Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (though ST6 is a CLOSE second).
This film had everything. It had a well paced story, it was a lot darker than anything Trek had seen before or after, all the while keeping what made Trek great. It gave us the best villain seen in not just a Trek film, but a great villain in cinema full stop. And that death scene... it was truly emotional.
It also gave us a far more balanced performance from Shatner as Kirk. I always felt that Mayer knew how to handle Shatner. So in this one, and 6, Kirk was at his best in the films IMO.
I think The Motion Picture is very underrated. If not for its very slow pace, I think it would be regarded as a much better film overall. Either way, I think every Trekkie should have some respect for it for many reasons.
If we were given the television series called Star Trek: Phase II instead of TMP, then Star Trek wouldn't be where it is today. It would have been a couple of TV series, and that's it.
TMP introduced us to the most popular theme song of the whole franchise, which was later used for Star Trek: The Next Generation (as well as The Final Frontier, and other TNG films).
TMP is the first Trek incarnation to use the Warp Core engine room that was never shown in the Original Series.
It also showed us that Star Trek can grow into many things, and have much darker themes (later used in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine).
It could have been doing something related to war.Like maybe a world was threatened by
Dominion forces and crew of enterprise was sent to keep world from being taken by
Dominion.Plus It would give WOrf a real reason to be there.
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (though ST6 is a CLOSE second).
This film had everything. It had a well paced story, it was a lot darker than anything Trek had seen before or after, all the while keeping what made Trek great. It gave us the best villain seen in not just a Trek film, but a great villain in cinema full stop. And that death scene... it was truly emotional.
It also gave us a far more balanced performance from Shatner as Kirk. I always felt that Mayer knew how to handle Shatner. So in this one, and 6, Kirk was at his best in the films IMO.
Agreed. Insurrection is such a waste.It could have been doing something related to war.Like maybe a world was threatened by
Dominion forces and crew of enterprise was sent to keep world from being taken by
Dominion.Plus It would give WOrf a real reason to be there.
Agreed. Insurrection is such a waste.
I'm probably in the minority on this, but I actually enjoyed Insurrection.
I'm probably in the minority on this, but I actually enjoyed Insurrection.
There are 2 Star Trek Movies that I haven't watched, Insurrection and Nemesis. I need to get around to those.
Nemesis isn't bad.