For me, there really is no contest...First Contact wins, hands down. Of course, Generations has the merit of being the film that saw the demise of the Enterprise-D, a huge improvement to the Star Trek franchise, in my book...always hated that ship, in spite of her name and heritage. Insurrection was good...you can't beat F. Murray Abraham and Anthony Zerbe cahooting together. The one film I had the biggest problem with is Nemesis. I enjoyed it, but even as I watched it, I kept getting the weirdest sense of deja vu...and then, once it was all over, I realized why...it was the biggest and best plot points of The Wrath of Khan and The Search For Spock, all lumped together and recast. Shinzon was Khan AND Kruge rolled together, with a little David Marcus thrown in for good measure; Data was obviously Spock, with B4 as the resurrected Spock; the secret weapon that Shinzon and the Remans were carrying was a rehash of the threat that Genesis carried with it; and after Picard rammed the Enterprise-E into the Scimitar, the front third of the saucer section was destroyed, just like the Enterprise in TSFS. Hmm...can we say "self-plagiarism"?
For me, there really is no contest...First Contact wins, hands down. Of course, Generations has the merit of being the film that saw the demise of the Enterprise-D, a huge improvement to the Star Trek franchise, in my book...always hated that ship, in spite of her name and heritage. Insurrection was good...you can't beat F. Murray Abraham and Anthony Zerbe cahooting together. The one film I had the biggest problem with is Nemesis. I enjoyed it, but even as I watched it, I kept getting the weirdest sense of deja vu...and then, once it was all over, I realized why...it was the biggest and best plot points of The Wrath of Khan and The Search For Spock, all lumped together and recast. Shinzon was Khan AND Kruge rolled together, with a little David Marcus thrown in for good measure; Data was obviously Spock, with B4 as the resurrected Spock; the secret weapon that Shinzon and the Remans were carrying was a rehash of the threat that Genesis carried with it; and after Picard rammed the Enterprise-E into the Scimitar, the front third of the saucer section was destroyed, just like the Enterprise in TSFS. Hmm...can we say "self-plagiarism"?
Have to agree, I thought that Nemesis was a little too Dark.
First Contact for me. Although the destruction of the E-D WAS a great improvement to Generations. Who wants a ship that only looks good (decent?) for two or three angles?
Generations was a wild roller-coaster ride that fit into what I've grown up thinking sci-fi should be. First Contact is a close runner-up but I still like ST:G despite its many bloopers (which are another fun reason to watch it).