Generations offended in a number of ways. Biggest offense, I think, is the gaping plot hole that devours worlds: when Picard and Kirk are in the Nexus ribbon thingy they have the option to travel anywhere in time they want. So when and where do they go? Right back to the planet where Soran launches the rocket into the sun, only minutes before he launches it, putting everything on the line in the last minute hope that they'll be able to stop him from launching the rocket.
Stupid, stupid stupid!!!
Did I say stupid? Stupid! Picard could have gone back to the spacestation that was raided by Romulans and taken out Soran there. Kirk could have gone back to the Enterprise-B and made sure that Soran was sent back into the ribbon, then given Picard the chance to go save his family. But for the purpose of dramatic tension, and givng an excuse to trash the Enterprise-D and kill Kirk cheaply, they did the least imaginative thing possible.
Yes, that was stupid.
Data gets an emotion chip: after years of character development, portraying Data's evolution from an unfeeling android to realizing his dream of having emotions, Generations tosses all that aside and gives him a convenient chip instead. No character development for you, Data, now your emotions are a gimmick to further muddy the plot and provide forced comic relief.
I think you missed the point of this entirely. Data's emotions become detremental to him in very short order, and he has to live through the guilt of loosing Geordi. Admittedly, that plot ended aburptly, but it was there none the less. Certainly, the obnoxious comic relief was there, but I can only recall it being really out of place once.
The "Next Tuesday" syndrome: The Enterprise-B is on its maiden voyage but is only barely functional because hardly anything is finished. And sure enough, when disaster strikes, it's the only ship close by and so once again Starfleet sends a half-functioning ship to save the day.
This is a flaw, but it is one that about half of the movies and dozens of the TV episodes share. Its no excuse, but to attack it for that is essentially saying that they all suck (which may or may not be your view.)
Continuity? We don't need no stinkin' continuity: nevermind that in the ST:TNG episode where Scotty shows up on the Enterprise-D he indicates that when he disappeared Kirk was alive; the movie's writers deliberately ignored that when they decided to have Kirk get unstuck in time and have Scotty witness his apparent death. Screw continuity! We're making a movie!
What a pointless complaint. That's like those people who were up in arms because Yoda wasent Obi-wans direct master in the PT.
Agree with all of them, but I can't believe you left out the Ent-D being destroyed by a fucking scout ship. Letting Geordi wander around the ship, much less go back to his job, right after being captured by the enemy was a monumental, your-ass-is-court-marshalled kind of mistake.
Oh, and Generations gave us the moronic "Our weapons are unstoppable if we know your shield frequency" brainbug. Unless that showed up one of the series? I can't recall it in TNG, but I haven't seen very much DS9.
I suppose I can't argue with the complaints here, although I'm sure the frequency thing showed up before this (the Borg, duh.)
Generations certainly wasent as good as say II, IV, or VI, but it wasent particularly bad either IMO. Hell of a lot better than Nemesis or V.
