Maybe. I like the contrast of setting up Ilia at first to be very warm and kind of sensual, but then replaced with VGER who was very cold and quirky. My pre-teen self was not quite sticky or horny, but for many the awareness that my formative cinematic crush was a bald Indian cyborg would probably cause all kinds of things about me make sense.
I like that it was very sci-fi, about exploration and first contact with something both alien, as well as sort of trans-human. The subsequent movies were good but I was never very invested in the banter, politics, and revenge they followed up with. Although I did become a fan of TNG.
im all set with tickets to see the 35th anniversary showing of khan this week. don’t think i’ve ever seen it in a theater. excited!
also: best captain? i’d throw down for sisko. at the very least he and jake had the best father-son ( and grandfather! ) relationship on television pretty much ever. ( when i go with an opinion, i go boldly. )
for me, voyager squandered too many opportunities. while it’s characters were what made it passable for me, i feel like janeway never really got a proper chance at being truly great. the show itself missed it’s mark.