10 Actors Who Hated Their Own Movie Death Scenes

Captain Kirk's (William Shatner) death in Star Trek Generations should've been an iconic passing-of-the-torch moment as he handed the reigns of the Enterprise over to Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) in earnest.

Instead, fans were mostly left scratching their heads at the strangely underwhelming nature of Kirk's passing, killed when he's crushed under a bridge while helping Picard stop the villainous Soran (Malcolm McDowell).

In an interview a few years ago, William Shatner spoke about Kirk's damp squib of a death, confirming that he wasn't too fussed about the character's demise himself:

"I didn't think I had any choice in the matter. Paramount had decided that the ceiling that they could reach in our box office had been reached and they thought that by putting in the Next Generation cast, that they would reach a higher box office. That decision had been made. It was either I was going to appear and die, or they were going to say he died. So, I chose the more practical of the two."

In a separate interview, Shatner said if it were up to him, he "would have done something else," but rather than have Kirk die off-screen, he chose the lesser of two evils - and at least got paid for it.