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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/Wonder-Lad-2Mad on 2025-05-27 23:52:12+00:00.

I’m still going through the Star Trek movies, now I’ve finished the third one. Everbody told me this one isn’t that good, you guys lied. This one was good too. But honestly the highlight for me was Commander Kruge played by Christopher Lloyd. He’s playing a crazy, bloodthirsty Klingon commander. And he’s playing it so fucking large and terrifying that it makes me wonder how the Federation ends up having a treaty with Klingons in later Star Treks, cause these guys hate eachother.

I think people know Lloyd can play a scary villain because of his Performance as Judge Doom in Roger Rabbit. But I felt way more evil radiating from Kruge as the megalomaniac commander.

Enough gushing about Lloyd, I thought this movie was adorable. They really spend a long time mourning the loss of Spock, the initial intro monoluge by Kirk about the Enterprise feeling like an empty home where the children have moved on was so sweet I kinda love how the first 30 minutes are just spent adjusting to that grief.

And the ending is also quite emotional. I wish I had a best friend like Spock. Fucking friendship goals.

Just a side observation but Spock’s dad, Sarek reminds me of a Minecraft villager for some reason.

The only downside to this movie would be sequences with David and Savvik on Genesis if I had to point out a flaw. It just didn’t really feel that emotionally connected to the rest of the story. It just felt like they had to resolve the revelation from the prior movie that Kirk had a secret son.

P.s.: I’m watching the Space Seed episode of the TOS since you guys recommended it so hard.