All 13 Star Trek Movies Return With New Free Streaming Release - Comic Book Resources
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The Star Trek movies are back and streaming for free from a new home. All 13 Star Trek movies are now streaming for free on Pluto TV.
This includes six Star Trek movies starring the Star Trek: The Original Series cast, the four led by the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast, and the three Star Trek reboot movies set in a parallel timeline.
The six films starring the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series include 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which revived the franchise, despite being a box-office failure and critically divisive, 10 years after The Original Series ended, and turned Star Trek into a franchise that has now lasted for 60 years.
While The Motion Picture brought Star Trek to theaters for the first time, the series would find more mainstream success with its sequels.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan had a much smaller budget, and Paramount enlisted director Nicholas Meyer, who focused more on character drama and tense space battles. Meyer set the tone for the movies that followed, with Leonard Nimoy directing Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home to form the "Genesis Trilogy" of Star Trek movies.
William Shatner directed Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, in which the Enterprise crew met "God" himself. Meyer returned to direct Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, which brought the Cold War between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire to an end.
The movie that followed Star Trek VI has recently acquired a newfound poignancy. Star Trek: Generations is a passing of the torch from The Original Series crew to The Next Generation crew, as the latter takes over the Star Trek movies. The movie includes Walter Koenig's final official performance as Chekov, and Patrick Stewart delivering a powerful message about the nature of time.
With the recent passings of both Star Trek icons, Star Trek: Generations carries some added emotional weight.
After Star Trek: Generations, the Star Trek: The Next Generation crew returned for three additional movies: Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Nemesis. They'd reunite on screen once more in the final seasons of Star Trek: Picard.
Pluto also now has all three Star Trek "reboot" movies: Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek Beyond. Though billed as a franchise reboot, it's not a clean break from previous canon, as the movies acknowledge and tie into events of the original Star Trek timeline.
This trilogy is set in an alternate timeline created when a Romulan ship from the post-Star Trek: The Next Generation era arrives after traveling backwards through time. The Narada arrives on the day James T. Kirk is born and destroys the ship Kirk's father, George Kirk, is serving aboard. That ship, the USS Kelvin, gives the splinter timeline its name, Star Trek's "Kelvin Timeline."
Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness also each feature Leonard Nimoy reprising his role as Spock, who also traveled back through time. Nimoy even shares scenes with the younger "reboot" Spock, played by Zachary Quinto. After Nimoy died in 2015, Star Trek Beyond acknowledged that death by having Quinto's Spock learn of the elder Spock's passing.
All 13 of these Star Trek movies are streaming now on PlutoTV.
Originally published by Google News TV
