What is your favorite Star Trek Movie?

[coloradodem2005]

I will probably have to go with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

I loved the action in that movie especially a commander with a nemesis.

[Book Lover]

1. Khan!

That one had everything, was closest to the show thematically and visually, and yes, that was Ricardo's real chest!

From Hell's heart. I stab at thee......

[henslee]

8. Yup.... that's the one. eom

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[cheezus]

14. Khaaaaaannnn!!!!!!!

[terrya]

20. "Ah, Kirk, my old friend...do you not know the Klingon proverb that says..

revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It is very cold...in space"

Star Trek II had it all. Simply the best. And I liked the subplot involving Kirk and his son, David.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. The one where Drew Barrymore does all that karate

Yeah, cool move!

--bkl

[Endangered Specie]

3. IV, followed closely, if not tied by, VIII.

II is 3rd.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

6. Yea, IV

I love the humor in that movie.

[flamingyouth]

15. Nuclear wessels

It's just the best. Double dumbass on you!

[TheWizardOfMudd]

19. Heh heh

How about the look on Kirk's face when he first sips the Michelob? :)

And Spock did too much "LDS" back in the sixties. :)

[King Of Paperboys]

4. The Trilogy.

Sorry to waffle, but I have a hard time separating II, III and IV. Taken as a whole, they are the pivot upon which Trek turns.

[Book Lover]

22. I don't think that's waffling...

Those three are connected, after all, especially II and III.

Ah, I LOVE the fact that we can freely be geeky here.... yum.

[SaveElmer]

5. In this order

1. First Contact
2. Wrath of Khan
3. Search for Spock
4. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
5. The Voyage Home
6. Undiscovered Country
7. Generations
8. Nemesis
9. Insurrection
10. The Final Frontier

Course even a sub-par Star Trek beats most other shows hands down

[Endangered Specie]

7. Amen to that

"Course even a sub-par Star Trek beats most other shows hands down"

There is TV, and then there is Star Trek.

[trotsky]

12. I would mostly agree with that ordering...

except when ranking from 1-10 I would put Nemesis at 16. Koresh, did that suck-diddly-uck. Yes, even worse than Final Frontier, IMHO.

[henslee]

Wrath of the Tribbles.

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[TheWizardOfMudd]

9. Did anyone figure out what "V-ger" meant before it was revealed . . .

. . . in the first ST movie? I didn't. That is one of the great plot twists in cinema history, in my easily entertained opinion.

[SaveElmer]

10. Course kinda dated now

There was no Voyager 6...don't know why they didn't just use 1 or 2.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. "From Hell's heart I stab at thee..." Gotta be Khan, baby!

[TheDebbieDee]

13. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Great plot, good action and they allowed the original cast to say "Goodbye" with class!

[moof]

16. The II,III,IV trilogy is the best. n/t

[ceile]

17. 6...

Definitely 6. I loved the plot. It's one that I can easily (and have) watch over and over.

[tigerbeat]

18. oh man it's clearly no contest.....

1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - it's a great space adventure and would hold up even without the name star trek on it. even a good performance from shatner (on the DVD director nicholas meyer said he made the shat do take after take until he got too bored to "act" and that's when a more naturalistic style took over) not a bad frame in this entire movie.

then we have a HUUUUUUUUGE void between the number one movie and.....

2. Star Trek: The Motion Picture - no it's not great, but it at least tries to be something other than a cheap overwarmed TV episode and yes, the special effects are boring and too long, but they look pretty cool. and the V'Ger revelation is still pretty good.

3. Star Trek: First Contact - boy it still pisses me off how braga totally ignored the mechanics of the Borg Collective by giving us a Borg Queen and the movie still feels too long and too TV-ish.....but the dialogue is actually some of the best in the series and the Borg ARE a cool villian and most of the humor actually works in this one. plus it's the only one where i feel like the next generation crew are having fun.

4. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - serious balls in this movie by making Kirk kind of unsympathetic.....the whole fall of the klingon empire feels dated now, but at least it took an idea full force. plus christopher plummer is really quite good. and kim catrall as a vulcan *meow* (the whole prison planet plot sucks ass though)

5. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - people LOVE this one and i have no idea why. the female love interest is the most annoying female character in the history of trek and the whale plotline is....well...just stupid. i give it some props though because while the much-touted humor of this one is spotty, when the jokes work they work extremely well. and the psychedelic "moving through time plaster head busts" maybe the weirdest moment in the whole series.

6. Star Trek: Generations - boy the last half hour or so of this one stinks. but for about an hour or so, i thought this one was going to rock. and except for the first movie i think it has the best cinematography and effects of the series. the cast looks really tired though, and the plot is just barely "eh".

7. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock - cheap. brought back spock with barely more dignity than a soap opera trick. chick playing saavik stinks. but a few moments that just barely redeem this movie....kirk's discovery that his son is dead and the wackiest klingon ever: ladies and gentlemen i give you reverend jim as commander kruge.

now the stinkers. nothing really needs to be said about them except there really isn't anything interesting or redeeming about them

8. Star Trek: Nemesis
9. Star Trek: Insurrection

and the winner of the only star trek movie to qualify for a "worst movies ever made list"

10. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

this is my longest post ever. shows you what a sad geek i am.

[Deja Q]

21. My twenty cents...

I is a great fx-fest with a decent plot, but it's not Trek material

II is timeless.

III, despite being fun to watch, has big plot holes and gaffes.

IV has dated.

V is rubbish until the final 45 minutes when it gets serious.

VI manages to create a Khan-style villain within a short period of time and works. I have some problems with the plot (it could have been better) but it is thoroughly wonderful as it is.

VII had some nice ideas and revisited the concept of mortality, but had show us that Berman and Co were stone dead of ideas and how sloppy the production was. Reusing fx fcom Trek VI and the 1701-D from the TV episodes was pretty bad too.

VIII has an award winning idea (Picard vs Borg and slowly going bonkers, ultimately proving Starfleet right - this was classy stuff), but BADLY executed - being a farce instead of a proper horror/action thriller. The time travel aspect was pretty much bollocks too. Worst of all, one of many lame and utterly dim "ha-ha" jokes features Picard jokingly disobeying Starfleet Orders with Data being a wannabe-Spock with "To hell with our orders". Pure pretentious drivel. It could have been so much better.

IX is the best TNG movie. While the basic plotline isn't as great as VIII's (it's a TV-level sci-fi plot with a movie-level Picard love interest plot), it's produced with far more credibility and competency. Even Ru'afo comes across with more menace than the Borg queen, whose main ability is to ruin Borg continuity and ask Data if rubbing his flesh feels good. :eyes: Of course, VI had FAR MORE insurrection than this eponymously titled flick. Indeed, what was said to be all of Starfleet ends up being a small handful of traitors and everything is all fine and smurfy by the end. (Rick Berman could have had the brains and balls to REALLY do something with this flick and the DS9/Voyager spinoffs but preferred to take the wussy way out, as usual.)

X is the final nail in the coffin that started getting nailed in VII and had a slight respite for IX (mostly due to the production, not the plot). John Logan is a crap writer who has no concept of what pacing or suspense are. Or original writing, there's a lot of Trek II and III dialogue uplifted, sometimes word for word!! And allowing Brent Spiner to write for it? No wonder it's Data-this and another-Data-clone that. And "pattern Kirk Omega" or whatever was when a lot of people clapped, solely because of the "K" word, Kirk - even if it is mindless fanwank, the applause spoke volumes.

[NewJeffCT]

23. Definitely Wrath of Khan, then First Contact

I always like time travel stories...