Prepare to go Beyond with our Star Trek movies guide
Star Trek Beyond will be the thirteenth film in the franchise and the third in the rebooted universe when it hits theaters later this summer. The latest offering, directed by Justin Lin (Fast & Furious), stars Chris Pine as James Tiberius Kirk, Zachary Quinto as Commander Spock, Zoe Sandana as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, Simon Pegg as Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott, Karl Urban as Lieutenant Commander Leonard McCoy, John Cho as Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu and the late Anton Yeltsin as Pavel Chekov. The new film’s cast also includes Idris Elba as Krall and Sofia Boutella as Jaylah. The crew is three years into a five-year mission and things are just settling into a routine when they’re attacked by a swarm of alien ships, separating the crew. Though this is a new story, it’s just the latest in a franchise that turns 50 years old this year. Let’s take a look back at the films in the Star Trek universe, starting with the very first from 1979.
Star Trek Movies Guide: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Directed by the legendary Robert Wise (West Side Story, The Day the Earth Stood Still), the first Trek film based on the original series (1966–1969) has Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) resuming command of the USS Enterprise, which had recently been refitted, after an massive cloud named V’Ger housing an alien force is detected heading toward Earth. The film was criticized for an overuse of special effects, but IT launched the film section of the franchise that is currently in double digits.
Star Trek Movies Guide: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
If you’ve heard your fellow geeks yell “Khaaaan!,” this is where it comes from. The genetically-engineered Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán), who first appeared in the 1967 episode “Space Seed,” returns to take revenge on Kirk and the Enterprise crew. He’s got a terraforming device called Genesis that he captured from the USS Reliant (which has Commander Chekov on board). He sets it off and Spock sacrifices his life to save the crew.
Star Trek Movies Guide: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
In this sequel to The Wrath of Khan, McCoy’s behavior becomes strange and we learn that Spock, while dying in the previous film, transferred his spirit or katra to him. Kirk and the gang disregard the Genesis quarantine and find Spock, whose body has regenerated by the dying planet. They battle a Klingon named Kruge (Christopher Lloyd) and his crew who are trying to steal the secrets of Genesis for themselves. Spock survives with most of his memories. The film was directed by Leonard Nimoy.
Star Trek Movies Guide: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Yes, this is the one with the whales. In The Search for Spock, the crew did a few things that caused them to be court-martialed. While heading to their trial, they learn that a probe trying to communicate with humpback whales is destroying the earth. The problem is, humpback whales are extinct in this time. They have to travel back to the end of the 20th century to get a pair of them to bring home to their time. Definitely the funniest of the Star Trek films, it was also directed by Leonard Nimoy.
Star Trek Movies Guide: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
This one is directed by William Shatner. Spock’s half-brother Sybok (Lawrence Luckinbill) is holding a bunch of human, Klingon and Romulan hostages on Nimbus III. The crew of the new USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) are sent by Starfleet Command to rescue them. A Klingon captain (Todd Bryant) pursues them for his own reasons. Sybok manipulates most of the crew, healing their pain through the Vulcan mind meld, but Kirk resists.
Star Trek Movies Guide: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
The Klingons try to make peace after a catastrophe on one of their worlds, when the Klingon Chancellor (David Warner) is assassinated by some crew from the Enterprise. Kirk is blamed but Spock tries to prove his innocence. He finds out that not everyone on either side is committed to peace. Fun fact: Michael Dorn, who plays Worf in Star Trek: The Next Generation, plays the grandfather of his TV character.
Star Trek Movies Guide: Star Trek Generations (1994)
The first of the Star Trek films to feature the cast of The Next Generation, though the film starts out with a prologue featuring Kirk, Scott and Chekov attending the maiden voyage of the Enterprise B. An energy ribbon destroys the ship, killing Kirk. Except it didn’t. Many years later, the Enterprise D is filled with the new crew when Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) learns that the rest of his family has been killed in a fire. The El-Aurian Dr. Tolian Soran (Malcolm McDowell) steals trilithium and attempts to get back into the Nexus, an alternate reality where many of the crew from the destroyed Enterprise B ended up. Anything can happen there and time has no meaning. Kirk has been living there, unaware that he’s not in his own life. He helps Picard defeat Soran, but dies in the effort.
Star Trek Movies Guide: Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Picard, on the USS Enterprise-E, dreams of the time when he was assimilated by the Borg and wakes to find out that there is a planned Borg attack on Earth. He defied Starfleet command and attacks the Borg ship opening a temporal vortex. They realize the Borg have used time travel to change history. The Enterprise travels back to the past to save Zefram Cochrane’s (James Cromwell) first warp flight from the Borg. Data (Brent Spiner) is captured by the Borg queen and given some human skin in exchange for his betrayal of the Enterprise crew. He instead fools the queen and the flight takes place as planned, opening up the human world to the galaxy and its inhabitants. The film is directed by Jonathan Frakes, who plays Commander William T. Riker.
Star Trek Movies Guide: Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
The crew of the USS Enterprise E go against Starfleet command after learning that there is a conspiracy between them and the Son’a to steal a planet for its healing properties. The crew is ordered to leave by Admiral Matthew Dougherty (Anthony Zerba) after they discover the Federation presence, but he and the crew protect the peaceful Ba’ku people, including Anij (Donna Murphy) with whom Picard has a romantic relationship. The movie was directed by Jonathan Frakes.
Star Trek Movies Guide: Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Commander William Riker and Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) are leaving to be married on Betazed when they discover a strange energy reading near the Roman Neutral Zone. Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) contacts them and sends them on a diplomatic mission to Romulus. The senate has been destroyed in a coup by a Reman named Shinzon (Tom Hardy), who is a clone of Picard. Shinzon is aging fast and needs Picard’s blood, so he kidnaps the Captain. The crew discovers an early version of Data named B-4 (haha, get it?) and helps him begin to evolve.
Star Trek Movies Guide: Star Trek (2009)
This film, directed by J.J. Abrams is a complete reboot and takes place in an alternate timeline. The only original cast member to appear is Leonard Nimoy as Spock. Kirk’s life is saved on the day he’s born by the sacrifice of his father. Spock joins Starfleet while Kirk gets into bar fights. Once he joins the academy, he’s accused of cheating in the Kobayashi Maru by Spock. A distress call from Vulcan forces the new crew to work together. Spock runs into an older version of himself who explains that their enemy Nero (Eric Bana) and he are from the future. After the fight, Kirk is promoted to Captain and the older Spock convinces younger Spock to stay in Starfleet.
Star Trek Movies Guide: Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Benedict Cumberbatch plays the alternate version of Khan, something long speculated by fans. Kirk (who was recently removed from command after violating the Prime Directive) and the Enterprise crew are sent to the Klingon homeward looking for former Starlet member John Harrison (Cumberbatch) who attacks Starfleet Headquarters, killing many senior officers. Kirk and Spock are reinstated on the Enterprise and go after Harrison. Harrison reveals himself to be Khan Noonien Singh, a genetically-engineered superhuman, one of many, who was revived to help develop weapons for a war against the Klingons. The Enterprise crew reveals the duplicity of Admiral Marcus (Peter Weller), who revived Khan. Kirk sacrifices himself (in a reverse of the second Star Trek film) to save the ships, which are plummeting toward Earth, but he is saved with the help of Khan’s regenerative blood. Khan and his fellow superhuman are stored in cryogenic pods.
Which of the Star Trek movies is your favorite? Star Trek Beyond will hit theaters on July 22, 2016.
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