Passes the Bechdel test

Star Trek: Generations

Name: Star Trek: Generations
Released: 1994

1994. Directed by David Carson, written by Gene Roddenberry and Rick Berman and Ronald D. Moore.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
14 women characters. 10 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 134.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.

The film

In the late twenty-third century, the gala maiden voyage of the newly-christened U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-B boasts such luminaries as Pavel Chekov, Montgomery Scott, and the legendary Captain James T. Kirk as guests. But her maiden voyage turns into a disaster as the unprepared starship is forced to rescue two transport ships from a mysterious energy ribbon. The Enterprise manages to save a handful of the ship's passengers and barely succeeds to get out intact, but at the cost of Captain Kirk's life. Seventy-eight years later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D crew find themselves at odds with renegade scientist Dr. Tolian Soran, who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme, and he has been dead for seventy-eight years.

Released: 18 Nov 1994
Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Rated: PG
IMDb: 6.6 / 10
Metascore: 55 / 100
Awards: 2 wins & 5 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Picard 155 lines, man
Kirk 79 lines, man
Data 65 lines, man
Riker 61 lines, man
Soran 47 lines, man
Geordi 43 lines, man
Guinan 31 lines, woman
Scotty 30 lines, man
Worf 30 lines, man
Harriman 28 lines, man

Full cast, 33 people

Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker
Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data
LeVar Burton as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Commander Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk
Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Tolian Soran
James Doohan as Captain Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
Walter Koenig as Commander Pavel Chekov
Alan Ruck as Captain John Harriman
Thomas Dekker as Picard's Kid
Cameron Oppenheimer as Ensign Kellogg
Jenette Goldstein as Science Officer
Tim Russ as Lieutenant
Brian Thompson as Klingon Helm
Patti Yasutake as Nurse Ogawa
Jacqueline Kim as Demora Sulu
Thomas Kopache as Com Officer
Glenn Morshower as Navigator
Michael Mack as Ensign Hayes
Dendrie Taylor as Lieutenant Farrell
Granville Ames as Transporter Chief
Barbara March as Lursa
Gwynyth Walsh as B'Etor
Kim Braden as Picard's Wife
Christopher James Miller as Picard's Nephew
Majel Barrett as Computer (voice)
Kristopher Logan as El Aurian Survivor
Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan (uncredited)
Lynn Salvatori as Antonia (uncredited)
Tracee Cocco as Jae (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 1% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 134

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	2
4 to 6	0	2
7 to 9	0	12
10 to 12	0	0
13 to 15	3	32
16 to 18	10	27
19 to 21	2	11
22 to 24	1	11
25 to 27	4	17
28 to 30	1	5
31 to 33	0	1
34 to 36	3	6
37 to 39	7	39
40 to 42	2	19
43 to 45	4	40
46 to 48	0	22
49 to 51	11	43
52 to 54	0	5
55 to 57	0	2
58 to 60	9	9
61 to 63	17	16
64 to 66	0	66
67 to 69	14	32
70 to 72	5	5
73 to 75	1	6
76 to 78	5	8
79 to 81	2	3
82 to 84	4	1
85 to 87	0	3
88 to 90	0	6
91 to 93	0	10
94 to 96	3	3
97 to 99	0	1
100 to 102	0	5
103 to 105	0	4
106 to 108	1	1
109 to 111	1	2
112 to 114	0	2
115 to 117	0	0
118 to 120	0	0
121 to 123	22	55
124 to 126	0	29
127 to 129	0	18
130 to 132	10	5
133 to 134	0	8

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scene

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

OGAWA: That should be the last of the wounded, Doctor. BEVERLY: Two hundred thirty-two patients in under two days. BEVERLY: Save that stretcher... OGAWA: Is there another patient?

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 19 are women's.

142 lines from women, 594 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

14 women and 19 men in the cast. 10 women and 22 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 32 of 745. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 66 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 18% of the words (1,495), men 82% (6,673). Women have 19% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Two women

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

1 of the 13 people in these jobs is a woman. Across the whole crew, 20% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: David Carson (man)
Written by: Brannon Braga (man), Ronald D. Moore (man)
Story by: Rick Berman (man)
Produced by: Peter Lauritson (man), Rick Berman (man)
Shot by: John A. Alonzo (man)
Edited by: Peter E. Berger (man)
Music by: Dennis McCarthy (man)
Production design by: Herman F. Zimmerman (man)
Costumes by: Robert Blackman (man)
Cast by: Junie Lowry-Johnson (woman), Ron Surma (man)

The crew, department by department

Sound

2 women, 17 men, 8 not listed
Other crew

3 women, 12 men, 1 not listed
Costume & Make-Up

5 women, 4 men, 4 not listed
Art

1 women, 7 men, 4 not listed
Camera

0 women, 8 men, 3 not listed
Production

3 women, 5 men, 2 not listed
Directing

2 women, 3 men, 2 not listed
Editing

1 women, 3 men, 2 not listed

Women
Men
Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 42 on average. Men: 51 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Marina Sirtis 39, Gates McFadden 45

Men

LeVar Burton 37, Michael Dorn 41, Jonathan Frakes 42, Brent Spiner 45, Malcolm McDowell 51, Patrick Stewart 54, William Shatner 63, James Doohan 74

Exhibit H: the money

It made 3.1 times what it cost.

Budget: $38 million
Box office: $118 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 134 scenes and 745 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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