Which films are considered good or bad, which is the best one?

For the best one, it�s a toss-up between Star Trek: Wrath of Khan, and Star Trek: The Voyage Home. The Next Generation films did well at the box office, got good reviews. First Contract certainly is a far different film than you ever would have seen in the earlier years. The entire thing is basically one large battle against cybernetic Borg.

For a while there was a little bit of a myth that the odd numbered films had a jinx to them, and always did poorly.

There�s a real sense that they make money, so who cares?

I don�t think you�re going to see an end to Star Trek films any time soon. You may not even have a smash hit but they know that they�re going to break even, and probably going to turn a profit by the time they do video rights and everything else. They can be reasonably guaranteed that unless the film is absolutely horrific, they�re going to do pretty well.

The only risk that they�re running with this is they�re about to start a fifth Star Trek television series. There�s an argument that they�re watering Star Trek down, a question of whether they can come up with enough overwhelming concepts to put on the big screen that we haven�t already seen on the small screen.