"Captain, I need you to come to the future with me and save the galaxy."
"You know, I've got hot tail waiting for me upstairs, and I had a good send-off in Star Trek VI. For all I've done for it,"
"The galaxy can go f*ck itself. And so can you, Picard."
"I'll get Chris Pine to do it."
"Pleasure to work with you, where do I sign up?"
Well, my opinion of it hasn't changed very much. I still believe the movie has three problems:
1) While destroying the Enterprise-D and killing the Duras sisters is major, the movie for the most part feels like an extended episode of the show rather than a MOVIE. Unsurprising since it was written by TV writers, produced by a TV producer and directed by a TV director, with production starting only a week after the TV show wrapped.
2) The movie loses all its momentum once Picard wakes up in the Nexus for his family Christmas thing. You just tune out and stop caring.
3) The entire GENERATIONS aspect of the movie. The whole movie is a NEXT GEN movie dealing with NEXT GEN issues and storylines, and Kirk is really just superfluous. Picard doesn't need KIRK, he needs A GUY to distract Soren while he sabotages the missile. So Kirk just feels shoehorned into the beginning and end.
That being said, the movie isn't awful. We do get some good things, like fine acting from Stewart, and the chance to see how good the Ent-D and her sets could've looked if lit in any style other than BLAND. The movie is in no way bad, just mediocre and forgettable. Certainly not the big event that Paramount wanted for the Trekgasm that was 1995 -- this movie was supposed to be the meeting of TOS and TNG coming on the heels of the successful finale of TNG and heralding the big premiere of VOY and UPN in time to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Trek. Instead we got Picard and Kirk making eggs and riding horses while Data engages in schtick.
But Malcolm McDowell is good and I liked the involvment of Guinan in the plot and I liked putting a cap on the Duras sisters storyline finally and I love the spectacle of blowing up the Ent-D and crashing it. So there's stuff to like here.
It's just no one involved really knew how to make a MOVIE. Yet...
6/10
1. STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
2. STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN
3. STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME
4. STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE
5. STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
6. STAR TREK GENERATIONS
7. STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER
8. STAR TREK
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