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{{quote|"''Sure as day follows night, sure as eggs is eggs, sure as every odd-numbered ''Star Trek'' movie is shit.''"|'''[[Spaced
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And then there's the Star Trek Movie Curse.
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In a nutshell, the ''Trek'' feature films have followed a peculiar pattern: even-numbered ''Star Trek'' films have always done extremely well at the box office (with the exception of ''[[Star Trek Nemesis|Nemesis]]''). Odd-numbered films, on the other hand, have either failed miserably or still succeeded, but had a few glaring flaws that kept it from that coveted "top spot".
So far, the only films exempted from Curse are the tenth and eleventh, as 2002's ''[[Star Trek Nemesis]]'' sucked while 2009's ''[[Star Trek (
Two commonly proposed methods to realign the curse with "reality" are using the sum of the digits as an indicator, or alternatively including the [[Affectionate Parody]] ''[[
Some have also taken to referring the [[Continuity Reboot|reboot]] film as "''Star Trek 0''," thus placing it in an arguably even spot.
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Ominously, all of these "patches" to account for the curse failing twice in a row predict that ''Star Trek XII'' (the sequel to the reboot film) will be bad. If the film turns out to be good, then either the curse is well and truly [[Broken Streak|broken]], or it has been [[Reset Button|reset]] to the classic odd-bad, even-good paradigm. [[Epileptic Trees|Or even more elaborate theories will need to be developed to account for it]].
Michael Demtschyna, as noted above, along with [[SF Debris]], have suggested the alternate theory that the movie is bad when any of the main characters sing. These are ''The Final Frontier'', ''Generations'', ''Insurrection'', and ''Nemesis'' (with Chuck snarking that ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Currently, Blu-Ray Disc collectors can buy the even-numbered movies and reboot individually, while the odd-numbered movies are only available in box sets of ''Star Trek'' films.
Interestingly, the ''[[
In addition, the odd-numbered [[Beethoven]] symphonies are the classics (3, 5, 7, and 9. 1, not so much), whereas the evens don't get as much attention.
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