These Are the Best (and Worst) Star Trek Movies, Ranked
The voyages of the starship Enterprise have enjoyed a long life on the big screen through decades of marauding aliens, environmental crises, and temporal anomalies. Although the crew has achieved its mission of boldly going where no one has gone before, the various films have had spottier levels of success, at least with critics.
Now that Star Trek Beyond has arrived in theaters, take a look at how the new film compares with those that came before it, with rankings courtesy of our unique Metascore rating system.
Suspension of disbelief is necessary for sci-fi flicks. But must moviegoers be insulted with Picard having a metaphorical evil twin, since, apparently, he was once cloned? But wait, there’s more! It seems now Data has a twin, too: an earlier model of himself named—brace yourself—B-4.
“An offering so endearingly lame it seems to have missed the past 10 years' worth of special-effects breakthroughs.” —Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post