45 Was The Star Trek V Of American Presidents

They're still Star Trek movies, pizza, and sex.

Maybe 45 was the Battlefield Earth of American Presidents.

The original was a classic, surely didn't need a remake, and... Adam Sandler? No. Just.. No. The whole idea of remaking that movie was a dumb one from the get-go - much like electing a corrupt, evil, vindictive crook and reality TV idiot to run the country.

Star Trek V, unlike Drumpf, at least had potential. There was a good story and script there, and the whole thing fell apart thanks to poor production. While Star Trek V is easily the most disappointing of the original crew/series movies, it should've been good.

Drumpf never had potential, and, the only "script" with him is the whole "smart, tough, no-nonsense businessman" myth that the media and NBC (especially the latter thanks to The Apprentice) helped cultivate and made the nightmare become a reality. Without NBC's help, Comrade Covfefe would've been seen as what he truly was - an incompetent, multi-bankruptcy crook with a history of adultery.

While fans can safely pretend Star Trek V never happened, the Trump crime spree needs to be held to account, both in history and in prosecution.

So I'll go with Plan 45 from Orange Lagos

and come across some asshole with a bag of tricks. It's allegorically profound, like so much of the original series.

ST:V has a great soundtrack! (But, not quite as good as II and III.)

Also, the campfire scene was ST humor at it's best.

Kirk: I'd always known that when I die, I'll be alone.

McCoy: Well, let me call Valhalla, and reserve you a room.

(I like to use that Valhalla line whenever someone is talking about death in a macho way.)

ST: V is an okay movie. It is not hostile to its audience. 45 as a president was actually hostile to this country and its people.

Very much so.

There is nothing in any ST franchise that is in the same realm of bad as PINO.

It's hard to think of something that was both a failure and fundamentally malicious. The "Unsafe at any Speed" aspect of the Corvair may fit well.

Here's another one: bullbars. Popular with people who wrongly think they need special protection, and who don't give a damn about the danger to innocent pedestrians. And who really liked them because they thought it made them look "rugged".