Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Resources

A trip to The Search for Spock's IMDB page can quickly lead you down a trivia-hole. Apparently Frank Welker voiced Spock's screams (just the screams). In turn, Welker is the voice of Megatron in Transformers, and that character guest starred…

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The Search for Spock's Rotten Tomato score is certified fresh, but has the freshness been preserved for the modern cinematic palette?

There's a theory among Trekkies that the odd-numbered Star Trek films are cursed to be bad while the even-numbered ones are good to great. This site puts that theory to the test with the most trustworthy of statistics: the review aggregate score.

Here's the Goodreads entry for The Search for Spock novelization by Vonda N. McIntrye. We guess it's for students who want to read the book for their movie essay—if those people even exist.

The Original Series started it all. We wouldn't just be out The Search for Spock if not for these seventy-nine episodes of science fiction greatness. We'd be out fifty years of pop culture references and flame wars over whether Star Wars or Star Trek is the superior franchise.

Here you can find Roger Ebert's 1984 review for The Search for Spock. In summary, it's a movie that finds room for the three Fs: fun, philosophizing, and fistfights.

Alex Carter revisits The Search for Spock, and like a high school flame, decides he might not have appreciated it the first time 'round.

For a different take, consider Darren Franich's essay on the film. At one point she writes, "The Search for Spock is not any of those things. It is a monument to egotism, Nimoy's and Shatner's." Need we say more?

Warped Factor provides ten trivia tidbits for The Search for Spock. For those with a serious trivia hankering, they provide similar lists for each Star Trek film and TV series.

Writing for Tor.com, Ryan Britt proposes a new way to catalogue the Star Trek movies under the "good" and "bad." Forget evens and odds, Britt says it's all in the subtitle.

In his review for the film, Ben Rakofsky argues that The Search for Spock doesn't fit the pattern set by the first two films, and he's pretty happy about that.

Matt Maul places The Search for Spock in his personal Star Trek history and argues why he thinks it's the best of the first three films.

The Internet is the greatest force in the history of spoiling things, but professional spoilers were no slouches in the pre-Internet dark ages. Consider the trailer for the Search for Spock, which shows the destruction of the Enterprise without any warning given. How could they?!

Leonard Nimoy shares with us his favorite moments from the original Star Trek TV series. They offered a similar special to William Shatner, but they couldn't find a way to stretch "made out with a green-skinned hottie" into a full hour of TV.

This documentary on the history of all things Star Trek was created for the series' 40th Anniversary. Ironically, it has more actual history in it than most other things on the History Channel.

Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss considers if the technology on Star Trek is theoretically possible, proving once and for all just how cool nerds can be. That, or we're just super-nerdy in our love of all things Krauss.

Another documentary discussing the technology of Star Trek from 2016—just in case you're into that sort of thing. Obviously we are.

This BBC documentary celebrates Star Trek's cultural impact. It chronicles the good, the bad, and the historic…but now with 75% more charming accents.

Whoopi Goldberg, Leonard Shatner, William Shatner, Johnathan Franks, and Patrick Stewart walk onto a soundstage. No, that's not the start of a weirdly specific joke; it's the beginning of a forum where these stars discuss their unique Trek experiences.

I Am Spock is the second autobiography written by Leonard Nimoy and you can hear the audiobook, read by Nimoy himself, here.

One of the most iconic themes ever, the Star Trek theme gets you in the right mood for adventuring through space.

With track titles like "Genesis Destroyed," "Bird of Prey Decloacks," and "Spock Endures Pon Farr," you might expect The Search for Spock's original motion soundtrack to be loaded with Heavy Metal bands. You would be wrong.

The original poster for The Search for Spock features a psychedelic Spock overlooking a space battle and the crew of the Enterprise. The 80s, man.

Kirk, Sulu, and Scotty take command of the Enterprise in this frame from the film. It's the perfect shot for pondering, "Just what's up with Kirk's pleated shirt anyway?"

A great shot of the USS Excelsior breaking down in front of Spacedock. At least the towing fees won't be astronomical…

Commander Kruge and Maltz do battle with the Enterprise in this scene while Maltz secretly wonders if he should introduce Kruge to his eyebrows guy. Dude's an artist with tweezers.

McCoy admits to Spock that he misses him and counts him among his truest friends. Of course, Spock is in a dead-yet-not-dead state at the time, so McCoy will never have to own up to it.

In this behinds the scenes picture, Leonard Nimoy shows Saavik how to perform pon farr with his younger Spock-self.

The Enterprise goes down in a blaze of fiery glory. RIP.