Star Trek V - The Final Frontier

Starring:Harve Bennett, Cynthia Blaise, Todd Bryant, Charles Cooper, James Doohan, Cynthia Gouw, Beverly Hart, Rex Holman, DeForest Kelley, Walter Koenig, Laurence Luckinbill, George Murdock, Nichelle Nichols, Leonard Nimoy, Jonathan Simpson, Steve Susskind, George Takei, David Warner, Spice Williams
Studio: Paramount
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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

Customer Reviews:

Star Trek 5.......2007-06-19

I have come to appreciate this movie after having watched it several times and being a fan of the original series since 1971. I believe this movie was more in tune with some of the more light hearted episodes of the original series(i.e. Trouble with Tribbles). There was a certain amount of episodic content to this movie that reminded me of the original 79 episodes(unlike a lot of modern Star Trek fiction which is far from the original concepts). The movie was a little top heavy with typical Shatner-esque self-indulgence(he directed of course). However, I was really impressed with the return to the triumvirate of the original series with McCoy's comical involvement with Spock which I feel was missing from a lot of the movies. As a pure intellectual adventure this was a rather fun movie albeit it suffered from poor financial support from Paramount. I think Shatner tried to preserve a little of the flavor of the original series although it was a bit jaded with his now infamous megalomania. From what I understand the plot of this movie had been floating around for years between Roddenberry and Shatner and their somewhat audacious and presumptuous views of the universe and religion. I would recommend this movie over Star Trek 1, 3, and even 4(this one was way to contrived and any sci-fi movie that brings you to the present or has aliens impersonate normal people is just an obvious attempt at saving money). In conclusion, I did enjoy this movie and I felt it is a good entry in the series and I feel it was more like the original series than a lot of the other movies.

Not the worst one, quite entertaining!!.......2007-06-17

Like many, I feel this one should have been better, having read William Shatner's "Star Trek Memories" it is clear that he was passionate about this one, but was screwed by Paramount & their lack of concern for his passion, having read other reviews here, I can say this, I don't believe you can pin this one's failure on Shatner, & here's why>> for starters he wanted Sean Connery for the role of Sybok, but Connery was already obligated to do "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade", also, ILM was not available for this reason too, secondly, there was a talent guild strike(can't remember which) that kept some of the best producers & cinematographers, & special effects people from doing this one, probably the reason Paramount made budget cuts, & thirdly Hollywood was hyping up the first "Batman" film, & "Indiana Jones", so "Trek" sort of got shafted, unlike "Trek III" which went head to head with "Indiana Jones" in 1984, Paramount in 1989 decided not to do the same, "Back to the Future II" was slated for summer'89 as well, but was pushed back to Christmas time for this very reason, & one can't help but wonder if "Trek V" would have done better if pushed back also, overall, I like this one, it is way better than 1998's "Inserruction" & 2002's "Nemesis", In this one we see more character substance come out of Kirk & Spock when they are forced to confront their emotional pain courtesy of Sybok, a renegade vulcan & half brother to Spock, the character of Sybok is interesting & not as boring as some might say, he is quite developed, what is disappointing about this one I think is toward the end when they reach the great barrier, in Shatner's book he stated that he wanted to create a beautiful heaven-like place, but his vision was never realized, the being they encounter would have been more menacing & threatning, like many I feel Shatner got a bum rap for this one, & with today's technology, they could polish it the way they did the first film for Robert Wise, they could & should do the same for Shatner on this one, maybe they will, it is long overdue!!

Outstanding.......2007-05-21

Was a film ever more misunderstood. A great Star Trek film this is. Great events will rock you.

going where no man has gone before....literally!.......2007-05-05

The premise for the Final Frontier, where the ultimate advanture is of the supernatural, where we as human seeks the purpose of life, wow what a storyline huh? I give Mr.Shatner credit for taking a risk of combining the almighty with sci fi as they are truly going where no man has gone before. I like the friendly humor among the big 3...Bones, Spock, and our favorite capitan, Kirk but the whole plot of just too wacky to be believable for the sane that i do not know where to begin so why bother. I do suppose those of faith would be curious in how it would end but the rest of the masses just don't give a hoot. And Kirks directions might be acceptable for his tv show but not so for a motion picture of this magnitude but then again, even with the capable Spock directing it, might not be enough to save this movie from being the worst of the best.

Do i recommend the Final Frontier? Unless ur a big trekkie fan who would watch anything involving the world of trek, just skip it and check out the Undiscovered Country, a great closure to the original series (TOS).

Original Star Trek Series.......2007-04-08

This was a great addition to
my son 'Scotts ' collection of
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He Loves it !!!!!

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The First 9 -- some extras, but not a lot.
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Sci-fi adventure, with mixed results.

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Spanning two decades and countless light years of interstellar adventure, Star Trek: The Motion Pictures Collection is a testament to the enduring goodwill of Gene Roddenberry's optimistic sci-fi concept. Long before Star Wars sparked an explosion of big-screen science fiction, Roddenberry had planned a second Star Trek TV series; the project fizzled, but its pilot script evolved into the first film in Paramount's most lucrative movie franchise. Despite its sluggish pace and bland "pajama" costuming, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) offered a welcomed reunion of the "classic Trek" cast, packed with Douglas Trumbull's still-dazzling special effects. Trekkers were even more ecstatic when The Wrath of Khan (1982) revived the spirit of the original series, even though director Nicholas Meyer was a Trek neophyte. With Leonard Nimoy directing, The Search for Spock (1984) began where Khan left off, with a thrilling (albeit contrived) obligation to resurrect the formerly ill-fated Mr. Spock.

A box-office smash, Nimoy's The Voyage Home (1986) is the franchise's most accessible adventure--a high point offset by William Shatner's comparatively dreadful Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989). Meyer (and his penchant for quoting Shakespeare) returned for The Undiscovered Country (1991), a conspiracy thriller that put the series back on track, inspiring fans to invoke the "even number" rule in rating their franchise favorites. Generations (1994) gracefully passed the torch to TV's The Next Generation, bidding farewell to Captain Kirk with honor and integrity intact. Highlighted by the evolving humanity of Brent Spiner's android Lt. Comdr. Data, First Contact (1996) explored Star Trek history with a logical (hint) surprise encounter, and Insurrection (1998) provided an adequate expansion of the successful TNG series. Taken as a whole, these nine films demonstrate the consistent vitality of Roddenberry's original vision, stoking any Trekker's appetite for "ongoing missions" in Nemesis and beyond. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Do Not Buy This -- Be Patient!.......2004-12-26

There is no point in purchasing this set when it only includes a few of the special edition DVDs. Despite the attractiveness of the box itself, it is best to wait until all of special/director's edition movies come out.

Hold out.......2004-02-25

The special editions are coming! They're done with the first six already, making this collection out of date. Another blow to the set is Nemesis' DVD release. The two together tell me about how old this set is.

(Eric, Montalban's chest is real. Meyer says so on one of the featurettes. It's his trainer's fault if it looks cheesy.)

The First 9 -- some extras, but not a lot........2004-01-03

This Box set was one of the first DVD sets I got, almost a year ago. It includes all of the Star Trek movies up to and including Insurrection. This set does not have Nemesis.

A NEW BOX SET with that 10th Movie is out now.

Heads Up -- this 9 movie set (which I own and watched) and the other 10 movie collection do not include all of the Special Editions. So you get a little less bonus material, and it is pricey. But hey, it is Star Trek.

The First 3 films in this set have two discs with lots of extras, interviews, trekkie stuff. The other six are single discs only, and honestly they are pretty light on anything "bonus". Like nil.

The Films are old, and it shows. Just look at the trailers on STTMP, and you'll know what I mean. The effects really do look corny by today's standards, but the stories are solid and the acting is decent -- more or less throughout the whole series.

I will skip the review of each film, and sum it up -- this is a solid buy for the first 9 movies, but additional special edition discs will be coming out soon. You might be better off picking and choosing. But I got this and started my DVD collection with a decent beginning.

Captains Log 6/11/03 Star Trek just got better.......2003-06-11

This is the date i wrote my review and got this box set. It is so kool + 9 awesome flicks. I have watched 1,2,3,& 4 so far and let me tell you they are nothing like i imagined. I thought they would be like the star trek TV show. But there not they have the same characters and all but so much more. I would really buy this before it goes out of stock again.

Sci-fi adventure, with mixed results........2003-01-29

(Opinions of The Motion Picture and The Undiscovered Country are based on years old memory)
The original Star Trek crew worked solely on the basis of its lead trio. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForest Kelley made for arguably the most charismatic and enjoyable trio to watch in cinematic history. As for the rest of the crew, I didn't much care for anyone else, though George Takei probably came across the best as Sulu, mostly because he never succumbs to the silliness that pervades the other three (Scotty's prat falls, Chekov's accents and mispronunciations, and Uhura's horrific dance number in Star Trek V).

It's been years since I've seen The Motion Picture, and memory serves that it was an engrossing adventure that was so far off from the camp I'd been used to while watching the original TV series. Basically, I liked it, and this is without having seen the director's cut, which I hope to catch some day. The Motion Picture is decidedly an attempt at the kind of cerebral science fiction that 2001 attempted, and while I'm quite certain it's not in the same league as that film, it holds its own.

Ooh, boy, it's with The Wrath of Khan that I'm sure people will shouting blasphemy when I state that I actually didn't much enjoy the film. Sure, the effects were good and the trio was as entertaining to watch as usual, but Nicholas Meyers' direction is stale, Ricardo Montalban is a cheesy-looking villain (that fake chest can't help, either) who talks tough without actually proving his dangerousness, and the space battles prove to be little different than two submarines stalking each other. The idea of two starships battling each other has never appealed to me, and the case is no different here. I will admit, however, that Spock's death scene is poignant.

Star Trek III is even worse than II. Cheap-looking sets, meaningless blather, and the overall snail pace make this easily the most boring film of the entire franchise. The only highlight is Christopher Lloyd as a Klingon commander.

Star Trek IV is a marked improvement, an enjoyable and funny fish-out-of-water tale. There's little else going on here than seeing our beloved crew interact in the 20th century, but that alone is enough to inspire a barrage of belly laughs, particularly Spock's use of colorful metaphors. Catherine Hicks' rather neurotic performance as a whale specialist is pretty annoying, and a downspot in an otherwise entertaining outing.

Star Trek V is easily the silliest of the lot, but it's also kind of fun and the premise is the most ambitious of them all: it's an all-out quest for God, who is believed to live in the center of the galaxy. The trio is given more screentime together here than in any other film, Jerry Goldsmith's score is marvelous (the best of the series), and there's actually a genuine sense of awe when they reach their destination. Oh, this isn't a good movie, but it's an undeniable watchable and often entertaining one, and I personally liked it more than Star Trek III.

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Star Trek 5.......2007-06-19

Not the worst one, quite entertaining!!.......2007-06-17

Outstanding.......2007-05-21

Was a film ever more misunderstood. A great Star Trek film this is. Great events will rock you.

going where no man has gone before....literally!.......2007-05-05

Original Star Trek Series.......2007-04-08

This was a great addition to
my son 'Scotts ' collection of
' Trekkie ' memorbilia!!
He Loves it !!!!!

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Star Trek 5.......2007-06-19

Not the worst one, quite entertaining!!.......2007-06-17

Outstanding.......2007-05-21

Was a film ever more misunderstood. A great Star Trek film this is. Great events will rock you.

going where no man has gone before....literally!.......2007-05-05

Original Star Trek Series.......2007-04-08

This was a great addition to
my son 'Scotts ' collection of
' Trekkie ' memorbilia!!
He Loves it !!!!!

Star Trek - The Original Crew Movie Collection

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Turn Off Your Mind, Relax...And Go Where No Man, etc.
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Can't beat the Originals

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Devoted Star Trek fans will surely cite the "even number" rule in evaluating the Original Crew Movie Collection, but all six of these films qualify as rousing entertainment. Undeniably, the even-numbered films in Paramount's lucrative Trek franchise tended to be the best, as demonstrated by the superiority of The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home, and The Undiscovered Country. And yet each film has something to offer die-hard Trekkers, beginning with the epic-scale wonders of the first Motion Picture (presented here as a two-disc special edition). Evolving from Gene Roddenberry's aborted attempt at a second Star Trek TV series, the effects-laden Motion Picture divided fans while proving that Star Trek had a promising big-screen future. Nicholas Meyer's The Wrath of Khan made good on that promise, reviving the Star Trek spirit and proving, in the case of Mr. Spock, that beloved characters "never really die." It's widely regarded as the best of these half-dozen features.

With its deadly Klingon confrontation, the Leonard Nimoy-directed Search for Spock was a thrilling (albeit contrived) excuse for Spock's inevitable resurrection, and its somber tone was readily countered by the Earth-based humor of Nimoy's The Voyage Home, combining a planetary crisis with a lively--and phenomenally popular--time-travel plot line. Unfortunately, William Shatner then lobbied for the director's chair, and The Final Frontier--an uneasy mixture of cheesy humor and grandiose themes--was the regrettable outcome. Paramount rallied by inviting Nicholas Meyer to repeat his Khan success, and Meyer rose to the occasion with the sharply scripted thrills of The Undiscovered Country. By ending the film with an official signature send-off from the "classic Trek" cast, the original crew brought their big-screen legacy to a graceful and upbeat conclusion, setting the stage for a transitional adventure in Star Trek: Generations. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Turn Off Your Mind, Relax...And Go Where No Man, etc........2007-06-16

This was an inpulse purchase. Short version of a long story, while wiki-ing the night away, one link led to another which led to Ebert's review of "The Voyage Home" (you know, the one with the whales). He liked it. Since it was 3:00 AM, logic was not a factor so I found this box-set on Amazon, and one-click later...

I have to say that although I was never much of a Star Trek fan, I ended up watching all 3 of the "arc" movies: Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock, and Free Willy, I mean, Voyage Home. I enjoyed them all. They had the same old corny, humanistic, vaguely-mystical, always-swashbuckling appeal that made the original "Star Trek" series pleasant, albeit mindless, TV-viewing. And it is fun to see Montalban's plastic pecs (I don't buy his coy demurral that "everyone was in great shape".)

Unlike other space movies, like Stars Wars, let's say, these movies do not take themselves at all seriously, and therein lies their charm.

Caveat emptor: If you have seen these movies before, they do NOT improve with age. They are timeless...sort of like memories of childhood. The science is questionable...like "slinging" around the Sun to time-travel. Just don't think about it.

Even numbered Star Trek movies don't suck.......2007-05-20

A lot of Star Trek was about dealing with Aliens;
communicating with people who are different in fundamental ways.
Today we get the feeling that the human race can't even communicate
with itself when it comes to science.
Science has clearly warned about extreme climate change
dangers ( very like those of the genesis planet in StartTrek III),
yet politicians,leaders of industry and those who are generally
getting rich from the rape of the planet Earth refuse
to substantially change their damaging behavior.
We keep contributing to the future's "plastic Layer"!
I think in Star Trek II with the genetically engineered
ego maniac shows us that humanity has a lot to learn
about itself!Star Trek IV is one of my all time favorites.

Star Trek.......2007-02-02

The Star Trek movies are really great movies. I am very glad that I bought them.

A Must Have for every fan of Star Trek.......2007-02-02

All 6 of the Original Crew movies all in one package. And the conversion to DVD...it's like watching completely new and better movies. Even Star Trek V is a better movie, and that's saying something. I especially liked the recut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. All the added and improved scenes makes it an entirely new movie. Now it's more about the story, than showing off the new cool special effects of that time. Every fan of Trek needs to check these movies out and experience them all over again!

Can't beat the Originals.......2007-01-27

The Original Crew Movie Collection is for all of you who grew up watching Star Trek: The Original Series. You know who your favorite characters are, and you don't need 4 extra movies from Rick Berman who has run the series into the ground. Don't believe me, believe the box office, Starting with 7, the Next Gen movies have steadily decreased in overall box office sales. Culminating with Nemesis that completely bombed at the theaters.

You know who the best crew is, and you don't mess with the best.

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