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It's not that this one is bad, per se, it's just that it has the bad luck of following the best 'Star Trek' movie while also undoing a big reason of why 'The Wrath of Khan' has such devastating impact: the death of Spock. Yes, 'The Motion Picture' is all fan service, all the time, but to be fair, the fans are the reason why there is anything 'Star Trek' at all.

And also a fair tolerance for ponderous philosophizing, because this film has quite a bit of that as well.

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You really have to have a hunger for loving, caressing shots of the USS Enterprise, because this film is chock full of them. One of them dies, because, apparently, you can't have two captains of the Enterprise at once. So here, we get the meeting of Kirk and Picard, who should be separated by generations (get it?), but are now thrust together to ride horses together and fight Malcolm McDowell.

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Time travel is a tricky thing when it comes to 'Star Trek.' Sometimes it works wonders - 'The City on the Edge of Forever,' the best episode of the classic series - and sometimes it's a hackneyed gimmick that just lets actors from different 'Trek' shows appear together on-screen. But 'Enterprise'В was the rare 'Star Trek' prequel, and it turns out that looking backward isn't something 'Trek' fans wanted - 'Enterprise' is the rare 'Trek' show to actually get canceled. Maybe you like hot lady Vulcans luckily, the NCC NX-01 gives you Sub-Cmdr.

Maybe you have a sweet spot for Scott Bakula, who plays Jonathan Archer, captain of the Enterprise that precedes Kirk's NCC-1701. It was the best a fan could hope for in the dark times between the classic series' end and 'The Motion Picture's' premiere. And though it's a cartoon animated with all the technical savvy of a cement mixer, Kirk is voiced by Shatner, Spock is voiced by Nimoy, Scotty is voiced by Doohan, et cetera, et cetera. It put its characters through the ringer while looking to define what it means to be 'human' in the face ofВ the impossible. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) both lived up to the best of what 'Star Trek' could be and, occasionally, redefined it.В Aided immeasurably by the gravitas of Stewart (a Shakespearean veteran), 'The Next Generation' explored more than the deepest reaches of space. But the balance of the seven seasons that followed Capt. The first couple of seasons are too preoccupied with trying to catch that 'Star Trek' lightning in a bottle, the final season was a lot of wheel-spinning before turning out the lights. And in Avery Brooks' Benjamin Sisko, 'Star Trek' continued to push the social conversation boundaries by casting itsВ first black lead. When 'DS9' hit its stride, it became a show about the fog of war, about compromised ethics and morals, about the tortured choices one makes on the front lines of an unwinnable conflict. 'Deep Space Nine' was no different, but it was also the first 'Trek' show created after Roddenberry died - as such, it was able to go darker than the Final Frontier had ever been allowed to be portrayed before.

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To watch Shatner's Kirk fumble for his glasses while his beloved Enterprise is under attack from his old TV series enemy, Khan (Ricardo Montalban), is to watch a man reckoning withВ mortality and inevitability -В in a film capped with science fiction's most heartbreaking death (and bag-pipe-y funeral).Д®very 'Star Trek' series, especially after the original, took a while to find its footing. But sometimes, that's where the great stories lie in wait, like a forgotten nemesis hiding on a dead planet. It only reminds us that we too are losing our fight against time. We don't usually like to see our heroes age.

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