Star Trek: Generations Meet

Movie
German title	Star Trek: Generations Meet
Original title	Star Trek Generations
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1994
length	118 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	David Carson
script	Ronald D. Moore ; Brannon Braga
production	Rick Berman
music	Dennis McCarthy
camera	John A. Alonzo
cut	Peter E. Berger
occupation
	Patrick Stewart : Captain Jean-Luc Picard ; Jonathan Frakes : Commander William Riker ; Brent Spiner : Lieutenant Commander Data ; LeVar Burton : Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge ; Michael Dorn : Lieutenant Commander Worf ; Gates McFadden : Dr. Beverly Crusher ; Marina Sirtis : Counselor Deanna Troi ; Malcolm McDowell : Dr. Tolian Soran ; James Doohan : Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott ; Walter Koenig : Commander Pavel Chekov ; William Shatner : Captain a. D. James T. Kirk ; Whoopi Goldberg : Guinan ; Alan Ruck : Captain John Harriman; Jacqueline Kim : Ensign Demora Sulu; Jenette Goldstein : Science Officer;
synchronization
chronology
← Predecessor ; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Land	Successor → ; Star Trek: The First Contact

Star Trek: Meetings of the Generations (Original title: Star Trek Generations ) is an American science fiction film from 1994 . It is the seventh in the fictional Star Trek - universe playing movie and the first in which the spaceship crew of Star Trek - The Next Generation is at the center of the action.

The film was released in US theaters on November 28, 1994. The film was released in Germany on February 9, 1995.

action

The film begins with the maiden flight of the Enterprise-B , on which part of the crew of the original series around Captain James T. Kirk is on board as guests along with representatives of the press. The flight to Pluto and back, which was planned to be effective in advertising , suddenly turns into a rescue operation when the Enterprise receives the emergency call of two refugee ships. These have entered a previously unknown energy band. Since the tractor beam has not yet been installed, only a few people can be beamed on board at the last minute before the shell of the spaceship collapses. Immediately afterwards, the Enterprise also falls into the energy band. The photon torpedoes are also not yet available, so as a last resort Kirk can weaken the energy band for a brief moment by directing ions into the band via the deflector shield, after which the Enterprise can escape from the force field. However, the spaceship is badly damaged and the section in which Kirk worked is destroyed. The crew stands in astonishment in front of the torn spacecraft hull and mourns the supposedly deceased captain. However, Kirk has been drawn into the energy band. It turns out that in this energy band, the nexus (Latin: connection , structure ), there is a kind of parallel universe in which time and space play no role. Kirk finds himself in a landscape that resembles his homeland, Iowa . In the real world, however, Kirk is considered dead. Among those rescued, it will later be found out, people were also beamed on board who had already spent “time” in the Nexus.

After a leap in time, the film continues at the time of the Enterprise-D under Captain Jean-Luc Picard . The scientist Dr. With the support of the Klingon sisters Lursa and B'Etor, Tolian Soran plans to return to the Nexus in order to live eternally in the there, beyond, in the infinite, in the unique, numerous, always present. Since a flight into the Nexus would destroy the spaceship, he must find another way to get into the Nexus. It destroys various space stations and planetary systems in order to influence the trajectory of the Nexus through the gravitational changes caused thereby, so that it can get there from the surface of the planet Veridian III. The crew of the Enterprise-D discovers this and tries to stop Soran and his allies. During one of these attempts near Veridian III, Geordi La Forge is kidnapped and a camera is hidden in his visor to get tactical information about the Enterprise-D . With the help of the visor, the Klingon aggressors determine the shield frequency of the Federation ship and attack. However, the Starfleet crew succeeds in destroying the Klingon ship by activating the cloaking device of the Klingon ship from the Enterprise. The protective shields have to be deactivated for a brief moment so that the Enterprise can successfully fire a torpedo. Nevertheless, the Enterprise is so badly damaged that it threatens to explode. The crew are evacuated to the ship's saucer section and crash-landed on the planet Veridian III. Soran had already gone there beforehand to shoot a projectile into the system's sun; the explosion is supposed to bring about the decisive course correction of the Nexus. Picard, who had also left before the battle with the Klingons to stop Soran, is dragged into the Nexus with him. The explosion of the sun destroys the planet Veridian III and kills the crew of the Enterprise .

In the Nexus, Picard experiences a family idyll that he had always wished for: he suddenly finds himself in a middle-class house on Christmas Eve. Together with his wife, children and grandchildren, everyone is preparing for the presents. He recognizes the situation as "unreal" and meets Guinan in an adjoining room. It introduces itself as a kind of “echo” of a person who is also in the nexus. She explains to Picard that he can move from the Nexus to any room at any time. Picard makes his way to James T. Kirk, who has also ended up in the Nexus and rediscovered his old farm and his former fiancée as his luck. Picard convinces Kirk of the unreality of the situation and explains Soran's murderous plan to him. The two captains decide to stop Soran together. Since time and space are irrelevant in the Nexus, they go back in time to a point in time just before Soran fired the projectile at the sun. Together they succeed in defeating the scientist; however, Kirk is fatally injured. Picard buries him on Veridian III and is rescued by a shuttle from the USS Farragut . However, salvage is no longer possible for the Enterprise-D and the ship must be abandoned. The crew will be saved.

Background and miscellaneous

Star Trek: Meeting of the Generations marks a crucial point in the history of Star Trek cinema films, because this is where the previous crew around Captain James T. Kirk says goodbye and makes room for the team around Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who are already with great Success in the television series Starship Enterprise: The Next Century Set.
The film thus takes place directly after the television series Raumschiff Enterprise: The next century and - from the point of view of the film audience in the "past" - following the series Raumschiff Enterprise and the films I to VI ; it thus represents a “link” (a nexus, so to speak) between the two centuries.
The scene with the Klingon spaceship (Bird of Prey) exploding is the same as in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Land .
Whoopi Goldberg was not mentioned in the opening or closing credits and did not receive a cent fee for her role at her own request.
Tim Russ , who later played Lieutenant Tuvok in the series Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager , can be seen as an unnamed tactical officer on the bridge of the Enterprise-B .
The film grossed about $ 70 million in the United States.
The Enterprise-B model is the reused, albeit modified, model of the USS Excelsior from the third movie and was later reused as the USS Lakota in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .
The Valley of Fire was the filming location for the scenes between Captain Picard and Dr. Soran on Veridian III.
Because of bad criticism from the test audience, Paramount's President Sherry Lansing had the deaths of James T. Kirk and Dr. Rotate Soran again. In the original version, James T. Kirk was shot by Soran and Captain Picard killed Soran with his own weapon.
The Duras sisters of the Klingon Bird of Prey are already known from the series Spaceship Enterprise: The Next Century (episode: The battle for the Klingon Empire I + II (original title "Redemption I + II") of seasons 4 + 5).
In response to Captain Kirk's death in the film, fans wrapped screenwriter Brannon Braga's home in toilet paper.

synchronization

The synchronization took over the Berliner Synchron GmbH for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Lutz Riedel . The original voice actors were hired for the film.

role	actor	German speaker
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard	Patrick Stewart	Rolf Schult
Cmdr. William T. Riker	Jonathan Frakes	Detlef Bierstedt
Capt. James T. Kirk	William Shatner	Gert Günther Hoffmann
Lt. Cmdr. Data	Brent Spiner	Michael Pan
Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge	LeVar Burton	Charles Rettinghaus
Lt. Cmdr. Worf	Michael Dorn	Raimund Krone
Dr. Beverly Crusher	Gates McFadden	Rita Engelmann
Counselor Deanna Troi	Marina Sirtis	Eva Kryll
Dr. Tolian Soran	Malcolm McDowell	Wolfgang Condrus
Capt. Montgomery "Scotty" Scotty	James Doohan	Kurt E. Ludwig
Cmdr. Pavel Chekov	Walter Koenig	Frank Glaubrecht
Guinan	Whoopi Goldberg	Regina Lemnitz
Capt. John Harriman	Alan jerk	Torsten Sense
Ensign Demora Sulu	Jacqueline Kim	Irina von Bentheim

Reviews

“In the Star Trek films, an interesting law of the series developed. The ones with the even numbers are the best, the others are just fan fare. This seventh adventure, which marked the final changing of the guard from Captain Kirk to Captain Picard, certainly offers a few neat tricks. The story is a bit too confused to knock more people off their stools than the 'Trekkies' community. "

- prisma.de

“Seventh film in the Star Trek series; a psychologically superficial science fiction film, aimed entirely at technical effects, played woodenly. "

- Lexicon of international film

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of November 18, 1994 that this film was so preoccupied with itself, that is, with allusions to the Star Trek universe and with the handover of command to the new team, that development I miss out on an action. He gave the film the relatively poor rating of 2 out of 4 stars.

Tom Coates ( BBC ) also criticized the plot holes and the two-dimensional elaboration of the characters. The film feels like three episodes of the series mixed together (2 out of 5 stars).

Rita Kempley of the Washington Post also saw flaws in her review, but still called it a "funky adventure".