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Both Shatner and test audiences were dissatisfied that Kirk was fatally shot in the back in the original ending of Generations ; an addendum inserted while Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories memoir was being printed expresses his enthusiasm at being called back to film a rewritten ending.

Despite the rewrite, Generations co-writer Ronald D. Moore said Kirk's death, intended to " resonate throughout the Star Trek franchise ", failed to " pay off the themes death and mortality in the way we wanted ".

Malcolm McDowell, whose character killed Kirk, was dissatisfied with both versions of Kirk's death ; he believed Kirk should have been killed " in a big way ".

McDowell claims to have received death threats after Generations release.