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Edgewise #8 As I'm writing this, THE PHANTOM MENACE is still over a week away and that means just one thing. Yes, it's back to my seemingly endless overview of Star Trek. I've previously reviewed STAR TREK, the original series (thumb's up) and STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (thumb dislocated). Let's whip through as many movies as we can this week, shall we? STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN This is probably the best of the movies, although I'll accept arguments for IV. The cast is all in fine form, everybody's got at least one good bit and Ricardo Montalban's Khan is the single best villain in the entire series. Let's face it, Mr. Roarke's got it all. He's got the accent, he's got the pecs, he's got the worm that crawls in your ear and later crawls out for no adequately explained reason unless, like Paul Winfield, you shoot yourself with a phaser first (And how cool was that?). Also, everybody gets jackets and Mr. Spock dies for a while. Rent it and watch it again. It's still good. STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK It's an odd-numbered one. Nothing more need be said but why let that stop me? They find him. Big surprise. What we're they going to do, give us all our money back afterwards? Maybe they should have anyway. STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME They have to go back in time to get a whale. Unlike the previous entry, this one's funny on purpose. I laughed a lot but I still wonder what the whale said to the pissed-off cosmic thingy that came to Earth looking for its buds, the whales. "Don't worry about it, big guy, the humans hunted us to extinction. Go home." STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER This is the worst movie I've ever seen that didn't have Jeff Conaway in it. On the other hand, at the premiere, big-time movie star Halle Barry mistook me for Michael Dorn (the actor who plays "Worf"). Like I was going to correct her. On second thought, it was a fine film. STAR TREK IV: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY This should have been the last time we saw the original cast. A very strong entry, entertaining and thematically sound, it was both textually and metatextually a fitting send-off for our old friends. So of course they had to go to the well just one more time… But my review of STAR TREK: GENERATIONS, and my fan boy scheme to ret-con it out of existence, will have to wait for a couple of weeks. Next time, I'll talk about STAR WARS, if I can get a ticket. Two weeks hence, we're back in the saddle with a quick pass at the rest of the STAR TREK movies and a look at STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION.
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