Bit of fan fiction in my answer: say Starfleet resurrect Kirk when Picard goes AWOL in a personal crusade to finally destroy the Borg.
The Trek novel "The Return" had Kirk destroying the Borg by switching their on/off switch to "off". The novel was, as it happens, written by Shatner as a sequel to "Generations", allowing Kirk to be resurrected so that he could have a much more meaningful death. But Paramount made "First Contact" instead", which to be fair had the whole "Picard is Ahab" thing and was definitely one of the better post-Shatner Trek films, but the Borg were only thwarted not finally defeated.
I think a combination of the two stories would have worked much better, with picard going AWOL in an attempt to destroy the Borg once and for all. Starfleet illegally resurrects Kirk to send him to stop Picard's attempt at genocide.
The Trek novel "The Return" had Kirk destroying the Borg by switching their on/off switch to "off". The novel was, as it happens, written by Shatner as a sequel to "Generations", allowing Kirk to be resurrected so that he could have a much more meaningful death. But Paramount made "First Contact" instead", which to be fair had the whole "Picard is Ahab" thing and was definitely one of the better post-Shatner Trek films, but the Borg were only thwarted not finally defeated.
I think a combination of the two stories would have worked much better, with picard going AWOL in an attempt to destroy the Borg once and for all. Starfleet illegally resurrects Kirk to send him to stop Picard's attempt at genocide.
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