What Do Critics Say? The Best & Worst Star Trek Movies Part 1

With a new Star Trek television series currently in development with Hannibal creator Brian Fuller on board as executive producer and showrunner, and a new movie on the way, let us take a look back at the big screen adventures of the Enterprise and see what fans and critics thing of them.

Due to the extensive library of films in the widely popular franchise, this is but the first of three parts that will be coming out this week.

STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (1979)

Scores

Rotten Tomatoes (Critics): 47%

Rotten Tomatoes (Audience Score): 42%

Metacritic: 48

IMDB: 6.4/10

Cinemascore: None

Movie Info

Director: Robert Wise

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Majel Barrett, Mark Lenard, Grace Lee Whitney, and Stephen Collins.

Synopsis: When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine and hopefully stop it.

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982)

Scores

Rotten Tomatoes (Critics): 88%

Rotten Tomatoes (Audience Score): 90%

Metacritic: 71

IMDB: 7.7/10

Cinemascore: None

Movie Info

Director: Nicholas Meyer

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Ricardo Montalban, Bibi Besch, Merritt Butrick, Kristie Alley, and Paul Winfield.

Synopsis: Admiral Kirk's midlife crisis is interrupted by the return of an old enemy looking for revenge and a potentially destructive device.

STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (1984)

Scores

Rotten Tomatoes (Critics): 78%

Rotten Tomatoes (Audience Score): 61%

Metacritic: 55

IMDB: 6.6/10

Cinemascore: None

Movie Info

Director: Leonard Nimoy

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, John Larroquette, Christopher Lloyd, Merritt Butrick, Stephen Liska, Robin Curtis, Phil Morris, Robert Hooks, Miguel Ferrer, Mark Lenard, and Judith Anderson.

Synopsis: Admiral Kirk and crew risk their careers to steal the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet and recover Spock's body.

STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (1986)

Scores

Rotten Tomatoes (Critics): 85%

Rotten Tomatoes (Audience Score): 80%

Metacritic: 67

IMDB: 7.3/10

Cinemascore: A+

Movie Info

Director: Leonard Nimoy

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Jane Wyatt, Catherine Hicks, Mark Lenard, Majel Barrett, Robin Curtis, John Schuck, Robert Ellenstein, and Brock Peters.

Synopsis: To save Earth from an alien probe, Kirk and crew travel back in time to the '80s to retrieve the only beings able to communicate with it, a couple of humpback whales.

STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER (1989)

Scores

Rotten Tomatoes (Critics): 21%

Rotten Tomatoes (Audience Score): 24%

Metacritic: 43

IMDB: 5.4/10

Cinemascore: A-

Movie Info

Director: William Shatner

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Laurence Luckinbill, David Warner, and George Murdock.

Synopsis: Spock's half-brother hijacks the Enterprise and heads toward the Great barrier, an energy field at the galaxy's rim to search for God.

STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991)

Scores

Rotten Tomatoes (Critics): 83%

Rotten Tomatoes (Audience Score): 83%

Metacritic: 65

IMDB: 7.2/10

Cinemascore: A-

Movie Info

Director: Nicholas Meyer

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Christopher Plummer, Kim Cattrall, John Schuck, Michael Dorn, Kurtwood Smith, Rosanna DeSoto, Mark Lenard, Brock Peters, Leon Russom, David Warner, Grace Lee Whitney, and Christian Slater.

Synopsis: The Enterprise and Excelsior crews must prevent a ploy from threatening a peace treaty between the Klingon Empire and the Federation.

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