Every Star Trek Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

9. Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Star Trek: The Motion Picture experienced a long and fraught journey to the big-screen, one that culminated in a finished product that wasn't what its director - Robert Wise - had conceived.

Visually speaking, there's a lot in The Motion Picture that sets it apart from the original TV series. The uniforms are gone, replaced by a very seventies-looking set of garbs, and the alien threat - an entity called V'Ger - looks fantastic. It was the first time Roddenberry got to see his franchise depicted on such an impressive scale, and that lends The Motion Picture a unique kind of salience, even if it didn't make for a particularly engaging Star Trek film.

This was, in part, because its plot was taken from Paramount's scrapped Star Trek II TV pilot. The story itself just couldn't sustain a full feature-length film, and while again, the film's visual aspects manage to appeal in a great many respects, The Motion Picture remains the franchise's dullest - albeit its most significant - cinematic entry.