Star Trek: Generations

In David Carson’s 1994 sci-fi adventure Star Trek: Generations, the narrative bridges the gap between The Original Series and The Next Generation. The story opens in the late 23rd century aboard the newly christened USS Enterprise-B, where retired officers James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Montgomery Scott (James Doohan), and Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) are guests on a maiden voyage. When a rescue call comes from two transport ships trapped in an energy ribbon called the Nexus, Kirk saves the ships but is pulled into space and presumed dead. Seventy-eight years later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the USS Enterprise-D respond to an attack on an observatory, discovering that an El-Aurian scientist named Dr. Tolian Soran (Malcolm McDowell)—one of the refugees rescued by Kirk decades prior—is obsessed with returning to the paradise-like Nexus. To achieve this, Soran plans to blow up a star, destroying an inhabited system to redirect the Nexus toward himself. After the Enterprise-D suffers fatal damage fighting a renegade Klingon Bird-of-Prey, Picard gets trapped inside the Nexus, where he encounters Kirk, who has been living outside of time. Together, the two Starfleet captains team up to leave the Nexus and stop Soran before he can annihilate millions of lives.