Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

TheLittleSongbird The 'Star Trek' franchise started with this show, a show that was undoubtedly awe-inspiring and ahead of its time back then. It still holds up now, even with its flaws.Sure, the special effects are often laughable and the sets are less than audacious. Some of Season 3 disappoints with even cheaper production values, less suspense, very contrived plotting that lacked logic and more cheesiness. William Shatner was never known for subtlety (apart from a few exceptions like 1958's 'The Brothers Karamazov'), but he does overact to an annoying degree and it can over-balance the rest of the show.However, the rest of the characterisations and acting are fine. Spock is the most interesting and most well-developed character and Leonard Nimoy is unforgettable as the character. DeForest Kelley and James Doohan are lots of fun and Walter Koenig is similarly memorable, same with George Takei.Music is full of energy and atmosphere. Even better is the writing, which is funny, intelligent and rich in humanity and the imaginative and influential story-lines that were full of suspense, intrigue and influential fun. The characters are interesting and their interaction is one of the high points of the show.In conclusion, hugely impressive and ground-breaking them, even though the flaws are more noticeable today. 9/10 Bethany Cox

thomfing Being the kid who always ran home from the bus stop was this guy. I had to run because Star Trek started about 10 mins before I would arrive. This battle went on for months...In fact I missed many of the beginnings and would not see them until decades later when all the reruns became possible. This show had everything a boy of 7 could want. The big screen TV. The large comfortable chair that everyone would come to visit you at. Phasers and simple outfits that you could wear day after day---And the eye candy for the captain was in nearly every episode. Thanks to the interaction between Kirk, McCoy, and Spock the "joker" in me was born. There humor was often the best ending of many shows. Those were good days watching this series---nothing like it has ever come my way in over 5 decades of faithful TV viewing. I hope everyone comes across a series like this at least once in their lifetimes....Good viewing folks!

Maddyclassicfilms Star Trek was created by Gene Roddenberry and stars William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Grace Lee Whitney and Majel Barrett.The series is set in the 23rd century and tells the story of the crew of the USS Enterprise NCC 1701,commanded by the fearless Captain James T. Kirk(William Shatner). Their mission is to explore the regions of space that humans have never before explored. Kirk's crew includes, Commander Spock(Leonard Nimoy)the half Vulcan and half human first officer,Chief medical officer Dr.Leonard "Bones" McCoy(DeForrest Kelley), a southerner with a big heart who is easily annoyed and is always arguing with Spock. The bickering between Spock and McCoy about Spock not being human and the doctors high emotions are always fun to watch, there are also many scenes where you can see how much Spock and McCoy care about each other despite their differences. Also starring James Doohan as Mr Scott the ships engineer who always has to get them out of some major problem with just a few seconds to spare, Nichelle Nichols as the tough and focused Communications Chief Lt Uhura, George Takei as Helmsman Lieutenant Sulu, Walter Koenig as Navigator Chekov, Majel Barrett as Nurse Christine Chapel and Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Janice Rand who has the wildest hairstyle in Trek history.I love all the Star Trek series, my favourites are this one and Deep Space Nine.Although some of the effects in this one are dated, the stories are still relevant and effective and that's what makes this series so special. Roddenberry's vision of a future where race and gender were irrelevant and war between humanity was a thing of the past is a present and future I long for. Plus the friendship between Kirk, Spock and McCoy is as interesting today as it was in the 60's.I think that Kirk, Spock and McCoy represent the things that make a human. Kirk is the physical, the man of action, passionate and fearless, Spock is the brain, the intellect and calm under pressure, McCoy is emotion, the heart and soul.It's also interesting to imagine the series we would have had if Jeffrey Hunter had remained as the Captain from the first pilot. I suspect the series would have been much darker than the Shatner series. It would also have been interesting to see a woman as the ships first officer(in the pilot she is played by Majel Barrett).A good series that paved the way for as of this date several films including two reboots and four other TV series.

TxMike I recently came across this old 1960s Star Trek series on Netflix streaming movies. I did what any reasonable person would do, I watched the "pilot" first, a 63-minute episode. I enjoyed it, it brought back good memories of a time long ago.But afterwards I found out a strange fact, this pilot, with a 1964 copyright, had never actually been aired. And that might also explain why it had no captain Kirk, instead it has a captain Pike played by Jeffrey Hunter. But it had other major characters, like Spock.I found out later, Jeffrey Hunter decided to drop out of possible future Star Trek work and that is why captain Pike was replaced by captain Kirk when the series actually began. Who knows, William Shatner might never have become so famous if Hunter had stuck with the series.The pilot is interesting, the crew of the Enterprise get a signal that a strange planet, with 0.9 the gravity of Earth, plus an atmosphere with oxygen and nitrogen, has signs of survivors of an old spaceship crash. So they decide to be beamed down for a rescue mission. What they find are an alien race with small, weak bodies and very large, bald heads and the ability of mind control. There had been only one survivor of that crash, a woman, and they were trying to find a male to mate with her and continue that race. Then most of that unaired pilot was incorporated into episodes 12 and 13 of the first season, with a new Captain Pike story.Over 50 years ago the special effects were nothing like what has been developed since then, and the sets looked like sets built on a sound stage, and not very authentic. But none of that matters, it was a groundbreaking TV series at a time when the viewing audience were hungry for space-exploration stories. I now need to watch a few of the regular episodes that were actually aired and with captain Kirk.