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Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship, Enterprise, its…oh…50-or-so-year mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new opportunities to make movies and TV shows, to boldly go to the couch and movie marathon like no one has before!

Ok. A little hokey I guess. But a Star Trek movie marathon? Beam me up! Of course, I say this since I’m mostly thinking of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. I might be forgetting little details like, oh, say Star Trek V: The Final Frontier or Star Trek: Generations.

Regardless, Star Trek has massive staying power, and its only being revitalized further by the rebooted movie series. You can catch up on almost all of them in a mere 24 hours. Only the latest release, Star Trek: Beyond, doesn’t quite fit in. May you watch long and prosper!

Star Trek Movie Marathon Movies

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

My take: Take Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey and put them in a blender, and what do you get? A lot of looking out the window at spacey stuff. Also features a hot bald chick.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

My take: Captain Kirk expresses his disapproval of Kahn. Brain-eating worms also make an appearance.

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

My take: This movie bucks standard utilitarian ethics theory and claims that “The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many”. This is why this movie is shown in so many basic college ethics courses.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

My take: The crew of Star Trek goes back to the 80s! Look at all the wackiness! Why, there’s an annoying guy with a boom box! That Spock doesn’t take any crap! Har! Kill me.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

My take: The movie provides the definitive answer to the age-old question: “What does God need with a Starship?”

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

My take: Klingons recite Shakespeare. Sadly, Star Trek VII, in which the Romulans do ballet, was never made.

Star Trek: Generations

My take: Captain Kirk and Captain Picard meet briefly thanks to some time ribbon or something. It almost had a point.

Star Trek: First Contact

My take: The Borg assimilate earth by going back in time and messing with history. Only the crew of the Enterprise can stop it. Unless they tried the Borg did the same thing again a little later. Ah well.

Star Trek: Insurrection

My take: Mean guys with bad skin complexion cause trouble on a paradise planet. It’s like “Revenge of the Nerds”, but the nerds are evil and it isn’t high school.

Star Trek: Nemesis

My take: Captain Picard’s nemesis is revealed, and its himself: NEGA-PICARD. Or maybe I’m thinking of “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”.

Star Trek

My take: Kirk and crew punch and karate chop their way to victory! Except for the planet Vulcan being destroyed. That was a bad day.

Star Trek: Into Darkness

My take: Captain Kirk follows no regulations and nearly gets his crew killed a dozen times. Thankfully Starfleet is attacked and most of the captains are killed. Job security!

Star Trek Movie Marathon Schedule