When Paramount greenlit a third Star Trek film the day after the second one opened in 1982, there was really only one goal: bring back Spock, whose noble sacrifice at the end of The Wrath of Khan sent ...

Star Trek is an enormous and expanding universe, but if there is one specific thing, one icon that projects the essence of this franchise with the power of a starship at warp, it’s Mr. Spock and his ...

Grossing $76 million in domestic box office, Star Trek III was a solid, though not spectacular, hit for Paramount.(In contrast, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home made $110 million 2 years later.) That may ...

Captain Kirk didn’t think that Mr Spock could steer the ship. More specifically: William Shatner had doubts about Leonard Nimoy directing Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. He wasn’t sure if Nimoy, ...