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Released in 1994, the seventh film in the franchise was one that film that had to hand the baton to the Next Generation crew and was one that was a formidable task to do from the story point of view, and needed a story that could link the two time periods. The whole idea of Star Trek: Generations is to span the gap of 75 years between the times of Kirk to the crew under command of Captain Picard on the Enterprise D.

The film begins with the christening of Enterprise B under the command of Captain John Harriman, this is going to be the first trip of the new Excelsior Class Starship and three special guests are invited along by Starfleet, these are Captain James T Kirk (Retired), Captain Montgomery Scott, and Commander Pavel Chekhov. With the media present the Kirk graciously accepts the privilege of giving the inaugural command to leave Space Dock. Upon the journey the Enterprise receives a distress call and lays course to intercept, when they arrive they find two ships are caught in a temporal disturbance called the Nexus, the Enterprise with the help of Kirk, Scotty and Chekhov rescue some of the passengers and beam them onto the Enterprise. The only problem is that the Enterprise is now stuck on the cusp of the anomaly and cannot escape. Kirk to the rescue. When the ship is safe and they think its all over the Enterprise is struck in the lower sections of the ship by a temporal discharge. The only problem is that this is where Kirk was as he was the person who reconfigured the deflector array on the deck so that the ship can use the array as a means to "push" itself out the anomaly. He saved the lives, but in turn it appears that he gave his.

This is where the story ends here for now with the Enterprise B; the next part brings the crew of the Enterprise D into the plot as there is a certain refugee who wants to return to a place that he was rescued from by the Enterprise B some 75 years earlier and this is how the story pans out as it is the determination of one man to return to the Nexus to find his utopia.

With William Shatner playing the character of James Kirk on screen for a seventh time, it was inevitable that the icon of Star Trek was going to be the draw for the film. The best thing is that he doesn't play Kirk any different to how he has done before. Basically Shatner is Shatner and in this film it works fine. We do get to see more of Kirk being "out of the office" and see him mention other people in his life that we didn't actually know about at all,

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