Rank the (original) Trek movies

[Morrus]

Khan is leading with 8 votes to Voyage Home's 2!

 

[Legatus Legionis]

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[Morrus]

The ending dialogue between Kirk and Sulu sounds too unnatural/forced. As much as they wanted a Sulu spin-off, I don't think the fans at the time were ready for a Star Trek without Captain Kirk.

Sure they were. Next Generation had already been running for 4 years at that point.

 

[Legatus Legionis]

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[Eltab]

I thought Final Frontier was the worst - obviously written from back to front, irrational choices being made to forward the railroad plot the entire way so Kirk / Spock / McCoy can conclude "since this being is not God, and is lying by calling himself God, there must not be a God."

Undiscovered Country was transparently an effort to place IRL current events in the Trek universe. There might be a background universe where current events fit into the fiction nicely. Trek is not it; there is too much that had to have happened 1965-1980 but did not, to get from here to there. ("To Reign in Hell" describes Khan's childhood on Earth and does a good job with it. "Undiscovered Country" is a sloppy second-rate attempt to imitate what "Reign in Hell" achieved.)

My favorite movie is of course Wrath of Khan. I endorse everything said above.

Don't knock the soundtrack from Voyage Home. Best scene in the movie required the soundtrack's cooperation: Kirk and the Obnoxious Punk dude with his boom box "I hate you / and I berate you", "Excuse me, can you turn that down?" " ... / and I say Screw You!" Spock then gives Obnoxious Punk the Vulcan Pinch, and he _just happens_ to hit the OFF button as he faints.

The original movie is pretty good if you want to sit back and relax and just take in a "thinker" movie. There's not much action because you can't fight a super-brain (V'ger) with disrupter bolts. Kirk has to think his way through the puzzle - and for once, Uhura (instead of Spock) is the one who gives Kirk the 'key' to the right answer.

 

[Eltab]

or I am sure some fans would have loved to see Chekov

Marathon-watch a season of Star Trek: Chekov is trying to emulate Kirk but is too young and inexperienced to pull it off. The chicks swoon for Kirk instead, and Chekov usually guesses the wrong answer to a problem. (He falls into traps, which serves to warn Kirk / Spock so they can get it right.)
I would enjoy a miniseries centered on Chekov maturing. Not into "another Kirk", but into somebody who can solve problems presented to him by using his brain and charm. After all, he's been around Spock and Sulu and Uhura and Scotty too.

 

[delericho]

2, 6, 3, 4, 1, 5.

 

[MarkB]

Undiscovered Country was transparently an effort to place IRL current events in the Trek universe. There might be a background universe where current events fit into the fiction nicely. Trek is not it; there is too much that had to have happened 1965-1980 but did not, to get from here to there. ("To Reign in Hell" describes Khan's childhood on Earth and does a good job with it. "Undiscovered Country" is a sloppy second-rate attempt to imitate what "Reign in Hell" achieved.)

Yeah, my main problem with Undiscovered Country, aside from some glaring plot holes and contrivances, is that script-wise it is 45% Cold War political rhetoric, and 45% removed-from-context Shakespeare, which only leaves room for about 10% Star Trek.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Undiscovered Country was my favorite from the old movies. I never really got the enthusiasm for Wrath of Khan, though I would not deny it's one of the better ones. I loved IV for the comedy.

I and V are the worst.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

II, VI, IV ... then the others. I suppose III, I, V? V is horrid, the other two are just bad.