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The episode in which Ro & Riker get it on and Worf plays Boss and everyone else is like: "Who are we? What do we want? Why are we here?"

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Originally posted by Reverend:
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I just love this reasoning.

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"Of the Star Trek movies, two of the most successful and popular, amongst both the general box office and the fans, were Star Trek IV — the one about the whales — and Star Trek: First Contact. They were both movies that dealt with impending destruction of the Earth, huge stakes that Enterprise and its crew had to go out and undo. So our thought was that, rather than just have a general mission of exploring space peacefully, [we'd] do a portion or maybe even an entire season where we had a very specific and a very immediate and a very dangerous situation."

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I guess he missed the box office reports for Nemesis and ST:I.

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I don't have the box office for Insurrection and Nemsis handy, but for a piece I wrote some years ago I did some math of the box-office for the Trek films released to date. This is what I came up with:

Just how much money did each of the Trek films make? Well, although generally profitable for Paramount, the series never reached the box-office heights of a Star Wars or Titanic. In fact, even adjusted for inflation, none of the Star Trek films are even in the top 100 moneymaking films.

Here�s a ranking of the Trek movies ranked from highest to lowest box-office, in millions of dollars:

The figures below are in order: RANK, DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE, OVERSEAS BOX OFFICE, WORLWIDE TOTAL, AND FILM NAME. Where I could not find a figure, I left a blank ___:

1 $109.7 ___ $109.7 The Voyage Home (1986)
2 $ 92.0 $ 54.0 $146.0 First Contact (1996)
3 $ 82.3 $ 51.0 $ 133.3 The Motion Picture (1979)
4 $ 78.9 ___ $ 78.9 The Wrath of Khan (1982)
5 $ 76.4 ___ $ 76.4 The Search for Spock (1984)
6 $ 75.7 $ 42.4 $118.1 Generations (1994)
7 $ 74.9 $ 22.0 $ 96.9 The Undiscovered Country (1991)
8 $ 55.2 ___ $ 55.2 The Final Frontier (1989)
TOTAL $645.0 $169.4 $814.4

They say figures can be misleading, and, indeed, they are. Everyone may say that Titanic made more money than Star Wars, but movie ticket prices are not static. If you adjust the grosses for films to compensate for inflation, you get some very different results. In the case of Star Trek, we see some significant shuffling. First Contact goes from #1 to #5, Khan and Generations swap their positions. Interestingly, The Final Frontier remains firmly buried at the bottom of the heap.

Adjusted for inflation (1998 dollars):

RANK DOM OVER WORLD FILM
1 $145.6 $ 90.2 $235.8 The Motion Picture (1979)
2 $129.2 ___ $129.2 The Voyage Home (1986)
3 $109.5 ___ $109.5 The Wrath of Khan (1982)
4 $ 99.3 __ $ 99.3 The Search for Spock (1984)
5 $ 92.0 $ 54.0 $146.0 First Contact (1996)
6 $ 79.1 $ 44.4 $ 123.5 Generations (1994)
7 $ 77.8 $ 22.9 $ 100.7 The Undiscovered Country (1991)
8 $ 57.2 ___ $ 57.2 The Final Frontier (1989)

It�s interesting to note that, adjusted for inflation, the much-maligned TMP raked in more domestic bucks than any of its follow-ups. In fact, the average gross domestic box-office for a Trek film (in 1998 dollars) is about $98.7 million, and TMP came in at a whopping 1.48 times that figure, whereas a First Contact, which is widely considered a better and more popular film, came in right on the average, whileGenerations and TUC, both also considered better and more popular, came in considerably below average.

Why which films were more successful at the box office is another subject entirely.

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