This film will always hold a special place in my heart because it was the first Star Trek movie I ever saw. The line for Ghostbusters 2 was too long so my dad took us to the theater around the corner and we watched this instead. I love the campfire scenes
@@whalers59 I very much understand it. Im a lifelong trekkie and fans of all things trek. The final Frontier is so bad that I tend to make believe it never even happened.
I have a personal beef with this movie, mostly because I took my high school girlfriend to see it opening night hoping it would get her into Trek.... it didn't really work.
The movie is enjoyable enough. I certainly love the shuttle crash, Kirk's "I need my pain" scene, and the trio confronting God scene. Oh, and I also loved how insane Klaa's hair was.
So in summary, ST5 was doomed to be such a failure due to many, many factors. Most notably the writer's strike, 1989 being so congested, ILM just not being available, the 1701-A being vandalized... Yikes. It's like no matter what happened, it was inevitable. At least it didn't kill the chance of doing ST6, due to TNG continuing to stoke interest. And I do find enjoyment in 5 in spite of its flaws. Also, Sybok became canon again in Strange New Worlds.
While I'd support the decision if they removed ST:V from canon, they could go the other way and include Sybok in Strange New Worlds. Maybe there's a ret-con that could develop Spock (most importantly) while tying into ST:V.
Personally, I like the idea that ST:V takes place completely in the Nexus, and that the strange inconsistencies in it are due to the Nexus trying to meet Kirk's fantasy.
ST5 is hilarious. I watch it every time I can catch it. The last time I watched it, I was in Rapid City, South Dakota on a cross country road trip. It was 2 am and I fell asleep before I could hear Kirk ask "God" what he needed with a starship. 😮💨
When I first saw this movie, I was shocked that a small group of desert farmers could take the Enterprise. But the Enterprise looked way more futuristic than in former movies.
Here's one for you Seinfeld fans. Remember the episode where George's employer mistakenly takes him for being disabled because he's using a cane? There is a music montage that includes a woman carrying George down the hall at work. That woman is the same person who plays the muscular Klingon woman in this film, shown here at 6:27.
I get why this movie is so widely disliked but it has some things I thought were really good. Personally I think it's MUCH Better than the original star trek motion picture.
@@johnnyx9659 The motion picture suffered from the re-boot struggles and the production team wanting to put a serious theme behind the genre. They did not want a campy movie, but a serious endeavor like 2001:a space odyssey. It worked to that degree, but made it a really dry and stiff movie to watch. There was nothing bad about it - just no emotion in the plot.
It would have been nice if Paramount would have invested in doing new effects shots for the 30th anniversary. All this movie needs is to have the ship shots redone. It is actually a fantastic trek film. I always enjoy it. I remember years ago, a guy here on RU-vid was redoing the ship shots in 3d software. It could be even better done today, probably even with free software such as blender.
Not the best Start Trek Movie but I still like it and get a guilty pleasure from watching it every few years. Saw it in a nice big old fashioned Cinema when it was released in Brisbane. Speakers and sound effects were great! Good story. If I recall my trivia, Shatner brought the movie in on time and under budget. Rare for a movie. Good humour!
Oh, once again, just read the books. There's no insight here. The film had to deal with strikes, not having ILM, and a few other problems, like uh...money. Hey, Sean..you have a lovely voice, but you're just talking about what everyone knows. No insight here. Including, you could have said....oh, I won't tell you. Anyway, it's too obvious. As for the direction, it was fine - Shatner knows how to move a camera, and the actors enjoyed working with him. It wasn't the first time he directed. Sean's just following the crowd. As I said, no insight here. As usual. I don't know why I bothered to check.
I love STV, even though, it seems from Shatner's autibiography, he was screwed by the studio changing the post production and VFX budget in mid stream. Had CGI been ready at the time the ending would have been much more pleasing. The unfortunate part for me has always been the wardrobe. The earth tones and the strange shoulder pads which should have been further away actually make Kirk, Spock and especially McCoy look wimpy and older than they already are. And Sybok's Vulcan robes look like they were made by his mom. But the movie has some great Trek bits (I NEED my pain, McCoy's backstory about his father, and "Excuse me...what does God ned with a Starship?)
BSG revisited was so much better than this film. It was crap, in my opinion. Still would watch again, lol. I hate this "Canon" bs. Sci-fi is canon, everytime
I think i watched every ST movie with the image flipped sideways. Unless there is some text/credits which are then oviously the wrong way, it gives you a new perspective literally.
That's a lot to get over. There was some good things about it, but it still was not great. If I'd known, I might have evaluated it against what was holding it back rather than what I would have expected it to be.
I liked all the original Star Trek movies. But to me 2 was prolly the best one. 5 is probably the most distinct one to me. But every star trek seems to be grounded in fighting some sort of false God if you think about it. 1 was superior ai. 2 was superior genetic manipulation. 3 was master race. 4 was time. 5 was religion. 6 was politics. Many might say all star trek is against God himself but not to me and I suppose that's up to the individual. Anyway, don't throw this movie away cause it's just as good as the rest for sure.
Star Trek V had a massive up-hill battle. Coming right after Star Trek IV, that did amazingly well, it was difficult to top that for a sequel movie. I don't think much could have been done about it, honestly. With that said, I think V was still ok. It still had good moments, and I enjoyed it when I first saw it as a kid. I still recommend it.
Sean...there's Star Trek IV and Star Trek VI. Star Trek V does not exist. It's just a shared hallucination. It's really just Kirk's delusion while he's in the Nexus. Let's all agree on that.
It's still better than the plodding mess that is Star Trek The Motion Picture. It's also better than Nemesis. Re-do the FX and it's arguably better than Generations.
I'll say its better than Star Trek The Motion Picture, but better than Nemesis, eeeehhh no, I can't say it. Because at least Nemesis brought us the Scimitar which is by far the coolest enemy ship in all the movies.