Jack's Review of Star Trek: Generations

First, a captain as inexperienced as Harriman would never even get a command, let alone one as prestigious and important as the Enterprise. The emotion chip somehow swells to the size of a nickel. They reused a plot point from "The Mind's Eye" in using Geordi's visor to spy the goings-on onboard the Enterprise. There is no way the shield harmonics frequency would be displayed in 300pt text for anyone to see. That info is and has always been guarded information. The only screens where it would be openly displayed are Ops and Tactical - both of which are on the bridge. And apparently the well seasoned crew of the Enterprise D have forgotten how and when to re-modulate their shields.

If Kirk could survive in the Nexus without a ship, why did Soran need to do anything at all? Just fly out, beam into the Nexus...or just throw on an EV suit and float into it, and Bob's your uncle.

Why can't Picard beat the snot out of one Aurian scientist? I mean, he killed a Klingon assassin once. If Picard could go find Kirk and somehow take him back to any point in time, why didn't he pick a more convenient time? Like before Soran set up his rocket? Or right before Kirk got blasted into the Nexus in the first place? Abduct Soran on board the Enterprise B and roll credits.

Also, how do we know that was even the real Kirk? The Nexus never was said to have time travel properties. Picard needed to find Kirk so the Nexus gave him a Jim Kirk, just like it gave him a Guinan to conveniently answer his questions. Once he found Kirk, did they really travel back and stop Soran? Or did the Nexus just give Picard what he wanted and everything after this film is a Nexus daydream from Picard's viewpoint?

See? The film is a mess. Despite that, it isn't the worst....and that is saying something.