{"id":8611,"date":"2016-07-30T20:04:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T00:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=8611"},"modified":"2017-04-19T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T20:39:16","slug":"star-trek-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/star-trek-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen the first bunch of <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> movies more times than any other movies. The last time I watched them I found that some of the best ones didn&#8217;t wow me quite as much as they once did. I would have rated <strong>Star Trek II, III, IV<\/strong>, and <strong>First Contact<\/strong> 5\/5 on previous occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The movies that I was disappointed in the first time &#8212;<strong> Star Trek I, V<\/strong>, and <strong>Nemesis<\/strong> &#8212; have grown on me. I don&#8217;t usually rewatch movies that disappoint me, but I rewatch all the <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> movies &#8212; and I find that I focus on the good parts.<\/p>\n<p>The last <strong>Next Generation<\/strong> movie, <strong>Nemesis<\/strong>, would have been much different with 2 changes: Jonathan Frakes should have directed it, and Patrick Stewart should have played Shinzon. If they&#8217;d done it that way they could have easily made another 1 or 2 movies.<\/p>\n<p>The original series<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Star Trek: The Motion Picture\n<ul>\n<li>1979 -&gt; 4\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan\n<ul>\n<li>1982 -&gt; 4.5\/5 (+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek III: The Search for Spock\n<ul>\n<li>1984 -&gt; 4.5\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home\n<ul>\n<li>1986 -&gt; 4.5\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek V: The Final Frontier\n<ul>\n<li>1989 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country\n<ul>\n<li>1991 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Next Generation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Star Trek: Generations\n<ul>\n<li>1994 -&gt; 4\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek: First Contact\n<ul>\n<li>1996 -&gt; 4.5\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek: Insurrection\n<ul>\n<li>1998 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek: Nemesis\n<ul>\n<li>2002 -&gt; 4\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The reboot series<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/star-trek-2\/\">Star Trek<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>2009 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/star-trek-into-darkness-2\/\">Star Trek Into Darkness<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>2013 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/star-trek-beyond\/\">Star Trek Beyond<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>2016 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Untitled 4th Star Trek reboot movie\n<ul>\n<li>not yet scheduled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen the first bunch of Star Trek movies more times than any other movies. The last time I watched them I found that some of the best ones didn&#8217;t wow me quite as much as they once did. I would have rated Star Trek II, III, IV, and First Contact 5\/5 on previous occasions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[42,6,8,59],"class_list":["post-8611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-lists","tag-movie","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8611"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10638,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions\/10638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}