STAR TREK 5: THE FINAL FRONTIER(1989):
Special Collector's Edition
A huge disappointment after the hugely popular The Voyage
Home!! This was to be William Shatner's big directorial debut,
but unfortunately he didn't have a great story line to work with.
I was hoping that he would get another chance at the helm, so
to speak, but it wasn't to be. The good thing was that the next
movie, The Undiscovered Country, would wind up the original
crew's voyages with a bang! B-
A review from Amazon.com:
Movie critic Roger Ebert summed it up very succinctly: "Of all
of the Star Trek movies, this is the worst." Subsequent films in
the popular series have done nothing to disprove this opinion;
we can be grateful that they've all been significantly better since
this film was released in 1989. After Leonard Nimoy scored hits
with Star Trek III and IV, William Shatner used his contractual
clout (and bruised ego) to assume directorial duties on this
mission, in which a rebellious Vulcan (Laurence Luckinbill)
kidnaps Federation officials in his overzealous quest for the
supreme source of creation. That's right, you heard it correctly:
Star Trek V is about a crazy Vulcan's search for God. By the time
Kirk, Spock, and their Federation cohorts are taken to the Great
Barrier of the galaxy, this journey to "the final future" has gone
from an embarrassing prologue to an absurd conclusion, with
a lot of creaky plotting in between. Of course, die-hard Trekkies
will still allow this movie into their video collections; but they'll
only watch it when nobody else is looking. After this humbling
experience, Shatner wisely relinquished the director's chair to
Star Trek II's Nicholas Meyer. --Jeff Shannon
William Shatner ... Kirk
Leonard Nimoy ... Spock
DeForest Kelley ... McCoy
James Doohan ... Scotty
Walter Koenig ... Chekov
Nichelle Nichols ... Uhura
George Takei ... Sulu
David Warner ... St. John Talbot
Laurence Luckinbill ... Sybok
Charles Cooper ... Korrd
Cynthia Gouw ... Caithlin Dar
Todd Bryant ... Captain Klaa
Spice Williams-Crosby ... Vixis (as Spice Williams)
Rex Holman ... J'onn
George Murdock ... God
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Music playing is:
Theme From Star Trek 1: The Motion Picture!