History YMMV / StarTrek

* ContestedSequel: Star Trek XI (referred to some fans simply as 'the Abrams film' or similar) has caused a BrokenBase within Star Trek fans between people who only like the old Trek, people who only like XI, and people who like both.

* MarySuetopia: Roddenberry's vision for Trek, but especially the first season of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''. Needless to say, the series finally found its legs after he was removed from any serious degree of creative control.

* [[YMMV/{{Ptitlesudezz2rf0x3}} New Frontier]]

* {{Sequelitis}}: it began with the very first episode of ''Voyager'', but by the time ''Insurrection'' rolled around, even major critics were noting that the franchise was taking a fairly serious and noticeable dip in quality. ''Enterprise'' and ''Nemesis'' are "credited" with coming within a whisper of '''killing''' the franchise (''Nemesis'' being the only Trek film in history to ''not'' turn a profit); the reboot salvaged it, but the quality of sequels to it remain to be seen.

* {{Sequelitis}}: [[UnpleasableFanbase Some would say]] it began with the very first episode of ''Voyager'', but by the time ''Insurrection'' rolled around, even major critics were noting that the franchise was taking a fairly serious and noticeable dip in quality. ''Enterprise'' and ''Nemesis'' are "credited" with coming within a whisper of '''killing''' the franchise (''Nemesis'' being the only Trek film in history to ''not'' turn a profit); the reboot salvaged it, but the quality of sequels to it remain to be seen.

* {{Sequelitis}}: [[UnpleasableFanbase Some would say]] it began with the very first episode of ''Voyager'', but by the time ''Insurrection'' rolled around, even major critics were noting that the franchise was taking a fairly serious and noticeable dip in quality. ''Enterprise'' and ''Nemesis'' are "credited" with coming within a whisper of '''killing''' the franchise (''Nemesis'' being the only Trek film in history to ''not'' turn a profit); the reboot salvaged it, but the quality of sequels to it remain to be seen.
* UnpleasableFanbase: Stay away from discussion forums about what is or isn't canon if you fear InternetBackdraft!

* [[YMMV/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier The Final Frontier]]

* [[YMMV/StarTrekGenerations Generations]]

* [[YMMV/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Various theme Songs.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome (The theme songs for ''TOS'' and ''TNG'' are iconic. ''DS9'' and ''VOY'''s music were decidedly more epic and considered the high point of the series, despite not being nearly as well-known. ENT's is much-reviled.)
* FanDumb (As noted above, quite possibly Ye Originale Fan Dumb, at least in the sense we think of it today. Mercilessly skewered in the documentary ''Trekkies'', which featured the juror who wore her Star Fleet uniform to court and one fan who seriously thought about getting his ears surgically altered to look Vulcan.)
* MarySuetopia Roddenberry's vision for Trek, but especially the first season of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''. Needless to say, the series finally found its legs after he was removed from any serious degree of creative control.
* NightmareFuel: Pondering the implications of how the transporter works. It disassembles you on the molecular level, then reassembles you somewhere else, using different molecules (it doesn't just move your same molecules through space, or transporter duplicates wouldn't be possible). In other words, the transporter ''kills you'' and then reassembles an exact copy of you somewhere else that's so perfect that nobody would think it's not you. Well, except you, because you're '''dead'''. No wonder [=McCoy=] prefers shuttles.
* {{Sequelitis}} ([[UnpleasableFanbase Some would say]] it began with the very first episode of ''Voyager'', but by the time ''Insurrection'' rolled around, even major critics were noting that the franchise was taking a fairly serious and noticeable dip in quality. ''Enterprise'' and ''Nemesis'' are "credited" with coming within a whisper of '''killing''' the franchise (''Nemesis'' being the only Trek film in history to ''not'' turn a profit); the reboot salvaged it, but the quality of sequels to it remain to be seen.)
* UnpleasableFanbase (Stay away from discussion forums about what is or isn't canon if you fear InternetBackdraft!)

* [[YMMV/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Original Series]]

** YourMileageMayVary on the latter. Some people think ENT's theme song is the best in the series and expresses precisely what the series was intended to be about, and even many who don't share this opinion think that it was a good fit for the series but unsuitable as credits music.
* DethroningMomentOfSuck: While many series have lots of debates over the worst episodes, each major ''Star Trek'' series has at least one episode almost universally regarded as the worst of their respective series.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E1SpocksBrain Spock's Brain]]" from ''The Original Series''
** "The Final Frontier" from the movies
** "Shades of Gray" from ''The Next Generation''
** "Let He Who Is Without Sin" from ''Deep Space Nine'' ("Profit and Lace" being a close contender)
** "Threshold" from ''Voyager''
** "These Are The Voyages..." from ''Enterprise''

* UnpleasableFanbase (Stay away from discussion forums about what is or isn't canon if you fear InternetBackdraft!)


! Film: Star Trek (2009)
* AdaptationDecay: The film certainly reviewed well, but as far as [[RuinedFOREVER Trek fans go]]... Let's just say this is a thinly disguised StarWars movie.
* CharacterAlignment: Kirk shifts from ChaoticNeutral to ChaoticGood as he joins the ''Enterprise'', and as Spock spends more time with Kirk, he shifts from LawfulNeutral to LawfulGood, realizing that sometimes, his emotions are the most powerful weapon of all.
* EarWorm: Some bits of the score are like this particularly the song that plays [[spoiler:when Nero's ship is being shot into the black hole.]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Captain Robau, who had about five minutes of screentime, has gone down in ''Trek'' lore as one of the most [[MemeticBadass badass]] captains ever.
** Gaila is proving very popular. She stars in one scene, is a face in a crowd scene, and that's ''it''. This may have something to do with her being an Orion who presumably has lots of sex, or just the fact that she's another female face.
* FetishFuel: More than one person has found the [[spoiler: strangulation-on-the-bridge]] scene a jumping-off point for SlashFic, and the tattooed Romulans apparently hit some people's spots. Then there's Kirk looking all beaten up for most of the movie, and the literal [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Green-Skinned Space Babe]].
* HamAndCheese: Eric Bana as Nero.
* HoYay: That whole... 'stallion' conversation.
** Pine and Quinto aid and abet with their 5-part "[[PortmanteauCoupleName Spork]]" handshake. Really guys?
** Pretty much all the K/S shippers from the original series along with a whole new generation introduced to the original slash pairing. Also, huge portions of the fandom are behind the [=McCoy=]/Kirk and Chekov/Sulu pairings.
* ItsPopularNowItSucks: [[http://www.theonion.com/content/video/trekkies_bash_new_star_trek_film Mocked]] by TheOnion, who posted a video "showing" how the hardcore-Trekkies were upset when the movie was critically acclaimed, on the basis that it was "theirs". "They" were particularly annoyed about its inclusion of demographic-pandering things like a sensical plot, actors who care about what they're saying, and [[AliensSpeakingEnglish aliens who speak English]].
* LargeHam: Nero: "WAIT!!!!!! The hull! Magnify!"
* LoveItOrHateIt: Everything from the script, to the plot, to the cast, to the look, and everything in between, seems to be divisive. Given that this is such a major shift in the franchise, that's not quite surprising.
* {{Narm}}
** The entire intro scene showing how ''"hey you guys, look at Kirk do some crazy stuff in a stolen car as a kid, you KNOW he was a natural born rebellious spirit."''
** When Kirk, Sulu, and the redshirt were dropped down to disable the drill... because that's pretty much how the crew "beams down" to a planet's surface in ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcMWlAaMujQ Stone Trek]]''.
*** And like any incarnation of ''StarTrek'', you ''know'' the RedShirt isn't coming back.
** The Red Matter looks like a big red ball. For moviegoers who were fans of the show {{Alias}}, this unfortunately triggered memories of the {{Artifact of Doom}} prominently featured in the show: a big red ball that {{Television Without Pity}} eventually named "Clifford." As in {{Clifford The Big Red Dog}}. Cue tears of laughter from a certain portion of the audience.
** [[spoiler:Vulcans kept getting crushed under pillars.]] It did swerve back into TearJerker territory [[spoiler:with Amanda's death.]]
** '''FIRE EVERYTHING!''' Play that scene in slow-mo, and you can clearly see spit flying out from Nero's mouth.
*** [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste Deliberately]] [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] NarmCharm. Doomed {{Red Shirt}}s and hammy villains are as much a part of ''StarTrek'' as Spock's pointy ears.
* NightmareFuel: Quite a few things are slightly eerie, some with the [[ItMakesSenseInContext context]], some without:
** The indistinct voices heard inside the ''Narada'' at one point.
*** The ''Narada'' is about twenty miles long, hideously overweaponed, and covered in blades and tentacles caused by uncontrollable Borg ''growths''. There is nothing about the ''Narada'' that ''isn't'' NightmareFuel.
** The way Nero's face is stretched on the viewscreen.
** The ''Enterprise'' bridge sounds sound a bit eerie on first impression, but you can get used to it quickly enough.
** Being beamed inside a cooling system.
** That EldritchAbomination monster on the ice planet.
* ShipsThatPassInTheNight: Many pairings qualify, but Sulu/Chekov and Scotty/Gaila are notable for their HUGE popularity in proportion to the amount of canon interaction.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Slides a bit on down toward Cynicism from the bright and optimistic place StarTrekTOS occupied near Idealism. But the scenery is a lot prettier.
* [[{{SugarWiki/Ptitleh7wzr92t4un4}} So Cool It's Awesome]]: The film has turned out to be both a [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_trek_11/ critical]] and popular success.
* StrangledByTheRedString: Spock and Uhura, arguably.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Everything from the ''Enterprise'''s design to Spock's sideburns has been used as proof.
* UncannyValley: Winona's [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/dearladydisdain/picspam/stxi%20ladies/bigeyes.png birthing assistant]] sure does have some huge eyes.
* WinBackTheCrowd: Like it or not, this movie got ''everyone'' interested in Star Trek again after years of decline.

* AdaptationDistillation: The film certainly reviewed well, anyway. [[FanDumb Fans]]...[[UnpleasableFanBase will]] [[BrokenBase be]] [[RuinedFOREVER fans]].

* FetishFuel: More than one person has found the [[spoiler: strangulation-on-the-bridge]] scene a jumping-off point for {{SlashFic}}, and the tattooed Romulans apparently hit some people's spots. Then there's Kirk looking all beaten up for most of the movie, and the literal [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Green-Skinned Space Babe]].