While the stories of Wrath and Search mesh together, The Voyage Home, also directed by Nimoy, only creates a trilogy in a marketing sense because its story isn’t dependent on the two previous films. That’s not to say the film, which plays like a comedy, isn’t enjoyable in its own right.
The fugitive Enterprise crew decides to leave Vulcan to face the consequences of Starfleet. Meanwhile, a large alien object has taken orbit around Earth. It sends out an unidentifiable signal and begins to disrupt the planet. As the Enterprise crew approaches, Spock is able to identify the signal as a whale song, but the species has gone extinct years ago. A plan is devised to go back in time to the late 20th century and retrieve a whale. They make it to 1986, the year the film was released, but matters are complicated because the engines no longer have enough power to return them to the future.
Each DVD annoyingly starts with the new Star Trek trailer before the menu. Although each film has already been previously released in two-disc collector’s editions, they are now being re-released on a single disc with new features.
Each has a new commentary track. Director Meyer and Enterprise executive producer Manny Coto discuss Wrath. An odd decision finds the commentaries on the other discs given by people associated with the Trek franchise, but not the films they are watching. Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor, who worked together on Deep Space Nine and Voyager, talk about Search while writers of the new movie, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, comment on Voyage.
Some features cover the original series Trek film franchise. Search has “Industrial Light & Magic: The Visual Effects” which covers how the effects for a number of the films were created, and “Star Trek and the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame” has producer/writer Harve Bennett talking about his role in the franchise. Voyage has “The Three-Picture Saga” explaining how the trilogy evolved.
Article comments
1 - Dan Carr
Why would you make a collection of DVD's without including the First movie doesn't make sense to me. But Marketing decision obviously.
A bit dissapointing that it did not include the first movie, Star Trek The Motion Picture, Otherwise great collection. Great price too.