Smell the Movies
Smell the TV
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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| Year: | 1994 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | David Carson |
| Genre: | TNG / TOS fusion |
| Starring: | Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes, Malcolm McDowell, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton,Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, James Doohan, Walter Koenig |
| Rating: | 3/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111280/ |
| Tagline: | Boldly Go |
| Favourite line: | "I hope, for your sake, that you were initiating a mating ritual." |
The first big screen outing for The Next Generation crew is something of a confused affair, not least because they have to share the limelight with some blowhard has-beens from the past for half the fucking run time.
The plot:
In Kirk's latter days, just past retirement. he is on launch duties with a new incarnation of the Enterprise when a distress signal comes in.
The new captain, being a bit of a wet fish, looks to Kirk for guidance and it's not too long before Kirk is getting his hands dirty.
When a Nexus strikes the vessel, Kirk is lost, presumed dead.
In the future, in Next Generation time, one Doctor Soran (Malcolm McDowell) is the sole survivor of an apparent Romulan attack on a space station. When the crew attempt to help him, they discover he is not what he seems, having a direct link to the Enterprise aboard which Kirk seemingly perished, and he will stop at nothing to rejoin the Nexus.
Straddling two series was always going to be tricky, and it makes for a disjointed affair, with whole portions given over to one crew, then the next, then back to the first in a kind of temporal pass the parcel that is pretty jarring.
The old crew are well past their sell by date by now, and come across as a bit of an embarrassment, especially Doohan, who was always an awkward, annoying presence, his insufferable attempts at a Scottish accent more painful with each passing year.
A most unworthy debut for perhaps the greatest crew to ever man the good ship Enterprise, though much better was to follow:
Next up, The Borg.
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