Star Trek – Kirkless Generations

I'm reviewing from memory, but I thought this was a lovely edit. Whilst I prefer Kirk in the movie (despite how he was written), this beautifully crafts a final chapter for the TNG era before heading into the later movies. Picard exiting the nexus and the end sequence all work fine, no complaints, although I do agree with everyone about the slow-motion shots, but these were probably unavoidable.

The one thing I miss is the triumphant Generations overture, but the new opening is far more appropriate for this edit.

Nice one!

I rather enjoyed this fanedit. It's much better than the original (since I do not need to see a beloved character be killed for no good reason). But there was an obvious slow-down effect and it was obvious when Kirk hit Soren and not picard.

Review by mullholland665 — July 9, 2010 @ 9:25 am

A really great edit! This works so incredibly well that it got me wondering: was the screenplay originally written without Kirk’s character, only to be inserted in a later draft? The quality of the editing is very smooth too.

With the Kirk character gone, the plot strand about Piccard and his longing for a family instead of the all-consuming Starfleet career was something I found incredibly moving this time around. The film in its original form got distracted from that element due to Kirk’s unnecessary presence in the story. Thanks CBB for turning a flawed movie into what is for me now one of the great ones in the Star Trek franchise.

Review by Ripplin — May 4, 2010 @ 7:36 am

This idea worked out very nicely! It’s great to have this alternate, 100% TNG version. The audio and video quality are excellent (there a few hard cuts that were a bit unavoidable, I guess, but no problems overall) and it still has a decent length to it. The extra features were ok, though mainly for people who weren’t familiar with the original version or just couldn’t remember it. The nice, easy to navigate menus round out an overall excellent package. Definitely recommended for any TNG fan! I’ll give it a 9/10.

Review by Hrumpff — April 12, 2010 @ 4:37 pm

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