Star Trek Movie Musings - Generations

So, here we are in the Next Generation era of Star Trek movies and straightaway we're back to the problems of the Motion Picture, in that this is essentially an episode plot made bigger and, alas, more stupid.

We begin with the apparent death of Captain Kirk, and then cut to the crew of the Enterprise D playing dress up on the holodeck, which is a little jarring, especially as we then launch into Next Gen's favourite subplot, Data's emotions, which means we get Brent Spiner overacting for half an hour (which would be less annoying if he weren't actually a good actor, which he is).

Then we get the rest of the film in the company of my least favourite recurring character, Guinan, the effortlessly wise bartender who is awesome at everything. You may have guessed that I'm not loving this so far. In its defence, it does have Malcolm McDowell and Patrick Stewart chewing the scenery at each other, but then it turns out that Kirk's dream life is living in a cabin in the mountains and doing the same thing every day and how does that make sense even before Picard points it out?

Hmm. I seem to have left this one for several months unpublished.

Okay, briefly then, it took the original series cast three films to wreck the Enterprise; it took the Next Gen crew one. Not so impressed.