The Missing Vulcan Trilogy: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) 4K Restoration
- Today, Sep 7
Director: Leonard Nimoy Run Time: 105 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1984
Starring: DeForest Kelley, George Takei, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, William Shatner
Country: United States
Language: English, Klingon, Russian, French
About the film:
Admiral Kirk’s defeat of Khan and the creation of the Genesis planet are empty victories. Spock is dead and McCoy is inexplicably being driven insane. Then, a surprise visit from Sarek, Spock’s father, provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock’s living essence. With one friend alive and one not, but both in pain, Kirk attempts to help his friends by stealing the U.S.S. Enterprise and defying Starfleet’s Genesis planet quarantine; but the Klingons have also learned of Genesis and race to meet Kirk in a deadly rendezvous.
“written and performed with muscular vigour and attack”
—Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
About the filmmaker:
Leonard Nimoy was an American actor, director, poet, musician, and photographer who was most well known for his portrayal of the stoic, cerebral Spock in Star Trek. Nimoy was the son of Jewish immigrants from what is now Ukraine. He grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, where he spent his youth acting in community theatre productions before moving to California to study acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. Some of his earliest roles included appearances in Queen for a Day (1951) and a starring role in Kid Monk Baroni (1952). After briefly serving in the military, Nimoy returned to California and secured various small roles on television programs. One of these programs was a Gene Roddenbery-produced series called The Lieutenant (1964)—while producing this show, Roddenberry was also developing a brand new sci-fi show for which he thought Nimoy would be perfect: Star Trek.
After appearing in the Star Trek television series until its conclusion (1966-1969), Nimoy appeared in the Mission Impossible TV series as well as a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). In 1979, Nimoy returned to the screen as Spock for Star Trek: The Motion Picture as well as its subsequent sequels, of which he directed two. Nimoy directed a handful of other films in his career, including the commercially successful Three Men and a Baby (1987), and he also ventured into voice acting with his role as Galvatron in Transformers: The Movie (1986).
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