After four films in the Star Trek series, you really thought you saw everything. The movies included many genres including comedy, drama, action and of course Sci-Fi with plenty of interesting plots,characters and villains. That said, I never thought I would be see a bad film in this series. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier does have many fresh ideas but in the end I thought it reached an all-time low for a Star Trek movie and I hope there is never another one that challenges it.
The Enterprise crew's camping trip in Yosemite National Park gets disrupted when they must go Nimbus 111 to rescue hostages held by the character of Sybox (Laurence Luckinbill) who wants more than just hostages and who has greater intentions as a whole. Sybox wants to lure a starship to Nimbus 111 so to use the ship to travel to the mythical planet, Sha Ka Ree where creation began.
The main problem with this movie is the direction. Star Trek is a series that does not really need humor to succeed and the last film Voyage Home kind of got lucky using a great deal of humor. William Shatner is the director of The Final Frontier and seems to insert comedy at times where none of it really works. The attempts at comedy are laughable but in the wrong places and it doesn't work with the characters. The Spock character played by Leonard Nimoy kind of works in places by being funny but the humor is also forced humor that doesn't really work. The characters also quite often are not used correctly and I note that the character Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) has a nude scene that seems not necessary. In short, the characters are really all over the place and not portrayed in the right light.
In a way, I don't mind Skbox as a character. He is given an interesting connection to Spock but I don't know what he wants. He is given too much to do and is kind of dry and really is not at all comparable or close to the villains in the series. Shatner at Captain Kirk also is a little confusing as it is not clear what he is doing with Klingon Captain Klaa who at times seems like the the villain but other times it is not clear what he is or why is he even here.
Even though I am not the biggest Trekkie out there, I have always enjoyed the series. The previous movies showed a world filled with a lot of light and images but that was missing in this movie. As with Voyage Home, this is a film with more sets then usual but in this one they are not really fully developed. Nimbus 111 is depicted with a cheap western setting and cheap set inside of it. The effects in this movie are also nowhere near as good as the last movie in the series. It is a film that really looks dull.
I think Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is kind of a disaster that doesn't really fit in this classic series and doesn't bring anything to the table. For the Star Trek series, I see it as a terrible waste and a disaster that I don't think anybody should waste their time with.
1/5
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