Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special [VHS]
Talk about slapdash. Here's a tribute toStar Trekhosted by  Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner, and within the first half-hour they've run  out of things to talk about related toStar Trek. Though there are clips  from both classicTrekandStar Trek: The Next Generation, they  seem like an afterthought: montage fodder that only occasionally chooses a topic (like humorous catch phrases of the characters) and looks at it  thoroughly. Otherwise, there's way too much time devoted to letting Nimoy shill for theStar Trek VImovie and reminisce about the special effects inStar Trek IV(which he happened to direct). Aside from  superficial treatment of the Trekkie phenomenon (better explained in the movieTrekkies), the fan base is barely mentioned--and what's the deal with LeVar Burton's tour of Space Camp? It looks like an outtake fromReading  Rainbow. This doesn't even count as a greatest-hits video because the  organization is so haphazard. The whole thing smacks of moneymaking  exploitation.--Marshall Fine