It was praised by the critics and is the most successful film in the entire series at the box office, but this year's Star Trek Into Darkness has fallen foul of the long-running space saga's vocal fanbase, the trekkies.

At this weekend's annual Star Trek convention in Las Vegas, the JJ Abrams sequel was voted the worst Star Trek film in the entire canon by fans. To add insult to injury, it was beaten not only by 1989's much-maligned, William Shatner-directed Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (which almost killed the entire movie franchise) but by sci-fi spoof Galaxy Quest, which is not in fact a Star Trek movie at all. First place went to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

The poll results confirm what has long been obvious to Star Trek observers: by rebooting the series in 2009 as an action-oriented, fast-paced, big-budget blockbuster proposition, Abrams and his team have completely alienated the hardcore Star Trek audience that has followed the film series and various TV iterations since its inception. While the movies were floundering at the box office prior to Abrams' appointment, they cleaved more closely to a genuine definition of science fiction than the "space opera" tack taken by the Lost creator, who has always made it clear he was not a Star Trek fan in any case.

Reporting from the convention, blogger Devin Faraci of Badass Digest wrote: "Star Trek Into Darkness was met with boos when it was mentioned, and one guy took the mic to say these reboots shouldn't even be considered for a list of Star Trek movies."

With Abrams now in charge of the next Star Wars movie, Episode VII, the next Star Trek film may find itself in new hands. It is currently being written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, which not such good news for trekkies: those two were responsible for the screenplay for 2009's Star Trek.