Everyone’s favorite Star Trek movie is different. And everyone’s least favorite Star Trek movie is different, too. What gets more interesting is the cinematic Treks that are neither bad nor outright classics. The 1994 film Star Trek Generations hits this note for most serious fans; while flawed, the film accomplished the goal of passing the torch from the classic films to The Next Generation gang, and also gave Captain Kirk (William Shatner) a massive death scene, in which he didn’t, as predicted, die alone, but passed away in the presence of his future-tense successor, Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart).
Now, 32 years after its release, a new detail has emerged about how the exact moment of Kirk’s death was rewritten on the fly. It comes thanks to the docuseries The Center Seat II, and it happened with more than a little input from Shatner himself.
