# Star Trek Fans - Order the films, from best to worst! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 19, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452 "2002-11-19T03:30:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/1 "2002-11-19T03:30:09Z")
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_](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0079945) - V’ger comes to Earth. 2 - [_Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan_](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0084726) - Khan seeks revenge against Kirk. 3 - [_Star Trek III: The Search for Spock_](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088170) - Reunite Spock’s body and soul. 4 - [_Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home_](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0092007) - Back in time to save the whales. 5 - [_Star Trek V: The Final Frontier_](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0098382) - Journey to the center of the galaxy. 6 - [_Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country_](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0102975) - Klingon diplomacy. GEN - [_Star Trek: Generations_](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0111280) - Kirk and Picard unite to stop a mad scientist. FC - [_Star Trek: First Contact_](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0117731) - Back in time to stop the Borg. INS - [_Star Trek: Insurrection_](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120844) - Battle for Paradise. Here’s my order: **6 FC GEN 2 INS 3 1 4 5** ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/2 "2002-11-19T03:57:41Z")
6, 8, 2, 4, 3, 9, 5, 1 ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/3 "2002-11-19T04:02:10Z")
You left out GEN (7). ---
**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:** [November 19, 2002, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/4 "2002-11-19T04:08:26Z")
2…and the rest tie for last. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/5 "2002-11-19T04:17:19Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/6 "2002-11-19T04:37:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/7 "2002-11-19T05:08:48Z")
Worst: Final Frontier Best: Galaxy Quest ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/8 "2002-11-19T05:16:44Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/9 "2002-11-19T05:31:36Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Kirkland1244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kirkland1244](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kirkland1244)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/10 "2002-11-19T05:34:11Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/11 "2002-11-19T06:19:32Z")
\*\*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)\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/12 "2002-11-19T07:48:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Achernar \* > \*\*You left out GEN (7). \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/13 "2002-11-19T07:52:04Z")
WOK SFS FC TVH TUC GEN TMP INS TFF We’ll have to revisit this after NEM. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/14 "2002-11-19T07:57:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/15 "2002-11-19T18:03:52Z")
28463197 (also my phone number!) ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/16 "2002-11-19T18:20:30Z")
You left out 5. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/17 "2002-11-19T18:22:43Z")
there is no 5 ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/18 "2002-11-19T18:52:13Z")
Good call. What was _I_ thinking? ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/19 "2002-11-19T18:53:11Z")
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”. 🙂 5 though, very well might be one of the worst movies-- ever. So, so bad. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452/20 "2002-11-19T18:59:33Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-fans-order-the-films-from-best-to-worst/137452.md?page=2)