Every Star Trek Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

11. Star Trek Generations

The concept of bringing together two generations of Star Trek is a fine, if not contrived one, but Generations - released in 1994 - was never able to do it justice.

Uniting Stewart's Picard with Shatner's Kirk, Generations focused on the pair finding themselves in something called the 'Nexus', a temporal anomaly that had absorbed Kirk when he was on the cusp of retirement a whole century before Picard would have the conn. The villain they have to overcome? Malcolm McDowell's Tolian Soran, a scientist hellbent on returning to that realm in order to fulfil his wildest fantasies.

The problem with Generations isn't its cast, who do their best with the material they're given, but the actual scope of the story itself. It's just dull, and while there's certainly nothing wrong with a Star Trek film feeling like a Star Trek episode, Generations felt remarkably restrained, with the final fight between Picard, Kirk and Soran lacking tension, action and ingenuity.

For a character as etched into the Star Trek mythos as James T. Kirk, this exit just felt like one big anticlimax.