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*** |
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Star Trek Into Darkness outdoes its predecessor in most respects, except creative ambition.
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*** |
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Teens & Up
And so, for the first time in forever, we have
Star Trek really and truly boldly going where we haven’t been before — taking Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Scotty, Sulu and Checkov on a brand-new adventure for the very first time. Before you know it, you’re getting to know old friends in an entirely new light. It’s like what Alan Moore said about Frank Miller’s
The Dark Knight Returns: “Everything is exactly the same, except for the fact that it’s all completely different.”
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The original
Trek crew’s real last hurrah,
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is a rousing sendoff for Kirk, Spock, and Bones, and a fitting transition from the original series’ Cold-War milieu to the
Next-Generation age of engagement.
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Teens & Up
The Search for Spock may be the unappreciated middle child of the
Trek franchise, but it’s still one of better and more indispensable episodes.
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A |
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Teens & Up
With its time-traveling setting in the familiar milieu of the mid-1980s and its crowd-pleasing celebration of whales and conservationism,
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is the most successful and widely appealing of the
Star Trek films, and also the most idiosyncratic.
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A |
**** |
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Teens & Up
One of the strongest and most popular entries in the
Star Trek film franchise,
The Wrath of Khan has everything you could ask for in a good sci‑fi action-adventure film: sympathetic, well-drawn heroes, a terrific villain (Ricardo Montalban as Khan), exciting outer-space showdowns, sci‑fi wow factor (the Genesis effect), and a touch of reflective depth (the Enterprise crew finally faces up to age and mortality, and questions about the wisdom and consequences of playing God are hinted at).
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Teens & Up*
(Written by Jimmy Akin) The main cast is no longer trapped in amber — never changing their relationships, never getting promoted, never leaving the Enterprise. They’ve become unstuck. It’s a sign of things to come.
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