Generation ships and crew continuity

Would a generation ship's descendants still want to complete the mission chosen by their ancestors?

That cannot be assumed; keeping the original crew in suspended animation could avoid the generational handoff, but it introduces another difficult system.

An audience question asks whether the later inhabitants of a generation ship would still accept a destination chosen before they were born. The response leaves that social risk open and considers suspended animation or cryogenic preservation as ways to keep the original crew through the voyage. Those systems would carry costs and technical problems of their own. Colony planning therefore has to account for human continuity across the journey as well as food, fuel, and machinery.