Your Trek?

[Darthjaye]

So which Star Trek movie was the one that got you on board? Which one made you a true fan? For me it's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Great movie that I believe re-energized the franchise. It truely made up for the first movie. And it seems set the precendence for a while that only the even numbered movie's were truely any good. It also had some of the best battle scenes for almost any Trek movie ever.

 

[Silver Moon]

Well, I was "On Board" ever since they began syndicating the series in the mid-1970's, and actually saw ST:TMP three times in the theater. But yes, it was Khan that truly brought back Star Trek. I thought that both films to follow it were pretty good too. Of the four TNG films I enjoyed both First Contact and Insurection but could have skipped the other two.

 

[Crothian]

The first movie, best of the bunch and was a nice sci fi film.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Star Trelk 2: The Wrath of Khan brought me back.

The first one drove me away from the franchise (which I had loved until that movie sucked all the life out of it for me)

 

[drothgery]

I only saw 6 - 8 in a theater, and haven't seen the last two at all. But it was Deep Space Nine that cemented my Trek fandom.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Deep Space Nine, episode one.

I had seen a movie or two and was vaguely aware of Trek, having seen a bunch of
TNG when in Florida (it was always on!), but DS9 was what brought me on board.

First Trek movie I saw, knowing it was Trek, was Undiscovered Country. Still my fav.

 

[wingsandsword]

So which Star Trek movie was the one that got you on board? Which one made you a true fan? For me it's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Great movie that I believe re-energized the franchise. It truely made up for the first movie. And it seems set the precendence for a while that only the even numbered movie's were truely any good. It also had some of the best battle scenes for almost any Trek movie ever.

Well, IV was the first one I saw in theaters, and as a kid I watched some of the early seasons of TNG, but then I saw V in theaters, blecch.

I started becoming a Trek fan around Season 4 and Season 5 of TNG (as I was about 11 or 12 at the time, just getting old enough to begin to really appreciate it), which meant the movie that I saw when I was really getting into Trek would have been VI.

Of course, my geekdom was certain as soon as I watched the movie and picked out huge plot holes (like why does the Enterprise have plasma-sensing hardware, it was Excelsior that was established at the beginning to have been on that mission.), then trying to rationalize my way out of them.

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

The Original Series, thanks. I was in hy playpen or high chair or my parents laps while it shown first-run, and have clear memories of the second run in syndication. The Animated Series debuted in 1973, slightly before I started playing D&D. By the time the movie came out, I had been in Starfleet and worked my way up to turning down a promotion to Admiral in a pay-for-play-by-surface-mail league. I was born with a Federation Flag tatooed on my heart.

 

[Darthjaye]

I will admit to a slight deviation to my theory of all the odd movies were bad and all the even ones were good. ST 3 was fairly decent and tied together the story from 2 through 4. That being said, the last one, Nemesis (the 10th one) pretty much blew and for the most part has killed the movie series (or at least brought it to a screeching halt for the time being) for now.

This was all brought on as I was checking my cable to DVR something to watch for later and came across ST 2: WOK and, even after setting the DVR to record it, sat through and watched it all. Still as entertaining as it was the first thousand times I've seen it. For a movie that is over 23 years old, it's till fun to watch and the special effects, although outdated, are still cool and don't make me wince to watch.

 

[ecliptic]

TNG series made me a fan of Star Trek. I hate the original series.

Anyway I liked Nemesis.