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What Star Trek film do you like least?
Space Tycoon
01-20-2006, 04:35 PM
Still haven't seen Phlegm-esis.
Still hate Final Frontier though...
:mad:
sickness
01-20-2006, 05:42 PM
I hate TUC with every fibre of my being. It was just another Trek movie bookended by statements of "they're getting old" and passed off as a good way to send them out. If they had approached the aging issue with half the attention and sensibility of WoK (or, hell, even TFF), this would have been a great send-off. Instead, we get lots of galavanting around the galaxy, Klingons quoting Shakespeare, Vulcan proverbs about HUMAN history, a hot chick Kirk doesn't nail (well, maybe I'm wrong... maybe this movie handled the aging issue best :D ), and the playing out of a moment (Fed-Klingon peace) vaguely established in a concurrently running series taking place some 80-90 years later.
I love TUC. It was the first Trek movie I ever bought (on VHS - ah, the nostalgia). The story is pretty good and its real-life applicability was handled quite nicely, the chemistry between the actors is better than ever before and Kirk's order to "Fire!" on the cloaked Bird of Prey is possibly my favorite Kirk moment.
As for Klingons quoting Shakespeare and Vulcans talking about Nixon - there are people from non-English-speaking countries who quote Shakespeare, why shouldn't Klingons do it? Also, it took the USA only a few decades after WW2 to dominate modern culture in Western Europe. A relatively short time after their grandparents were killing each other, kids in Germany, France, the UK and the US quote lines from the same movies. It would have been highly surprising, had human culture not permeated into Vulcan and Klingon culture (and vice versa) in the hundreds of years of Star Trek history.
Kaeos
01-22-2006, 05:32 PM
BY far the worst for me was Insurrection.
All through the movie I was waiting for something, ANYTHING to point toward some galactic peril.
On some level, every other Star Trek film had some measure of galactic importance. Such as to say, if the crew doesn't accomplish the goal the fate of millions could hang in the balance. Here? Nothing. "Not insubordination! Anything but that!" Ugh.:mad:
Not to mention the 4 wheel dune buggy blasting out of the back of the shuttle craft?!?!?!:confused: :mad:
Pardon a minor rant but.....
They have anti-gravity generators!!!!!!!!:(
tstone
01-22-2006, 10:50 PM
The Final Frontier. The only thing worth watching about that film is the chemistry between the characters. And Vixis. She's a Klingon hotty.
BY far the worst for me was Insurrection.I suspect you haven't seen "Nemesis" yet? ;)
I mean, seriously, why the hell does a young Jean-Luc Picard clone have to look like the young Dr. Evil from "Austin Powers: Goldmember"? And what was up with those crappy costumes the Remans were wearing? And the whole "finding pieces of Data" storyline at the beginning was plain idiotic.On some level, every other Star Trek film had some measure of galactic importance. Such as to say, if the crew doesn't accomplish the goal the fate of millions could hang in the balance. Here? Nothing. "Not insubordination! Anything but that!" Ugh.:mad: That didn't really bother me so much. In fact, I sort of liked the idea that for once they didn't save the whole universe. I thought the idea behind "Insurrection" was pretty good, just very badly executed.Not to mention the 4 wheel dune buggy blasting out of the back of the shuttle craft?!?!?!:confused: :mad:Well, that is from "Nemesis" though, isn't it?
Well, that is from "Nemesis" though, isn't it?
Yes it is. Someone has confused their movies.:D
Kaeos
01-23-2006, 06:15 AM
Yes it is. Someone has confused their movies.:D
Your probably right, I haven't had the courage to go back and watch a trek movie in some time - though First Contact was on Sci Fi channel this weekend and I stopped for the last 20 minutes of it.
I kept being reminded of the episode from TOS where they find Cochrane on an alien planet.
jayce78
03-05-2006, 06:04 PM
Nemesis:http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/3285/r3kl.png (http://imageshack.us)
Final Frontier:http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/8012/o1tl.png (http://imageshack.us)
Undiscovered country:http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/2581/g0jf.png (http://imageshack.us)
Insurection:http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/518/l8he.png (http://imageshack.us)
Generations:http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/1851/k4ok.png (http://imageshack.us)
Sgt. Awesome
03-11-2006, 01:41 AM
I hate Generations with a passion. I mean... like... they killed Kirk. When they made that movie I was 7 and he was my idol. Just learning about it made me cry and I still haven't seen it.
All the others I enjoyed watching.
American
03-11-2006, 07:05 AM
"The Final Frontier" was bland to me.
Space Tycoon
03-11-2006, 08:44 AM
Does anyone but me see a sine-curve wave function happening here? I mean if you look at the chart there seems to be a rise and fall in film quality and fan support, which rises and crests every 9-10 years or so.
That means that if history is any guide, the next few films should get better, perhaps very much so.
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Mobile Vulgus
03-11-2006, 07:51 PM
I find it hard to vote because I didn't like MOST of the Star Trek movies. It is easier to count the ones I DO like...
Wrath of Kahn
Star Trek 4
First Contact
And Nemisis wasn't the worst of the bunch.
Didn't like any of the others, though.
How could "Nemesis" be the worst? After all, it's "Wrath of Khan". :smirks:
Sgt. Awesome
03-12-2006, 11:54 PM
Yes, but you can't do Wrath of Kahn without someone yelling, "KAHNNN!!!! KAHNNNN!"
jayce78
03-19-2006, 08:51 AM
http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/5158/th0yr.png (http://imageshack.us)
'' Baaaaarrrrrkkkkk!!!!! '' Baaaarrrrrkkk!!!''
Bill_the_Pony
03-19-2006, 08:18 PM
Nemesis:http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/3285/r3kl.png (http://imageshack.us)
That looks like an old album cover from that old 70's rock group Journey. :romy:
:D
sickness
03-19-2006, 10:58 PM
So true, Bill! It would have bugged me sooner but I'm a big fan of the pre-1982 Journey (and particularly pre-Steve Perry) so I didn't really make the connection. Kinda blinded to it, I guess.
TrekSucksHard
04-06-2006, 03:01 AM
How come multiple choices aren't allowed? :dunno:
I voted for Insurrection cuz it was worse than Nemesis (the clincher= Data's disembodied head floating around and that God-awful karaoke with Picard and Worf while being chased in a shuttle) but if I had it my way I would have voted for all the TNG movies- yes, they were that bad! :angry
How come multiple choices aren't allowed? :dunno:
I voted for Insurrection cuz it was worse than Nemesis (the clincher= Data's disembodied head floating around and that God-awful karaoke with Picard and Worf while being chased in a shuttle) but if I had it my way I would have voted for all the TNG movies- yes, they were that bad! :angry
Life is full of hard choices, and those who can't handle it medicate. :lol:
SinisterPryde
04-13-2006, 07:39 PM
For me, Generations was the worst. Story wise, it was all right. I'm not even bothered that they killed Kirk (much as I like him). rather, it was the way they did it that pissed me off. They can go to any moment in time, to any point, and they choose to go back like minutes before the missle launches. Were I a smart man (like both Picard and Kirk are supposed to be), I would have gone back to when Soren was on the Enterprise to begin with and hold him.
Sorry, it still gets me riled up just thinking about it.
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