Star Trek: The Motion Picture
The Enterprise refit was an absolute masterpiece and it still sits at the top of my enterprise list. The cast was back together which is always a good thing. The plot was loose albiet but had a good tie up with the whole Voyager probe thing. The opening scene with the Klingons getting vaporised. The special effects were awesome for the time. I don't actually mind the uniforms, it suggests a progression that starfleet might take to try and keep a sterile environment, also i guess it was a natural thing for them to try and go 'white'. (Usually a technologically advanced race seems to have white decor.... Camino anyone?) My guess is they tried it but then thought better of it for the second movie.
The plot was loose. As said before, lots of long winded unessescary beauty shots of the enterprise. Although the crew was back together they didn't really hit it off and you didn't get the sense 'that they were a real crew'.
1.5/5
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Arguably the best movie of the entire franchise. The acting was A+++, Khan played his role to PERFECTION, not only would i really have believed he existed I would have been crapping my pants. The special effects were awesome and the battle scenes were beautifully done too. The whole crew dynamic was back in full force although I thought Scotty in his new role was a little stilted. I also didn't like the engineering room but it was a good precurser to the warp core you see in TNG. Kirks acting at the end was perfect, you could totally empathise with his grief at loosing his best friend but trying not to show such emotion in front of his crew. (My emotional response to this scene was hampered by the fact my dad told me the next movie was about finding spock again...) Not only a great send off to Khan and that storyline but a great addition to the franchise.
If any Trek movie can get a 5/5 this would be it.
Star Trek: The Search for Spock
Although not as good as TWOK it still held the classic trek elements true to form. Again special effects were excellent. Good introduction of Kirk's kid and wife and the family friction was played out well. The kid played the young spock well. Christopher Lloyd did a surprisingly good job of the Klingon captain. Kudos on Kirk's use of the self destruct as an anti intruder weapon
although i'm never happy to see an enterprise get blown up. Mccoy also does a great job of having the split Mccoy/Spock personallities at the same time, a great meld. Not much bad to say about this one.
4/5
Star Trek: The Voyage Home
Personally not one of my favourites. I think my main problem with this one is that it was a little bit to happy go lucky. Thats great for a 45 minute TV show but for a 2 hour movie it kinda looses its replay value. I liked it the first time, but subsequent watchings proved less enjoyable. On first viewing though it had good elements. Checkov's performance was hilarious! I also liked the way they took that chick back to the future with them. Thats a new one for Sci Fi as a genre, and a possible Kirk romance too ;) It was a good story line though and I have to give it too the writers for being so ingenious.
3.5/5
Star Trek: The Final Frontier
To be honest it was ages ago when i saw this movie and I don't remember much about it. The only thing I really remember is the opeing phaser fight and scotty cracking himself on a bulkhead. Neither of which I thought were really trek... I seem to remember this movie as kind of a comic relief in the movie sequence. The story line was too implausable though, they were never going to find god. That much was blatently bleeding obvious. Can't say that much about this one.
Can't give an accurate score.
Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country
Awesome. Almost as good as TWOK. Kirk's animosity toward the Klingons was played out beautifully and used well too. Although he could never match Khan, General Chang played a brilliant bad guy and the cloaked BOP was a nice addition too (It had been a while since they had introduced anything new technologically). I loved the battle scene at the end with Chang spouting 'Klingon' Shakespeare even when he was faced with impending doom at the business end of a torpedo. Sulu turning up with the Excelsior? Brilliant. I love that ship and Sulu makes a great captain. As for things I didn't like about it.... Although it was probably nessescary, I didn't like the Dilithium mine scenes. They just didn't do anything for me. My other pet hate for this movie is that it introduced the whole element of Starfleet subtefuge and the fact that Starfleet officers could be compromised. Something we hadn't seen before, it clashed very badly with Rodenberry's ideals I think.
3.5/5
Star Trek: Generations
Never much liked this one. Soran makes a good villan and I can sympathise with his drive especially after we find Kirk in the Nexus. However to me it felt like a really badly drawn out TNG episode rather than a well thought out movie. The two major things I didn't like was the death of Kirk and the death of destruction of the Enterprise. Kirk, was a LEGEND. He should have died saving the Federation, not just some stupid planet. Also the Enterprise D was badly outsmarted. Destroyed by a lowly BOP? Not a fitting end in my opinion. Im glad the Duras sisters get they're comeuppance but to take the enterprise down with them seems like an unfair tradeoff. In my opinion a bad movie to end an era.
2/5
Star Trek: First Contact
Although I like in principle the idea of explaining the history of sci fi universes the script writers rarely do it well. This was a bit of a mixed bag for me. At the start the borg didn't seem as threatening. At the battle of Wolf 359 there are ship husks everywhere blown to peices by the allmighty borg and yet in first contact the Enterprise shows up and seems pretty much unperterbed by the Borg attack. Also as if 4 quantum torpedoes would destroy a borg sphere. The borg to get more menacing later on when they begin to invade the ship but the enterprise crew make several elementary mistakes. (Like not replicating projectile weapons which we have clearly seen working in DS9) I like Cochrane and Deanna does quite a good impression of 'Drunk Councillor' however I don't particullarly like the black chick whatshername. Picard does a convincing job of hating the borg and I like his animosity towards the chick, but i felt that they didn't play up his hatred enough. That for me really gave the movie and his strugle some meaning, but it took kind of a backseat after his initial outburst which was a dissapointment. All in all a pretty good movie but some elements could have been done better.
3.5/5
Star Trek: Insurrection
I liked it, mainly I think because you see Picard behaving like a Enterprise captian should. Dissobeying orders. Very Kirky. I also liked the romance they had going with the Baku chick. Very tastefully done and the slow time thing added a sense of mystery which was also very classy. I thought the fight scene with the two Sona vessels was too short lived and I never like a ship giving up its warp core. Never a stylish thing to do. The scene on the collector was well done as was the enterprise fly by. The re-union was a nice touch at the end too. Too me the story line smacked of a TV show that was streched to fit a movie length but at least they pulled it off well unlike Generations.
3.5/5
Star Trek: Nemisis
The premise was sound, although some of the plot elements were a bit weak. As if the new romulan government would trash the idea of infiltration. Whats good for one romulan is good for another. And even if they did trash it the Tal'Shiar would have picked up on that and used him anyway. Although I thought that Shinzon played his individual role well, he didn't nessescarily make a good bad guy. Certainly not in the same vein as Khan or Chang anyway. The Scimitar was a great ship and looked every bit as evil as the name suggested although it would have been way easier to hit the ship than the movie suggested. They were fireing so many disruptors even a blind man could have gotten a firing solution. In my opinion this was a movie made for the masses and was a bad sum up for the TNG crew. It leave the Star trek universe hanging wide open now with the Romulan Empire in dissaray and Data dead. A poor effort for a legendary series.
2/5
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