I'm amazed this poll hasn't been done before.
The Motion Picture
The Wrath of Khan
The Search for Spock
The Voyage Home
The Final Frontier
The Undiscovered Country
Generations
First Contact
Insurrection
Nemesis
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I'm amazed this poll hasn't been done before.
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First Contact. There's everything I like in this movie : lots of action and suspense, humor, time travel (yeah, I happen to be one of those twisted individuals who love time travel stories), and a vengeful Captain....
The concept of Borg Queen is the only flaw I see in this movie.
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Star Trek 6. It was relevant, funny, dramatic and generally entertaining
"Whom do you serve?"
"The Truth"
"What is the truth?"
"That we are one people, with one voice"
"Will you follow me into fire, will you follow me into dartkness, will you follow me into death?"
"Yes"
"Then follow"
- Dukhat & Delenn, In the Beginning
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TWOK. This movie was the first to provoke emotion from me.
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The Undiscovered Country.Great plot,the courtroom scene was awesome,and the best presentation of Spock ever.
Kind of a tough choice,though.First Contact would have to be a runner up.
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TWOK. Why? Because it wasn't truly a 'Star Trek' movie: it was Hornblower in space -- and it was the right tack to take. The characters were more realistic -- especially the 'deconstructionist' Kirk (the man behind the TOS myth, so to speak.) The space battle was cool. The performances were overall good. The killed a major character in a meanful way (then f'ed it up by bringing him back.) It had all the nautical trappings that made this more believable and fun for me, including the British army-like uniforms with the Napoleonic flap/double breast thing.
A close second is the director's edition of The Motion Picture. Hey, they put the character stuff back in and cut the 45 hours of V'ger flyby. Suddenly, it's a good movie.
I liked TUC & 1st C, as well, but Khan was Trek for a lot of my generation...
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Despite the fact that I seem to recall that it has been done, a long while ago (that, or I was under the effect of a 12-hours-before-the--mostly-white-computer-screen-to-have-my-semester-papers-done-in-time-induced delirium), I'd say TUC, with TWOK an extremely close second, probably a tie, were it not for the fact that I saw TUC before TWOK, and they being of comparable quality IMHO (apart for some of the special effects of TWOK, but I was raised on TNG, which I absolutely did not understand at the time, mainly because my parents watched it in english at home), only the fact that The Undiscovered Country convinced me to watch the other movies (that and to actually follow DS9 and reruns of TNG, which went in my mind from being uninteresting series to something I could very easily lose a few hours of my time to with ease each week), and was the first makes it "superior" in my mind.
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FIRST CONTACT
Why:
- The Borg, kicking a** for the last time before Voyager neutered them (I liked the Borg Queen too, despite the fact that it was the first stage in the neutering process. The first shot of her descending from the ceiling is brilliant).
- The Enterprise-E (Damn fine looking ship. I went to see FC with a couple of friends who were not Trek fans. One of them was about to walk out when he saw the shot of the E-E leaving the nebula. That got him to sit tight for the rest of the movie).
He's an underprivileged skateboarding cowboy with nothing left to lose. She's a sharp-shooting goth bounty hunter who believes she is the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian queen. They fight crime!
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Search for Spock.
Having lived in San Francisco, and been to the Monterey Bay Aquarium I had the pleasure of seeing many familar sights. The take on current society and politics is very interesting. The sight of the Golden Gate Bridge in all its glory. The scene where Sulu meets his great great grandfather. And the cut scene where he was to pinned CAPT . . . made it all worth it.
First Contact, then Undiscovered Country are my next two.
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I think you mean "The Voyage Home"Originally posted by JALU3
Search for Spock.
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Re: Favourite ST film and why
I swear this is deja vu.Originally posted by JonA
I'm amazed this poll hasn't been done before.
Anyhoo, just some random thoughts...
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It's a pretty tough choice
I think TWOK, TVH, TUC and 1st Contact are all on par with each other
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Sorry, Sorry . . . a little tipsy
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Undiscovered Coutry for me
Interesting plot, a reflection of the then-current situation (like Old Trek), and a grandeur and heaviness often missing from the other films.
After that, I go TWOK & STIV in a split
Then First Contact
All the others, not even rated in my mind; pretty much forgettable.
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I have to say the St: IV The Voyage Home. I hated Kirk on TOS and liked him in the movies, but this was a great movie and very funny, especially when Spock goes into San Francisco. The first time I saw it I analyzed it and got all the Trek bits out of it, now I just watch it for comedic relief and a cool plot. I love this movie!
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