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1. Spaceballs (1987)

PG | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

A star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman

Votes: 207,150 | Gross: $38.12M

2. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

G | 143 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi

When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

Votes: 96,789 | Gross: $82.26M

3. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

PG | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.

Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

Votes: 129,429 | Gross: $78.91M

4. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

Votes: 91,668 | Gross: $109.71M

5. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned U.S.S. Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis Planet to recover Spock's body.

Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

Votes: 86,313 | Gross: $76.47M

6. Oblivion 2: Backlash (1996)

PG-13 | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

On another planet, in the futuristic wild west town called Oblivion, the pacifist sheriff Stone, dandy alien bounty hunter Sweeney, and the lizard-like alien Jaggar are all after Lash, the sexy villainies from the previous movie.

Director: Sam Irvin | Stars: Richard Joseph Paul, Jackie Swanson, Andrew Divoff, Meg Foster

Votes: 712

7. Shimmer Volume 56 (2013 Video)

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Director: Dave Prazak | Stars: Melissa Anderson, Leva Bates, Stephanie Bell, Jasmine Benitez

8. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Menagerie: Part I (1966)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Spock kidnaps the disabled Capt. Pike, hijacks the Enterprise, and then surrenders for court martial.

Directors: Marc Daniels, Robert Butler | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver

Votes: 4,881

9. Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode: Acquisition (2002)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Almost the entire crew is left unconscious when four Ferengi pirates raid Enterprise. A still conscious Trip is the only one who can get rid of them.

Director: James Whitmore Jr. | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating

Votes: 1,932

10. Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode: Carpenter Street (2003)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Archer and T'Pol travel back in time to Detroit in 2004 to stop three Xindi-Reptilians from constructing a bioweapon.

Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating

Votes: 1,747

11. Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode: Hatchery (2004)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Captain Archer orders the crew of Enterprise to save a Xindi-Insectoid hatchery.

Director: Michael Grossman | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating

Votes: 1,569

12. Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode: Kir'Shara (2004)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

While Enterprise travels to Andoria to warn them of the attack, Archer tries to bring the Kir'Shara to the High Command.

Director: David Livingston | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating

Votes: 1,654

13. Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode: Shockwave, Part II (2002)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Captain Archer and temporal agent Daniels have been stranded in the 31st century. In a library they investigate the damage to the time line and try to find way a to get Archer back in his ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating

Votes: 2,344

14. Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode: Singularity (2002)

TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

T'Pol must save the ship after the crew becomes obsessed with trivialities during the approach to a black hole.

Director: Patrick R. Norris | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating

Votes: 1,704

15. Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode: Strange New World (2001)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Archer sends an away team to a habitable, luscious planet for observation. But when a storm occurs, the team begins to experience paranoid delusions.

Director: David Livingston | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating

Votes: 2,049

16. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: A Piece of the Action (1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The crew of the Enterprise struggles to cope with a planet of imitative people who have modeled their society on 1920s gangsters.

Director: James Komack | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Anthony Caruso

Votes: 3,837

17. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: A Taste of Armageddon (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Kirk and Spock must save their ship's crew when they are all declared killed in action in a bizarre computer simulated war where the actual deaths must nevertheless occur.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, David Opatoshu, Gene Lyons

Votes: 4,209

18. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: And the Children Shall Lead (1968)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Enterprise reaches a Federation colony where the adults have all killed themselves but the children play without care.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Craig Huxley

Votes: 3,422

19. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Assignment: Earth (1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

While back in time observing Earth in 1968, the Enterprise crew encounters the mysterious Gary Seven who has his own agenda on the planet.

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Robert Lansing

Votes: 3,718

20. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Bread and Circuses (1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Enterprise crew investigates the disappearance of a ship's crew on a planet that is a modern version of the Roman Empire.

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Smithers

Votes: 3,296

21. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Catspaw (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Very alien visitors to our galaxy attempt to connect with human consciousness but miss, winding up tapping into the regions of human nightmares instead.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Antoinette Bower

Votes: 3,609

22. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Dagger of the Mind (1966)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Kirk and psychiatrist Helen Noel are trapped on a maximum security penal colony that experiments with mind control and Spock must use the Vulcan mind-meld to find a way to save them.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, James Gregory, DeForest Kelley

Votes: 4,367

23. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Day of the Dove (1968)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Both humans and Klingons have been lured to a planet by a formless entity that feeds on hatred and has set about to fashion them into a permanent food supply for itself.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Michael Ansara

Votes: 3,385

24. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Errand of Mercy (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

With a war with Klingons raging, Kirk and Spock attempt to resist an occupation of a planet with incomprehensibly placid natives.

Director: John Newland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, John Abbott, John Colicos

Votes: 4,066

25. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: I, Mudd (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Harry Mudd returns with a plot to take over the Enterprise by stranding the crew on a planet populated by androids under his command.

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Roger C. Carmel

Votes: 3,759

26. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Operation -- Annihilate! (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Enterprise crew attempts to stop a plague of amoeba-like creatures from possessing human hosts and spreading throughout the galaxy.

Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

Votes: 3,703

27. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Patterns of Force (1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Looking for a missing Federation cultural observer, Kirk and Spock find themselves on a planet whose culture has been completely patterned after Nazi Germany.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Richard Evans

Votes: 3,482

28. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Space Seed (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

While on patrol in deep space, Captain Kirk and his crew find and revive a genetically-engineered world conqueror and his compatriots from Earth's Twentieth Century.

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban, Madlyn Rhue

Votes: 5,433

29. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Empath (1968)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Trapped in an alien laboratory, Kirk, Spock and McCoy meet an empath and are involved in a series of experiments.

Director: John Erman | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Kathryn Hays

Votes: 3,184

30. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Enemy Within (1966)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into two halves: one meek and indecisive, the other violent and ill tempered. The remaining crew members stranded on the planet cannot be beamed up to the ship until a problem is fixed.

Director: Leo Penn | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Grace Lee Whitney

Votes: 4,939

31. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Mark of Gideon (1969)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Kirk beams down to the planet Gideon and appears to find himself trapped on a deserted Enterprise. Spock on the real Enterprise must use his diplomatic skills to deal with the uncooperative inhabitants of Gideon and find the Captain.

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Sharon Acker

Votes: 3,030

32. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Naked Time (1966)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The crew is infected with a mysterious disease that removes people's emotional inhibitions to a dangerous degree.

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Stewart Moss, Majel Barrett

Votes: 5,208

33. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Omega Glory (1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Responding to a distress signal, Kirk finds Captain Tracey of the U.S.S. Exeter violating the prime directive and interfering with a war between the Yangs and the Kohms to find the secret of their longevity.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Morgan Woodward

Votes: 3,455

34. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Return of the Archons (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Seeking the answer to a century-old mystery, Kirk and crew encounter a vacantly peaceful society under a 6000-year autocratic rule that kills all those it can't absorb.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Harry Townes, Torin Thatcher

Votes: 3,883

35. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Tholian Web (1968)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

With Capt. Kirk and the derelict USS Defiant apparently lost, the Enterprise grapples with an insanity causing plague and an attack by the Tholians.

Directors: Herb Wallerstein, Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

Votes: 3,444

36. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Ultimate Computer (1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Kirk and a sub-skeleton crew are ordered to test out an advanced artificially intelligent control system - the M-5 Multitronic system, which could potentially render them all redundant.

Director: John Meredyth Lucas | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Marshall

Votes: 3,496

37. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Tomorrow Is Yesterday (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Enterprise is thrown back in time to 1960s Earth.

Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Roger Perry, DeForest Kelley

Votes: 4,323

38. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Turnabout Intruder (1969)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Captain Kirk's insane ex-lover Dr. Janice Lester forcibly switches bodies with him in order to take command of the Enterprise.

Director: Herb Wallerstein | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Sandra Smith

Votes: 3,016

39. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Whom Gods Destroy (1969)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Kirk and Spock are taken prisoners by a former starship captain named Garth, who now resides at, and has taken over, a high security asylum for the criminally insane.

Director: Herb Wallerstein | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Steve Ihnat

Votes: 3,115

40. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Wolf in the Fold (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Kirk and the Enterprise computer become detectives after Scotty is accused of murdering women on a pleasure planet.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, John Fiedler

Votes: 3,377

41. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Conspiracy (1988)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After diverting to a secret meeting with an old friend and some of Starfleet's finest commanders, Picard finds the Horatio blown to bits just hours after the meeting and he returns the Enterprise to Earth looking for answers.

Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby

Votes: 4,325

42. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Unification II (1991)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

On Romulus, Picard finds Spock, as well as an underground peace movement, a double agent, a bold ulterior motive against the Federation, and a familiar adversary.

Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,528

43. Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode: Gravity (1999)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Stuck on a planet within a spacial "sinkhole," Tom pressures Tuvok to take an alien woman who fancies him for his own.

Director: Terry Windell | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill

Votes: 1,882

44. Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode: Repression (2000)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Security officer Tuvok investigates a strange series of attacks on Voyager directed at the former Maquis members.

Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill

Votes: 1,690

45. Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode: Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy (1999)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

An alien race, sizing up Voyager for a raid, taps into The Doctor's cognitive subroutines to make him their spy, unaware they're watching The Doctor's new daydreaming program.

Director: John Bruno | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill

Votes: 2,422

46. Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode: Yesteryear (1973)

TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

After finding himself erased from recent history, Spock must travel back in time to save himself as a youth.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei

Votes: 1,139

47. Star Trek Phase II (2004–2016)
Episode: World Enough and Time (2007)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

During an emergency transport, Sulu returns 30 years older than when he left and with his daughter.

Director: Marc Scott Zicree | Stars: James Cawley, Jeffery Quinn, John M. Kelley, George Takei

Votes: 354

48. Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)
Episode: There Is a Tide... (2020)

TV-MA | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After capturing the U.S.S. Discovery, Osyraa seeks a meeting with Admiral Vance while Burnham and the crew must overcome unimaginable odds as they attempt to regain command of their ship.

Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman

Votes: 3,105

49. Big Time Rush (2009–2013)
Episode: Big Time Guru (2011)

TV-G | 24 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Gustavo gets a spiritual guru to help with his anger issues, however, the guru proves to have ulterior motives when he talks Gustavo into letting him run Rocque Records.

Director: Jonathan Judge | Stars: Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Carlos PenaVega, Logan Henderson

Votes: 132

50. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022– )
Episode: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (2023)

TV-PG | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

La'an travels back in time to 21st-century Earth to prevent an attack which will alter humanity's future history.

Director: Amanda Row | Stars: Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding

Votes: 5,046