Live long and prosper! GREAT! movies has got your cosy September Sundays sorted with two classic Star Trek films every weekend throughout the month.
Trekkie’s and sci-fi fans can tune in and explore the galaxy with Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and many more every Sunday on GREAT! movies!
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Saturday 3rd September – 2.25pm
While a vessel from the United Federation of Planets is set to try out the planet-creating Genesis Device in a seemingly deserted portion of space, Admiral James Kirk (William Shatner) and Captain Spock (Leonard Nimoy) monitor trainees at Starfleet Academy. In the process of testing the Genesis Decice, two of Kirk’s officers are captured by an enemy, forcing Kirk to take the Enterprise’s helm and meet the enemy Khan’s ship in an intergalactic showdown.
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
Saturday 3rd September – 4.45pm
Although Kirk has defeated his archenemy, his friend Spock has apparently been killed, the USS Enterprise is being scrapped, and starship physician Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy has taken ill. As McCoy starts to act increasingly strangely, Kirk believes he is harbouring Spock’s katra, or animating spirit, and seeks to take the Enterprise back to the Genesis Planet to find his friend. However, Kirk’s drastic actions could result in a deadly war with the Klingons.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Saturday 10th September – 2.20pm
A ragtag former crew of the USS Enterprise living in exile on the planet Vulcan steal a starship after receiving a planetary distress call from Earth. A space probe is orbiting around the Earth, disabling power on the planet and evaporating the oceans. Kirk, Spock and the other officers must travel back in time to retrieve the now-extinct humpback whale, who may be able to communicate with the probe and send it away.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Saturday 10th September – 4.40pm
A renegade Vulcan captures the Federation, Klingon, and Romulan ambassadors on Nimbus III, and Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the new Starship Enterprise are pressed back into service to come to the rescue. But as the Vulcan has a prior association with Spock, it allows him to seize control of the Enterprise and put it on course for the centre of the galaxy where he and his followers believe they will find the place from which creation sprung.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Saturday 17th September – 2.10pm
The crew of the USS Enterprise are carrying Klingon Chancellor Gorkon to Earth to negotiate a peace treaty with the United Federation of Planets when the ship appears to fire on a Klingon vessel, and Gorkon is killed in the subsequent confusion. Kirk and McCoy are arrested for murder, leaving Spock to discover the culprit and save the negotiations.
Star Trek Generations
Saturday 17th September – 4.40pm
In the 23rd century, the Starship Enterprise is dispatched to a giant energy field which is about to engulf two ships. Kirk manages to avoid crisis, but in doing so is exposed to the field and presumed dead. Years later, the Enterprise’s new commander Picard (Patrick Stewart), learns that one of the disaster’s survivors, Dr. Soran (Malcolm McDowell), plans to enter the field by destroying a neighbouring star. Picard must work with an unlikely ally in order to stop him.
Star Trek VI: First Contact
Saturday 24th September – 3pm
To prevent a Borg ship from taking over Earth in a past era, the Enterprise and its crew follow it through a time warp. Stuck in the past, Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) helps a pioneer of space travel (James Cromwell) in his efforts to create the first warp drive while Picard and Cmdr. Data (Brent Spiner) battle the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) as she tries to take over the Enterprise.
Star Trek VI: Insurrection
Saturday 24th September – 5:10pm
Malfunctioning android, Data, takes a cultural task force hostage on a Federation mission to the planet Ba’ku. When Picard and his crew investigate, they uncover the truth about the Federation mission – it was actually a systematic ploy by the Son’a to displace the peaceful inhabitants of Ba’ku. Now Picard and his crew must thwart the plot even while experiencing strange side effects from exposure to the planet’s surface!
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