Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

[Plain Old Tele]

What does God want with a starship?

[IndustriousAngel]

Somehow nothing in this film makes much sense. There are quite a few Star Trek stories dealing with godlike beings, none of them really satisfying iirc. They should have waited for a better basic script instead of trying to fiddle with a mediocre one.

[BiffMan]

Shatner...  Why'd it have to be Shatner...

 

C-

[DAR]

Not the all out disaster it's made out to be, but it is quite unremarkable and boring. The only thing I remember is Kirk, Spock and Bones singing Row Row Your Boat. C

[Plain Old Tele]

Yeah, aside from a few nice Kirk/Spock/Bones moments, it's pretty drab, and the ret-con of suddenly revealing Spock has a brother really didn't sit well. Basically it's an old series episode with some better VFX and stretched to two hours.

[4815162342]

It's not BAD, but it's incredibly campy and sometimes cringe-inducing (like the Uhura feather dance).

 

Certainly nowhere near Nemesis levels

[Chewy]

Kept nodding off during this so I missed parts. The parts I did see were pretty terrible

 

Shatner directed it?

[Plain Old Tele]

VI is an upswing again. Wraps up the OS on a good note.

[Michael Gary Scott]

Even Number =goodOdd number =bad

[Plain Old Tele]

Even Number =goodOdd number =bad

 

... finally broken by NEMESIS, right? Or INSURRECTION? (I can never remember which comes first.)

Edited May 4, 2013 by Telemachos

[4815162342]

Nemesis killed that with an awful Film #10

Edited May 4, 2013 by 4815162342

[RobinHood26]

Loved the dynamic between Bones, Kirk, & Spock in this one. I thought overall it was very well paced. Loved the opening credits in this film. Love the full circle family theme too. I also really really like going deep into outer space and exploring where no man has gone before. I like the idea of finding god, the music was great, we get a battle, a space fight, Klingons. The camera movement is easily better then the previous two films. Shatner does some cooler longer takes than Nimoy does in Spock. Keep in mind they screwed Shatner his budget. They cut his 3rd act and he never really got to film what he wanted and he kinda made it up as they went. I also thought the editing was a better. But then again I look very much into directing. Im not as big on story and shit as I am on, ok here is your script, now go direct bring something to it. I like seeing creative decisions being made even if they are misguided. 

 

Again if you watch all these in a row I can't see how this one stands out as a disaster.Also I love that we learn about Bones backstory and I like the idea that Kirk can't die when his friends are around (he dies alone, like he said he would in the beginning of generations). 

 

 

 

B

Edited July 26, 2016 by Jay Hollywood

[Goffe]

Mess (but it's not that bad). Cut the 25 minutes forest sequence in the beginning and make Klingons a little less silly, and you would have a halfway decent and somewhat refreshing film.

 

Voyage Home 75/100

Motion Picture 70/100

Wrath of Khan 55/100

Search for Spock 50/100

Final Frontier 45/100

Edited July 27, 2016 by Goffe

[Thegun]

No Trek film is really bad. A lot like Bond, but this is almost all the bad elements combined.  I still love "Why does God need a Star ship?" line. The overall plot is actually the most interesting of the series, it's just handled poorly. It is unfortunately the worst of the series. They tried to do what Voyage Home did with the humor and it really doesn't work in an actual Trek mission type of film.

 

C-

[CaptainJackSparrow]

I still need to see this since I love the concept of "finding God in space".

Maybe there is a Star Trek episode about the subject also?

Edited April 5, 2017 by CaptainJackSparrow