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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Movie Review

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is a 1989 science fiction film directed by and starring William Shatner. This is one of the weakest entries in this series.

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“What does God want with a spaceship?“

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Captain Kirk and his crew are on a mission to rescue the Klingon and Romulan diplomats. However, they realize it was all a ruse created by Sybok in his insane quest to find God. This is a very problematic flick that ranks along with the first film as the worst of the ‘Original Series’ set of movies.

Most of the problems here stem from the directionless direction from William Shatner. They should have never given him that duty as the man is talentless as an actor and apparently as a director too. The movie has no agency and it felt as if it were made by a child due to its childish humor and some silly plot scenarios.

With that being said, I definitely did enjoy some of the humor here. All of the scenes with the main crew are, in fact, quite charming. McCoy, Spock and Kirk are so endearing together and them trying to make Spock more human was quite amusing to watch. The acting by the three is solid here and their dynamic is by far the best thing about this film, even if it stalled the pace considerably.

As for Sybok, I’ve got mixed feelings about this villain. On the one hand, it was quite clichéd to have this Vulcan be sentimental and different from others, but on the other hand, he did prove to be one of the better and more competent villains of the series, certainly the most memorable one since Khan.

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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier needed better special effects as these looked subpar in comparison to the rest of the series. The same goes for the action sequences. While I quite admired the movie’s religious themes, they were utterly underrealized. More could have been done with this plot that had a lot of potential, but was executed poorly due to Shatner’s half-assed direction.

William Shatner is a talentless man, there is no question about it. He sucks as an actor, but apparently also as a director as Star Trek V: The Final Frontier felt half-assed and directionless because of him. The movie is one of the worst of the Original Series films as it felt undercooked in its admittedly interesting religious themes and quite problematic in the technical areas. The highlights here were the solid villain and the great dynamic between the main actors. These moments were charming and fun, but the rest was quite mediocre.

My Rating – 3