Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Movie Review

Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Laurence Luckinbill, David Warner

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"Captain Kirk challenges a renegade Vulcan on a search for the mystical world Sha-Ke-Ree, where he believes God dwells. Variable-quality effects and poor script, the weakest of the Star Trek films. Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout. " Artemis, Resident Star Trek Scholar
"Shatner negotiated to direct a Star Trek film, and this 1989 production, based partly on an idea of his as well, was it. The results are not entirely his fault -- special effects for the climax had to be kept short and simple because Industrial Light and Magic was busy with "Ghostbusters 2" and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" -- but he has to share some of the blame for poor script and acting. A half-brother of Spock's named Sybok (decently played by Luckinbill) takes over the Enterprise in order to fly it through the Great Barrier to the center of the galaxy and the planet Shaka-Ri, perhaps to find God. For an extra complication, a rogue Klingon ship pursues the starship toward its odd destination. Although this episode perhaps most closely approaches the original series' theme of going "where no man has gone before," there are just too many wrong notes, such as Scotty knocking himself out walking into a bulkhead, or the Enterprise blithely crossing the Great Barrier with no trouble after a big deal has been made about no probe or exploratory vessel ever making it before. Early scenes on the planet Nimbus III smack of Lucas's Tatooine, and the epilogue and prologue with our heroes in Yosemite are truly lame. Trivia notes: an electron microscope closeup of a lobster claw stands in for the Shaka-Ri landscape during Kirk's initial flyover, and the planet's name is a play on the name of the actor originally cast as Sybok (oh, how one wishes!): Sean Connery. Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout. " David Loftus, Resident Star Trek Scholar
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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%

**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Explore/1st contact Yes
Explore plotlet: - exploring a wondrous planet or phenomenon
Technology/$$$$/Info hunt Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying - method of transportation - Info about lifeform(s)/phenomena
Mental/Magical powers focus Yes
Inner Struggle Yes
Plotlet: - search for identity/new understanding - coping with special powers/seeking enlightenment
Part of a series? - Star Trek

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Events of movie makes character more... - introspective
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - very skinny (man)
How much in movie? - 90%-100%

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male Alien
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - religious figure
Has special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - mind reading - mind control - can read emotions
Eccentric: Yes - eccentric - obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 80%
Body type - average (man)
Sense of humor? - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged

Setting
A substantial portion of this movie takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a primitive/fantasy society - empty, or nearly empty world
Planet outside our solar system? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes
Mountains? Yes
Misc settings - bar/restaurant

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Kinds of F/X - exotic aliens - exotic alien landscape
Is this movie based on a - TV show

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