Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Summary
Harve Bennett , who develop most of theStar Trek : The Original Seriesfilms , describe the biggest trouble withStar Trek vanadium : The Final Frontier , the lone flick directed by William Shatner . relinquish in the summer of 1989,Star Trek Vwas , infamously,“the one where the Starship Enterprise met God . “After the blockbuster success ofStar Trek IV : The Voyage Homedirected by Leonard Nimoy , which stand for 23 years as the highest - grossingStar Trekmovie , William Shatner’sStar Trek V : The Final Frontierwas a downturn critically and at the box seat officethat nearly sank theStar Trekmovie franchise .
Star Trek Explorerissue # 9 includes an interview conducted with the late producer Harve Bennett in 1993 . Bennett frankly appraises thefailures ofStar Trek V : The Final Frontier , and pinpoints the issue that stemmed from the celluloid ’s very inception : directorn William Shatner having story approval and the narrative of the Starship Enterprise crew meetingGod he insistedStar Trek Vhad to be about . scan his inverted comma below :
I would say that Star Trek V was the weakest of the pictures , both in term of coherence and its box office , and I would say without shirking obligation is that the problem was Bill had story favourable reception . He knows this , so I ’m not tell on on my ally , but essentially , we get to a point where I said , “ Bill , we can not make a picture about finding God ! ” I said that from the commencement … “ I roll in the hay that if you say in a TV log line “ Tonight on Star Trek , the crew of the USS Enterprise run to chance God , ” everybody knows we ’re not conk out to get there , so as a narrator , it baffle to be a bushy joke !
But he need to do it , so after much aggravation , I said , “ All right , we ’re run to go find God , but we ’re going to make it the right stumble we possibly can ! ” , and so that ’s what we did . I think we achieved a expert slip , but it was not a strong Star Trek . It was destine by its assumption . I learned long ago , if it ai n’t in the premise , it ai n’t there , but Bill felt if we worked heavily enough and dazzled them with enough material , we could do it , and I do n’t think we pull that off … I think a defective premise resultant in a flawed depiction .
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The many problems of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
William Shatner’s Star Trek movie faced a lot of challenges.
Harve Bennett is correct that the defective premise of"meeting God"doomedStar Trek V : The Final Frontierfrom the kickoff , butdirector William Shatnerfacedmultiple other problem trying to get his movie made . Paramount Pictures did n’t allocate enough of a budget for Shatner to realise his lofty ambitions forStar Trek V ’s visuals , such as choruses of angels and demons , and the film ’s ending hurt the most from lack of stock . Industrial Light and Magic also could n’t furnish SFX , and Shatner went with an extraneous effects house that did n’t deliver the highest timber visuals . Star Trek Vwas also released in the incredibly crowded summer of 1989 and was lost in the shuffle against mega - blockbusters likeBatman , Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , andLethal Weapon 2 .
Harve Bennett also pointed out the 1988 writers ' strike mean newfangled episodes ofStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 2 were still airing in syndication in the summer of 1989 , andStar Trek Vhad to vie with aStar TrekTV show .
Star Trek Vhasn’t shirked its reputation as one of theworstStar Trekmovies , but the celluloid does have virtue . Lawrence Luckinbill ’s magnetic turning as the villainous Sybok , the Vulcan half - brother of Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) , holds up well , and Sybok has even made a comeback in the prequel seriesStar Trek : Strange New Worlds . Shatner ’s motion-picture show break sizeable centering to the three of Captain James T. Kirk , Spock , and Dr. Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ) , and their campfire scenes remain charming . Star Trek V : The Final Frontiermay have been doomed from the get - go , but it was a unsuccessful person made with the best of aim .
Star Trek V : The Final Frontieris available to pour on Paramount+ .
Source : Star Trek Explorer
