{"id":279,"date":"2009-04-20T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/04\/the-second-longest-star-trek-movie-ever\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T23:26:00","slug":"the-second-longest-star-trek-movie-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/04\/the-second-longest-star-trek-movie-ever.html","title":{"rendered":"The second-longest Star Trek movie ever."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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For those keeping track of this sort of thing, the stats are in and it looks like the new Star Trek<\/a><\/i> movie will be the second-longest entry in the franchise to date. Film classification boards in British Columbia<\/a> and the United Kingdom<\/a> have both indicated that the film\u2019s running time is 127 minutes \u2014 or, to be more precise, 126 minutes and 39 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Only the first movie in the franchise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/a><\/i> (1979), was longer, ranging anywhere from 132 to 143 minutes depending on whether you saw it in a theatre, on TV, or on DVD. And none of the other movies have ever crossed the two-hour line \u2014 not even after a couple of them were expanded for home video:<\/p>\n

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  1. 1979 \u2014 Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/i> \u2014 132 minutes in theatres, 143 minutes on TV, 136 minutes on DVD<\/li>\n
  2. 1982 \u2014 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/a><\/i> \u2014 113 minutes in theatres, 116 minutes on DVD<\/li>\n
  3. 1984 \u2014 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock<\/a><\/i> \u2014 105 minutes<\/li>\n
  4. 1986 \u2014 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home<\/a><\/i> \u2014 118 minutes<\/li>\n
  5. 1989 \u2014 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier<\/a><\/i> \u2014 106 minutes<\/li>\n
  6. 1991 \u2014 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country<\/a><\/i> \u2014 109 minutes in theatres, 113 minutes on DVD<\/li>\n
  7. 1994 \u2014 Star Trek: Generations<\/a><\/i> \u2014 117 minutes<\/li>\n
  8. 1996 \u2014 Star Trek: First Contact<\/a><\/i> \u2014 111 minutes<\/li>\n
  9. 1998 \u2014 Star Trek: Insurrection<\/a><\/i> \u2014 103 minutes<\/li>\n
  10. 2002 \u2014 Star Trek: Nemesis<\/a><\/i> \u2014 116 minutes<\/li>\n
  11. 2009 \u2014 Star Trek<\/i> \u2014 127 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Star Trek<\/i> is also about the same length as J.J. Abrams\u2019 last movie, Mission: Impossible III<\/a><\/i> (2006) \u2014 which, like Star Trek<\/i>, was based on a Desilu-produced 1960s TV show that co-starred Leonard Nimoy. Hmmmm.<\/p>\n

    Anyway, back in October<\/a>, Abrams promised Star Trek<\/i> would be only two hours long because he\u2019s not a fan of the recent trend towards epic-length action movies \u2014 and if we forgive him those extra six-and-a-half minutes, which could very easily be accounted for by the end credits, then it would seem he has kept his word.<\/p>\n

    In other news, Star Trek<\/i> has become the third film in the series to be rated PG-13 in the United States, following First Contact<\/i> and Nemesis<\/i>; all of the other films were rated PG, with the partial exception of The Motion Picture<\/i>, which was rated G in 1979 but was re-rated PG when the \u201cdirector\u2019s edition\u201d came out on DVD in 2001.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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