Star Trek – The Motion Picture (1979)

Star Trek – The Motion Picture (1979)
Rating: ★★★½
Jun 18, 2000AI Encounter
Long-awaited revival of the tv series on the big screen. While this has a mixed fan reception, it is well worth re-evaluation. It is the only one of the Trek films that reaches for epic, mind-expanding places to find something of a 2001: A Space Odyssey

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Rating: ★★★★
Aug 31, 2002Intergalactic Adventures
Second of the Star Trek films, usually regarded as the fan favourite because of its often moving character focus on themes of life, death and aging. Ricardo Montalban makes a grandly theatrical villain and the film gets some great suspense out of space war sequences

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Rating: ★★
Aug 17, 2000Intergalactic Adventures
Leonard Nimoy steps into the director's chair of the third Star Trek film and his doing marks the shift of the films from intergalactic adventuring into the regulars engaged in a safe, easy set of adventures playing to fan audiences

The Voyage Home: Star Trek IV (1986)

The Voyage Home: Star Trek IV (1986)
Rating: ★★
Jul 17, 2002Time Travel Back to the Present
Fourth of the original Star Trek films jumps on board the popularity of time travel themes following Back to the Future to have the regulars time travel back to the present for a series of amiable, easy comic encounters

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
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Aug 31, 2002Intergalactic Adventures
William Shatner tries to emulate the success had by Leonard Nimoy in directing a Star Trek film but falls on his face, badly overstressing the comedy elements and delivering the worst of the Classic Trek films

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Rating: ★★★
Jul 20, 2000Intergalactic Adventures
The last of the classic Star Trek films. Nicholas Meyer, who made the last good Trek film The Wrath of Khan, returns to give the characters a moving send off, while the plot that reenacts the fall of the Berlin Wall with the Klingons gives the films a political immediacy that was missing since the tv series

Star Trek: Generations (1994)

Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Rating: ★★
Sep 11, 2000Intergalactic Adventures
The first of the Star Trek: The Next Generation films is an odd affair that seems like a routine episode of the series that accidentally gained a big-screen budget. This crosses over with Classic Trek where William Shatner mugs his way through a grand old airing of Captain Kirk

How William Shatner Changed the World (2005)

How William Shatner Changed the World (2005)
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Feb 16, 2014Documentary About the Influence of Star Trek in the Real World
Beyond the attention-grabbing title, this is a documentary about the influence that Star Trek has had in the real world. A not uninteresting concept wrecked by Shatner's condescending attitude to interview subjects

For the Love of Spock (2016)

For the Love of Spock (2016)
Rating: ★★★
Sep 18, 2016Leonard Nimoy Documentary
Documentary about the life of Leonard Nimoy made for the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek. Directed by Nimoy's son Adam, this is mostly a biography tracing Nimoy's life with some fascinating material showing the evolution of Spock

In Search of Tomorrow: A Journey Through ’80s Sci-Fi Cinema (2022)

In Search of Tomorrow: A Journey Through ’80s Sci-Fi Cinema (2022)
Rating: ★★½
Sep 25, 2022Documentary About 1980s SF Films
A documentary that comes with great affection for the SF films of the 1980s and covers these, along with interviews with key people, although leaves quite a number of blank spots in works it does not cover