Star Trek Generations
Writers: Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman, Ronald D. Moore
Director: David Carson
Release: November 17, 1994
Tagline(s): Two captains. One destiny.
The torch of adventure is about to be passed.
Beyond time. Beyond the known universe. Beyond imagination. An adventure for a new generation.
Nothing you have seen, nothing you have imagined can prepare you for the next generation of adventure.
Travel into the limits of time and space as the next generation of heroes takes you beyond the final frontier.
Producer: Rick Berman
Co-Producer: Peter Lauritson
Executive Producer: Bernie Williams
Stars/Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Malcolm McDowell, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, William Shatner, Alan Ruck
Music by: Dennis McCarthy
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Adventure, Thriller
ID: tt0111280
Rating: PG
Runtime: 118 minutes
Based On: Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Synopsis: With the help of long presumed dead Captain Kirk, Captain Picard must stop a deranged scientist willing to murder on a planetary scale in order to enter a space matrix.
Declassified by Agent Palmer: Palmer’s Trek: Star Trek: Generations
Quotes and Lines
SORAN: They say ‘time is the fire in which we burn’. …Right now, Captain, my time is running out. …We leave so many things unfinished in our lives. …I know you understand.
PICARD: You don’t need to do this, Soran. …I’m sure we could find another way of getting you into this Nexus.
SORAN: I’ve spent eighty years looking for another way. Believe me, this is the only one.
PICARD: What you’re about to do Soran, is no different from when the Borg destroyed your world. They killed millions too, …including your wife …and children.
SORAN: Nice try. …You know, there was a time when I wouldn’t hurt a fly. Then the Borg came. And they showed me that if there is one constant in this whole universe. …It’s death. …Afterwards I began to realise it didn’t really matter. We’re all going to die sometime. It’s just a question of how and when. You will too, Captain. Aren’t you beginning to feel time gaining on you? …It’s like a predator. It’s stalking you. …Oh, you can try and outrun it with doctors, medicines, new technologies, but in the end time is going to hunt you down, …and make the kill.
PICARD: It’s our mortality that defines us, Soran. It’s part of the truth of our existence.
SORAN: What if I told you I’ve found a new truth.
PICARD: The Nexus?
SORAN: Time has no meaning there. The predator has no teeth.
PICARD: Captain, look! I need your help. I want you to leave the Nexus with me. …We have to go back to a planet, Veridian Three. …We have to stop a man called Soran from destroying a star. Millions of lives are at stake.
KIRK: You said history considers me dead. Who am I to argue with history?
PICARD: You are a Starfleet Officer. You have a duty…
KIRK: I don’t need you to lecture me. I was out saving the galaxy when your grandfather was in diapers. Besides which, I think the galaxy owes me one. All right, …I was like you once …so completely blinded by duty and obligations that I couldn’t see anything past this uniform. And in the end, what did it get me? An empty house. …Not this time.
KIRK: You know, maybe this is less about an empty house than that empty chair on the bridge of the Enterprise. Ever since I left Starfleet I haven’t made a difference. …Captain of the Enterprise, huh?
PICARD: That’s right.
KIRK: Close to retirement?
PICARD: I’m not planning on it.
KIRK: Let me tell you something. Don’t! Don’t let them promote you. Don’t let them transfer you. Don’t let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you’re there, you can make a difference.
PICARD: Come back with me. Help me stop Soran. Make a difference again.
KIRK: Who am I to argue with the Captain of the Enterprise? …What’s the name of that planet, …Veridian Three?
PICARD: Yes.
KIRK: I take it the odds are against us, and the situation is grim?
PICARD: You could say that.
KIRK: You know if Spock were here, he’d say I was an irrational, illogical human being for taking on a mission like that. …Sounds like fun.
PICARD: Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalks us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment, …because they’ll never come again. …What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived. …After all, Number One, we’re only mortal.
RIKER: Speak for yourself, sir. I plan to live forever.