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Directed by | David Carson |
Produced by | Rick Berman |
Screenplay by |
Ronald D. Moore Brannon Braga |
Story by | Rick Berman Ronald D. Moore Brannon Braga |
Based on |
Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry |
Starring | |
Music by | Dennis McCarthy |
Cinematography | John A. Alonzo |
Edited by | Peter E. Berger |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time
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118 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $35 million |
Box office | $118 million |
Star Trek Generations is a 1994 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. Generations is the seventh feature film based on Star Trek, and is the first film in the series to star the cast of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise-D teams up with his predecessor Captain James T. Kirk to stop a villain from destroying a planet. Parts of the film were shot at the Valley of Fire State Park near Overton, Nevada; Paramount Studios; and Lone Pine, California. While the film received mixed reviews from critics, it performed well at the box office.
In the year 2293, retired Captain James T. Kirk, Montgomery Scott, and Pavel Chekov attend the maiden voyage of the Federation starship USS Enterprise-B, under the command of the unseasoned Capt. John Harriman. During the voyage, Enterprise is pressed into a rescue mission to save two El-Aurian ships from a strange energy ribbon. Enterprise is able to save some of the refugees before their ships are destroyed, but the starship becomes trapped in the ribbon. Kirk goes to deflector control to alter the deflector dish, allowing Enterprise to escape, but the trailing end of the ribbon rakes across Enterprise's hull, exposing the section Kirk is in to space; he is presumed dead.