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VIDEO: Ranking the Star Trek films (part 1 of 2)

by Thomas Stockel · June 26, 2016

Part one of a two part ranking of all 12 Star Trek films, from worst to first.

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Tags: Alex Kurtzman Alice Eve Anton Yelchin Benedict Cumberbatch Brent Spiner Bruce Greenwood Captain Kirk Captain Picard Chris Pine Damon Lindelof DeForest Kelley Directed by J.J. Abrams Dr. McCoy Eric Bana J. J. Abrams John Cho Karl Urban Leonard Nimoy Patrick Stewart Peter Weller Roberto Orci Shatner-rific Simon Pegg Spock Star Trek Star Trek Insurrection Star Trek Into Darkness Star Trek Nemesis Star Trek V: The Final Frontier The Star Trek Movies Tom's Retrophilia: Ranking the Star Trek Films William Shatner Worf Zachary Quinto Zoe Saldana

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Gideon

Wow, Insurrection is so bleh that I’d forgotten it exists.
- Thomas Stockel
  
  I wish I could forget it exists. If you want to see a truly epic bashing of that film go see SF Debris hilariously vicious dissection.
Toby Clark

My own rankings (using my IMDb scores):
12: The Motion Picture (4/10)
11: The Final Frontier (4/10)
10: Insurrection (6/10)
9: Generations (7/10)
8: Nemesis (8/10)
7: The Search For Spock (8/10)

Will continue when you do, I guess.
- Thomas Stockel
  
  Hopefully I’ll have it up soon after the 4th. It will be interesting to see how the second half compares to yours. :)
333: SC

I pretty much break the movies into 3 categories:
Really Good) TMP (yeah, that’s right, especially the Director’s Cut) and WOK

Goofy But Marginally Fun) III, IV and XI and First Contact
Varying Degrees of Crap and Garbage) all the rest

Really, when you break it down, the movies kind of suck on average.
ussafs3

The new Star Trek movies are good for one reason: Zachary Quinto is so dead-on as Spock I don’t think I’m watching somebody try and recreate the character, I’m watching “Spock.”The supporting cast is probably as good as can be expected (I like Karl Urban but he isn’t given a lot to do; I like Simon Pegg but he’s as old here as James Doohan was in TOS) but Chris Pine just grates on me. I know Kirk is supposed to be kind of a pompous dick, but he comes off less as “raw unpolished natural leader” and more of “cocky-ass motherf***er.” Excusing the absolute flushing of canon here, putting a starship under the command of a kid who didn’t even finish the academy yet seems beyond farfetched, and really hamstrings the new franchise in my opinion.
- bb
  
  It reminds me of Wesley Crusher
  But we know Kirk graduated since we saw the Kobayashi Maru simulation.