The ongoing series of STAR TREK feature films has been an important part of the STAR TREK experience.

STAR TREK: The Motion Picture

Released in 1979. the first motion picture is the story of Kirk, reunited with his original crew, and a refitted U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701, which endeavor to save Earth from the powerful machine life form V'ger, which is systematically destroying everything in its path on its way toward Earth.

STAR TREK II: The Wrath of Khan

Released in 1982, the second motion picture finds Kirk and crew sent on a mission to protect the Genesis Project, an important scientific experiment. Spock is killed when genetic superman Khan Noonian Singh escapes planetary exile and seeks revenge on Admiral Kirk by using the secret Genesis Device.

STAR TREK III: The Search for Spock

In the third film, released in 1984, Kirk and crew jeopardize their careers by stealing the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 in an attempt to rescue Spock's body from the Genesis Planet and reunite it with its katra (or spirit).

STAR TREK IV: The Voyage Home

Released in 1986, the fourth feature tells of Kirk and crew, with only a hijacked Klingon Bird-of-Prey in which to return to Earth; they must eventually time travel to twentieth century Earth to save the future from the catastrophic effects of a mysterious alien probe.

STAR TREK V: The Final Frontier

In the 1989 release of the fifth motion picture, Spock's half-brother hijacks the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-A and its crew to pursue his visions of God, who he believes exists at the center of the galaxy.

STAR TREK VI: The Undiscovered Country

Released in 1991, the sixth film finds Kirk and McCoy wrongly convicted of the assassination of Klingon chancellor Gorkon; they must escape imprisonment in order to find the real killers and stop them from derailing a Klingon-Federation peace initiative.

STAR TREK GENERATIONS

Released in 1994, the seventh motion picture was the first feature to star the cast of the STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION series as well as to bring together the two captains of the U.S.S. Enterprise, James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard; they join forces to stop evil Dr. Soran from destroying an inhabited star system in his quest to reenter the Nexus.

STAR TREK: First Contact

Released on November 22, 1996, the eighth motion picture was the first feature to star only the principal cast of the STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION television series. Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E battle the insidious Borg to restore the rightful future of Earth after the Borg travel back to the twenty-first century and attempt to prevent Zefram Cochrane, inventor of warp drive technology, from making his historic first flight.