Critically Best Star Trek Films

Another one of the best in the series. Directed by Jonathan Frakes (Will Riker himself) it captures the characters nicely. With action, drama, suspense, and humor all blended nicely it is truely enjoyable and a good movie. The Borg make a unique film enemy and Patrick Stewart really performs in top condition. Dealing with First Contact brings more of an understanding to the Star Trek world.

The last hurrah for the original series crew pulls out all the stops. With a serious plot which is gripping and suspensful plus the characters we have grown to love adding a new character played by Christopher Plummer, this film is perhaps the best of the original crews six movies. The music backs the film all the way and the mixture of drama and action is woven together nicely. The story stays moving and is enjoyable too. The signiture sign-off at the end completes the film and the original cast's missions onboard the Starship Enterprise. A worthy and fitting finale.

Perhaps the best story of the first three this is an engaging and imaginative film directed by Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy. The characters really start to form and come alive and continue to throughout the rest of the films. A simple plot makes it feel small yet the conciseness of it makes it very good.

Nicholas Meyer directs a great film (even if I feel his Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is better). The cast performs well and Ricardo Montalban is great in his role as Khan who he first portrayed on the TV show. One of the best Star Trek films.

Exciting and enjoyable. The crew of the Enterprise show their strength in this one by being attacked on all fronts. Facing a Picard clone as their enemy and a stronger ship they must pull out all the stops in a relentless battle that will determine the fate of the Enterprise crew.
Shinzon makes a worthy villian who only can be matched in cunning and sheer nerve by Captain Picard who is in fact who the villian is cloned after. His creepy viceroy makes an interesting extra baddy who can get into Troi's mind taking the personal battle to even deeper depths.
Featuring the Romulans prominently for the first time in a Star Trek movie is a clever move in that it keeps it original and interesting. Not being the same old villians adds an intrique factor in that anything can go. And anything does as seen in the spectacular battle seen where Picard flies the Enterprise literally into Shinzon's ship in a cold manuever only to be matched when Shinzon goes into reverse in an equally cold move.
Filled with little moments such as the wedding of Riker and Troi (long awaited) and seeing Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) again as well as the introduction of B-4 the prototype to Data and Lore all add up to make a nice final bow for the Next Generation crew (if it is their final bow - I tend to hope it is not).
One of the best in the series which fits with the even numbered Star Trek films, it has memorable moments (like Geordi and Data's eye contact before Data jumps into space) and humorous ones and the whole film adds up to be an exilirating, fast-paced, good plotted film that makes you want to watch it again.

Good follow up to the original cast's first six films and the Next Generation cast's seven year series. Paves the way for TNG's film run with an interesting plot using both generations as well as making the villian a decent adversary. Fun and inspired making it a very likable addition to the series.

Continues some of the feel that First Contact had since Jonathan Frakes once again directs. A plot that feels like it would have been on the t.v. show makes the cast ease into this film. Though not as bombastic and Earth threatening as other Star Trek films it does a good job of seeing into the lives of the characters and developing them further. It brings the senior officers even closer as a "family unit". This is kind of TNG's version of Star Trek 3 and 4 - going against the Federation and working together to do what's right. Well done with good graphics and a good plot.

One of my favorites and the most fun in the original casts movies. This one really lets the characters open up and the focus is on the main cast. It puts the crew in an unfamiliar environment and lets them try to figure things out. This is the one that really made me come to enjoy the original cast of Star Trek because it makes them feel like a family like Next Generation and Voyager does.

Good sci-fi film though seemed long. Re-Introduces the cast well and begins movie series. This one has a clever concept surrounding the origin of VGER and has very Star Trek feel even if the future films eclipse it. Worth seeing at least once.

This film feels odd in the original cast's movie series but it does build on the characters. The relationships are deepened and we see the crew as a "family" like we did in The Voyage Home. The Kirk-Spock-McCoy relationship is really shone along with background history to Spock and Bones. Scotty really shines this time around in that he saves the main trio twice. Also, Scotty has the biggest laugh of the film when he claims that he knows the ship like the back of his hand and then walks into a low beam knocking himself out.
The action scenes feel a bit forced as does some of the humor. There was a tired feel to the film in that no one seemed to want to fight very hard for anything.
One very good scene is when they are planning to cross the Great Barrier which has never been done and Kirk isn't sure and then his hand comes to rest on the wheel with the plaque that says "To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before". There were several other good moments and again the relationships really show up well in this making you like the crew even more.
All in all it is a decent film and progresses the characterizations of the crew. It could easily be left out of the series but it is a lot of fun with the crew - especially when they are all on shore leave at the beginning.