# Rate Star Trek Movies! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-star-trek-movies/177020 "2003-05-23T13:32:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-star-trek-movies/177020/21 "2003-05-24T02:10:24Z")
_Free Enterprise_ was a hell of a lot funnier than _Trekkies_, which was actually just kinda sad. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-star-trek-movies/177020/22 "2003-05-24T02:31:20Z")
THANK YOU! I’ve been trying to remember which movie that was for months. Netflix, here I come. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-star-trek-movies/177020/23 "2003-05-24T03:14:03Z")
1. _The Undiscovered Country_ 2. _The Voyage Home_ 3. _The Wrath of Khan_ 4. _First Contact_ 5. _Nemesis_ 6. _The Search for Spock_ 7. _Insurrection_ 8. _The Final Frontier_ 9. _Generations_ 10. _The Motion Picture_ Also… _Galaxy Quest_ is no more a Trek movie than _Space Balls_ is a _Star Wars_ movie. It’s a great spoof and I like it more than _The Final Frontier_, _Generations_, and _The Motion Picture_ but it’s not a part of the franchise. ---
**Author:** ![Major\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Major\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Kong)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-star-trek-movies/177020/24 "2003-05-24T04:16:10Z")
Yeah, but Galaxy Quest is better than Star Trek, even on Star Trek’s own level. ---
**Author:** ![Major\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Major\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Kong)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-star-trek-movies/177020/25 "2003-05-24T04:17:20Z")
better than _some_ Star Trek ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-star-trek-movies/177020/26 "2003-05-24T04:30:25Z")
I said as much in my post by saying I liked it better than three of the movies in the franchise… what was the point in your reiteration? Aside from that, it being better than half or even all of the franchise _still_ doesn’t make it a part of the series. It’s a humorous spoof. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Major\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Major\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Kong)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-star-trek-movies/177020/27 "2003-05-24T05:15:51Z")
All I meant was , usually spoof is good on a different level than the movie/s it is based. Galaxy Quest would actually be a better Star Trek movie than a lot of the series. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-star-trek-movies/177020/28 "2003-05-24T07:16:41Z")
Oops–I misunderstood the OP and rated them each on a 1-to-10 scale. So here’s how I would rank them: The Motion Picture-4 The Wrath of Khan-2 Search for Spock-3 Voyage Home-1 Final Frontier-10 Undiscovered Country-6 Generations-7 First Contact-8 Insurrection-5 Nemesis-9 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-star-trek-movies/177020/29 "2003-05-24T15:38:30Z")
_sigh_ … everybody always under-rates _ **Star Trek: The Motion Picture** _. Sure, it’s not an action-packed edge-of-your-seat thrill ride. It’s not **supposed** to be. It’s a stately, majestic, awe-filled voyage of discovery, like _ **2001: A Space Odyssey** _ except with original music. Though the line about the Enterprise being “the only ship in the vicinity” even though it was docked in Earth orbit sure made me groan. (They pulled that same stunt again in _ST:Generations_, and it was just as hard to swallow the second time.) ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-star-trek-movies/177020/30 "2003-05-26T22:08:53Z")
Well, I saw Nemesis on the weekend. Other than the final battle scene, it was incredibly boring. I was quite dissapointed. It’d rate just above ST:5, but barely. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-star-trek-movies/177020/31 "2003-05-28T00:31:59Z")
Well, of course. _Nemesis_ could never hope to match the grandeur of _Star Trek: The Motion Picture_. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-star-trek-movies/177020/32 "2003-05-28T04:24:03Z")
1. my all-time favorite and the most quotable: Wrath of Khan 2. First Contact 3. Voyage home 4. Search for Spock 5. Undiscovered country 6. Nemesis (I liked this much more the second time around) 7. Generations 8. the Motion Picture 9. Insurrection 10. final frontier ---
**Author:** ![mtdman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@mtdman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtdman)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-star-trek-movies/177020/33 "2003-05-28T05:01:47Z")
1 Kahn 2 Home 3 Country 4 Spock 5 First Contact 6 Generations 7 STTMP 8 Nemesis 9 Insurrection 10 Final Frontier Anything after the first 3 are crap, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-star-trek-movies/177020.md?page=1)