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Best Original Star Trek Movie?

Best One?

  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture

    Votes: 1 4.0%

  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

    Votes: 17 68.0%

  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

    Votes: 3 12.0%

  • Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

    Votes: 4 16.0%
  • Total voters
    25
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With Star Trek (Reboot) 3 announced, let's go back to where it all began.

What is your favorite Original Crew movie?

For me it's really, really tough but I have to go with Star Trek VI, I love a movie that follows specific stories of the main characters but carefully balances it in the backdrop of the larger world their story is set against and the implications their actions have on it.

In this context TUC is a masterpiece.

Although IV is fantastic as well and a close second.

And I know alot of Star Trek Fans think I'm crazy for saying this but I am not actually all that averse Star Trek V.

Give us your votes and thoughts.
 
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, by far.

Of the entire series, and perhaps of all Star Trek movies across all series, this was the one that did not require someone to really be a Trekkie to enjoy. All the elements were there. Great screen play, great cinematography and effects (for the period,) and a cast not quite too old just yet. The story itself involved betrayal, love interests, long term hatred and an enemy's quest for revenge, great loss, great gain, a daring escape, self-sacrifice and a core character death (at least so you think,) etc. Other than a handful of "oops" moments IMDB loves to talk about, this one film from the series is well above all the others. IMHO.
 
OrphanSlug said:
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, by far.

Of the entire series, and perhaps of all Star Trek movies across all series, this was the one that did not require someone to really be a Trekkie to enjoy. All the elements were there. Great screen play, great cinematography and effects (for the period,) and a cast not quite too old just yet. The story itself involved betrayal, love interests, long term hatred and an enemy's quest for revenge, great loss, great gain, a daring escape, self-sacrifice and a core character death (at least so you think,) etc. Other than a handful of "oops" moments IMDB loves to talk about, this one film from the series is well above all the others. IMHO.
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I agree.

This scene was heart wrenching for fans.

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Empire strikes back
 
Jetboogieman said:
With Star Trek (Reboot) 3 announced, let's go back to where it all began.

What is your favorite Original Crew movie?

For me it's really, really tough but I have to go with Star Trek VI, I love a movie that follows specific stories of the main characters but carefully balances it in the backdrop of the larger world their story is set against and the implications their actions have on it.

In this context TUC is a masterpiece.

Although IV is fantastic as well and a close second.

And I know alot of Star Trek Fans think I'm crazy for saying this but I am not actually all that averse Star Trek V.

Give us your votes and thoughts.
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I'll go see the new one when it comes out.

Matinee though not late night.
 
I like the one where they all go to that big green city, melt the witch, and get their wishes to come true.
 
my favorite part of star trek was when harry potter used the force to destroy the one ring and free everybody from the matrix
 
Without a doubt: Wrath of Khan.

Oh and all the TNG movies suck too btw. :mrgreen:
 
WCH said:
Yep, there's at least one in Denver.

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Looks good. Nice big screens.

I suppose if they serve food then you can pack your CCW into it.

Bars without food are generally gun free zones in most places.

Bad idea because the Hells Angels there are going to be packing anyway.
 
Jetboogieman said:
With Star Trek (Reboot) 3 announced, let's go back to where it all began.

What is your favorite Original Crew movie?

For me it's really, really tough but I have to go with Star Trek VI, I love a movie that follows specific stories of the main characters but carefully balances it in the backdrop of the larger world their story is set against and the implications their actions have on it.

In this context TUC is a masterpiece.

Although IV is fantastic as well and a close second.

And I know alot of Star Trek Fans think I'm crazy for saying this but I am not actually all that averse Star Trek V.

Give us your votes and thoughts.
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Why limit it to original crew? For me, the best Star Trek movie by a long, long way is ST: First Contact. Epic, genuinely scary, better scripted, better acted and better plotted than any other ST movie. I enjoy the reboots, but was honestly just a little disappointed - they're a bit too flippant, too jokey for my taste.
 
Andalublue said:
Why limit it to original crew? For me, the best Star Trek movie by a long, long way is ST: First Contact. Epic, genuinely scary, better scripted, better acted and better plotted than any other ST movie. I enjoy the reboots, but was honestly just a little disappointed - they're a bit too flippant, too jokey for my taste.
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First contact is the only passable TNG film although I'm not averse to Insurrection which would have made a great episode... Maybe not a film.

Nemesis and Generations are awful.

Trek '09 was pretty good but Into Darkness gets worse every time I recall it.
 
Andalublue said:
Why limit it to original crew? For me, the best Star Trek movie by a long, long way is ST: First Contact. Epic, genuinely scary, better scripted, better acted and better plotted than any other ST movie. I enjoy the reboots, but was honestly just a little disappointed - they're a bit too flippant, too jokey for my taste.
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FC was crap. An Alien ripoff movie with a boring time travel subplot that made no sense.
 
Riveroaks said:
Looks good. Nice big screens.

I suppose if they serve food then you can pack your CCW into it.

Bars without food are generally gun free zones in most places.

Bad idea because the Hells Angels there are going to be packing anyway.
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You'd have to check their local policies. I couldn't find anything about ours even though the open carry law goes into effect Jan. 1.
 
WCH said:
You'd have to check their local policies. I couldn't find anything about ours even though the open carry law goes into effect Jan. 1.
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Open carry law here having the meaning of what ?? Allowed or not allowed ??

I know Nevada's and Arizona's laws because I go there a lot.

But I rarely get to Colorado.
 
Which OS movie was the BEST? What kind of an unfair question is that?

1 - 4, 6

Okay I admit I think V is stupid as hell. They let someone else take over the ship (basically) on some desire to go nutter off to nowhere land? The single most dumbest thing that Kirk had ever done - and it's done for no real reason at all. I always puzzled over the decision to write and produce that sucker.

I like VI - not only because i saw it in the theater with my dad, but because it continued with their lives. Sometimes later movies pretend as if the people are the same age (etc) - but they didn't bother. They were older, they had carried on through different missions. Time had gone on for viewers and for the characters. It was filled with daring drama, conflict, mystery, and suspense.
 
Whew. When you said reboot 3 I thought you meant they were starting over again.

You know the biggest difference between the Original Kirk and this one and Picard...They didnt need a brand new fricken Enterprise after every mission.
 
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