Every Star Trek film, charted

Get ready to geek out on Star Trek… err… at least in terms of box office numbers. The Switch charts the course of Star Trek History through three casts and billions in box office.

The first Star Trek movie was released in 1979 — a full decade after the original television show left the airwaves. That first film, “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,”  has the second-lowest Internet Movie Database (IMDB) user rating at 6.3. But its worldwide box office gross was $139 million. Adjusted for inflation, that’s $454.8 million in 2014 dollars — putting it somewhere in between the inflation-adjusted returns of the two films in the rebooted film saga that began in 2009.

The two rebooted films are the top-rated by IMDB users out of the all 12 entries of Star Trek film canon — with 2009′s “Star Trek” earning an 8.1 and “Into Darkness” garnering a 7.9. The top-rated film featuring the original cast was “The Wrath of Khan” with a 7.8, while the Picard-helmed Next Generation crew’s top film was “First Contact.” Apparently, watching the android Data experience the thrill of physical sensation wasn’t enough to beat the special effects powerhouse of a J. J. Abrams production.

Washington Post | Read the Full Article