Classic Star Trek is like eating pizza... Even when it's not great, you can still enjoy it. 👍

The worst part is how they portrayed Sulu, Uhura and Chekov being so easily turned by Sybok.

The Final Frontier is a comfort movies for me, Shatner, Nimoy, Kelly have such sweet and likable chemistry that one can’t help but have a good time watching them

It's my favorite because I was in it for two weeks in October 1989. I was 21 years-old and I was one of the "Space Marines" (what the script called us)on the shuttle craft captured by Sybok's gang. It was an awesome experience!

Poor Scotty.... I could watch that remix of him hitting his head all day. Should I feel horrible about myself?? 🤔😁

Some of Shatner's original ideas were even wilder! Like meeting the ACTUAL devil???

The best thing about the movie is the now fan theories about the God character. My favorite is that he’s an Q who was cast out to that small plant and stripped of most of his powers. Kind of like the theory that Trelane from the original series is a Q just a child.

I can't hate this one. In some ways, it feels like the Trek film that's closest in spirit to the original show: warts and all. It's goofy and campy and has too many big ideas and sometimes falls on its face, while somehow still managing to be mostly charming. So I enjoy it from that POV, even if it is "objectively" the worst of the TOS movies. Even if it is the worst, it's still watchable. (Whereas the less said about Nemesis the better, as far as I'm concerned.)

A great concept that's ultimately bungled. I think the best thing about the film is Sybok, he was a genuinely well written character.

You hit the nail on the head when you said “Sybok’s therapy sessions.” He does not control anyone’s mind. He helps them face their issues and everyone falls in love with the therapist. A few weeks later, I’m sure the crew were all red-faced and apologized to Kirk.

The first and only time I saw this one was in 1989 as an 11yr old trapped on a 24hr long flight from the UK to Australia - "What does God need with a starship" is literally the only part I remember from it, and that's probably enough tbh.

I like star trek v despite the bad reviews. Feels like a plot to one of the original series

I got to see this movie for free and I still wanted my money back.

Oh snap, I've been looking forward to this one! The Voyage Home made a trekkie out of me as a kid, and I was so excited about The Final Frontier, and just feeling empty inside after finally seeing it. On the bright side, it made The Undiscovered Country a pleasant surprise for me!

Enjoyed watching the closed-captions struggle with Sybok. Sidewalk, Cyborg, Show Box, Shy Bach...

The music is good.

Giving what little credit the film deserves, when Shatner focuses on the regulars, it's not that bad. Those embarrassing scenes with Uhura and Scotty notwithstanding. Laurence Luckinbill was very good as Sybok. He did NOT have to be Spock's half-brother, however. That didn't really add much to the story, and for years, he was considered non-canon. But then, now Spock has a foster sister AND a half-brother, which I still maintain utterly destroys his long-time relationship with Sarek as originally established by the original series. Sarek cannot condemn Spock for joining Starfleet when his "daughter" did likewise.

Not to pile on (but I will), the one huge plot hole that always bothered me was the conveniently malfunctioning transporter. Because it's not working, they have to initiate a commando raid where they are captured by Sybok and his followers. Had it not been malfunctioning, Kirk could've just beamed up the hostages and left, warp factor one. Since Sybok didn't know about the transporter issue, his plan is completely inept. The writers could've fixed this problem by ditching the transporter issue and simply say that Sybok has rigged up a force field around the compound so they can't beam the hostages out. They wouldn't have even needed to do any special effects; just state it in the script somewhere.

This is gonna be brutal. Not the review. Just... remembering seeing this movie.

This is a good, light-hearted film. It doesn't deserve the overly negative criticism that it receives.

This feels like a fan-fiction given a big budget.

I saw this in theaters. It stunk on ice.

Spock is very good at never mentioning his siblings

Brilliant as always. Thanks Stam Fine.

It's an entertaining movie, despite what people say. In spirit it feels like a fancy TOS episode and the chemistry between the leading actors is phenomenal.

The beginning scene where they get caught by sybok in the bar looked like the litterally put on Halloween costumes and used a camcorder. It was almost star wars holiday special cringe level effects.

As a kid i felt the movie to be a bit boring BUT i really really loved the overall sense of family among the whole crew. The movie always felt more like a feature length Star Trek TOS episode with the same budget constraints that made you focus more on the story & characters. So i didn't really give too much about the subpar Special Effects. Took me many many years to hear about the troubled production conditions this movie project had to face. Especially ILM's completely sold out capacity since 1989 was INSANE for Industrial Light and Magic. I also still think Star Trek V has one of the most beautiful Scores of all the Star Trek movies. Jerry Goldsmith was an absolute BLESSING to the Star Trek movie franchise and he always treated EVERY movie with the same respect, dedication and greatness that could always be heard in his scores.

Love Scotty's Wii bit o' improvised music.

I love the ending to this movie and how Life Is But A Dream segues into the Star Trek theme.

I remember walking out after seeing this and the only sensible comment could utter to my friend was. Pub?

Patiently awaiting your take on ST VI... Very patiently. Oh, so patiently. I haven't found it on the playlist, you see, so I'm PATIENTLY waiting to see an alert for it... Patiently, I must reiterate, most patiently.

Star Trek V is the Jaws sharkfin on the horizon of the Star Trek movie series.

i love this movie. and i love laughing at the “fandom” who hate it.

The camps scenes with Bones, Spock and Kirk are greats.

Always felt V was the closest to Roddenberry's idea. Plus I've seen a recut version with redone SFX and it's fantastic!!

I know I'm probably in a very small group of people who enjoys this movie more than Star Trek III. That movie mostly just feels like a sidequest, where this feels like a proper journey. Sure, the effects aren't great, and the comedy can be cringeworthy, but I still find it highly entertaining.

I will likely ALWAYS prefer this movie over TMP!

I thought that this was the worst Star Trek film… then decades passed, and I see Into Darkness; now I remember this film fondly… thank you JJ Abrams you fixed Star Trek five.

I was so glad they made Star Trek VI to make up for this one. I do like the Kirk, Spock, and McCoy scenes, theres real friendship and commradere going on there.

Thank you for this! 🤣👍🏾 I took the woman who eventually became my wife to see this wreck of a movie. It's amazing she still ended up marrying me. Star Trek V: We're Off To See The Wizard Who Resembles The Cowardly Lion.

It is very funny to learn that Shatner helped direct, and that could be why Kirk saw through the false God and was not psycho analyzed by Sybok

The upvote was for your video, not the film, lol.

Uhuru's fan dance is something Auntie Beryl would do when drunk at a party

I'm one of those people who like the films that others hate. So I DO enjoy Star Trek V. BUT, if they had thought far enough ahead I would have LOVED for Trek IV and V to continue connecting and when they returned from 1986 and saved Earth they would have found themselves on Mirror Earth and told Trek V from that vantage point.

I love your humor. This was a fun ride! ♥

Undiscovered Country is my favorite. Is that the next release or will it be a couple weeks/months?

10:16 Waiting for your take on Airwolf, my good man!

Unlike the other movies, this one just felt like a longer episode of TOS, with marginally better effects than the show.

A fascinating mess of a film. I find it quite watchable!

YES, this has the 'TV episode' feel to it .... and as a one-off I really enjoyed it.

A few points about Goldsmith's music. As big a fan of Goldsmith as I am, I don't like his late 1980''s scoring style. He used synths instead of unusual organic instruments and this leads to a lack of variety and dynamism in sound. Furthermore, on Rambo III and this movie, Goldsmith used a 4 note and a 5 note motif to link together the rest of the score. I'm not enamored with this approach. The movie's set pieces lack flow and have editing issues (due to lack of footage?), so Goldsmith's music had to adopt a repeated start/stop pattern to cover them. This really prevents the music from gaining momentum and punching up the scenes' impact. Finally, the music needs to be heard on the CD, because the film's sound dub doesn't employ the music as consistently or prominently as it should have.

Like TOS, this movie has a lot more going for it than detracting from it. I prefer it to both IV on some levels and certainly like it more than VI, which I think did the original characters, especially Kirk, a huge disservice. I saw V in a Cinerama theater when I was 8 - plenty of nostalgia built in…. And, the Goldsmith score on this I would argue is at times better than TMP which is phenomenal itself. Make sure you listen to the complete score, not just the original release.

How did you do that woman doing the Star Trek kind of theme but to your theme at the beginning? It was beautiful.

When watching the UHD disc it becomes apparent that the focus puller had some kind of trouble doing his job. Numerous scenes with bad focussing.

some good moments in that movie, e.g the campfire scene, b as in barricade, mcoy assisting his father's death- very powerful.

After my uncle saw the ST:V he cried out, "Sybok! Take away my pain!" The movie was a huge letdown after ST:IV. I didn't like the offduty camping stuff, especially Row Row Row Your Boat. The effects were truly low budget. I've heard that the FX company presented the shots to Shatner and okayed them as proofs, but then was told they were the final shots. I've seen some YTbrs try their hand at making the space scenes better, but still nothing spectacular. I didn't mind the finding God stuff, although a Great Barrier at the center of the galaxy was a "What??" And it does pay off with Kirk's "What does God need with a starship?" line. I found other gems in McCoy's trauma with his dying father and what Spock feels is Sarek's disappointment in him. But Kirk's "I need my pain!" is I think on point with the character and series ethos. Kirk and Humanity may make mistakes or fail. But we learn from them and strive for better. "Risk, is why we're aboard [the Enterprise]." Heroic, in the age of NuTrek where trotting out your pain gets characters some kind of brownie points and affirmation of selfworth.

I do remember Siskel and Ebert reviewing this and I think it was Roger Ebert who said something along the lines of even though the story wasn’t good he though Shatner had a better feel for directing a big screen movie than Nimoy’s as the latter’s looked more like television movies.

I've commented on your videos, fast-paced and funny. Even though you joke about these things, it's obvious that you do it out of love. I know Final Frontier doesn't get a lot of love but I really like it. It's far from the best Star Trek movie but there are a lot of things I love in it and I never skip it when rewatching the movies.

V. The Enterprise drives to heaven and shoots god…

id still watch and enjoy more than anything post trek 6

It shouldve been fun this one. Its not so bad. You can watch it. Certainly better than any of the Next Generation movies.

Man, your knowledge of tv minutiae is astounding. The Bionic Man's crashed capsule had a name? HL-10?

I actually quite liked this one and prefer it to The Voyage Home, It had some Great Star Trek Character moments, I really liked the camping scenes and the death of McCoy's Father was genuinely moving.🤔👍

The Big God head should have been Bill Shatner

Star Trek V: Meh Final Frontier lol. Love the vid and I just started watching it

Despite the official story, I wonder if Luckinbill was considered because he was the son in law of Desilu studios

Thanks, Stam. You're funny. Just so darn funny.

There are truly worse Treks out there... that cost much more money... and included far more guys with JJ in their name. Lookin' at you Into Dorkness!

I love Star Trek V, it's way underrated. I prefer it over the comedy movie Star Trek IV.

Yes, it was a terrible movie, but you know, after the Star Trek II & III bridge configuration, it was my 2ɴᴅ favorite and an excellent aesthetically pleasing Enterprise bridge. It kinda put that homey, carpeted 'Next Generation' spin on the classic. Although, if I remember correctly, the set designers placed the tactical station so as to make it visible from the view screen, which probably ranks as the most boneheaded choice, in the annals of Star Trek sets. I don’t know, maybe I’m mixing that up with the Star Trek VI bridge set?

The Final Sliders

Hey, this is my favourite Star Trek production! Oh, wait, sorry, the word 'least seemed to have dropped off that first sentence.

If you ignore the production values and VFX it's really not bad. But the truly bizarre thing is that STV had a quite healthy budget for the time, comparable to TMP even accounting for inflation since much of the first film's budget also included the costs of the unmade Phase II. Some serious mismanagement of funds going on here

"skullet" lol, Rimmer would be pleased

Original film was hated too but now its sort of a gem by many and ST5 is sort of ok and i totally agree with it being the worst but... i happy to watch it as it has some moments and for 6 films, it doesant take too much for one to be unwatchable or too long ect. Personally i rather sit through Final frontier than some of the late TNG cast films as they are so dark and FF is too but still keeps it light and the bad guy is "civilised" and speaks well and old style sort of thing where some of the films, the bad guy is a awful revengeful alien and even "Picard" is so hard going and merky in the second season and what about "feel good" when you see a movie?? Least with FF. scotty and jokes and dancing and looking for God and explosions and ship insides look ok and colourful but DECKS go up towards 1 and this is basic LAW and hello, the writers and checkers didnt pick this up????

The only good thing about this movie is DeForest Kelley's performance. It's interesting how the older McCoy got, the more his Southern accent came out.

I too look upon the not so good films as extended episodes. Hell, Insurrection would have been one of the best TNG end of season cliffhangers.

Star Trek VI is great though 👍🏻

I don't know shit about Star Trek, so I really don't see the problem with this movie. After the 1st, it's probably my favorite Star Trek movie. I haven't seen them all, though.

The story and the acting are solid. It’s the lack of budget for FX, set design, makeup and costumes that wrecked it.

I remember this one. I guess you could say it was a steaming pile of Shat.

What does God need with a Stam Fine?

You can't win them all. It was a movie with some good scenes but was completely undercut by the crappy effects. I liked the Sybok character, he was more of a new age guru than televangelist. If someone were to redo all the effects in good CGI this movie would probably be better than most of the TNG movies.

The one good thing about This movie Is the relative between Kirk bones and Spock

Just for reference, these are the movies Star Trek V was competing with that summer... 1989 Summer season (May - August): Tim Burton's Batman (Batman was so freaking *HUGE* that year!) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Ghostbusters II Lethal Weapon 2 License To Kill (James Bond XVI) The Karate Kid, Part III Honey, I Shrunk the Kids! (Which showed with the new Roger Rabbit cartoon short "Tummy Trouble") James Cameron's The Abyss Dead Poets Society Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing Roadhouse Lock Up Great Balls of Fire Casualties Of War Hear No Evil, See No Evil When Harry Met Sally Uncle Buck Parenthood Weekend At Bernies UHF Turner & Hooch Little Monsters Millenium The Return Of Swamp Thing Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

Actually most of the sets built for TNG were not reused for Star Trek V. The opposite is true most of the sets were built for Star Trek phase 2, in the ‘70’s and reused for TNG. So the final frontier reused mostly movie sets.

The first rule of Star Trek 5, we dont talk about Star Trek 5.

9:25 what is that? doohan and hasselhoff???

Star Trek V: The Final Affront

STAR TREK V: The Final Frontier is a big-budget finale to the 1960's TOS series. It's what a Star Trek motion picture would have been if it had been faithful in tone to the 60's show itself. It's exactly how William Shatner sees the Star Trek he made famous: Focus on the Big Three, alien "Gods", strange-hued alien skies, beaming down to the planet for a fist-fight and shoot out, etc. If you watch it as if there were no other movies before or after, this is a movie about the old 1960's scifi show called "Star Trek". Pure and simple. It captures that show more accurately than any other Trek movie.

I like so much about this movie, but I really hate the basic premise. But if I have a really long, loud and heartfelt sigh before I begin, I can just get past that bit and enjoy the journey, even if the destination is kinda rooted.

Still better than Abrams and Kurtzman abominations. Kirk, Spock and McCoy scenes are gold in this one, and why would i care about less than stellar effects, when they have never bothered me in the original series. As a matter of fact i consider Final Frontier more like an expanded television episode than full fledged movie and as such it is perfectly fine.

This movie was the 2nd biggest theatrical disappointment behind Highlander II for me. It was my first theatre-watched Trek movie since I was a 5th grader seeing Star Trek II with my best friend, and oh man did I regret it. What crap.

Where is that clip of James Cromwell talking to a Mr Shatner on the phone, from? What's the context?

This is a bit too harsh. I enjoyed the interplay among the cast and Luckinbill did a great job. He gave that character dignity and he also is a connection to the original birth mother of Star Trek, namely Lucille Ball (his mother in law). The script was bad. The idea behind it was bad. The original idea behind the idea, that got Shatner going, was a mistake. The camaraderie of "those three" was well done and fun for people. (But I groaned through poor Uhura's solo - and why didn't they use her voice?) The script was just along for the ride. What I objected to at the end was that all the images of God shown were male. I had been kind of hoping that the god of Sha Ka Ree would be female - and wouldn't that have been Kirk's hope? It was a blockbuster summer, which toned down profits, but the movie hadn't been universally panned as spoken here. I love your critiques, but you just seemed to want to have fun to bash Shatner. Me thinks you took a few potshots that were unworthy of both of you. I enjoyed this movie - and as a fan of Yosemite, it was a treat, although NO ONE climbs El Capitan thinking it's a day trip...I agree, though, with someone down below commenting that it's kind of a comfort movie between two good ones - that's how I thought of it at the time. A chance to see those guys again. And knowing that the ride is going to end soon.

I will take V over III, and I like both. V has such deep concepts and great quotable lines and Uhura's song and dance was really a nice treat. I didn't like the cussing because that was new, and now swamps Trek.

"I need my pain"

The constant "meh" you say right after saying "Star Trek 5" is hilarious.

I didn't think it was that bad. It wasn't great, but it beats Generations for me.

I liked it