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
The Doomsday Machine (Star Trek: The Original Series) The Doomsday Machine (Star Trek: The Original Series) "The Doomsday Machine" is the sixth episode of the of the American science fiction television series "". Written by Norman Spinrad and directed by Marc Daniels, it was first broadcast on October 20, 1967. In the episode, the starship "Enterprise" fights a powerful planet-killing machine from another galaxy. The Federation starship USS "Enterprise", following a trail of mysteriously destroyed star systems, picks up the automated distress beacon of another starship, the USS "Constellation". Upon arrival, the "Constellation" is found drifting in space and severely damaged; Captain Kirk, Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy,