A lot of folks complained about Abram's Star Trek (2009) in regards to the camera-shaking. I actually enjoyed it and would've much preferred with it than without. It put me in the moment with better realism than any other Trek movie has so far.

Both TOS and TNG relied on several methods to give the scene a "quaky" feel when going through an ion storm, under attack from the bad guy of the week, etc.. Sometimes the camera shook, sometimes the shuttle cockpit was on a bouncing rig, and sometimes the actors were asked to shake on their own, hoping that everyone would stay coordinated so they would lean in the same direction at the same time.

Of course, they weren't always successful on this last one.

In "Hero Worship" (around 31:00 if you want to follow along), the shields go up and the crew start feeling shockwaves within the Dark Cluster. Riker, Picard, and Worf are a little off on the timed "leans."

In "Power Play" (around 4:10), Riker, Data, and Troy are shuttling down to the surface and they're making their way through the atmosphere. You can see the clouds passing by through the side viewport ... except that at the shuttle's current speed, the clouds should be zipping by pretty fast. The stuff outside the window is obviously passing at a much slower rate and to the viewer it's just someone with a fog machine outside the cockpit set. The set itself is on some floating rig designed to move in various directions like an amusement park ride. It just completely took me out of the moment.

Sometimes it's not a matter of leaning, but "bouncing" as demonstrated by the bridge crew towards the end of "Forces Of Nature." Just watching them move around in their seats tipped you off that the ship wasn't really shaking and the humans onboard weren't being very convincing about it. Everyone was rolling around at a different rate.

The human eye can tell when something is a bit off, and if the scene doesn't convince me, it's called "bad acting." Just shake the damn camera from now on and make it easy on everyone.