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William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley

Capt. Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock's half brother who hijacks the Enterprise for an obsessive search for God.

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PG, 1 hr. 47 min.

Directed by: William Shatner

Release Date: June 9, 1989

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DVD Release Date: April 20, 1999

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  • SirPant
    September 21, 2009
    SirPant
    Not the best of the Star Trek films but certainly the best for funny quotes!
    What does God want with a Starship?
    I NEED MY PAIN!!!!
  • puffchunk
    July 15, 2009
    puffchunk
    Hmmm...I got to admit, these films have some pretty outrageous plots: Saving whales from the past, resurecting Spock, fighting the Voyager probe, and now it is flying to the center of the universe to shoot God in the face with a spaceship. WTF. Stars alone for being strange.
  • Redlats
    May 2, 2009
    Redlats
    One of the lamer Star Trek's. The Row, row, row your boat one. Sybok with his BB guns somehow captures Kirk and Spock (in all Enterprise's previous missions, has the Enterprise ever been captured before?). They wander off and find God, and when that doesn't work, the movie wri...( read more)ters bring in a rogue Klingon ship for interest.
  • sononothing
    May 2, 2009
    sononothing
    A Star Trek film subtitled "The Final Frontier" would have to be the most spectacular film ever produced. Well I'm here to inform you that this film is a cheap piece of garbage directed by Captain Kirk himself, who obviously couldn't handle being directed by Spock for another pic...( read more)ture. The film follows Spock's half brother looking for God. Hilarity ensues as he hijacks the Enterprise and takes them on a journey to hang out with God.

    You know there's going to be problems from the start when this appears on the screen:

    Directed by William Shatner

    To be honest Shatner can't direct himself out of a paper bag. I've seen better direction in animal sex footage. He also had a hand in the story, which starts out ridiculous and ends up stupid. The camping scene in the beginning, which could have been pretty good, fails horribly. Horribly. Stupid dialogue, bad acting, and shoddy effects ruin this sequence and continue to hamper the film throughout.

    I've seen better entertainment going into a public toilet and noticing the last occupant did not know how to flush after a night of Taco Bell and vodka. The toilet has better production values, definitely.
  • stopitgoaway
    October 29, 2008
    stopitgoaway
    V has some of the best moments in the entire series. The camping scene is both funny, and insightful. I also love the scene in the brig. ("I oughtta knock you on your Goddam ass!"......."Want me to hold him, Jim?")

    The only mistake was hiring an effects crew who had never done...( read more) motion control blue screen model effects before. And that was NOT William Shatner's fault. That was Ralph Winter's and Harve Bennet's fault. Quit blaming William Shatner. The producers hold the purse strings, and hired idiots. Watch the new DVD and you will see model test shots that were not for action blocking, but were the effects team actually trying to figure out how to do the effects. Lame

    Watch this movie, focus on the characters, and ignore the space shots, and it's pretty good. I think since they reworked ST:TMP with new effects based on the original story boards, they should have done the same for ST:V for the new DVD. That would have fixed the whole movie.

    Besides all of the exterior ship shots, the scenes I would have fixed are as follows:

    The turboshaft - Change the deck numbers to make sense and erase the shadow made by the boom holding them up.

    All viewscreens - Insert remastered footage digitally to replace the poor rear-projection versions. The new Enterprise would have an even clearer screen, not a grainy, dim one. The only one that worked was the observation windows as they approached the great barrier.

    The fall scene at the beginning. Inserting the closeup of Kirk and Spock ruined the entire scene.(Exactly like the parasailing scene in Die Another Day) Seeing a real stuntman is always better than seeing a fake shot of the actor.
  • Broncosfan28
    November 20, 2009
    Broncosfan28
    very under rated. Better than what most people are saying about it.
  • amandaolson18
    November 6, 2009
    amandaolson18
    not the best star trek ever but what do you expect. it was funny however.
  • jackgbowman
    October 28, 2009
    jackgbowman
    rough one, some moments more like the original show, some moments disconnected or silly.
  • jasonvargo
    September 29, 2009
    jasonvargo
    The fifth Star Trek film, The Final Frontier, is widely considered to be the worst of the original six and a contender for worst of all eleven entries in the franchise. That is a distinction this production doesn't deserve. Certainly, this story about the Enterprise being hijacke...( read more)d in the search for "God," has its faults. But it's nowhere near the unwatchable mess some people will claim. While it is true the visual effects are substandard for a Trek feature and the humor reeks of the writers trying too hard AND some of the devices used to get the Enterprise on its way are circumspect, this outing retains one of the most important parts of the previous entry: the focus on the relationship between Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and McCoy (DeForest Kelley).

    With a story by Shatner, Harve Bennett and David Loughery, Star Trek V tries to replicate the success of Star Trek IV by taking a lighter, more laid back approach to the material. This is often cited as one of the main downfalls of the movie. Whereas the interplay between the characters in 1986 San Francisco felt organic to the storyline of the film, it's gratuitous, forced and demeaning to everyone involved. In the open, Kirk is freeclimbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. At one point, Spock begins a conversation with him while using booster boots. When Kirk falls, Spock does his best Superman impression to catch him, including raising his arms above his head before diving. Moments later, Kirk jokes about dropping in for dinner. While the original series always had a playful dynamic between Spock and McCoy, it was very rarely humorous for the sake of humor. That ends up being the biggest problem with the finished product.

    But that's not to say its the only problem. Various critics have pointed to Laurence Luckinbill's Sybok as partly to blame for the perceived failure of the film. He does the best he can with the limited role the script gives him. No one-specifically Shatner, Bennett and Loughery-gives much thought to explaining how he makes people confront their darkest secrets or why this makes them devote themselves to the cause. It just happens, making the rest of the crew turn on Kirk. This Sybok isn't a stereotypical bad guy like Khan; rather, he is the catalyst for the story. The real adversary comes in the form of Klingon Captain Klaa (Todd Bryant), a character so misbegotten and one note he shouldn't be given a second thought. (Hint: Kirk's actions in Star Trek III continue to haunt him.)

    It's impossible to imagine how this script ever got approved, let alone into production. From beginning to end the crew is treated as second rate buffoons all because someone feels it would be funny and provide the audience a laugh. When this happens, no one is actually laughing with the characters. We're laughing AT them which has the effect of simultaneously demeaning the 20+ plus of development the actors have put into them. A host of other, ancillary characters might as well be thrown out the airlock: Sybok takes three diplomats hostage and, combined, they have about three useful lines in the entire film. None are given anything especially meaningful to do and, therefore, are maddening to see standing around with nothing to do.

    (A word about the special effects. Things like phaser blasts and transporter beams are just fine. It's the outer space effects which leave much to be desired. Color schemes appear to be all wrong with the Enterprise almost glowing. And for anyone paying attention, it's not hard to imagine the models being filmed on a soundstage. That's how fake they look.)

    The real issue with the entire Sybok story isn't even a revelation which seemingly comes out of left field. No, it's more basic than that. The finale doesn't work in any way, shape or form. Whatever the reasons, it is far too perfunctory without a sense of real tension. Most certainly the lack of a main "bad guy" doesn't help The Final Frontier at all. Kirk is forced to fight against non-corporeal entity with no personality in a battle that lasts an whopping three minutes. Each of the successful Trek movies has an adversary the audience can root against, someone the hero can physically fight against. Here, Kirk is hopelessly outmatched and only really prevails on accident.

    Trek V continues the trend of giving each of the main characters something to do other than punch buttons and follow orders. In the open, Sulu and Chekov (George Takei, Walter Koenig) are shown to take shore leave together while, at the same time, Uhura and Scotty (Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan) share a couple quality moments on the bridge. Mind you, Trek IV did a much better job in this area. And because the characters get small moments to themselves, the movie ends up feeling more well rounded. There's also a rousing score by Jerry Goldsmith. But then, that's to be expected.

    Come to think of it...maybe this is the worst of the original six movies.
  • jscottcorley
    September 5, 2009
    jscottcorley
    Good thing "The Motion Picture" sucked more. Kirk winning a battle with God. Do we really need to stroke his ego more?

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Critic Reviews

May 12, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Bloated, bombastic and maddeningly pretentious. full review

January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Of all of the Star Trek movies, this is the worst. full review

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  • bobgray2000
    July 18, 2007
    bobgray2000
    Yes, it is a pretty bad film.

    Still, when I was a kid, that fake "God creature" creeped me out. I kept wondering 'What if I walked into a church one day and it appeared right in front of me'?

    To me, that creature was a frightening concept. It's probably because of it's double-faced nature. It looks so calm and soothing when it first appears, and then you realized it's nothing but evil. It's that same fear kids have about nice-looking strangers offering them candy bars. It's the same fear that Stephen King plays off in "It." The grotesque contradiction between God, an all-benevolent entity, and this petty, cruel sadist is appalling.
  • tiggercov
    March 2, 2007
    tiggercov
    i love star trek

    why did they make this movie????

    oh dear oh dear oh dear
  • tomkinsman
    August 13, 2006
    tomkinsman
    The worst star trek film ever made, the highlight is Kirk, Spock and Mccoy sitting round the campfire singing together which doesn't say much about the film.
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