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Star Trek - Generations
Sep 30, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 13 segments
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Sep 30, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 13 segments
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I'm not going to get into it just yet because I do think two thirds of this movie are an excellent Star Trek movie.
Two thirds of it are fantastic, like really, really good, really, really enjoyable.
Um, just, just how he was able just to slide right back into that character.
And he's just as charming and fun and roguish and so on as he was in the rest of them.
And both Nimoy and Kelly took a look at the script and was like, whoa, problems.
Not doing this.
Like...
Um, I assume for the same reasons that I have issues with this movie is why they rejected it.
Uh, now
I had heard it's because they felt their story too small had been come.
Well, no, that, well, okay.
Maybe, but that their story in six was kind of like, this is the, this is a good ending for us, which in hindsight kind of feels like a cop-out, not so much for McCoy, but when you consider that, um, Nimoy was in the regular series or the TNG series.
It's like, okay, well, I mean, like, it feels like maybe.
So you probably use that as a nice out or I could be, it could just be rumors or whatever.
DeForest Kelly was in poor health at the time, and he did state at the time that he felt like he had said his goodbyes with Star Trek 6.
He was good with that.
And his no came independently of Nimoy's no.
They didn't know that the other was saying no to the film.
Yeah.
He did show up at the premiere.
There's footage of him doing the red carpet at the premiere and stuff.
I'm not going to get into it just yet because I do think two thirds of this movie are an excellent Star Trek movie.
Two thirds of it are fantastic, like really, really good, really, really enjoyable.
Um, just, just how he was able just to slide right back into that character.
And he's just as charming and fun and roguish and so on as he was in the rest of them.
And both Nimoy and Kelly took a look at the script and was like, whoa, problems.
Not doing this.
Like...
Um, I assume for the same reasons that I have issues with this movie is why they rejected it.
Uh, now
I had heard it's because they felt their story too small had been come.
Well, no, that, well, okay.
Maybe, but that their story in six was kind of like, this is the, this is a good ending for us, which in hindsight kind of feels like a cop-out, not so much for McCoy, but when you consider that, um, Nimoy was in the regular series or the TNG series.
It's like, okay, well, I mean, like, it feels like maybe.
So you probably use that as a nice out or I could be, it could just be rumors or whatever.
DeForest Kelly was in poor health at the time, and he did state at the time that he felt like he had said his goodbyes with Star Trek 6.
He was good with that.
And his no came independently of Nimoy's no.
They didn't know that the other was saying no to the film.
Yeah.
He did show up at the premiere.
There's footage of him doing the red carpet at the premiere and stuff.
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