Soran didn't fit that bill. This article was originally published on redshirtsalwaysdie.com as Star Trek: Generations' director considered Malcolm McDowell "a key to the movie".

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.