Paramount’s answer to “Star Wars” is this bloated slog of a movie, one that addresses some truly interesting philosophical themes in ways that the best episodes of the series did.
Robert Wise’s serviceable direction indulges too much in the special effects — the opening fly-by with the new Enterprise goes on so long it feels like starship porn. But the core Kirk-Spock-McCoy relationship is always engaging, especially when confronting space cloud V’ger and its search for the Creator.
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