STAR TREK I - THE MOVIE
Boy, did me and my friends anticipate this movie. A new Star Trek, and on the big screen. That's all that we needed to know or cared about. Unfortunately, that's all the producers, writers, and director cared about as well and so we got stuck with a complete clunker that could only appeal to a trekkie fanatic. Long, loving shots of the Starship Enterprise. Long, loving shots of everything Star Trek. The movie was nothing but long loving shots and a bald chick in a short skirt. No plot, no wit, no charm, no interplay between Jim, Bones, and Spock. Avoid it like the awful movie it is.

STAR TREK II - THE WRATH OF KHAN
This movie hasn't held up well compared to the other movies. When it first came out, it shined in comparison to the first one. This time the starting point was a TV episode wherein Ricardo Montalban played Kahn, a twenty-first century superman who along with his followers took over the Enterprise briefly but who was then marooned on an earth-like world. In the movie, the planet didn't stay earth-like for long and Kahn gets his revenge, complete with over the top dialogue and acting. Still, it is a good, solid movie and sets the stage for the next Star Trek installment.

STAR TREK III - THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
This movie is set up by the previous one. Spock is dead, or is he, let's go find out. Those naughty Klingons, led by the Reverend Jim, oops, I mean Christopher Lloyd, interfere and pay the price for their meddling. This movie isn't awful, but it isn't very good.

STAR TREK IV - THE VOYAGE HOME
This is the funny Star Trek movie. It's different as well in that it takes place on the Earth of today with no Starship Enterprise at all. It was destroyed in the last movie and this one takes up right where the last one ended. This time, the crew of the Enterprise must save the whales to save the earth. Set on current day Earth, the movie has a lot of fun with modern day life (it could have been the pilot for Third Rock from the Sun). I missed the space ship battles, Kirk never gets to say "set phasors on stun", and Bones never gets to say "he's dead, Jim". Still, it is Star Trek, and it's the second best movie of the bunch.