--- name: "Star Trek" canonical: "https://film.one/collections/star-trek" films: 13 series: 0 years: "1979–2016" average_fi1m_score: 66 updated: "2026-09-19T08:56:09.003648+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Star Trek The original crew, the Next Generation crew and the 2009 reboot, plus the series that outnumber all of them. **Which order?** Three continuities. The even-numbered rule for the original crew is a joke that happens to be true. Best on Fi1m: [*Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan.md) (85). ## Star Trek: The Original Series 1. [*Star Trek: The Motion Picture*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-the-motion-picture.md) (1979) — Fi1m 64: Robert Wise sends the Enterprise crew, a decade older, into a cloud and asks us to be patient. Jerry Goldsmith’s score and Harold Michelson’s ship reward the wait; Harold Livingston’s script mostly does not, and the middle hour is long. 2. [*Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan.md) (1982) — Fi1m 85: Nicholas Meyer takes a television cast, a small budget and a villain from an old episode, and makes the one *Star Trek* film about growing old. Ricardo Montalban rages, William Shatner listens, and the last reel earns every tear it asks for. 3. [*Star Trek III: The Search for Spock*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-iii-the-search-for-spock.md) (1984) — Fi1m 68: Leonard Nimoy’s first film as director undoes the ending of *The Wrath of Khan* with more grace than the job deserved. The cast has never looked more like a family, and the planet where it all happens has never looked more like a set. 4. [*Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-iv-the-voyage-home.md) (1986) — Fi1m 78: Leonard Nimoy sends the Enterprise crew to 1986 to fetch two humpback whales, and it is the lightest and funniest film in the series. The plot around the jokes is thin and the effects wobble, but the company is good. 5. [*Star Trek V: The Final Frontier*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-v-the-final-frontier.md) (1989) — Fi1m 45: William Shatner’s first film as director has Kirk, Spock and McCoy sitting round a fire talking about death, and that scene is worth keeping. The rest is a hijack plot that does not hold, poor effects and jokes that do not land. 6. [*Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-vi-the-undiscovered-country.md) (1991) — Fi1m 74: Nicholas Meyer gives the original crew a Cold War thriller to retire on, and for an hour it is the smartest the series ever was. The middle sags on an ice planet and the villain talks in quotations, but it is a decent goodbye. ## Star Trek: The Next Generation 7. [*Star Trek: Generations*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-generations.md) (1994) — Fi1m 48: Patrick Stewart’s crew take over the cinema series with a good villain, a fine first ten minutes and a script that cannot decide whether it is a thriller, a wake or a party for the fans. Watchable, handsome in a murky way, and never once urgent. 8. [*Star Trek: First Contact*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-first-contact.md) (1996) — Fi1m 82: Jonathan Frakes makes *Star Trek: First Contact* a tense, warmly played science-fiction adventure with a useful streak of horror. Patrick Stewart gives it weight, though newcomers must tolerate some hurried explanations and a crowded supporting cast. 9. [*Star Trek: Insurrection*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-insurrection.md) (1998) — Fi1m 58: Jonathan Frakes’s second Star Trek film is a pleasant, sunlit episode stretched to 103 minutes. The crew are good company and Goldsmith’s music is lovely, but the moral argument at its centre is small and the film seems to know it. 10. [*Star Trek: Nemesis*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-nemesis.md) (2002) — Fi1m 50: Tom Hardy makes a hungry, whispering double for Picard and Jerry Goldsmith writes the crew a proper farewell; between them Stuart Baird stages a car chase, some corridor shootouts and a shaking bridge, and a generation’s last voyage ends as an action film nobody needed. ## Star Trek: Alternate Reality 11. [*Star Trek*](https://film.one/film/star-trek.md) (2009) — Fi1m 81: J.J. Abrams makes *Star Trek* a brisk, funny adventure, with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto giving the familiar crew a convincing fresh start. The villain is thin and the action sometimes overworked, but the company earns our recommendation. 12. [*Star Trek Into Darkness*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-into-darkness.md) (2013) — Fi1m 60: J.J. Abrams’s second *Star Trek* is fast, loud and easy to like, with a cast that has grown into its uniforms and a villain who barely needs to raise his voice. Then it runs out of its own ideas and starts borrowing, and the borrowing shows. 13. [*Star Trek Beyond*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-beyond.md) (2016) — Fi1m 70: Justin Lin’s third reboot film strands the crew on a rock and lets them bicker, which is the best use anyone has made of this cast. The villain is a blank and the action is cut too close, but the company is good. --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/collections/star-trek