4.0 out of 5 based on 5 reviews. – Customer review on 17/08/2009

Like the invading behaviour of the winged insect the wasp, The Borg show their mechanical infestation on board Star Trek with such speed and fierceness. Borg intelligence is more superior and advanced than Skynet in Terminator Salvation because of their human and machine evolutionary survival over several millennia. The movie might not be longer than two hours but watching it again does make the action scenes seem longer than two hours.

5.0 out of 5 based on 5 reviews. – Customer review on 23/05/2007

One of the best-liked and well-reviewed Star Trek films, this eight entry in the series was wisely designed to be stand-alone, viewers could come without knowing enormous amounts of back-story and tkae almost equal enjoyment from it. The DVD release has bene well done and the key features are some scene deconstructions and two commentaries, one from the Director (Frakes) on his own which is reassuringly friendly and another featuring Berman and Braga the executive producers/writers and they are refreshingly frank about this move (that they still adore) and the series as a whole, saying at one point that they imagine the needone day to rest the series and then reinvent it whih ties in rather well with present day evetns where JJ Abrams is now prducing a re-imagined STAR TREK film after several year's of it being rested. A very strong film in it's own right and a DVD package with enough extras to make you quite satsified at spending the modest amount required to buy and keep this one forever.

5.0 out of 5 based on 5 reviews. – Customer review on 26/02/2007

This is definitely the best of the next generation star trek movies and pushes star trek 2 the wrath of kahn for the best star trek movie ever. No surprisingly this is due to the introduction of the best baddies from the TV series the Borg. Probably more of an action movie than a true star trek movie it manages to entertain regardless.

3.0 out of 5 based on 5 reviews. – Customer review on 03/12/2006

When the Borg launch an attack on Earth, the Enterprise is sent to the neutral zone due to the Admiralty's mistrust of Picard's abilities as he had been assimilated in the past. The Enterprise however, disobeys and returns to help destroy the Borg ship. However a smaller ship escapes and travels back in time, causing the assimilation of Earth in the future. The Enterprise follow the ship back in time and have to undo the damage the ship did on the surface to an experimental warp drive unit that will led Earth to it's first contact with alien life. Meanwhile, on the Enterprise, survivors of the Borg ship begin to assimilate decks within the ship itself.

The trend of the `even good, odd bad' continues in Star Trek with this good entry in the series. Linking to previous story lines, the film starts immediately and continues at a good pace. Where the previous time travel excursion for the crew was more funny than anything else, this film goes down a more dramatic route with the main plot not turning out to be on the ground (as I first thought it would be) but on the ship where the crew struggle to contain the Borg's advances. This aspect works well - it is not edge of the seat stuff, but it is dramatic and involving.

In contrast the stuff on the surface is more a side issue that is used well to contrast with the pace on the Enterprise itself. There aren't many laughs but it does have a nice little bit of self mocking humour that raises it's head occasionally. The cast (crew?) all do good work, but it is Stewart's film and his Borg past help to enrich his character well. Frakes does an able enough job as director but as an actor he has little to do, as indeed do most of those on the Earth aside from a cameo from Cromwell who adds humour. Woodard is OK in her role but not as good as I've seen her be in other things.

Overall this is a solid Star Trek film, which although not excelling in any one area, has a strong backbone of drama and action aboard the ship that works well with the lighter stuff on the earth.

4.0 out of 5 based on 5 reviews. – Customer review on 28/11/2006

The Star Trek movies are pretty much just extended episodes and play out exactly like one. The acting and all is the same complete with the sanctimonious attitude which is befitting of the Federation. Still when all is said and done these are good movies and any Trekkie will enjoy them, so I better just keep my mouth shut before I am flamed.