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 (film series) on the Admiral and lays a cunning and sinister trap. Both the first and second films have television versions with additional footage and alternate takes that affect the storyline. (Subsequent "Star Trek" films tended to have shorter television versions). Especially notable in "The Wrath of Khan" is the footage establishing that a young crew member who acts courageously and dies during an attack on the "Enterprise" is Scotty's nephew. When McCoy begins acting irrationally, Kirk learns that Spock, in his final moments, transferred his "katra", his living spirit, to the doctor. To save McCoy from emotional ruin, Kirk and crew