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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

Directed by William Shatner

Science Fiction

Most recently watched by AllAboutSteve, CaptainBigTime, themarc, seanCduregger, sleestakk

Overview

A renegade Vulcan with a startling secret hijacks the U.S.S. Enterprise in order to find a mythical planet.

Rated PG | Length 106 minutes

Actors

William Shatner | Leonard Nimoy | DeForest Kelley | James Doohan | George Takei | Walter Koenig | Nichelle Nichols | Laurence Luckinbill | David Warner | Charles Cooper | Cynthia Gouw | Todd Bryant | Spice Williams-Crosby | Rex Holman | George Murdock | Jonathan Simpson | Beverly Hart | Steve Susskind | Harve Bennett | Cynthia Blaise | Bill Quinn | Melanie Shatner | Michael Berryman | Carey Scott

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
06/23/2015ComputerStreamingVideo on Demand2 stars
02/28/2015TVStreamingVideo on Demand2 stars
 

Viewing Notes

via Netflix

Capt. Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock’s half brother who kidnaps three diplomats and hijacks the Enterprise in his obsessive search for God. This has a very big feeling of been there, done that. Finding god was the overall driving plot of the first film and for whatever reason they decided to revisit that again and in a terrible way. Sure there are some great character moments in this, but the plot is terrible, the effects are way below what we’d come to expect from the films, the writing is all over the place and they throw out continuity for the sake of giving in to the director’s whims. The best cut I’ve seen of this film cuts it down to about 53 minutes long, the duration of an episode of the original series, and that actually worked if only because they trimmed so much of the meh from the film but it still wasn’t great by any means. This is the film that was almost the last hurrah for the original Trek cast and that’s really sad.

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