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Where would you rank it with the other films?

My current rankings:

1. The Wrath of Khan: ****
2. The Voyage Home: ****
3. The Motion Picture - Director's Cut: ****
4. Star Trek: ***1/2
5. The Undiscovered Country: ***1/2
6. The Search for Spock: ***
7. First Contact: **1/2
8. Generations: **1/2
9. Nemesis: **
10.The Final Frontier: *
11.Insurrection: *
 
My favorites are:
"Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"
"Star Trek: First Contact"
"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"
"Star Trek XI"
My least favorites are:
"Star Trek: The Motion Picture"
"Star Trek: Insurrection"
The rest I don't really care about or actively hate enough to bother ranking.

I will say that every time I see "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," I like it a little bit more. I think Sybok is a fun character, and the movie has a great Goldsmith score.
 
My current rankings:
top 3:
The Motion Picture - Director's Cut:
The Wrath of Khan:
Star Trek

bottom 3:
Insurrection:
The Final Frontier:
Generations:
 
Still hard for me to say. I'm hoping to see it again in the next couple of days with my fiancee (she's not a fan and I've been trying to convince her to see it since it came out), so then I'll have a better idea of where it ranks. I say that because second viewing is everything for me and how well it holds up. I initially liked NEM fairly well, but when I saw it a second time it didn't hold up as well and my opinion of it dropped. Hoping the same doesn't happen with Star Trek, but I'm pretty sure it won't.

In the mean time...

1st Place Tie. The Wrath of Khan / First Contact (they trade places so much I just tie them)
2. Star Trek
3. The Undiscovered Country
4. The Voyage Home
5. The Search for Spock
6th place tie. Nemesis / Generations (can't decide on which is better, so they're tied)
7. Insurrection
8. The Motion Picture
9. The Final Frontier
 
My rankings change around every time I watch them all again. For example, most recently, I've developed a new appreciation for GEN mostly because I feel that it was the one TNG film that dared to change the status quo, unlike the others that felt a lot like TV episodes (an assessment that may seem like a cliché, but it's true). At the same time, I must now rank FC as my least favorite. I suppose when it was new I found it exiting for the then-unusually high action content. But today, after STXI, it seems tame in that regard, and other than that it doesn't have much to offer. This is how perceptions change.

So with all due caution, I would place the new film among my top three or four in any event. Only two other ST films are as entertaining as this one: TVH and TWOK. Only one other, TMP, is equally cinematic. And these are the things I want to see in a Star Trek film (as opposed to television): entertainment that makes the minutes fly by and something of scope and scale that television couldn't give me. In both ways, STXI delivers, so it must rank highly.
 
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