Star Trek: The Genesis Trilogy
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It is 1980. Disappointed with the decidedly un-STAR WARS-like performance of STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, Paramount executives approach television producer Harve Bennett about taking over the next outing of the Starship Enterprise, but for a far lower budget than the prior film and its special effects extravaganza.
To familiarize himself with the series, Bennett watched all 79 episodes of the original series, with one story – season one's "Space Seed" – igniting his imagination. The tale of an antiheroic superhuman named Khan who attempts to take over the Enterprise but who is left with his followers on an Earth-like planet to create their own utopia... well, it begged for a follow-up.
Alongside co-writer Jack B. Sowards and young director Nicholas Meyer, Bennett created that follow-up, and set the stage for two more films that, though planned one-by-one, work as a perfect trilogy. A story of sacrifice, of friendship, and of reclaiming your first and best place in the universe...
About STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN
1982 | 113 mins.
"Commanding a starship is your first best destiny. Anything else is a waste of material."
Not just a great STAR TREK film, not just a great science-fiction film, it’s one of the greatest films of all time. An epic revenge tale that also manages to pack in meditations on aging, regret, and how we deal with death. It’s the finest moment in the entire original series canon.
About STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
1984 | 105 mins.
“My father says that you have been my friend. You came back for me.”
Leonard Nimoy stayed with the series to direct this – his first feature and the best of the odd-numbered Treks. The story (literally) inverts the previous film's themes as the Enterprise crew goes renegade to save their friend and heal the afflicted Dr. McCoy.
About STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME
1986 | 119 mins.
“They like you very much, but they are not the hell 'your' whales.”
When a mysterious alien probe threatens Earth by evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere, there's only one crew that can save the planet: the crew of the late, great NCC-1701, currently fugitives thanks to their activities in Part 3. In a swift attempt to save mankind, Admiral Kirk and his crew must time-travel back to 1986 San Francisco, where they find a world of punk, pizza, and exact-change buses.
More than "the one with the whales," this rollicking adventure quickly warps away from the heavy themes of the past two films for the most fun STAR TREK ever made, and the wrap-up to the unintended trilogy that began with WRATH OF KHAN.
