STAR TREK MOVIES

Until now, there have been eight (yes, eight !!!) movies. They are :

1.- Star Trek : The Motion Picture (1980)

Produced by : Gene Roddenberry

Directed by : Robert Wise

Duration : 132 minutes

Written by : Alan Dean Foster & Harold Livingston

Cinematography : Richard H. Kline

Music : Jerry Goldsmith

Starring : William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Majel Barrett, Nichelle Nichols, Persis Khambatta, Stephen Collins, Grace Lee Whitney, Mark Lenard.

Special effects : John Dykstra & Douglas Trumbull

Summary : The Enterprise crew gets together to face a powerful entity on its way to earth. Its purpose : to meet its creator.

2.- Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Produced by : Robert Sallin

Directed by : Nicholas Meyer

Duration : 113 minutes

Written by : Harve Bennett & Jack B. Sowards

Cinematography : Gayne Rescher

Music : James Horner

Starring : William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Bibi Besch, Merritt Butrick, Paul Winfield, Kirstie Alley, Ricardo Montalban.

Special effects : Industrial Light & Magic

Summary : Kirk faces many things : an old enemy obsessed with destroying him, a grown up son he never knew and the possible death of Spock.

3.- Star Trek III : The Search for Spock (1984)

Produced by : Harve Bennett

Directed by : Leonard Nimoy

Duration : 105 minutes

Written by : Harve Bennett

Cinematography : Charles Correll

Music : James Horner

Starring : William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Robin Curtis, Merritt Butrick, Grace Lee Whitney, Mark Lenard, Christopher Lloyd, John Larroquette, James Sikking, Miguel Ferrer

Special effects : Industrial Light & Magic

Summary : Afetr the events of the last movie, Kirk must hijack the Enterprise to rescue Spock and at the same time face a klingon who wants the secrets of the Genesis planet.

4.- Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home (1986)

Produced by : Harve Bennett

Directed by : Leonard Nimoy

Duration : 119 minutes

Written by : Leonard Nimoy & Harve Bennett

Cinematography : Donald Peterman

Music : Leonard Rosenman

Starring : William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Jane Wyatt, Catherine Hicks, Mark Lenard, Robin Curtis, John Schuck, Brock Peters, Grace Lee Whitney, Majel Barrett.

Special effects : Industrial Light & Magic

Summary : On their way to earth, the planet is destroyed by a space probe that is looking for whales, which are extinct by the 23rd century. Kirk must go to the past to rescue a couple of whales. They arrive in San Francisco, 1986.

5.- Star Trek V : The Final Frontier (1989)

Produced by : Harve Bennett

Directed by : William Shatner

Duration : 107 minutes

Written by : William Shatner, Harve Bennett & David Loughery

Cinematography : Andrew Lazlo

Music : Jerry Goldsmith

Starring : William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, David Warner, Laurence Luckinbill, Charles Cooper.

Special effects : Bran Ferren

Summary : The Enterprise is hijacked by Sybok, an emotional vulcan, half brother to Spock, to search for God in Sha-Ka-Ree, the planet at the center of the galaxy.

6.- Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Produced by : Ralph Winter & Steven-Charles Jaffe

Directed by : Nicholas Meyer

Duration : 113 minutes

Written by : Leonard Nimoy, Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal

Cinematography : Hiro Narita

Music : Cliff Eidelman

Starring : William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Kim Cattrall, Mark Lenard, Grace Lee Whitney, Brock Peters, Kurtwood Smith, Christopher Plummer, David Warner, John Schuck, Michael Dorn, Christian Slater, Iman, Rene Auberjonois.

Special effects : Matte World Digital / Industrial Light & Magic

Summary : When the main energy-producing moon of the klingon planet explodes, the klingon empire seeks peace with the federation, using Kirk and crew as liaisons. The problem is not everybody wants the peace to happen.

7.- Star Trek Generations (1994)

Produced by : Rick Berman

Directed by : David Carson

Duration : 117 minutes

Written by : Rick Berman, Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga

Cinematography : John A. Alonzo

Music : Dennis McCarthy

Starring : Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Malcolm McDowell, William Shatner, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Tim Russ, Patti Yasutake, Majel Barrett, Barbara March, Gwynyth Walsh, Whoopi Goldberg.

Special effects : Industrial Light & Magic

Summary : Finally two generations meet : Kirk and Picard must stop the evil Dr. Soran before he destroys a solar sistem in his obsession to get back to the Nexus.

8.- Star Trek First Contact (1996)

Produced by : Rick Berman

Directed by : Jonathan Frakes

Duration : 110 minutes

Written by : Rick Berman, Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga

Cinematography : Matthew F. Leonetti

Music : Jerry Goldsmith & Joel Goldsmith

Starring : Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Alfre Woodard, James Cromwell, Alice Krige, Robert Picardo, Dwight Schultz, Patti Yasutake, Majel Barrett, Ethan Phillips.

Special effects : Matte Worl Digital / Pacific Ocean Post / VisionArt / Industrial Light & Magic

Summary : The Borg go back in time to earth, 21st century, to assimilate the human race. Picard and the Enterprise-E must go back in time to stop them and help Zefram Cochrane to re-make history..

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