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Star Trek: The Search for
Spock (1984)
By Tom Hudspeth
This is the second movie in a trilogy.
Wrath of Khan and The Voyage Home are the other
two movies.
Spock
is dead.
Kirk is over his midlife crisis, but mourns the loss
of his friend.
McCoy has gone loony.
After the Enterprise returns to earth, Scotty is reassigned to the U.S.S. Excelsior, the
grand experiment that will make warp drive obsolete.
Scotty
protests, but the Enterprise
is to be decommissioned and scraped.
McCoy is send to the funny farm and everyone
else waits to be reassigned.
Meanwhile, the Klingons have found out about Genesis.
Klingon Captain
Kruge decides it is a
weapon and the Klingons must have it to maintain the balance of power with
the Federation.
Back at Genesis,
Captain
Esteban
and the crew of the science vessel
U.S.S.
Grissom
investigate the planet.
On board are David
Marcus
(Kirk’s son) and Lt.
Saavik.
They marvel at the diversity on the planet, but
also find Spock’s burial tube.
There are signs of animal life where none
should exist!
David
and Saavik beam down to investigate.
On Earth, Sarek (Spock’s father) shows up at
Kirk’s apartment.
He asks to mind meld with Kirk, but fails to
find Spock’s Katra.
The
Vulcan
Katra is the
“Mind/Soul” of a Vulcan.
If possible it is saved and sent to Mt.
Selaya
on Vulcan to be stored with all the
Vulcan
ancestors.
Since Kirk doesn’t have it, Sarek feels it is
lost, but Kirk reasons that if it were so important, Spock would have found a way.
Record tapes of Spock’s
death reveal that McCoy has the Katra, which explains why he’s suddenly gone
nuts.
Here is a loop hole in the story I have never understood.
Obviously, Kirk needs to take McCoy to
Mt.
Selaya
to have the Katra removed.
That way Spock
will be at rest and McCoy will return to normal.
Instead, Kirk goes looking for
Spock’s body on planet Genesis.
As far as anyone knows, Spock’s
body burned up in the atmosphere.
I never get this part.
While their journey back to Earth, the Genesis planet has become an
intergalactic hot potato.
Kirk is deigned permission to return, so, in
classic Kirk style, he plans to go anyway.
McCoy has tried to hire a ship to return to
Genesis alone, but was caught and put in jail.
Kirk and Sulu break McCoy out of jail, and in
one of Nichelle
Nichols’ (Uhura) best
performances, beams to the
Enterprise.
There they find Scotty
and Chekov have automated the ship so a
chimpanzee and two trainees can run it.
Kirk tries not to be offended.
They then steal the Enterprise from Spacedock.
The U.S.S. Excelsior tries to follow, but
instead of using the warp drive, the Captain decides to use the transwarp
drive.
But Scotty sabotaged the transwarp drive and the Excelsior
stops, dead in space.
Back on Genesis, David
and Saavik find a Vulcan child.
Could it somehow be a regenerated Spock?
Capt. Esteban tries to contact Starfleet before
beaming it back aboard, but their transmissions are being jammed by a
Klingon Bird-of-Prey that suddenly decloaks and destroys poor U.S.S.
Grissom.
The Klingons hear Saavik on the communicator and start
to hunt her and David.
In a heartfelt conversation while resting, with
Klingon warriors hot on their trail and no chance to escape, Saavik demands
the truth about Genesis.
David
reveals he used proto-matter in the make up of the Genesis device.
It
was the only way to answer some of the equations even though proto-matter is
an unstable substance which every ethical scientist in the galaxy has
denounced as dangerously unpredictable.
Just like his father, he tried to cheat.
Now the planet is rapidly aging.
More chase scenes on Genesis, until night falls
and the planet ages again.
Spock’s body is also
aging and has reached the age of Pon-far.
Saavik must do something or the
Vulcan mating drive will kill young
Spock.
Meanwhile, the Enterprise reaches Genesis.
The Klingon ship is cloaked and there is no
answer from
U.S.S.
Grissom.
David,
Saavik and Spock are captured by the Klingons
finally.
Kruge beams up to the Bird-of-Prey and Kirk and him
have a space battle.
Both ships crippled and defensless, they deal.
The Klingons kill David to show they are serious.
Kirk surrenders.
The Klingons beam over to the Enterprise to take
control, but Kirk and crew have beamed down to the planet after setting the
ship’s self destruct.
The Klingons arrive on the bridge just in time
to hear the last few seconds and Enterprise blows up.
On the planet, Kirk and crew watch the fiery
death of their beloved ship (and the Klingons, hehe).
Genesis is aging rapidly.
It is in its death throws.
Kirk saves Saavik and Spock.
Kruge beams down to confront Kirk.
Kruge beams everyone up but Kirk and Spock.
Kirk and Kruge fight in one of Shatner’s best
fighting scenes.
Kirk wins (of course) and he watches the last
sunrise on the doomed Genesis planet as it begins to break up and burn
around him.
Faking Kruge’s voice, Kirk beams up to the
Klingon ship where he saves everyone from the last Klingon (John
Tesh).
Scotty,
Chekov and Sulu figure out the ship’s controls and
they make best speed for Vulcan.
Upon arrival, they are allowed to land the Klingon Bird-of-Prey and are
joined by Uhura.
They carry Spock’s
body up the steps of Mt.
Selaya
where they attempt an ancient ritual only remembered in myth to rejoin Spock’s Katra to his body.
There is danger to McCoy, but he volunteers
anyway. A long night passes and Spock is
returned.
He is distant, but remembers everyone.
The end.
Synopsis 2
Star Trek: The Search For Spock (1984)
By Steve Woods
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