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Star Trek: Generations
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.
1994 · Directed by David Carson · 118 min · Science Fiction · Action · Adventure · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 13 frames
Tagline
Two captains. One destiny.
Plot
In 2293, retired Starfleet officers James T. Kirk, Montgomery Scott, and Pavel Chekov attend the maiden voyage of the USS Enterprise-B. During the shakedown cruise, the starship is pressed into a rescue mission to save two El-Aurian refugee ships that a massive energy ribbon has snared. Enterprise saves some of the refugees before their ships are destroyed, but becomes trapped by the ribbon, and Kirk goes to a control room to help the ship escape. While Enterprise is freed, Kirk is presumed lost in space and dead after the trailing end of the ribbon tears open the ship's hull.
In 2371, the crew of the USS Enterprise-D is in a holodeck computer simulation, celebrating the promotion of shipmate Worf to lieutenant commander. Captain Jean-Luc Picard learns his brother and nephew have been killed in a fire, and is distraught that the Picard family line will end with him. Enterprise receives a distress call from a stellar observatory, where an El-Aurian, Dr. Tolian Soran, launches a probe at the nearby star. The probe causes the star to implode, creating a shockwave that destroys its planetary system. Soran kidnaps Enterprise engineer Geordi La Forge and is transported off the station by a Klingon Bird of Prey belonging to the Duras sisters.
Enterprise crewmember Guinan tells Picard that she and Soran were among the El-Aurians rescued in 2293. Soran—who lost his family when their homeworld was destroyed—is obsessed with returning to the energy ribbon to reach the "Nexus", an extra-dimensional realm of wish fulfillment outside normal space-time. Picard and Data determine that Soran, unable to safely fly a ship directly into the ribbon, is altering its path by removing the gravitational effects of nearby stars. Soran plans to destroy another star to bring the ribbon to the planet Veridian III, consequently killing millions on a nearby inhabited planet.
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Crew
- Written by: Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga
- Cinematography: John A. Alonzo
- Edited by: Peter E. Berger
- Music: Dennis McCarthy
- Production design: Herman F. Zimmerman
- Produced by: Peter Lauritson, Rick Berman
Cast
- Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker
- Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data
- LeVar Burton as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
- Michael Dorn as Lt. Commander Worf
- Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
- Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
- William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk
- Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Tolian Soran
- James Doohan as Captain Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures
- Budget: $38,000,000
- Box office: $118,071,125
- Themes: android, spacecraft, teleportation, starship, loss of loved one, death, space opera, exploding planet, mountain cabin, solar system
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