David Carson’s film in 1994 “Star Trek: Generations” contained a very practical artifice. It seems that there is a small ribbon of freely floating energy, nicknamed the Nexus, which regularly crossed the galaxy. The link contained an apparently infinite micro-universe where time has never passed. When a humanoid was sucked inside the link, they found themselves in what was essentially paradise. An unexplained psychic force in the link provided its inhabitants their deepest wishes. Captain Kirk (William Shatner) was sucked in the link at the start of the “generations”, and Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) was sucked in 87 years later. Because time had no meaning in the link, the two men could meet at the same time.
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Picard explains to Kirk that he was sucked in the Nexus while trying to stop a crazy scientist named Dr Soren (Malcolm McDowell) to destroy a star and destroys a inhabited planet which orbited it. Picard then convinced Kirk to leave the link and return to the top of the mountain where Soren was arguing his missile killing stars. Kirk and Picard attack Dr. Soren together, throwing punches and races through rudimentary metal walkways that Soren built on the mountain. The fight leads at a time when Kirk is on a ruined gateway, about to dive on a precipice. Kirk manages to stop the missile with a remote control just before falling to death. Picard ran to Kirk’s broken body to catch his last words. “It was fun,” said Kirk. He then perished. “Oh, my,” he mumbled.
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“Generations” was written by long -standing trek writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore, remains by A long series of studio mandates that they hated. During a 2017 “Star Trek” agreement (Trekmod’s covered) Braga also noted that his script had undergone several changes during its development. Braga seemed to recall a draft of the script in which Enterprise-d de Picard engaged in a space battle with the company of Kirk, and Kirk would die on the bridge of his ship.
Kirk was originally to die on the bridge of the Enterprise-A
1994 was a very busy period to work on “Star Trek”. The last episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, called “All Good Things …”, was broadcast in May, and it was directly in the production of “Generations”, which opened its doors in theaters the following November. In the middle, there were new episodes of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” during the product, And Braga was preparing for the first in January 1995 “Star Trek: Voyager”. Everything was fine.
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As such, Brannon Braga naturally felt overworked. He supervised the “next generation” while offering treatments for “generations”. At one point during development, he and Moore struck the idea of the Enterprise-D and the Enterprise-A locked up in a heated space battle. They thought their slogan could be “Kirk against Picard: you have to die”. Unfortunately, neither Braga nor Moore could invent an unfeeded history that would have gathered the two companies.
Braga does not quite remember details, because everything was going so fast, but he said the following:
“It’s a kind of blur. It just worked. We wrote” all the good things … ” [and] It was pure writing. It was beautifully done. While ‘Generations was a little more laborious and served a lot, and I think it shows. […] I think Ron and I have planned that the two companies have locked themselves up in the battle. In one way or another, they would meet, but [then] They would meet and fight the villain, and Kirk went down on his bridge, instead of a bridge falling on him. “”
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A corporate battle against the company may seem cool on paper, but he would have set out the credulity of seeing two shows, distinguishing a century, therefore a horsepower conveniently. Finally, Braga and Moore hammered the details and wrote the scene where Kirk comes across a broken gateway. It was less culminating, maybeBut that was what we got.
