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Star Trek Beyond

In the final Kelvin film, Star Trek Beyond, the USS Enterprise is destroyed and the crew stranded on an alien planet. They meet an alien named Krall who intends to destroy the Federation.

Star Trek Beyond is not an oft-discussed film, but it’s clearly the best of the three Kelvin films. Directed by Justin Lin from a script written by Simon Pegg (Scotty), Beyond works as both a Star Trek film and an action film.

In this podcast, Wes and Clay discuss the dynamics of Balthazar Edison, the benefit to a stationary camera, and the Kelvin Universes biggest failure!

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Star Trek Into Darkness

Star Trek Into Darkness is the second film from JJ Abrams’ Kelvin Universe.

Khan returns as an unwilling agent of Section 31. In order to prevent a war with the Klingons, Kirk must stop both Khan and a corrupt admiral from achieving their goals.

In this podcast, Wes and Clay discuss going bigger in a sequel, wet eyes, and bringing back Khan!

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Star Trek 2009

Wes and Clay get back to the Star Trek films! This time they’ve moved on to the JJ Abrams led reboot, “Star Trek” from 2009.

The Abrams 2009 Trek film rebooted the franchise and created a new TOS universe (Kelvin) to play in. As such, we get familiar names with brand new faces.

In this podcast, Wes and Clay discuss the brilliant idea of creating an alternate timeline, walking the line of old and new, and Spock not getting where he needed to be in time!

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Movies TNG Movies TOS Movies

The Star Trek Films: A Wrap Up

We’ve made our way through the 6 TOS films, and the 4 TNG films. We’ve seen the highs and the lows, the comedy and the drama, the Klingons and the time travel. Do we all feel a little bit older? Like time is passing us by? Clay joins me to give a brief overview of the entire gauntlet of Star Trek films, and we both detail our ranking of the movies from best to worst. The films are over, let’s move onto Deep Space 9!

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Movies TNG Movies

Star Trek X: Nemesis

The Next Generation crew embark on one final mission in their ultimate adventure on the big screen, Star Trek: Nemesis!

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Movies TNG Movies

Star Trek IX: Insurrection

fter the frantic, action packed thrills of First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection came along and decided to slow things down. When Picard discovers a plot to evict 600 Ba’ku from their planet in order to steal a “fountain of youth” technology, the crew disobeys their orders and mounts an insurrection.

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Star Trek VIII: First Contact

In order to save the present, Picard and crew travel back in time to stop the Borg from preventing “first contact” and assimilating the Earth.

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Star Trek VII: Generations

It’s time to move into the TNG movies, and we start with the polarizing “Generations”. A film that’s been disowned by its creators, “Generations” mixes TOS and TNG into one package while doing neither series the service it deserves.

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Movies TOS Movies

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

We bid a fond farewell to the Original Series crew! In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, a Klingon moon explodes and the Empire is forced to make peace with the Federation. This seems to be a pretty good thing, until the Klingon leader is assassinated! Kirk and company must race against the clock to uncover a conspiracy and prevent the outbreak of war. Clay joins me to discuss saying goodbye to the TOS crew, heavy handed allegories, and killing people in zero gravity!

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Movies TOS Movies

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Like Dinosaur Jr said, Sybok feels the pain of everyone and then he feels nothing! The Final Frontier is the directorial debut of William Shatner and a movie that is not highly regarded by neither fans nor critics. Featuring tubby actors, odd tonal shifts, and gods at the center of the galaxy, it’s a movie that feels unlike anything that has come before it (except for Dune). But is it really that bad? Clay and I discuss the fifth movie in the TOS lineage, and we break down erotic dances, jet powered boots, and movies that don’t know what they’re talking about!

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Movies TOS Movies

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Star Trek IV: A Whale of a Time! The final part of the film trilogy that started back in The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home certainly feels different from what has come before. Featuring no real villain, our heroes instead go back in time to find an extinct species of whale that will be able to save Earth in the 23rd century. Light hearted and comfortable, it’s a nice change of pace from the drama heavy Khan and Search for Spock: but is it any good? Clay and I discuss plots that sound absurd, the best scene so far, and Scotty the comedian!

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Movies TOS Movies

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

You knew he wouldn’t stay dead, right? In Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Kirk and company hijack the Enterprise in order to return to the Genesis planet and reunite Spock’s soul with his body. The middle film in the trilogy that spans from Khan to The Voyage Home, The Search for Spock is also Leonard Nimoy’s directorial debut! Can it hold on to the energy and pacing of Khan? Does does it slide back into the passive drone of The Motion Picture? Clay and I discuss bad action scenes, Klingons as we know them now, and the new version of Saavik!

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Movies TOS Movies

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Seeking revenge against James Kirk, Khan Noonien Singh escapes from his prison planet and hijacks the USS Reliant. Kirk and the Enterprise must stop Khan from obtaining a new technology with the potential to destroy a planet, but they’ll have to pay the ultimate price to do it.

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Movies TOS Movies

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

In the first Star Trek feature film, a mysterious alien cloud is headed for Earth. James T. Kirk is re-instated as the captain of the Enterprise and a given a mission: determine the intent of the cloud and protect Earth.