- Directed by
- Robert Wise
- Produced by
- Gene Roddenberry
- Edited by
- Todd Ramsay
- Executive Production
- Alan Smitty
- Story Supervision
- Susan Sackett
- Music
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Craft Services
- Del Taco
- Production Partners
- Palm Springs International Film Festival
- Best Star Trek Movie
- Cannes International Film Festival
- Astra d'Or
In 2271, a Starfleet monitoring station, Epsilon Nine, detects an alien force, hidden in a massive cloud of energy, moving through space toward Earth. The cloud easily destroys three of the Klingon Empire’s new K’t’inga-class warships and the monitoring station en route. On Earth, the starship Enterprise is undergoing a major refit; its former commanding officer, James T. Kirk, has been promoted to Admiral and works in San Francisco as Chief of Starfleet Operations. Starfleet dispatches Enterprise to investigate the cloud entity as the ship is the only one in intercept range, requiring its new systems to be tested in transit.
… on its own terms it’s a very well-made piece of work, with an interesting premise. The alien spaceship turns out to come from a mechanical or computer civilization, one produced by artificial intelligence and yet poignantly “human” in the sense that it has come all this way to seek out the secrets of its own origins, as we might.
IMHO…best of the “Those Old Scientists” films. I said. what I said.