Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.
Mostly, Generations spends its running length searching for, and never completely finding, its niche.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
A rich and absorbing saga.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Generations is predictably flabby and impenetrable in places, but it has enough pomp, spectacle and high-tech small talk to keep the franchise afloat.
– Peter M. Nichols,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
At least the special effects and outer space vistas are more handsome than usual.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
19 May 2008
fresh:
Star Trek Generations has enough verve, imagination and familiarity to satisfy three decades' worth of Trekkers raised on several incarnations of the television skein.