Every Star Trek Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

With Voyager and Deep Space Nine well finished and Enterprise mostly classed as an unfortunate failure, Star Trek needed something big to reinvent it. That came in the shape of JJ Abrams, who was about to prove to Disney that he was also the right man to bring Star Wars back to the big screen.

The film is a nostalgic affair, rebooting with a clever time travel device that allows Abrams timeline - retrospectively named the Kelvin Timeline of course - to co-exist with the Shatner thread. It proved simultaneously different enough and recognisable enough to relaunch the franchise and rekindle old affections.

Obviously, there are some teething issues - like Chris Pine's Kirk not quite fitting expectations - but the film grossed considerably more than the rest of the franchise and it proved popular with critics despite the revisionist agenda. Restoring hope for the future is nothing to be sniffed at either, even if Into Darkness dropped the ball a little.