Star Trek Generations is the seventh feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. It is often referred to as just Generations. It is the first film in the series to star the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and is a symbolic passing of the torch of the film series from the original series cast to the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast.

Directed by David Carson. Written by Rick Berman, Ronald D. Moore, and Brannon Braga.

Two captains. One destiny.

Jean-Luc Picard

• Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives, but I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal.

• I've become aware that there are fewer days ahead than there are behind. I took some comfort from the fact that the family would go on, but now there'll be no more Picards.

Dr. Tolian Soran

• Now, you'll have to excuse me, Captain. I have an appointment with eternity, and I don't want to be late.

• You know, there was a time when I wouldn't hurt a fly. Then the Borg came, and they showed me that if there is one constant in this whole universe, it's death. Afterwards, I began to realize that it didn't really matter. We're all going to die sometime. It's just a question of how and when. You will, too, Captain. Aren't you beginning to feel time gaining on you? It's like a predator. It's stalking you. Oh, you can try and outrun it with doctors, medicines, new technologies, but in the end, time is going to hunt you down and make the kill.

• They say time is the fire in which we burn. Right now, Captain, my time is running out. We leave so many things unfinished in our lives. I know you understand.
• Allusion to "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day" in In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, (1938) by Delmore Schwartz
• "Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn."

Dialogue

Tolian Soran: Have you ever considered a prosthesis that would make you look a little more... how can I say... more normal?

Geordi La Forge: What's normal?

Tolian Soran: "What's normal?" Well, that's a good question. Normal is what everyone else is and you are not.

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Pavel Chekov: How big is your medical staff?

John Harriman: The medical staff... doesn't arrive till Tuesday.

Pavel Chekov: [Muttering in Russian] You and you, you've just become nurses. Let's go.

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James T. Kirk: You say history considers me dead. Who am I to argue with history?

Jean-Luc Picard: You're a Starfleet officer. You have a duty.

James T. Kirk: I don't need to be lectured by you. I was out saving the galaxy when your grandfather was in diapers. I'd say the galaxy owes me one.

Cast

Actor	Role
Patrick Stewart	Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes	Commander William Riker
Brent Spiner	Lt. Commander Data
LeVar Burton	Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn	Lt./Lt. Commander Worf
Gates McFadden	Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis	Counselor Deanna Troi
Malcolm McDowell	Dr. Tolian Soran
James Doohan	Captain Montgomery Scott
Walter Koenig	Commander Pavel Chekov
William Shatner	Captain James T. Kirk
Alan Ruck	Captain John Harriman
Whoopi Goldberg	Guinan (uncredited)
Jacqueline Kim	Ensign Demora Sulu
Patti Yasutake	Nurse Alyssa Ogawa