statement to say "where no ONE has gone before", which is the  opening prologue to The Next Generations TV series. Kirks comment  about "the next generation" was not of the television series but of  the next Enterprise crew or, as it would be, the crew of the  Enterprise B. The next film, of course, was  _Star Trek: Generations (1994)_ (qv), which featured predominantly  the Next Generation cast. The actors signatures at the end were  supposed to be the characters signatures as they signed the final  log.