- Linkara: "Star Trek: Generations" is one of the films that's a mixed bag for me personally. I certainly enjoyed it at the time. It may even have been the first Star Trek movie I ever saw in theaters. I have vague recollections of seeing "Star Trek VI" in theaters, but I was only four years old if I did. But looking at it nowadays, it's not considered one of the best Star Trek movies out there. I don't think it's as bad as people make it out to be, but it's certainly not one of the best. It has major plot problems, some of which could have been easily written off with only a sentence or two of dialogue, but then there are major thematic and narrative elements that we'll be getting to throughout the review. I'd say, of all the films considered bad, this is the least bad, though that's just my own opinion. Unfortunately, that means that a comic adaptation is not gonna do the story that much better unless there are massive rewrites to how the events play out. In fact, it may end up even worse, because I've seen some of the cutscenes and they were good things to cut. For those not in the know, "Star Trek: Generations" is the turning point in the film franchise, where it stops being about the original series and instead about the "Next Generation" cast. The Next Generation is probably the most successful series of all Trek, with mainstream knowledge of it being unequal to the original series. Hell, it's why we even have the debate phrase: "Kirk vs. Picard". For the record, though, the answer to that question is "Sisko".
- Linkara: One very neat addition at the end of the comic is a six-page look at how the adaptation process for a movie-to-comic goes. For example, they're not given a rough cut of the movie or anything like that, just a shooting script that has to be condensed into a comic strip, then sent back to the studio for approval, then that's edited by the movie studio to account for cuts made to the movie. Then they start getting reference photos and sketches made for the movie, like special costumes that characters will be wearing or technology or where characters are standing relative to one another. But then again, some stuff just isn't available yet, and there's some stuff you'd think would be. Like, for example, color photos! But hey, you work with what you've got.
- Linkara: The cover is... bleh. You have a comic about time travel, the two most famous of the captains of the Enterprise meeting, two pop culture icons joining forces, space battles, emotional turmoil, and unresolved dreams and desires... and your best idea for the cover is five people awkwardly standing over nothing. Oh, I'm sorry, only *four* of them are standing still with completely blank expressions on their faces. Picard is leaning in and reaching out his hand, as if he was trying to emulate all those Doctor Who promotional poses. Everyone just looks so bored, which is actually pretty accurate for a lot of people who saw this movie, ironically enough.