Every Star Trek Film & TV Show Ranked From Worst To Best
19. Star Trek: Generations (1994)
It was really cool to see Kirk and Picard finally meet in Star Trek: Generations. It was the perfect torch-passing scene to solidify The Next Generation as the new cast of all upcoming Star Trek movies.
The execution, however, fell flat. Kirk was unceremoniously killed by falling to his death, mere minutes after being pulled out of an eternal paradise by Captain Picard. Out of all the ways to kill off one of the most beloved characters in Star Trek history, this was not great. Kirk had never even met his attacker prior to dying at his hand.
The movie starts off very compelling, showing us an older Kirk visiting the new crew of the recently launched Enterprise-B. When Kirk is lost in the Nexus, it really makes you hope he'll somehow return, but when he does, you kind of wish the character just died the first time. It would have been a more emotional death.
It was cool to see more of Data using his emotion chip, and the Enterprise-D crash scene was magnificent, but it would be much more fulfilling of a movie if the main villain was more interestingly written.