I think Wise's
TMP is easily best of
Trek films...
The director's cut is great, and that DVD has one of best commentary tracks I've heard.
The new
ST film is 2 hours of mindless fun... but Abrams directs in a TV-style, so (for me) it's terrible sci-fi cinema, and - as I wrote in my column for
Interzone #226 (with this issue the mag returns to full-colour printing!) - it's the first truly 'disposable'
Trek film.
I still think my idea for a series of 'standalone' TV-movies, each with a different all-new cast and different starships, would have been the best way to revive a 'dead'
Trek franchise.
