Star Trek Fans - Order the films, from best to worst!

I want to see all nine films listed! Many of you already have the list in your head, but in case you need a refresher for any of them:

1 - Star Trek: The Motion Picture - V’ger comes to Earth.
2 - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Khan seeks revenge against Kirk.
3 - Star Trek III: The Search for Spock - Reunite Spock’s body and soul.
4 - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - Back in time to save the whales.
5 - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier - Journey to the center of the galaxy.
6 - Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - Klingon diplomacy.
GEN - Star Trek: Generations - Kirk and Picard unite to stop a mad scientist.
FC - Star Trek: First Contact - Back in time to stop the Borg.
INS - Star Trek: Insurrection - Battle for Paradise.

Here’s my order: 6 FC GEN 2 INS 3 1 4 5

6, 8, 2, 4, 3, 9, 5, 1

You left out GEN (7).

2…and the rest tie for last.

My rankings:

1st place - Wrath of Khan
2nd place - The Motion Picture
3rd place - Voyage Home
4th place - First Contact
5th place - Undiscovered Country
6th place - The Search for Spock
7th place - Generations
8th place - Insurrection
9th place - The Final Frontier

1st. - Wrath of Khan
2nd. - First Contact
3rd. - Voyage Home
4th - Undiscovered Country
5th - Motion Picture
6th - Search for Spock
7th - Generations
8th - Final Frontier
9th - Insurrection

The first three are actually good movies. Four through six are enjoyable while sufficiently inebriated. The only good thing you could say about seven and eight is that they’re not as bad as Star Trek: Insurrection. Insurrection made me bleed from the ears.

Worst: Final Frontier

Best: Galaxy Quest

1 - Wrath of Khan
2 - First Contact
3 - Undiscovered Country
4 - Insurrection
5 - The Voyage Home
6 - The Search for Spock
7 - Generation
8 - The Motion Picture
9 - The Final Frontier

I’ll second JThunder’s vote for best, but baring that, my list is:

Wrath of Khan
Voyage Home
The Motion Picture
The Search for Spock
Generations
The Undiscovered Country
The Final Frontier
First Contact
Insurrection

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

There has yet to be a good TNG film. All of them have been uneven crap. If you were to cut out everything from “I’m looking for God” to the fight on the mountain from Star Trek 5, it would rank better than all the TNG films on my list.

Kirk

**2 TWOK

8 FC

4 TVH

9 INS

6 TUC

7 GEN

3 TSFS

1 TMP (a huge disappointment for ST fans)

5 TFF (worse than an acid enema)**

Whoops!

Sorry, here’s my revised list (one other minor change):

6, 8, 2,

4, 3,

7, 5,

9, 1

The only ones I really dislike are Insurrection and The Motion Picture, so the ranking doesn’t really give a clear picture of my feelings on the matter.

Undiscovered Country and First Contact are clearly my favorites, very closely followed by Wrath of Khan, but this is so close to a three-way tie that it’s really difficult to tell. Those first three tend to change positions depending on my mood.

Search for Spock and The Voyage Home, I watch as a single movie split into two parts, and I like them pretty close to the same, but not quite as much as the top three. I know that technically, 2, 3, and 4 are the single continuous story, but that’s not how I watch them.

Generations was good, and it handled the transition from old to new very well, IMO, and The Final Frontier was not that bad. It’s cliche ridden and overacted, but to me that makes it better, not worse. That’s specifically what I watch the original Star Trek for, and this one delivers.

Now the big division.

I didn’t like Insurrection or the first movie much at all. I didn’t like decker or ilea, and I still can’t bear the 10 minutes of looking at the Enterprise. Like Generations, The Motion Picture could have made a really good hour-long episode.

WOK
SFS
FC
TVH
TUC
GEN
TMP
INS
TFF

We’ll have to revisit this after NEM.

The only two I really really liked (that rank on my list of favorite movies, besides being Star Trek) are 6 and 8. The only two I didn’t really like are 4 and 5.

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You left out 5. :slight_smile:

there is no 5

Good call. What was I thinking?

Bad: 5 was by far the worst Trek movie-- by a lot. 3 stunk. 1 was uneven. Generations had some issues.

Good: 2 will always be the best, IMHO. 6. was good fun. The the rest of the Next Gen movies. Then 4. “remember where we parked”.

:slight_smile:

5 though, very well might be one of the worst movies-- ever.

So, so bad. :mad:

1&2 (tie) - ST: First Contact; ST II: The Wrath of Khan

3 - ST VI: The Undiscovered Country

4 - ST: Generations

5: ST IV: The Voyage Home

6 - ST III: The Search for Spock.

7 - ST: The Motion Picture.

The rest of the movies I am completely indifferent to, so I guess they would all tie for last.