Cast
The entire main cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation appears in Generations. Many of the cast members, no longer working a steady job on a television series, were wary of the so-called "Star Trek curse" preventing them from finding non-Trek roles in the future.
- Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard commander of Enterprise-D.
- Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker
- Brent Spiner as Lieutenant Commander Data
- LeVar Burton as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
- Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Commander Worf
- Gates McFadden as Chief Medical Officer Commander Beverly Crusher
- Marina Sirtis as ship's counselor Commander Deanna Troi
- William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk
- James Doohan as Montgomery Scott
- Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov
- Alan Ruck as Enterprise-B captain John Harriman
- Malcolm McDowell as Tolian Soran
- Jacqueline Kim as Ensign Demora Sulu
- Barbara March and Gwynyth Walsh as the villainous Klingon sisters Lursa and B'Etor
- Patti Yasutake as Enterprise nurse Lieutenant Alyssa Ogawa
- Whoopi Goldberg as Enterprise bartender Guinan.
- Tim Russ as an Enterprise-B officer
Many of the background players appeared in different roles throughout the series' run. Russ played a terrorist in "Starship Mine" and a Klingon in "Invasive Procedures", and later joined the cast of Star Trek: Voyager as the Vulcan Tuvok.
Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley declined to appear. Their lines, as Spock and McCoy, were modified for Doohan and Koenig. In Scotty's case, it created a seeming continuity error, given Scotty's dialogue in the TNG episode "Relics". In that episode, Scotty implied that he believed Kirk to still be alive, despite the fact that the scene's setting was after Scotty had witnessed Kirk's apparent death in Star Trek: Generations. The official explanation for the inconsistency is that Scotty was disoriented in "Relics", as he had just re-materialized after 75 years transporter stasis.
Unlike his TNG co-stars, this was Michael Dorn's second Star Trek film, having appeared on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, portraying his TNG character's grandfather, Colonel Worf, who defended Kirk and McCoy on their trial.
This was the final appearance of James Doohan as Scotty prior to his death in 2005.
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