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DVD Star Trek V - The Final Frontier (Special Edition)
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
Review(s): DVD Star Trek V - The Final Frontier (Special Edition)
Special features are very revealing - Shatner got screwed
We all know that Star Trek V is generally considered the worst in the franchise, and that most people like to blame its director, William Shatner. After watching 'Star trek: Nemesis' and the special features on 'The Final Frontier', I can tell you that people are wrong on both counts.
Firstly, Star Trek V is easily better than the total disaster that was 'Nemesis', and is probably better than 'Insurrection' as well. Admittedly, the movie has many problems, but it's far from unwatchable.
Secondly, when watching the special features on 'Final Frontier' it becomes clear that almost everything worked against William Shatner. I know it sounds like I've bought into some sort of Shatner egotist sob-story, but that's not the case. Watch the features, the facts are all there. Forced script changes, cuts, deadlines, low budget, effects shipped out to some awful company that 'didn't care' how they turned out... Everyone who watched this with me felt sorry for Shatner at the end. He got the short end of the stick on this one.
Anyway, Trek fans will want to pick this up for completeness, and I highly reccommend the special edition. Watch this one again, it's really not too bad.
The Three Friends
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy travel across the Great Barrier to find God, and realize the Cosmic Truth is that they have each other. No glasnost, no perestroika, no bloated allegories about US-Soviet Cold War relations, no Scotty calling Gorkon's daughter "a Klingon bitch" and no Kirk bellowing, "Let them die!" No, unlike the dark and final voyage of the original Enterprise crew, we have a simple story of the trials of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy's friendship, the reaffirmation of which, to me, is an emotional highpoint in the series, ranking up there with the Death of Spock, the Death of David, and the finale of VI. Jerry Goldsmith's score is moving, Shatner's direction is terse, particularly during the shuttlecraft crash sequence, and the final campfire scene is the perfect send-off to a series whose heart has always been these three friends. It felt like a real episode. It felt like Star Trek.
Not that boldly
Agreeably not one of the better Star Trek films. I got it just so that I would have a complete set of the original casts movies in my dvd collection. I think this is the one that William Shatner strong armed the producers so that he could direct after the truly awesome job that Leonard Nimoy did n his directorial debut. Just hope that William Shatner will stick to acting and leave directing alone.
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