Star Trek: Insurrection gave it a score of six out of ten. The British newspaper "The People" also said it was an extended television episode. "The Independent" said that "Insurrection" "never stops being familiarly jolly and antiquated", and called the entire "Star Trek" film franchise "old-fashioned". "The Washington Post" also called the film old fashioned, but "in the best sense of the word", and said that the film did what the "doctor – make that Dr. 'Bones' McCoy – ordered". British journalist Simon Rose, writing for "The Daily Mirror" was more critical of the film, saying that it failed to break the odd-numbered
Star Trek Voyage of the Starship "Enterprise"", with John Belushi as Kirk, Chevy Chase as Spock and Dan Aykroyd as McCoy. In the 1980s, "Saturday Night Live" did a sketch with William Shatner reprising his Captain Kirk role in "The Restaurant Enterprise", preceded by a sketch in which he played himself at a "Trek" convention angrily telling fans to "Get a Life", a phrase that has become part of "Trek" folklore. "In Living Color" continued the tradition in a sketch where Captain Kirk is played by a fellow Canadian Jim Carrey. A feature-length film that indirectly parodies "Star Trek" is "Galaxy Quest".