History Film / StarTrekGenerations

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The ''Enterprise''-D is destroyed and the bridge is thoroughly trashed because the models and sets were built for television and didn't have the necessary amount of detail to look good on movie screens -- they were refitted into the sets for ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' after production had wrapped -- as well as the fact that that six-foot model of the ship was an unwieldy monstrosity. The producers wanted to be able to start from scratch should they [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact get another movie]].

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The ''Enterprise''-D is destroyed and the bridge is thoroughly trashed because the models and sets were built for television and didn't have the necessary amount of detail to look good on movie screens as well as the fact that that six-foot model of the ship was an unwieldy monstrosity. The producers wanted to be able to start from scratch should they [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact get another movie]].

** After the ''Enterprise''-D is damaged by the Klingon attack, Geordi tells the bridge that "We're five minutes from a warp core breach." A few minutes later, Commander Data says that there's one minute to warp core breach.

[[TheOneWith The one where]] Picard meets Kirk and they ride horses together before fighting a HumanAlien trying to get into heaven.

* NotSoDifferent: Picard tries to appeal to Soran by telling him that what he's attempting to do is no different than what the Borg did to his home world. It almost causes Soran to reconsider his actions.

** Though possibly unintentional, Kirk remarked in ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' that he knew he would die alone. Specifically, after taking a near-fatal fall off a mountain in Yosemite during a camping trip with [=McCoy=] and Spock, he tells [=McCoy=] that he felt confident he would survive because both of them were with him. He adds, darkly, "I've always known... I'll die alone." When he "dies" on the ''Enterprise''-B, he's the only guy in the room. His actual death could be argued the same, since Picard was the only other person around and [[LetsSplitUpGang he was too late to actually prevent it]]. The novelization of the movie actually mentions the callback at Yosemite. This could even be argued to bookend a "[[CharacterArc Kirk trilogy]]" of V, VI, and Generations, in which Kirk plays Literature/PeterPan at the end of VI, receives unending exploration within the Nexus, but finally accepts his fate as a man.

* [[ForgottenFallenFriend Forgotten Fallen Child]]: Kirk expresses shock that Sulu has a grown daughter, wondering when he had time what with his career. This is meant to emphasize Kirk's own [[HollywoodMidlifeCrisis angst about getting older]]. Meanwhile Kirk himself was also a father, which doesn't seem to factor into this consideration. (To be fair, though, Kirk wasn't involved with ''raising'' his son, so the things he's commenting about Sulu finding time for may not have been a part of Kirk's life.)

* GangstaStyle: Soran's gun tilts its shooty-part on the side, and he likes to twist his hand to the side to compensate? [[note]]Although there is a scope built into the side which he seems to look through. Some modern "hybrid" scopes, incorporating both magnifying scope and red dot sight, actually do require a shooter to tilt their weapon to the side to use the red dot part.[[/note]]

* GangstaStyle: Soran's gun tilts its shooty-part on the side, and he likes to twist his hand to the side to compensate?

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Data, while on the Amargosa Observatory. He slowly acts more and more strange before having a LaughingMad breakdown and crashing. He woke back up, but continued in a HeroicBSOD until he was beamed back to the ''Enterprise''-D.

'''Soran:''' ''(venomously)'' Ah. Normal is what everyone else ''is'', and ''you'' are ''not''.

* [[{{IdiotBall/Film}} Idiot Ball]]: Multiple examples.

* RealityEnsues: The series never dwelt on it much, but this movie shows just how terrifying the life-and-death misadventures of the ''Enterprise'' would actually be to the children aboard.

---> "[[FamousLastWords It was...fun. Oh my...]]"

* RememberTheNewGuy: Kirk's ultimate fantasy world in the Nexus involves the one true love of his life... who we've naturally never heard of before despite Yeoman Rand, Carol Marcus, or even Edith Keeler now being quite viable options for that role. In fairness, the original series made it plain that Kirk had plenty of old girlfriends, and he made quite a few new ones along the way (this is ''Kirk'', after all). The real surprise is that David Marcus was his ONLY child - that he ''knows'' of. The novelization justifies this with the detail that Kirk has actually used the Nexus to relive ''all'' of his old relationships, including various weddings to Carol and at least once saving Edith Keller without compromising history, and what Picard walked in on was just his latest fantasy rather than his most defining one.

*** 78 years later, the Enterprise-D responds to a distress signal from the Amaragosa Observatory after the space station is attacked.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Kirk's ultimate fantasy world in the Nexus involves the one true love of his life... who we've naturally never heard of before despite Yeoman Rand, Carol Marcus, or even Edith Keeler now being quite viable options for that role. In fairness, the original series made it plain that Kirk had plenty of old girlfriends, and he made quite a few new ones along the way (this is ''Kirk'', after all). The real surprise is that David Marcus was his ONLY child - that he ''knows'' of.
** The novelization justifies this with the detail that Kirk has actually used the Nexus to relive ''all'' of his old relationships, including various weddings to Carol and at least once saving Edith Keller without compromising history, and what Picard walked in on was just his latest fantasy rather than his most defining one.

* OneHitKill: Once the shields are down, the ''Enterprise'' destroys the Klingon ship in one shot.

* MultipleEndings: The videogame adaptation provides two endings: one which follows that which is seen in the film, and another where [[spoiler:you track down Soran ''before'' he gets to Veridian III and defeat his starship in battle, circumventing both the destruction of the ''Enterprise'' D and also the death of Captain Kirk, who under this scenario does not appear in the plot at all and presumably remains entirely at peace within the Nexus]]. Needless to say, if you complete the game and get the second ending, then you've created an AlternateContinuity.

* MassOhCrap: When their ''Bird of Prey'' suddenly cloaks, the Klingons are all openly alarmed. When the ''Enterprise'' fires, they can only stare in silent horror.

* ExactWords: The holodeck computer parses Riker's "Computer, remove the plank" order as "remove plank from simulation". Picard calls him out on that.
** The novelization makes it clear that this is a ''very'' intentional exploitation of this trope by Riker.

** Back in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E24S7E1Descent Descent]]", Data reasons against trying to install the emotion chip because in part he hates having placed his friend Geordi in danger while under it's influence. In this movie, he elects to install the chip, only for it to malfunction and for him to find himself paralyzed by fear while Geordi gets beaten up and kidnapped by Soran on the observatory, proving his initial fears correct and leaving him feeling guilty.

*** 78 years later, the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' Enterprise responds to a distress signal from the Amaragosa Observatory after the space station is attacked.