Glenn pointed, yesterday, to this ranking of the Star Trek movies. With the new movie out as of 7:00pm tonight, I thought I’d do a quick ranking of my own (and if that provides filler for a blog post that I didn’t actually get around to writing yet today, so much the better!).

1. (TIE) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home or Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn: On a purely objective scale, Star Trek II is probably the best of the Trek movies, as in the Armchair Commentary post linked above. But Star Trek IV is a great movie, and it’s the first Trek movie I remember watching, so it gets bumped a little higher for that.
3. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Where Star Trek IV was the first Trek movie that I remember seeing, Undiscovered Country is the first one I remember really being excited about (before that, I had watched Trek, but hadn’t been a big fan). The mystery of exactly who the traitor was, and watching Kirk deal with his prejudices against the Klingons, make this one a good movie.
4. Star Trek: Generations I know this one was largely panned, but I liked it quite a bit.
5. Star Trek III: The Search For Spock I’ll be honest here… this movie is just here because it’s not really one I loved (as the ones before it were) nor one I hated (as some of the ones below are). I honestly don’t remember it all that well; it’s probably the movie I’ve seen the least.
6. Star Trek: Insurrection Other than not remembering it, what I wrote for III stands for Insurrection, too. I didn’t love it or hate it… it was pretty much just an average TNG story, turned into a movie. It doesn’t deserve the hate piled on it, but it doesn’t deserve accolades, either.
7. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier This movie wasn’t that bad when I saw it as a kid… but, I was pretty stupid when I was a pre-teen.
8. Star Trek: First Contact This one’s generally considered the best of the Next Generation movies, but I hated it. It wasn’t a bad action sci-fi movie, but action sci-fi isn’t really what Trek is supposed to be about, especially not the Next Generation.
9. Star Trek: The Motion Picture I haven’t got much to write about this one. It sucks. That’s pretty much it. It scores above Nemesis only because it opened the door for much better movies.
10. Star Trek: Nemesis I hate that this was the last TNG movie, because that crew deserved a better send off than this. I wish there’d been something more Undiscovered Country-like for this crew.

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I was sitting in my office yesterday, and one of the ladies from the office comes back carrying a big gift basket filled with snack food — candy bars, chips, peanuts, etc.

I was completely befuddled as to who might’ve purchased such a thing for me until I read the card. “Thanks,” it read, “for referring your wife.”

Who sent me all this snack food?

My dentist^[a].

1. Despite the cynicism that one might read into the title of this post, I really did appreciate the gesture. It was very sweet (pardon the pun), and I am always pleased to get free snacks at work. If anyone in the Charleston, WV area is looking for a dentist, let me know — I’ll be more than happy to refer you to mine. All selfish motives aside, he’s probably the best dentist I’ve ever had. [↩]