Star Trek: Generations

Skippable, and it exists to perform one ceremony: handing the film series from one cast to the other. It does that in the first fifteen minutes and the last twenty, and the ninety in between are a television two-parter with a larger budget.

The mechanism for getting two captains separated by eighty years into the same scene is an energy ribbon that preserves anyone caught in it inside a fantasy where they get whatever they want. It is a reasonable idea and the film uses it mostly as transport. Malcolm McDowell's Soran is a man trying to get back into that fantasy after losing his family, which is a decent motive the script states twice and then abandons.

The Next Generation cast are not well served. A film budget is spent on the ship crashing and on an emotion chip subplot for Data that plays as broad comedy in the middle of a story about grief, and most of the ensemble have a line each.

Kirk's ending drew enough complaint that the production reshot it, and the version released is the second attempt. Watch it if you are going through the TNG films in order; skip to First Contact otherwise, which needs nothing from it.