Star Trek III-Your Opinions

[Anji]

I saw the film on opening night. Three scenes made the audience groan: McCoy in the bar, the reappearance of David and Kirk blowing up the Enterprise.

After the Enterprise blew up, half the audience left the theater. Enough said??

 

[KirkSpockTOSFan]

I really like the film, its one of my favorites besides STXI and Voyage Home. I think this movie is very touching just like the ending of TWOK was. I say that because Kirk does everything he can to save his two best friends. Spock was dead in body and McCoy alive but has Spock's Katra and is going crazy. And Kirk went back to get Spock, and take him along with McCoy to Vulcan so they could be saved. What Kirk did might of not been the smart thing to do, but it was the right thing to do. I mean what would you do if someone you care for or loved in was in pain or needed help, would you just leave them to sufer, or would try to do something to help them? Kirk felt it was more to important for "The needs of the one outweight the needs of the many". To me helping the ones you care about is more important than anything else. This movie really shows what true freinship is all about, and it goes the same for family. Its just a great film, and has true meanings to it.

 

[SilentP]

I watched it fairly recently on DVD the whole way through. The 'Theft of the Enterprise' scene was fairly entertaining, and I enjoyed Kruge for the hammy Klingon he was, but there just seemed to be something missing about the film. What that was I don't know.

I'm fairly nuetral about it. Wasn't a terrible film, but could have done better.

 

[Jean-Luc]

It was the first Trek film that I liked. (No, I'm not a fan of WOK) This film is good because it has the Klingons, a trip to the geneis planet (The first two were too confined on the enterprise) and some good lines. 'You Klingon bastards! I've had enough of you!" Kirk in the leather jacket. Loses points because it's really a long epilogue to WOK.

 

[TeutonicNights]

7/10

 

[DWF]

I really enjoyed the movie until they got to Vulcan then the story slowed to a dead stop. I understand and agree with the need for Spock to recover on Vulcan, but it brought the story to a halt.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Has anyone thought what if this occurred (and I know it probably wouldn't have, since Spock's return was due to deal-making behind the scenes, but): What if you had Kirk go through everything he did...i.e. lose his son, steal the ENT, only to still lose Spock at the very end?

I know we wouldn't have got the light-hearted Star Trek IV....

 

[ChristopherPike]

I love the crew gone rogue plot of the film, something that Insurrection ran with but for less personal reasons and to less emotional effect. Had that TNG film been about the crew risking their careers to save Data, instead of some fountain of youth planet, that would've had more punch. At the risk of being accused of ripping off TSFS I'd imagine.

But I've drifted off topic... I like III more than IV. It has that sense of Kirk really going off the deep end, while appearing to take everything lightly as he often did in the series and by the end, really paying a price for that. It shows a reckless Captain, without his best friend there acting as the voice of reason. It speaks to me and just about anyone who's ever finally been unable to cope with a sudden change and jacked their job in. The jeopardy is there and it's not the usual save the universe again plot. Star Trek doesn't get any better than when you're invested in seeing these characters win through, and finally reunite during the closing minutes. Even then the ending is dark because they're basically reduced to being fugitives on the run and strictly no longer Starfleet types. Prepared to accept less, so they can stay together. It's a story that only works because they've grown old together and that's probably the closest thing in each of their lives, to actually being a family.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

I love the crew gone rogue plot of the film, something that Insurrection ran with but for less personal reasons and to less emotional effect. Had that TNG film been about the crew risking their careers to save Data, instead of some fountain of youth planet, that would've had more punch. At the risk of being accused of ripping off TSFS I'd imagine.

But I've drifted off topic... I like III more than IV. It has that sense of Kirk really going off the deep end, while appearing to take everything lightly as he often did in the series and by the end, really paying a price for that. It shows a reckless Captain, without his best friend there acting as the voice of reason. It speaks to me and just about anyone who's ever finally been unable to cope with a sudden change and jacked their job in. The jeopardy is there and it's not the usual save the universe again plot. Star Trek doesn't get any better than when you're invested in seeing these characters win through, and finally reunite during the closing minutes. Even then the ending is dark because they're basically reduced to being fugitives on the run and strictly no longer Starfleet types. Prepared to accept less, so they can stay together. It's a story that only works because they've grown old together and that's probably the closest thing in each of their lives, to actually being a family.

Even while watching the film at 8(!) years old and a few times after that, I found an unshaven, worn out Kirk with his crew at his side a cool thing....

That James Horner music did a good job in evoking the feelings of sorrow, pain, battles of trying to retrieve a friend/battles of the soul, etc....