OK, the quick run down, one trek at a time. Will be ongoing and updated, but I shan't be bothering with the Next Gen stuff or beyond.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Plot: Admiral Kirk (William Shatner), bored of his desk job, up and hops on the "new" Enterprise, citing his experience and assumes command of said vessel. The mission; intercept an alien force from an energy cloud that's destroying stuff and on it's way to Earth, oh and grab Spock for a touch of mind-melding en-route.
Budget: $46,000,000
Gross: $139,000,000
Fun Fact: Directed by Academy Award winner- Robert Wise- The Andromeda Strain.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Plot: Kirk and his pals are off at it again. In this instalment, Kirk takes over the boat (again) as there's an emergency involving an incident from 15 years previous. Seems a deliberately marooned Captain and his buddies are a touch miffed at Kirk and with the aide of a few mind-bending slugs, they set about luring Kirk and pals to their potential doom and a fateful conflict in space. All together now....Khhhhhhhaaaaaaaannnn!
Budget: $11,200,000
Gross: $97,000,000
Fun Fact: Director- Nicholas Meyer had never seen Star Trek prior to filming this successful sequel.
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Plot: Picking up straight after The Wrath of Khan (spoiler alert!), the Genesis device has in fact reanimated/regrown/resurrected Spock and following a meeting with Spocks' Pop, it's up to Kirk and a rather confused Dr McCoy to rescue Spock and return his memories from storage, in McCoy's brain. But, there's a few problems and the ever playful Klingons are on the scene and souring for a bit of fisticuffs.
Budget: $16,000,000
Gross: $87,000,000
Fun Fact: Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future I,II & III) plays Kruge, the nefarious Klingon Captain.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Plot: OK, so, it turns out that while Kirk et al have been off rescuing Spock and saving the Galaxy, a rather long, cylindrical, black probe (Rendezvous with Rama anyone?) has turned up on Earth's doorstep and stopped all communications and started to majorly disrupt the worlds oceans. As one of the few ships still off world and functional, Kirk- in a garbled message from fleet command, is instructed to head back to the 20th Century and retrieve the only think that can communicate with the probe- a now extinct, Humpback Whale.
So off they go, spinning around the sun and back, to the past (check out the Quantum Leapage there).
Budget: $21,000,000 (because there's a whale in it and their agents always charge more)
Gross: $133,000,000
Fun Fact: It was due to Shatner and Nimoy's wage demand that a cheaper TV show came to be- Star Trek: The Next Generation. Thanks for being money grubbing boys.
This poster is ridiculous...I love it!
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Or, : when Shatner went all Shakespeare.
Plot: Kirk's having a vacation (climbing a mountain in Yosemite National Park) when Spock and his jet boots fly up to have a chat (cos he's bored or something)- Kirk falls and is saved at the last minute. So, on with the story; Kirk et al are sent off to have a chat with a renegade Vulcan who's started convincing folk that he's some sort of messiah and they're all off to find the source of all creation. Turns bad though, in case you couldn't guess.
Budget: $33,000,000
Gross: $63,000,000
Fun Fact: William Shatner directed the film, waking at 4am each day, regardless of his beddy byes time. What a trooper! Sean Connery was originally contracted for the role, but was busy with an 'Indy' film.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Plot: Following the explosion of the better part of half of the Klingon Moon, the warring nations attempts peaceful negotiations with the United Federation of Planets. Thinking it a good idea, they send Kirk for a chat. Now, anyone who's anyone knows darn well, Kirk no likey Klingons! That being said, he's as cordial as he can be. Unfortunately, the negotiating Klingon is assassinated and while attempting to save his life, McCoy and Kirk are arrested, tried and found guilty of murder. So, off to prison they go. Meanwhile, Captain Spock and his merry men decide to do a little investigation. One thing leads to another, Kirk and McCoy try to escape, get into a fight with a shape-shifting alien- cue the snappy jokes and there's a race against time to stop yet another assassination.
Budget: $27,000,000
Gross: $96,888,996
Fun Fact: Directed by Nicholas Meyer- Time After Time.
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