THROWDOWN: Rate the Treks

dclary · May 20, 2009

SMACKDOWN DISCLAIMER: It is PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE IN THIS THREAD TO TELL EVERYONE ELSE HOW WRONG THEY ARE.

Ok, based on the other Star Trek thread: Rate them. Here and now, for all time. Let the throwdown begin:

BEST star trek films, in order, best to worst:

Star Trek II: Khan (TOS)
Star Trek XI: Trek v.2 (Reboot)
Star Trek IV: Whales (TOS)
Star Trek VI: Shakespearian Klingons (TOS)
Star Trek VIII: Borg (TNG)
Star Trek I: V'ger (TOS)
Star Trek V: Spock's Brother (TOS)
Star Trek III: Resurrected Spock (TOS)
Star Trek VII: They Fucking Killed Kirk HOW? (TNG)
Star Trek IX: Insane Data (TNG)
Star Trek X: AKA "Ok, we're totally out of ideas." (TNG)

James81 · May 20, 2009

I've been waiting for this. I want to watch all the old Treks now, but have no idea what they were called.

(I wanted to watch them in order, I mean)

childeroland · May 20, 2009

Isn't almost everyone just going to say, roughly, IV, II, , then maybe III and VI followed by the reboot and then everything else (or the reboot followed by III and VI, then everything else)?

Sophia · May 20, 2009

I disagree with your rankings!

Best to worst, not including the new one as I haven't seen it yet (but hopefully will soon):

VIII: First Contact - Borg, action and danger, great stuff
I: V'ger, bit of romance, liked it
VII: Picard and Kirk and Whoopi Goldberg; got caught up, Kirk's death a total tearjerker
II: Khan, for the ending especially
IV: Whales, fun
III: Spock story continued, nice
VI: Klingons, not bad
V: Search for God, absolutely terrible
IX, X, XI: I've completely forgotten them. That's never happened for anything else I've seen in the cinema. I'm going to assume they were so bad my memory rebelled.

ad_lucem · May 20, 2009

Star Trek 2009
Star Trek II
Star Trek III
Star Trek VII
Star Trek IV
All the rest are on tied for last place, except for the first Star Trek movie, which I cannot stand for reasons I don't understand.

dclary · May 20, 2009

childeroland said:
Isn't almost everyone just going to say, roughly, IV, II, , then maybe III and VI followed by the reboot and then everything else (or the reboot followed by III and VI, then everything else)?

No.

dclary · May 20, 2009

ElaraSophia said:
I disagree with your rankings!

Best to worst, not including the new one as I haven't seen it yet (but hopefully will soon):

VIII: First Contact - Borg, action and danger, great stuff
I: V'ger, bit of romance, liked it
VII: Picard and Kirk and Whoopi Goldberg; got caught up, Kirk's death a total tearjerker
II: Khan, for the ending especially
IV: Whales, fun
III: Spock story continued, nice
VI: Klingons, not bad
V: Search for God, absolutely terrible
IX, X, XI: I've completely forgotten them. That's never happened for anything else I've seen in the cinema. I'm going to assume they were so bad my memory rebelled.

Wow. You are *so* wrong!

DeleyanLee · May 20, 2009

Best
Star Trek XI: Trek v.2 (Reboot)
Star Trek II: Khan (TOS)
Star Trek VI: Shakespearian Klingons (TOS)
Star Trek IV: Whales (TOS)

Tolerable
Star Trek III: Resurrected Spock (TOS)
Star Trek I: V'ger (TOS)
Star Trek V: Spock's Brother (TOS)

Didn't like the spin-off series so didn't bother with the movies
Star Trek VII: They Fucking Killed Kirk HOW? (TNG)
Star Trek VIII: Borg (TNG)
Star Trek IX: Insane Data (TNG)
Star Trek X: AKA "Ok, we're totally out of ideas." (TNG)

Cyia · May 20, 2009

dclary said:
BEST star trek films, in order, best to worst:

Star Trek II: Khan (TOS)
Star Trek XI: Trek v.2 (Reboot)
Star Trek IV: Whales (TOS)

These are the only one's I've seen, so:

The new Star Trek
Khan (which I was forced to watch in school)
Whales.

maestrowork · May 20, 2009

I can't remember all of them... but here's my partial list:

XI - the only Trek movie I've seen three times during its initial theatrical run
Khan
First Contact
Whales

Worse:
Insurrection
Nemesis
Search for God (please!)
Kirk dies

ChunkyC · May 20, 2009

Star Trek films, best to worst:

Star Trek II: "The Wrath of Khan" Why number 1? Khan, of course.
Star Trek XI: "Star Trek" totally bitchin' reboot
Star Trek VIII: "First Contact" the Borg finally make it to the big screen
Star Trek IV: "The Voyage Home" funny and totally entertaining, despite the recycled 'a probe of unknown origin is heading towards Earth' idea
Star Trek VI: "The Undiscovered Country" a Klingon general quoting Shakespeare and a cool mystery story to boot
Star Trek I: "The Motion Picture" Trek on the big screen for the first time, with a probe of unknown origin heading toward Earth
Star Trek III: "The Search for Spock" pretty good, Christopher Lloyd as a Klingon was inspired casting
Star Trek VII: "Generations" not too bad, but I was hoping for a better first movie for the next gen crew
Star Trek IX: "Insurrection" a real indication there was something seriously wrong with the franchise
Star Trek X: "Nemesis" had this been the only Trek movie, it might have been good, but it was filled to the brim with stuff we'd seen a dozen times before
Star Trek V: "The Final Frontier" great opening sequence, in the crapper from then on - just terrible all around. the only trek movie I own that I only watched once

MattW · May 20, 2009

The rest are just :Shrug:

dclary · May 20, 2009

DeleyanLee said:
Best
Star Trek XI: Trek v.2 (Reboot)
Star Trek II: Khan (TOS)
Star Trek VI: Shakespearian Klingons (TOS)
Star Trek IV: Whales (TOS)

Tolerable
Star Trek III: Resurrected Spock (TOS)
Star Trek I: V'ger (TOS)
Star Trek V: Spock's Brother (TOS)

Didn't like the spin-off series so didn't bother with the movies
Star Trek VII: They Fucking Killed Kirk HOW? (TNG)
Star Trek VIII: Borg (TNG)
Star Trek IX: Insane Data (TNG)
Star Trek X: AKA "Ok, we're totally out of ideas." (TNG)

You win!

dpaterso · May 20, 2009

Can't we simply agree, with hindsight and sanity, that these films were all varying degrees of self-indulgent, self-parodying and oft-embarrassing crap? Stay your weapons! I speak as a lifelong TOS fan, with slightly lesser nostalgic affection for ST:TNG.

-Derek

dclary · May 20, 2009

dpaterso said:
Can't we simply agree, with hindsight and sanity, that these films were all varying degrees of self-indulgent, self-parodying and oft-embarrassing crap? Stay your weapons! I speak as a lifelong TOS fan, with slightly lesser nostalgic affection for ST:TNG.

-Derek

Khan was not self-indulgent, nor self-parodying (except, maybe for montalban's rich corinthian leather breasts).

Jersey Chick · May 20, 2009

I've only seen the Whale one... it wins by default. But I also loved it.

James81 · May 20, 2009

dpaterso said:
Can't we simply agree, with hindsight and sanity, that these films were all varying degrees of self-indulgent, self-parodying and oft-embarrassing crap? Stay your weapons! I speak as a lifelong TOS fan, with slightly lesser nostalgic affection for ST:TNG.

-Derek

I was always more of a Star Wars fan myself.

ChunkyC · May 20, 2009

Now that I think about it, I should have put Galaxy Quest at number one.

Zoombie · May 20, 2009

By grapthar's hammer, you shall be...AVENGED!

Writer2011 · May 20, 2009

Well I've seen all of them but my favorite would have to be Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan Beyond that I can't really rank them...Star Trek III was decent..

But I have to admit, this new one (even though it's an odd number) was AWESOME...it ranks right up there with Khan!!!

ChunkyC · May 20, 2009

dclary said:
Khan was not self-indulgent, nor self-parodying (except, maybe for montalban's rich corinthian leather breasts).

Oh, I think he is more than a little self-indulgent.

le wrath di Khan

dclary · May 20, 2009

ChunkyC said:
Now that I think about it, I should have put Galaxy Quest at number one.

So true.

It's amazingly great.

dclary · May 20, 2009

ChunkyC said:
Oh, I think he is more than a little self-indulgent.

le wrath di Khan

I meant the movie itself, not him.

ChunkyC · May 20, 2009

Ah. Still, you must admit Khan is fabulous as Italian opera.

dclary · May 20, 2009

James81 said:
I was always more of a Star Wars fan myself.

That one's easy to rate:

1st. Star Wars
2nd. Empire
3rd. Jedi

9,999,997th. Pod Racing and Jar Jar
9,999,998th. Clones and MORE Robots
9,999,999th. Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

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