On August 11th,
Badass Digest released a Trekkie-voted ranked list of all the Star Trek movies to date (plus
Galaxy Quest, for some reason). It's a strange list, to say the least. Why is
Galaxy Quest on there? Other than the fact that it's a mostly-direct parody of
Star Trek, it isn't actually a
Star Trek movie. And why did they stick
Star Trek Into Darkness at the end, when it's obviously not the worst film on the list?
OK, so I have a good answer for that last question. We talked about this a little in a recent Shoot the WISB episode. Basically, the reversal of the Khan narrative probably came off as a slap in the face to Trekkies. I even think it smelled disgusting, even though I kind of like the idea of switching things around. After all, Spock isn't supposed to be an emotional man, so the idea that he'd break down after the supposed death of Kirk adds some weight to the moment. But...it wasn't handled well. There wasn't enough character development; the death of Kirk was handled in the way you'd expect a comic book to handle it: he's dead...wait, no, not really, here's some magic *poof.* At least in
Wrath of Khan, Spock died. He was dead dead dead. The film never says "hey, we'll magic him into existence...right at the end." If you've never seen
Search for Spock, you really do think the guy has friggin died. And that's a big deal. The audience sometimes needs that slap in the face.
But I digress. Prepare to be pissed off. The following is
my ranked list of
Star Trek movies, minus
Galaxy Quest:
