little of that too, though less.)

Insurrection — I actually think it’s a better film overall than First Contact, with a classic “come to the planet, solve the problem” plot and good pacing from Frakes’ direction. But the “Saddle up; lock and load” stuff is jarring.

Nemesis — cheezy and not-great, but you could certainly do worse for a TNG wrapup. But you could also do better, and eventually they did.
 
And one of them was supposed to be Solkar (the one who was the first to greet Cochraine & the captain of the T'Plana-Hath), Spock's great-grandfather.

The Small Universe Syndrome strikes again!
I don't know that that's a good example of SUS. It makes sense that Spock would come from an important political family going back that far (the Vulcan Kennedy's).
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again and it's probably controversial....

First Contact is a very produced and directed movie, but it's also a generic action flick with a Star Trek sauce over it. And I feel the same about TWOK.
I fully agree about FC, but TWOK is still a literate movie and (like Generations!) about something (aging, mortality and renewal again…), in a way that many of the films just aren’t.
 
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