Star Trek: Generations (1994) on Netflix
PG19941h 58mActionAdventureMystery
James T. Kirk, Montgomery Scott and Pavel Chekov answer a distress call during the Enterprise-B's maiden voyage. Seventy-eight years later, Jean-Luc Picard confronts the scientist Tolian Soran.
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In 2293, retired Starfleet officers James T. Kirk, Montgomery Scott and Pavel Chekov are guests aboard the new Enterprise-B on its maiden voyage. A distress call sends the unprepared ship to rescue two El-Aurian refugee vessels caught in a vast energy ribbon. Kirk is believed lost when the ribbon tears into the hull. By 2371, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew learn that an El-Aurian scientist, Tolian Soran, is destroying stars and altering the ribbon's path to reach the Nexus, a realm where wishes come true. Guinan, another survivor of that rescue, knows what the ribbon means to him. Picard has lost his brother and nephew in a fire, and must stop Soran before another star system is destroyed.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Star Trek: Generations (1994)
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As originally filmed, Kirk was shot in the back and killed by Soran. Test audiences reacted negatively to the death, so the scene was rewritten and reshot over two weeks so that Kirk instead sacrifices himself leaping across a broken walkway to retrieve Soran's control pad; Paramount allowed the film to go over budget to $35 million for the re-shoots.- Marlon Brando wanted to play Tolian Soran, the film's antagonist, and informed producer Rick Berman about it, but he was turned down due to his high price demands; the part went to Malcolm McDowell.
- The rise's height and sloped sides required cast and crew to climb 160 ft using safety ropes and carry all provisions and equipment with them. The 110 F heat was difficult for all involved, especially Shatner, who wore a wool costume.
- Props were improvised from household and garden goods: a torture device was created from a birthing chair, nose hair clippers and flashlights, packing materials formed the shapes of set walls for the Bird of Prey bridge, and Soran's missile used a bird feeder and other garden store supplies for its interior.
- The marketing of Generations included a website, the first to officially publicize a motion picture. It was viewed millions of times worldwide in the weeks leading to the film's release, at a time when fewer than a million Americans had internet access.
- The model was stripped, rewired and detailed to stand up to scrutiny, and George changed the paint job: the green-and-blue color scheme rushed out for television did not properly read on film, so it was shifted towards a "battleship gray" with glossy tiled areas.
