I need to retract my answer for my failure to include Galaxy Quest.
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GreenMario@lemm.ee 10 months ago
1.) Star Trek VI
Very tight film. Christopher Plummer is excellent.
- Star Trek II / III / IV (as a complete Trilogy)
Can’t separate these just like the LoTR films, anyways you got KHAN, the sacrifice of the Enterprise and Double Dumbass on you. Excellent trilogy.
- First Contact
It’s the borg, gotta give it up for the Borg 👏
- Galaxy Quest
Never give up, never surrender!
- Star Trek TMP
Fuck you I LIKE Enterprise beauty shots set to Jerry Goldsmith music. With that said I like the story and character arcs of Kirk and Spock.
- Generations
It’s OK. The rest of the DS9 uniform replacements won’t arrive til Tuesday
- Star Trek V
Underrated. Has its moments. I think Sybok gives an excellent performance otherwise forgettable movie
- Star Trek Kelvin I
It’s OK. Karl.Urban nails Bones.
Didn’t see the others. I haven’t been sold on seeing Insurrection and Nemesis ever despite easily able to and apparently I should give Beyond (Kelvin III) a chance.
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
420blazeit69@hexbear.net 10 months ago
and Double Dumbass on you
Ha I forgot about that part. Makes sense to view those movies as a trilogy, too.
Richard@startrek.website 10 months ago
One damn minute, admiral!
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I love this discussion.
Star Trek VI is precious to me for reasons of special memories seeing it with my father. So I know I watch it with rose colored glasses.
It’s neat to see some validation that it’s actually really good film.
Corgana@startrek.website 10 months ago
It’s a good story on it’s surface, but somehow also packs in a really metaphor for the end of the Cold War, AND a metaphor about Star Trek as a franchise. Simply the best.
GreenMario@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Just watched it again last week. It’s just a very well done movie all around.
StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 10 months ago
@GreenMario@lemm.ee, I seem to have discovered that you are my Star Trek preference twin.
Although, I would personally put Star Trek (2009) a bit ahead of V The Final Frontier, our teens profoundly negative reaction to it would make put it at the back or at best tied. There has been utter refusal from them to even attempt to watch Into Darkness and Beyond. Stuck watching them on my own, Beyond is a head shaker that spends all its time distracting from what could have been a good story with utter silliness like a motorcycle found randomly on a ship.
Into Darkness is in its own way as much a complete head scratcher as The Final Frontier, but with A list casting and more appalling results. In both cases, you can see the traces and structure of what might have been an interesting movie if only a massive train derailment hadn’t beset production somewhere and somehow.
I did however see Insurrection at first release as a family outing with the in-laws. It was fine, and worth a watch at home. In fact, its main issue is that it felt like it should be a made for cable movie rather than a cinematic release. There so much more awful stuff out there by comparison. Nemesis for a Trek example. By half way through I was was wanting to get back the ridiculously self indulgent Picard dune buggy opening sequence.
My final ranking.
1./ VI - The Undiscovered Country
- / II, III, IV the complete trilogy
3./ First Contact
4./ I - The Motion Picture (I enjoy it more as I age and it’s remastered.)
5./ Galaxy Quest
6./ Insurrection
7./ Generations (It happened.)
8./ TIE V - The Final Frontier & Star Trek (2009)
9./ TIE Nemesis & Beyond
10./ Into Darkness
Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
I can’t tell you how much I love that you listed Galaxy Quest as a Star Trek movie.
VindictiveJudge@startrek.website 10 months ago
It ranked pretty highly as a write-in candidate at a con once.