5 Reasons Why Star Trek Generations Doesn't Deserve The Hate

5. Kirk Did Die Heroically!

So you're thinking Kirk didn't die a graceful death in Star Trek Generations, well you're wrong. The opening of the film allows Kirk to go out in a blaze of glory, saving the Enterprise, her crew, and the El-Aurian survivors. Regardless of what happened at the end of the movie, where Kirk sacrifices himself once more to save others, he did get a fitting demise right out of the gates. Fans tend to focus solely on how a bridge fell on top of him on Veridian III, and write it off as that's the only death sequence he had. But he got two, and the first was as epic as you're going to get in scope and scale.

So the next time you throw in Generations, see how you feel about the film if you focus more on the end of James T. Kirk in the first act, then the final one. It may soften the blow of arguably the films biggest sticking point with critics and fans alike...