Star Trek: Beyond (2016)
The Star Trek reboot franchise takes a step back toward the formula that made it a rabid fan favorite for millions of self-described Trekkers around the world over the last several decades. Although film critics and...
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Star Trek Into Darkness is director J.J. Abrams’s (Super 8, Mission Impossible III) follow-up to his commercially and critically acclaimed reboot of the iconic science fiction series, Star Trek, and should largely please fans of the more...
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
After lackluster box office returns for Star Trek V, questions abounded whether Paramount finished the film series for good. Retaining the core cast proved so expensive that continuing might be unsustainable if they couldn’t...
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Star Trek V marks Shatner’s debut as a feature film director, with his prior directorial experience, like Leonard Nimoy, coming from stage productions and TV episodes. Due to the “favored-nations” contract that stipulated that...
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
The third entry in the Star Trek film series was announced shortly before the release of the Wrath of Khan, mostly to stave off blowback the makers were receiving for killing off Spock. At that...
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture continues the TV series that ran on NBC from 1966-69. Suffering abysmal ratings in its initial run, Paramount sold the show to syndication, where it developed a strongly devoted...
Galaxy Quest (1999)
The plot: Eighteen years after their cult science fiction show is cancelled, the actors of TV’s “Galaxy Quest” are still together, appearing at “GQ” conventions and ribbon-cutting ceremonies, living off their association with the...
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Before the ponderous space odyssey, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, opened, Paramount planned for a follow-up. Due to the costly production problems they experienced, the sequel would be a modestly budgeted film made by...
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
The crew of the Enterprise travel into the past to the year 2063 in an attempt to save Earth from being conquered by the Borgs, a race of cyborg-like beings that take the traits...
Star Trek Generations (1994)
Kirk, Scotty, and Chekhov, now retired from service, come out to celebrate the christening of the Enterprise-B. While on board the ship answering reporters’ questions, a distress signal comes in, and they are the...