reboot was pretty to look at but i disliked the story; scotty/chekov/uhura/sulu; spock's desire to mate with uhura; sulu swordfighting on that drilling platform like a pro when he's supposed to be a useless twat good only for driving the ship; the fact that time travel was involved at all; teleporting into a warping vessel; old spock making a dumb cameo; enterprise being constructed on earth and not in space; kirk's trick to cheating on the kobayashi maru test being nothing more than l33thaxx0ring it; kirk being an edgy, attention-seeking rebel; the fact that instead of creating something new, JJA and his team could do nothing more than remake something [wasn't one failure of a prequel series enough of a warning that no one wants to see the past?] etc.
kirk, spock, bones - they were okay in terms of actor performance. when I went to the cinema, my then girlfriend and I walked out. only I gave the film a second chance, she was having none of it. I still couldn't say it was good. but I really, really liked TOS, maybe I'm biased.
most star trek movies are shit because the production team always tries to fit in as much fanservice as possible, twisting the plots to suit that purpose and leaving huge holes in the process.
the first star trek movie of them all isn't too badly written but the problem is that the plot is just copypasted from one or two existing episodes of TOS.
similarly, star trek II is merely a continuation of a relatively bland TOS episode that was basically tied up already and didn't need a continuation.
star trek III fucking dragged, it's just hours of dealing with the uninteresting fallout from star trek II.
star trek IV is good because they literally didn't give a shit about writing something fancy and just went with a new[ish] story, with time travelling whales and other whacky bollocks. star trek parodying itself in the 20th century worked.
star trek V was just retarded. boring, badly written and whacky in the bad way.
STVI was deeply uninteresting, too much diplomatic horseshit and a much hyped klingon prison turns out to be nothing fierce at all. klingons are also the most boring race to centre a star trek movie on, same as the romulans, too much interaction with these races in the series for it to be fun to watch for anyone familiar with the series.
generations was boring AND including kirk was a bad, bad move. he had his time, focus on new ideas rather than digging up corpses to make some 50 year old women excited. no one is going to be entertained just because an elderly kirk returns to get his shit handed to him by some random, unconvincing villain pursuing a magic energy ribbon of timelessness. I mean seriously, why would anyone actually want to pursue the nexus? why? it's just dumb. too many plot holes in that movie and there was the feeling that it was impossible for the good guys to lose. and if they did lose, who'd give a shit? didn't feel any build up. villain was meh. OH NO, you want to act in your own interests, no one ever wanted that before. not even a fucking alien adversary, why even set it in space? data having a magical emotion chip? WHY? PLUS guinan was in the movie with magical gypsy knowledge of the magic energy ribbon. guinan, undoubtedly the shittiest character of the whole star trek saga, should never have made it into the movie.
first contact throws picard's calm, objective, analytical persona into the bin and turns him into an emotional faggot, all for the benefit of giving some random woman from a earth a reason to be in the movie. time travel is really getting old by this point. seeing cochrane invent the warp drive ... couldn't care less. borg having a queen rather than being a true collective consciousness? gay as fuck. that queen being a colossal slut? even more annoying. data being given "real" feelings. wow. big fucking deal. he's really going to betray his entire crew and the future of the federation so he can feel some rotten slut's breath on two square inches of organic flesh.
insurrection... it was okay. worf becomes a buttmonkey, picard falls in love but gives less than a third of a fuck when the chips are down and he has to continue working for starfleet, the villains are suitably merciless, starfleet admiral what's-his-name being a baddy worked okay. few plot holes, like magic life-extending energy that can only be harvested on this particular planet, and only after killing some random villagers. i mean they should have just done it really, who cares about some peasants who have rejected iphones to live simple lives of immortal hedonism? not a terrible movie, people aren't just different characters and there's no time travel. not a complete copypaste of an episode either, though there are some similarities.
nemesis was just one movie too many, the premise of the romulan-offshoot race was stupid and
was shit a fucking brutal and shit thing to do.
