Star Trek: Generations/Trivia


 * Actor Allusion: Riker says he plans on living forever. Guess what his character Xanatos wants on Gargoyles?
 * Actor Shared Background: Kirk is an equestrian, as is Shatner. Those horses were rented from Shatner himself.
 * Executive Meddling: See They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot in the YMMV section.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!:
 * The unlucky Captain John Harriman in the beginning of the movie is none other than Cameron Frye!
 * Tuvok's on the bridge as well.
 * Oh my brothers, there was a time when I wouldn't hurt a fly but then the Borg came and they taught your humble Narrator all about ultraviolence.
 * Vasquez plays a bridge officer and lives to tell the tale.
 * If Harriman is descended from Stuart, that explains a lot...
 * Real Life Relative: Well, sort of... Kirk's horse in the film is William Shatner's actual horse, Great Belles of Fire.
 * Recycled Script:
 * The Duras sisters' attack against the Enterprise-D is essentially the same as Khan's first attack against the Enterprise from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and they're defeated the same way: the Enterprise forces their ship to lower their shields, becoming vulnerable to an attack.
 * Geordi gets kidnapped, tortured, and has his visor manipulated by his abductors, just like in the TNG episode "The Mind's Eye".
 * Throw It In: Kirk's wide-eyed "Oh, my..." just before death was improvised by Shatner. He deliberated for a while on how his character would approach death, and decided that Kirk would find it wondrous.
 * What Could Have Been:
 * The concept of the Enterprise-D being destroyed and the saucer section crashing on a planet was devised in the sixth season of the show as a possible season cliffhanger. It was dismissed as being far too expensive and would require too much time to reestablish a new ship in the final season.
 * The original plans for the film involved the Enterprise-A fighting the Enterprise-D. Problems: a) there was no way for either crew to come out the good guy, and b) this would require budgeting, logistics, and all the other headaches for two full Enterprise crews at once. The plan was scrapped. Plus, a 23rd century Constitution-class starship vs a 24th century Galaxy-class starship would have been an utter Curb Stomp Battle, advantage Picard. Course, the D12 class Bird-of-Prey effortlessly trounced the Enterprise-D...
 * Originally, Spock and McCoy were supposed to accompany Kirk on the Enterprise-B. It's fairly obvious from the dialogue that it was changed little once Nimoy and Kelly refused to reprise their roles for what they felt was a glorified cameo: Scotty calls Kirk "Jim", while he always referred to him as "Captain", and Chekhov conscripts reporters as nurses in a no-nonsense manner.