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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is a 1984 science fiction film, written and produced by Harve Bennett, directed by Leonard Nimoy, and based on the television series Star Trek. It is the third film based on the Star Trek series and the second film in the story arc that spans Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, this film, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. It released to positive reception from critics and was a financial success.

Plot
Following the battle with Khan and the death of Spock, the badly-damaged and barely operational USS Enterprise returns to Earth, where Admiral Kirk is informed that the ship will be taken out of service, and the crew will be going their separate ways. Shortly afterwards Kirk is confronted by Spock's father, Sarek, who demands to know why Kirk left Spock's body on the newly-formed Genesis Planet, and mistakenly believes that Spock transferred his mind into Kirk before his death. The two discover that Spock actually transferred his mind into Dr. McCoy's body and is influencing his actions, and when McCoy is arrested for trying to book transport to the Genesis Planet, Kirk and his command staff are forced to break McCoy out of prison and steal the Enterprise. Meanwhile, the science vessel USS Grissom takes Lt. Saavik and Kirk's son, Dr. David Marcus to the Genesis planet, where they beam down and are shocked to find a resurrected, but juvenile Spock. Before they can decide what to do, the Grissom is suddenly destroyed by a Klingon Bird-of-Prey under the command of Kruge, a Klingon warlord who wants to seize control of the Genesis Project, setting up a deadly confrontation between the Klingons and the Enterprise.

Reception
The Search for Spock received generally positive reviews from critics. However, it received criticism tended to focus on the plot; the special effects were conflictingly received. Roger Ebert called the film "good, but not great" and a compromise between the special effects-dependent The Motion Picture and the character-driven The Wrath of Khan. In 2018, Popular Mechanics ranked the scene where the NCC-1701 Enterprise starship is destroyed, the 32nd-greatest scene in the science fiction film and television genre.

On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 79% based on reviews from 48 critics. On Metacritic the film has a score of 56/100 based on reviews from 17 critics, indicating mixed to average reviews.