Star Trek movies and Beethoven symphonies

Beethoven symphonies and Star Trek movies follow similar (although complementary) patterns.

Odd-numbered Beethoven symphonies are the best loved.

Single important even-numbered exception: Beethoven 6, the "Pastoral" symphony, is perhaps the first example of Romantic-era programmatic music.

Runt of the litter (weakest odd-numbered symphony): Beethoven 1 is not nearly as well-loved as 3 ("Eroica"), 5, 7, or 9 ("Choral").

Symphony	Year of Premiere	YouTube views*  (thousands)
1	1801	239
2	1802	217
3 "Eroica"	1805	1,292
4	1807	281
5	1808	3,915
6 "Pastoral"	1808	873
7	1813	2,769
8	1814	265
9 "Choral"	1824	4,426

*Table of YouTube views as an indicator of popularity from Classical Convert: Ranking Beethoven.

Even-numbered Star Trek movies are good. This pattern holds through the numbered films with the original cast as well as the films with the cast from The Next Generation.

Single important odd-numbered exception: Star Trek III: The Search For Spock provides essential aspects of the Star Trek II-III-IV story arc. Also: seeing Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future's Doc Brown) as a Klingon was pretty sweet.

Runt of the litter (weakest even-numbered film): Star Trek: Nemesis, the tenth movie of the franchise.

	Title	Release Year	Tomatometer rating*
1	Star Trek: The Motion Picture	1979	47%
2	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	1982	90%
3	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	1984	77%
4	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	1986	84%
5	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier	1989	21%
6	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country	1991	83%
7	Star Trek: Generations	1994	48%
8	Star Trek: First Contact	1996	92%
9	Star Trek: Insurrection	1998	56%
10	Star Trek: Nemesis	2002	38%

* Tomatometer rating from Rotten Tomatoes.  What is the Tomatometer?

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