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Dec 3, 2021 · Since today is the 30th anniversary of, spoiler, my favorite 'Star Trek' film, I used math, science and dark magic to correctly rank the 13 'Star Trek' movies.
- Star Trek Generations
- Star Trek: Nemesis
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- Star Trek: The Final Frontier
- Star Trek: Insurrection
- Star Trek The Motion Picture
- Star Trek
- Star Trek: Beyond
- Star Trek: The Search For Spock
- Star Trek: First Contact
Generations is a fairly controversial pick for the worst Star Trek movie as the movie does have its fans, but we also have our reasons. It all boils down to the fact that Generations, in its attempt to stitch together the Kirk and Picard eras of Star Trek, ruined two perfect endings: it undid the conclusions of All Good Things and The Undiscovered ...
This is less controversial. Nemesis killed the TNG era, and can partly be blamed for the near death of the franchise in the early 2000s. It’s lifeless and dour and completely loses the usual heart of Star Trek, which is a cocktail of optimism, thoughtfulness, and adventure. Whatever Nemesis is, it certainly isn’tany of that. Perhaps its worst sin i...
Into Darkness is perhaps the Star Trek movie that is most devoted to the concept of spectacle and action. Star Trek (2009) introduced a new style, and Into Darkness took this to its natural conclusion. It’s packed with overblown explosions, brutal hand-to-hand fist fights, and lightning-fast starship combat. Sadly, all that is just a cover for the ...
It seems that each era of the Star Trek movie series is obliged to put forward at least one bad movie – and sometimes even more. The Final Frontier is the TOS-era’s only unequivocally ‘bad’ offering, contrary to popular belief. The action sequences are dull and cheap, the visuals take a dive, and the plot’s grand aims (the crew of the Enterprise me...
Speaking of hard movies to hate: we get to Star Trek Insurrection. Star Trek Insurrection isn’t just a hard movie to hate, it’s a hard movie to have any significant feelings about whatsoever because it’s so forgettable and paint-by-numbers. Insurrection (Frakes’ second directorial effort) is often described as the TNG movie that feels most like an ...
The question with Star Trek The Motion Picture isn’t: ‘Is this a good movie?’ (no, not really) but: ‘Is this even a movie at all?’ It certainly doesn’t feel like it. The plot is paper-thin, and approximately 50% of the runtime is comprised of (admittedly stunning) shots of the Enterprise either barely moving or not moving at all, hence its nickname...
Star Trek 2009 was the start of a whole new era. This was the first Kelvin timeline film, shaking up the entire Star Trek timelineand promising to give audiences a new take on Star Trek. It was designed to appeal to a more mainstream palette while maintaining the iconography of the Star Trek movies that had come before. In what it tried to do, it m...
Star Trek: Beyond is when the Kelvin timeline series finally hit its stride. It was the perfect blend of the action-adventure format that the new era wanted to pioneer, but it managed to ditch the universe-spanning stakes that made the previous Kelvin movies so unwieldy. The whole cast finally feels settled in, and Chris Pine is at his very best as...
The Search for Spock often gets a lot of criticism, and yes, it has issues. While Christopher Lloyd is great as the Klingon villain Kruge, his whole plot to steal the Genesis device feels tacked on; like it’s only there because it needed a villain, and Khan was a hard act to follow. It also undoes a lot of the character changes from The Wrath of Kh...
After the disappointment of Generations, Star Trek: First Contact managed to find a way to bring the Enterprise and its crew into a cinematic format with confidence and success. The movie was helped by the fact that it used Star Trek’s greatest villains, the Borg, as the antagonists. It even manages its time-travel plot with surprising deftness and...
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Is it the obvious choice? Yes, but it’s also the right one. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan isn’t just great Star Trek.
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. This movie is just pure joy from start to finish. I’m sure it may have been tempting to try and do more of the same: send Kirk and the crew out on an interstellar mission to fight some intergalactic foe with some destructive weapon on the line.
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. There’s shorthand that claims that every even-numbered Star Trek is good and every odd-numbered Star Trek is bad.
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. This is where on this list that Star Trek actually starts to feel like Star Trek. One of the great things The Original Series did was to tell narratives that reflected real-world tensions.
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Can you honestly say you were surprised that this is Number One? More than 40 years and a dozen movies later, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is still the gold standard for what this franchise could and occasionally did achieve on the big screen.
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Star Trek has always been goofy. Yes, yes, Star Trek can be lots of things, including exciting and romantic and philosophical.
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. It’s funny: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country – the final big screen voyage of the entire original series cast – never seems to get the same type of discussion or analysis as Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, or even Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
- Star Trek: First Contact. If you’re trying to explain why Star Trek was such a big deal in the 1990s, the best cultural artifact is easily the 1996 film First Contact.
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) No other Star Trek movie sticks the landing as greatly as The Wrath of Khan did. The second entry finds the Enterprise facing off against their fiercest rival yet, the tyrannical Khan Noonien Singh (played by Ricardo Montalbán), who wants to acquire the terraforming device Genesis.
- Star Trek (2009) The 2009 Star Trek movie starts the series fresh with a reboot, and the result is gratifying. The newly-rebooted crew of the USS Enterprise is sent on a mission to stop the nefarious Romulan Nero (played by Eric Bana) from laying ruin to an alternate timeline (separate from the original show).
- Star Trek VIII: First Contact (1996) Star Trek: First Contact features the directorial debut of Jonathan Frakes. The mission this time is for the crew to travel back in time to the mid-21st century to thwart the plans of an alien race called the Borg, who want to change the past and make the Earth vulnerable to invasion.
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) The fourth chapter in the Star Trek movie saga, The Voyage Home finds the Enterprise crew succumbing to the fallout from The Search for Spock.
Star Trek Beyond-- The only one of the Kelvin timeline films that feels even remotely like Star Trek, and the only one that doesn't feel like a relentless assault on the senses. A fun, well-made popcorn flick.
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3 days ago · Star Trek: First Contact (1996)93%. #2. Critics Consensus: While fans of the series will surely appreciate it, First Contact is exciting, engaging, and visually appealing enough to entertain Star Trek novices. Synopsis: The Enterprise and its crew follow a Borg ship through a time warp to prevent the Borg from taking over...
