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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.

This time, Leonard Nimoy’s Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

The Enterprise returns from its disastrous confrontation with Khan Noonien Singh, a battle that ended with the death of Spock and the creation of Genesis. However, Kirk is haunted. McCoy appears to be having a psychological breakdown, while Spock’s father chastises him for leaving Spock’s body on the Genesis Planet. Determined to return his friend’s body and soul to Vulcan, Kirk embarks on a dangerous mission to Genesis. However, he’s operating in contravention of Federation orders and quickly discovers that other parties have an interest in the secrets of Genesis.

At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 26th February 2023.
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock at The Internet Movie Database.
• The Daily Star Trek looks back on Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, June 2022.
• Nick Otten at Forgotten Trek looks back on the production and development of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, June 2006.
• Michael Crawford’s “… and ultimately, I want to direct”, August 2008.
• Hadley Freeman at The Guardian considers Leonard Nimoy’s direction of Three Men and a Baby, February 2015.
• The New York Times considers the box office success of Three Men and a Baby, January 1988.
• Roger Ebert reviews The Good Mother for The Chicago Sun Times, November 1988.
• Paul bond at Reuters looks at how video stores came to survive on tanning beds following the Great Recession, September 2010.
• Megan Friedman at Time looks at the trend of video stores adding tanning beds, September 2010.
• Mark Magnier at South China Morning Post reflects on a half-century of “panda diplomacy”, March 2022.
• The Economist considers the motivations behind China’s policy of “panda diplomacy”, January 2019.
• Laura Geggel at Live Science considers how conservationists use the “panda swap” to ensure that twin pandas receive proper maternal care, August 2015.
• Sam Stone at Comic Book Resources considers the “odd-numbered movie curse” in the context of the larger Star Trek franchise, April 2021.
• Simon Pegg talks to Trek Movie about “breaking the odd-numbered curse” by starring in the eleventh Star Trek movie, July 2008.
• Industrial Light and Magic reflects on its involvement with the Star Trek movie franchise, September 2021.
• Fact Trek considers the pressure that NBC placed on Gene Roddenberry to cast minorities in the original Star Trek, June 2020.
• Ryan Britt at Esquire considers how the Star Trek franchise inconsistently pursued the value of diversity, treating minority characters as “moveable furniture”, May 2022.
• Abby Ohlheiser at The Washington Post considers the influence of Leonard Nimoy’s Jewishness on the character of Spock, February 2015.
• Elizabeth Howell at Space.com considers how Leonard Nimoy fought to include Nichelle Nichols, George Takei and James Doohan on Star Trek: The Animated Series, September 2016.
• Dénes House at Trek Movie considers the unexplored consequences of Uhura’s memory wipe in The Changeling, July 2021.
• Norman Spinrad talks about having to cut lines out of The Doomsday Machine because William Shatner was unhappy that Leonard Nimoy had more lines, February 2007.
• Rebecca Hawkes at The Telegraph reports on accounts of William Shatner hiding Leonard Nimoy’s bicycle on the set of Star Trek, March 2017.
• Rick Gonzales at Giant Freakn’ Robot relates how Shatner’s hiding of Nimoy’s bike was related to Nimoy’s increased public profile, September 2022.
• In Set Phasers to Stun, Marcus Berkmann considers William Shatner’s seventies, March 2016.
• Robin Curtis talks to StarTrek.com about the decision to drop the subplot about Saavik and Spock’s child from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, January 2012.
• Marc Okrand talks to The Washington Post about developing Klingon as a language, July 2018.
• Marc Okrand talks to StarTrek.com about the secrets of the Klingon language, November 2011.
• Darren Mooney considers Klingon lawyers at the m0vie blog, April 2015.
• Hans Bethe talks to The Scientific American about the fear that the nuclear tests would ignite the planet’s atmosphere, August 2015.
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