Here Captain Kirk and his original enterprise crew reunite to investigate a huge strange energy cloud that is making its way towards earth.
It's a rather simple story but it's soaked in intrigue and kept me engaged throughout it's over 2 hour runtime as the mystery of the cloud and whatever lurks inside it are slowly unravelled.
It's almost devoid of any action which I've seen pop-up as a criticism but I really never found it a problem since I found the story compelling enough and helped by the fact that it's well acted by everyone.
There's also some great visual stuff on the go especially when they finally reveal what is hiding in the cloud with some solid set design and effects on the go, Yeah quite a bit of it look dated but it all still retains a certain charm to them and has some really cool bits.
I will admit that they do seem to stretch out a couple of these effects sequences longer than they maybe should have but i never found it much of hindrance.
But that's because it;s all accompanied by Jerry Goldsmiths fantastic score, the exact kind of majestic film score that helps keep you hooked and it's very clear to see why he ended up scoring a load of other Star trek stuff with even a slight variation of main theme from this film being used as the main them for the Next Generation series.
Overall the plot may be too thin and basic for a lot of people to enjoy but I still found it be very well executed and enjoyable making for a really solid bit of sci-fi. ***1/2
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