Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

"Adventure and imagination will meet at the final frontier."

1989 1h 46m EN

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5.7

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5.5

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★5.7TMDB · 1,366🥫22%Rotten Tomatoes●43Metacritic★5.5IMDB · 67,435

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Synopsis

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

“Adventure and imagination will meet at the final frontier.”

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Cast

William Shatner
Captain James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy
Captain Spock
DeForest Kelley
Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
James Doohan
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott
George Takei
Cmdr. Hikaru Sulu
Walter Koenig
Cmdr. Pavel Chekov
Nichelle Nichols
Cmdr. Uhura
Laurence Luckinbill
Sybok

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: William Shatner
Writers: David Loughery, Harve Bennett, William Shatner
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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37 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 8

CAST

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Part of the "Star Trek: The Original Series Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by William Shatner, shot by Andrew Laszlo. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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ERA

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Original score by Jerry Goldsmith. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Peter E. Berger shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Adventure and imagination will meet at the final frontier.".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0098382 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

William Shatner directs. Andrew Laszlo behind the camera. Jerry Goldsmith scores. Peter E. Berger cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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137 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Part of the "Star Trek: The Original Series Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Directed by William Shatner, shot by Andrew Laszlo. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Jerry Goldsmith. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Peter E. Berger shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Adventure and imagination will meet at the final frontier.".
8IMDB entry: tt0098382 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 19 themes, including "spacecraft", "self sacrifice", "teleportation", "starship".
10Released under 27 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Andrew Laszlo
Original score: Jerry Goldsmith
Editing: Peter E. Berger
Production design: Herman F. Zimmerman
Costume design: Nilo Rodis-Jamero
Makeup / hair: Kenny Myers
Sound: Doug Hemphill
Stunt coordinator: Glenn R. Wilder
Runtime: 106 min · 1h 46m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $33,000,000
Box office: $63,000,000
Return: 191% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Rotten Tomatoes: 22% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 43/100
IMDB rating: 5.5/10 · 67,435 votes
MPAA: PG

Awards

5 wins & 5 nominations total

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor

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Part of

Star Trek: The Original Series Collection

Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection contains the first six Original Series films starring the U.S.S. Enterprise's cast and crew from the 1960s TV series of the same name.

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Ian Beale2017-02-12
★ 10/10
Underrated and fun! This is my favorite Star Trek movie. The whole film bubbles with humour and the music score is fantastic. I love the bookend 'Row, row, row your boat' sequences. An emotional and funny film - my favourite goosebumps moment being when Kirk says 'I've always known...I'll die alone". Brings tears to my eyes that part - it really does. You'll have to excuse me, I'm getting emotional thinking about it. It's trendy to give this film a bad review and I am more than happy to be honest and open about ny admiration for this film. If anything, Star Trek VI is the weakest Trek movie - a plodding episode of Columbo in space. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is a rousing and fun movie. - Ian Beale
Wuchak2022-01-16
★ 7/10
At the end of the day, it entertains This 1989 entry in the Star Trek film series was an earnest and noble effort by William Shatner, who directed and plotted the film, to tackle a subject that only he and Star Trek would dare attempt. Unfortunately it's become law in Trekdom to pick apart this film as a turkey of astronomical proportions; consequently a sort of bandwagon phenomenon has developed amongst the cookie-cutter fundamentalist Trekkers who have somehow failed to evolve to the level of independent thought. (They're no doubt still mad at Shatner for telling them to "get a life"). In fact, it's become such a cliché to hate "Star Trek V" that it has become the "Spock's Brain" of the feature films. I disagree. While "The Final Frontier" certainly has its share of flaws -- the story goes over the edge into the realm of goofy camp at times and some argue that the F/X are possibly the least of the feature films -- it remains an entertaining picture. Besides, Star Trek was never about great special effects (disregarding the triumphant "The Motion Picture"). It's about people, their joy of living and their grand spirit of exploration; this is what "The Final Frontier" is all about and it scores high marks in this regard. No other Trek film showcases the character interplay of the Kirk/Spock/McCoy troika to the level of intimacy shown in "The Final Frontier," and only "The Voyage Home" exceeds the joyful energy of the characters displayed here. As far as the spirit of exploration goes, "Star Trek V" surpasses all other Trek adventures; after all, no exploration is greater than the quest for ultimate reality and the Creator of all. It touches on many important themes: personal pain, healing, faith, family, love, fanaticism, the desire to know ultimate reality, God, false beliefs, loyalty, repentance and forgiveness. Name another film in the series that addresses so many weighty topics and yet remains entertaining. The film was actually doomed with critics and Trekker fundamentalists the moment it was disclosed that Shatner would direct it; the knives hit the sharpening stones well before it was ever released and once the buzz got out that it was a bad film a feeding frenzy ensued. It would have been better received if Shatner had directed the film anonymously and if it were released after "Star Trek III." As it was, it came out on the heels of "Star Trek IV," arguably the pinnacle of the feature films. If "The Wrath of Khan" had come out after The Voyage Home it would have been deemed a mediocre affair. The bottom line is that "Star Trek V" is a solid and extremely original Trek outing, equal parts amusing, thought-provoking, wonder-inducing and heart-warming; it possesses a wealth of quality scenes and has an interesting assortment of colorful characters who unite together for the ultimate discovery. Its best character is Sybok, played excellently by Laurence Luckinbill. Sybok isn't really a villain at all, but rather a rebel Vulcan who rejects Stoicism and develops a compulsion to heal people and find ultimate knowledge. His mistake is allowing this compulsion to assume the creature beyond the Great Barrier is God, which it obviously isn't. Of course the film would have been more successful if the studio hadn't repeatedly cut the budget the closer the it came to completion, thus robbing Shatner (and us) of his original vision. As it is, the climax is serviceable, but also missing something. Regardless, "The Final Frontier" is an entertaining Trek romp, if nothing else. Thankfully it offers much more. Personally, I'd view it in any day before "The Wrath of Khan." By all means, watch it again for the first time. The film runs 1 hour, 46 minutes. GRADE: B
GenerationofSwine2023-01-10
★ 10/10
I know, I know, I know, please don't hate me. Please. But, this came out in '89, my parents were busy, they dropped Heath and I off at the theater and didn't come in with us, and, yeah, that happened a lot growing up, but this was the FIRST STAR TREK MOVIE I GOT TO SEE BY MYSELF. And, really, it sort of became MY Star Trek movie. Not the ones I shared with my father, but MY Star Trek. And now when I watch it, yeah, I realize how bad it is, but it sort of has that landmark feeling of being my own Star Trek film... so I can't give it the horrible rating it deserves. But... yeah, I know it sucks.