Is The F-14 Tomcat A 4th-Gen Fighter Jet?

Mention the word “generation” to a Star Trek fan (I won’t go down the rabbit hole of debating whether the correct slang term is “Trekkie” vs. “Trekker”), and they will think of either the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) and/or the 1994 cinematic feature Star Trek Generations, which skillfully infused the casts and characters of both the original series and TNG.