Recommendations for the best Star Trek film?

So riddle me this:

01 goes boom...A is brought in...an instantly wins over fans...perhaps the only redeeming part of Final Frontier...and they did those sets on a SHOESTRING budget!

Yet there isn't that for the E...at least I don't think there is.

I don't know...I'm not nearly as versed in trek as I was a decade ago...perhaps there is more support for the E...but I personally thought the A...with less screen time, managed to nail whatever the E misses.

Do the A and the E compare?

(wow, what a bizarre question.)

 

My Trek knowledge begins and ends with First Contact, Insurrestion and Nemesis -- the last 3 movies. Saw the first two on TV, was average. Saw Nemesis at the cinema, my very first Trek movie, and it blew me away. Great battle finale!

 

If you like great battle finales, go rent The Wrath of Khan right now. But also rent III and IV, because they make up a loose trilogy. III has some slow parts, but IV is pure fun.

Then rent VI.

 

II,III,IV,VI and FC are, hands down, the best of the ten Trek films that have been made so far. I will admit that I enjoyed Nemisis, but add that it doesn't hold a candle to First Contact, Wrath of Khan or The Undiscovered Country, all three of which exist, not only as great Trek films, but great sci-fi in general.

 

I love Undiscovered Contry that has to be my favorite, but I like Wrath of Khan too. I think that they may be the best of the original cast. I liked Insurrection too. My husband believes First Contact is the best, but I won't agree because he can't ever be right! Any one is just a good watch though.

 

For me, this is an easy one:

"The Motion Picture" ....... all the way

A visually, aurally, intellectually, emotionally and spiritually sublime movie. Not a perfect movie in my eyes nor an imperfectly perfect movie, but the best thing that "Star Trek" has ever contributed to cinema -- and maybe even to itself.

After that, I think it's probably II. Then you can more or less take your pick. I and II should be seen by everyone. IV is a personal treat of mine ... and it may be the most "casual viewer" friendly (though I still recommend I and II above it for other, deeper reasons).

 

Agreed. Ramming Shinzon's ship was a bold move, but it paid off and demonstrated the Sovriegn class's durability, which is considerable. Even with a good third of the saucer gone, Picard still had a functional starship. VERY impressive.

 

Undiscovered Country has all of the elements that make Trek wonderful, and weaves these elements together flawlessly. For a franchise with so much quality and history to have its final voyage be its best, is pretty amazing. While I always enjoy any Trek film, I feel this is the one that a long time fan should own(being limited to only 1), and this is the one I would use to convert a newcomer into a Trekkie.

Kirk referencing Peter Pan at the end is one of the coolest and most fitting lines I have ever seen in film.

 

I've never seen any of the movies sadly. but I plan on it fairly soon.

 

Agreed. Spock's final line in TUC is one of his funniest and he had some great ones in TVH, so that's saying something.

"If I were human, I believe my response would be: 'Go to hell.'"

As for converting people, if I didn't use TUC, I would use First Contact, which is also an extremely solid, well made and FUN Star Trek movie.

 

The motionless picture seems like too much of a set-up movie for me.

Its very 'look, heres whats been happening since you left us after season three, heres the new ship. Its not working properly, the crew get reformed, the ship works now, oh look a wormhole, oh wait the wormhole didnt have anything to do with the story, oh look v,ger, omg its really ....... enterprise saves the day.

Its like a longer episode of TOS (like Insurrection was for TNG) and just sets up the 'movie universe' for the other films. That said the effects are great and v'ger is a very interesting 'thing' to have in a movie. Plus its still better than Final Frontier.

Wrath of Khan, UC and FC FTW!

 

ooh, I have finally seen five of the ten films. (Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock, Voyage Home, Final Frontier, and Generations)

I have enjoyed them all except for the language; especially in Search for Spock and Generations; and the finger in Voyage Home was something not needed but the films are okay. I think I'll stick with the series overall though. I'm still working my way through all the films.

 

Language? You mean the PG swearing lol Hardly cause enough to think even slightly less of the films.

Plus star trek would be much more realistic (so would anything else) with a bit more colourful language.

 

Agreed. The occaisonal "hell" or "damn" isn't even really swearing anyway.

 

Kirk does use Reverend Wright's favorite phase on a couple of occasions in the movie series. Some are offended by the combination of those two words.

I'm not, but some are.

 

Well data drops a S bomb in generations, and Riker says the word that best describes children of unhonourable birth in insurrection (so does kirk in ST:3)



But yeah, hardly cause to get the FCC in lol

 

I can handle "hell" and "damn" even though I don't use them myself; it's the repeated use, and it gets to the point of being ridiculous, of bas**** and the s bomb. One use of it is plenty; but I still prefer series over movies, except that Insurrection was really good; I enjoyed that one more than the others because it didn't have so much language. and it had more Troi\Riker in it.

yeah, I don't curse and I don't find it attractive; i see it as laziness and\or ignorance of finding better words to use. I prefer the TOS cast in the series; and I find it strange that i like Picard's crew a lot better in the movies instead of the series.

 

It isnt repeatedly used in Star Trek, thats why it is really odd and dosnt work, because its the sudden and strange 'oh, data swore...weird'


Once per film is the usual for Trek, except First Contact where we have people from Earth's past swearing (as a lot of people do)


And if its the 'laziness' argument your coming at us with, think of how many different swear words there are for te same thing, and how many combinations and phrases can be made up with them.

You dont like swearing, fine. Some uses arnt nice. But it is just vibrations in the air that for some reason have been deemed to be generally offensive.

 

"Ah smeg! what the smeggin' smeg's he smeggin' done? He's smeggin' killed me!"
The sentance that uses almost all the conceivable combinations of 'smeg'

as for cursing in Trek, no it doesn't fit. It takes me out of trek-world, reminds me of the "real" world, and ruins my suspension of disbelief.

That & I didn't like the movies with the cursing anyway (for completely different reasons.

 

And the swearing in The Voyage Home was there for comical effect.

"Well, double dumbass on you!"

 

ha, yeah. it's like Scotty playing the bagpipes in Trek II; that was just too much like real-life, and I can understand it being part of Scotty's heritage; but seriously: bagpipes and Amazing grace in Star Trek???!!!! doesn't go. and First contact I could understandn since it was nearly modern times.

saw Insurrection and Nemesis the other night. both were really good.

 

The last few of the Next Gen movies were pretty much extended episodes that they did. Don't get me wrong, I still liked them, it's just that they seemed almost like episode quality if you catch my meaning.