Happy 25th Anniversary to Star Trek Generations. Yes this movie has its flaws, but I still love it. It was the first Star Trek Movie I saw on the Big Screen. The Enterprise-D looked gorgeous in this movie and I love the new Bridge. The movie has its problems, but I feel there is more good then bad in it, like the opening prologue on The Enterprise-B, Worf’s promotion, Data’s first taste of Alcohol, the speech Picard gives Data about integrating your emotions into your life, and of course the crash of the Enterprise-D. Its a scene I love and hate because its a fantastic scene, but at the same time destroys the Big D.

I remember the anticipation this movie had too, between the features on Entertainment Weekly and TVGuide. I was also gifted the script that included the suborbital jump scene and Soran torturing Geordi with the Borg nanoprobes (later I also got the comic book adaptation that had the former but not the latter I think).

I was psyched to go see it on the big screen and it’s one of those things I went to a premiere night with my mom’s friends that had scored some tickets. 

Funny tho I mostly remember the anticipation around it but not actually my thoughts around it the first time. The production design that gave us the final bridge form, and the crash are still great to this day. But clearly remember the angry fans raged about ‘Ferris’ friend Cameron killed Kirk!’ 

Looking back it’s a decent but muddled movie. TNG is trying to find its feature film voice and footing and missteps a few times (The Duras sisters, that’s what you wanted in a movie right?, The Bird of Prey that destroyed the Enterprise-D, dialogue that still showed that they wanted Spock and McCoy but settled for Scotty and Chekov).