Star Trek V: The Final Frontier *** (1989, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, David Warner, Laurence Luckinbill, George Takei, Walter Koenig) – Classic Movie Review 1922

After director Leonard Nimoy’s jovial Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), the starship USS Enterprise comes down to Earth with a dullish thud in 1989 as William Shatner takes over the directing helm as well as the starship.

In Shatner’s metaphysical story (written with Harve Bennett and David Loughery), the crew speed off on a new trek when a mystery man seizes a planet and the galactic envoys. Captain Kirk (Shatner) gets to meet God (George Murdock), who wants to commandeer the Enterprise. But the enterprising Captain knows it can’t be the real God, or why would he need their spaceship? Good thinking captain!

Happily all the favourite Trekkers are here, as well as guest stars David Warner and Laurence Luckinbill, in an episode that provides some thrills and spectacular visuals as well as, unfortunately, the odd unintentional laugh at its expense.

DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei and Nichelle Nichols are also of course aboard the Enterprise. Also in the cast are Charles Cooper, Cynthia Gouw, Todd Bryant, Spice Williams, Rex Holman, Jonathan Sumpson, Beverly Hart, Steve Susskind, Harve Bennett, Cynthia Blaise, Bill Quinn, Melanie Shatner, Carey Scott, Mike Smithson.

On a budget of nearly $28million, it grossed $55million in the US.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) followed. Star Trek was successfully rebooted in 2009, with a sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness, in 2013.

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