Star Trek: Generations is the last and the seventh installment in the Star Trek film series, released in 1994. Malcolm McDowell joins William Shatner and Patrick Stewart, among others, from the 1960s television show Star Trek and the 1987 spinoff series The Next Generation. In the movie, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise-D teams up with Captain James T. Kirk to prevent the villain Tolian Soran from destroying a planet system in his quest to return to the Nexus, an extra-dimensional realm.
Generations were designed as a handover from the original Star Trek cast to The Next Generation’s cast. The producers chose a script written by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga after considering various picture ideas at the same time.
While the final season of the television show was being produced, production began. David Carson, who had previously directed episodes of the television series, directed the film, with photography by John A. Alonzo, a newcomer to the franchise. Filming took place on the Paramount Studios lot as well as on-site in Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park and California’s Lone Pine.
The picture topped the box office in its first week in the United States, grossing a total of $118 million worldwide. Critics were split on the film’s characters and comprehensibility for a layperson.
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