20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Trek Generations
1. The Nexus Energy Ribbon Was An Extremely Complicated Effect
Despite the aforementioned budget cuts, many of the movie's visual effects have actually aged pretty well, such as the Nexus' beautiful-but-terrifying energy ribbon.
Director David Carson has famously called the energy ribbon the "true villain" of the movie, due to the enormous time and general resources its creation expended during the hurried production.
Due to there being no direct frame of reference for the ribbon in nature, Industrial Light and Magic had to conceptualise it themselves, with legendary effects supervisor John Knoll modelling aspects of the ribbon from magnetic fields around Uranus and electrical storms.
It's incredibly easy to take such effects for granted today, but back in the early days of complex CGI, stuff like this was just a massive headache. The end result was well worth it, at least.