Film

Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979

Directed by Robert Wise

  • Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery
  • 131 min
  • G

The human adventure is just beginning.

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

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