Always been a massive sci fi film fan, seen pretty much every science fiction film I've found, but never watched the Star Trek films.  Never liked the tv show, always thought it was rubbish compared to Star Wars, obviously comparing a serial to a movie is unfair but as a kid I didn't care.  Star Wars had Darth Vader, the best villain of all time, Star Trek had obvious bits of plasticine stuck on bad actors heads. The Star Trek films looked much the same as the serials to me, all pomp, posturing and no substance.

So I've realised it might be time to watch the films, it would if I found myself enjoying them as there's a good amount to get into.

Stuck on the original motion picture from 1979, black screen, twee space music starts, 2 minutes of black screen later twee music ends and paramount logo finally comes up.  Ok here we go this time, some space ships flying past the camera, they look shit but give it a chance.  They get blown up, it all looks shit, the dudes with red plasticine get killed it's all good.

20 minutes of space command twaddle later we are going to get on the enterprise, and my gosh Captain Kirk can't believe how good she looks he's shaking his head.  On the ship and immediately there's contrived personal conflicts and forced affection.

The rest of the film has some better bits but is largely shit IMO.

Compare to the opening of Star Wars, the text crawl and music is fantastic, then the rebel ship fleeing the empirical destroyer, both looks stunning, one of the most iconic opening shots in cinema. The empire boards the rebel ship and an intense laser battle breaks out before this dark lord dude enters and captures the princess, but not before she hides something in a damn robot.

Any Trekkies here want to help me out?  Am I missing something or do you actually just enjoy the pomp and sillyness of Star Trek?  

I hear the second film is the best of the series so I'm watching that tonight.