AG Monday!
Time to search for Spock.
After Star Trek II, it wasn’t completely clear where Star Trek would go, but given the success of The Wrath Of Khan, it was clear it was going somewhere. We only had a couple of years to wait until the release of the third movie, The Search For Spock. Journey back with us to the early 80s, when Star Trek movies became a popular event, Leonard Nimoy started his directorial career, and the fate of the Enterprise crew, and the Enterprise, was still uncertain.
Klingons! The Genesis planet! Scrambled minds! Space heists! Sacrifice! Plus, we premiere our new rating system for all things Trek!
Ancient Geeks is a podcast about two geeks of a certain age re-visiting their youth. We were there when things like science fiction, fantasy, Tolkien, Star Trek, Star Wars, D&D, Marvel and DC comics, Doctor Who, and many, many other threads of modern geek culture were still on the fringes of culture. We were geeks before it was chic!
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Thus far, I do agree with the trope about even-numbered Trek movies. I’ll note Prof. Taylor could not come up with the title for Star Trek V 😉 I think it’s called The Search for a Different Screenplay.
Seriously, I’m willing to bet most Trek fans would rate movies II, IV, and VI all higher than I, III, And V. Perhaps the third one wasn’t bad, especially compared to the first and fifth, but it doesn’t quite reach the quality level of the even numbers.
This was broken by the TNG movies, where the first two were pretty good, and the latter two atrocious.
As to the Kelvin timeline movies, I don’t care enough about either of them to have an opinion. I give them credit for recasting the major and some minor characters, rather than de-age them or resurrect them digitally like that Disney franchise.