There is definitely electricity in that house. Or whatever is that they use in his time.
Picard is struck dumb by the power of wordplay.
Or just not have Soran at all. What if the Duras sisters was fucking around with chronotons to go back to the Klingon Civil War, but use too much and warp them and Enterprise D back to Enterprise B times? The D crew are busy trying to figure out what Lursa & B'Etor's goals are post Kithomer Accords (because only a few TOS cast members showed up, hence can't lean on TUC too much) while not mucking up the timeline. The B investigates the temporal anomaly and find the D. The B crew try to find out what happens in the future and/or try to steal D technology on Harriman's orders, but the D crew have to be extremely tight-lipped about everything, which engenders mistrust between the two crews. Eventually, Picard has to privately explain to Kirk Captain to Captain why they're in the past and tell him about the Duras sisters, but to act oblivious to the 23rd century Duras house as that would affect the timeline too much. Kirk persuades or pulls rank to get the B to follow up possible Duras leads in the D's place. Kirk finds the Duras sisters on the Klingon border, but they're a bit too late and the Duras Sisters are under escort. The B refuses to engage, but the D shows up as the cavalry and take out the Duras sisters. The movie ends with Kirk reporting that a UFO took out the Klingon escort fleet in an attempt to preserve the timeline.
He and Hamill had better chemistry in Wing Commander. Which is weird, because McDowell and Stewart worked together in the RNC. They go back sixty years.
That's even worse than Shatner wanting Uhura off the bridge and bitching whenever anyone but him got lines.
Shatner was impossible. He made his castmates out to be prima donnas, trying to be more than what they were. The truth is, they objected to losing what little time they had.
But we already knew Bill T. Kirkner was based and alphapilled
I'll still defend Generations as "not as bad as the other TNG movies". I'll also still defend Kirk's death scene as appropriate for the character. Just stop and think about how they'd make that death scene today. It would be in a huge space battle with hundreds of ships flying around and blowing up everywhere, while there's also some big ground battle going on at the same time for no reason, and KIrk would do le epic last stand on the bridge of the Enterprise 2812-G while the ship falls apart around him, probably while saying some cheap one-liner like "Time's up" or worse, screaming the badguy's name as the ship crashes into the bad guy's WH40k boss superdreadnaught worldship.
Be honest though, does that scene not make perfect sense in retrospect given what's become of the TNG franchise, especially after Picard?
There's a line in the movie actually where Picard and Data are in the Enterprise D's nonexistent Astrometrics Lab. Picard says this almost word for word, and Data says "every ship that has approached the ribbon is torn apart by the gravimetric field" which I guess just means it would be too dicey and there's a chance he could be killed before he gets close enough.
And here we arrive at the smoking gun for why the TNG movies all sucked the big one.
I'll see your modern trailer and raise you a fan trailer:
They're pretty much Highlander sequels. "They released this into theaters?" That kind of vibe.
I would still argue that all of the later TNG movies are worse because they didn't even bother trying to plug up their own plot holes half the time. I suppose this does have the effect of making those problems less noticable as the movie doesn't call as much attention to them, but you can still draw a pretty straight downward line from the messy plot of Generations to the iffy plot of First Contact to the straight nonsense of Insurrection and Nemesis.
I feel like I should day something positive about Generations.
And yet instead of learning that Patrick Stewart needs to be kept in check as an actor (and kept away from writer/showrunner decisions), they gave him a whole new Star Trek show where he's both lead actor and executive producer.
