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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is a 1989 American science fiction film directed by William Shatner and based on the television series Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry. It is the fifth installment in the Star Trek film series, and takes place shortly after the events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
- $33 million
- June 9, 1989
- Harve Bennett
- Jerry Goldsmith
Jun 9, 1989 · Star Trek V: The Final Frontier: Directed by William Shatner. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan. Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock's long-lost half-brother who hijacks the Enterprise for an obsessive search for God at the center of the galaxy.
- William Shatner
- 376
- 1 min
... director of photography. Editing by. Peter E. Berger. ... (as Peter Berger) Casting By. Production Design by. Herman F. Zimmerman. ... (as Herman Zimmerman) Art Direction by. Nilo Rodis-Jamero. Set Decoration by. John M. Dwyer. Costume Design by. Nilo Rodis-Jamero. Makeup Department. Production Management. Mel Efros. ...
Generally considered the weakest Star Trek film in the franchise, the Final Frontier is directed by William Shatner, who's inexperience in such a large director's chair is on full display.
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- William Shatner
- PG
- William Shatner
- Laurie Ulster
- The original story was going to be about meeting God… for real. William Shatner says he got the inspiration for the movie after watching people like Jimmy Swaggart and Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker on TV.
- Sybok wasn’t originally Spock’s brother. As other elements of the story shifted, so did its central antagonist. Originally named Zar, he was going to be a zealot similar to the Ayatollah Khomeini, who had become the supreme religious leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979.
- There were supposed to be all these Rock Men… As William Shatner and writer David Loughery describe it, the movie’s original ending was huge in scope and highly cinematic, but every time the budget got whittled down, another key element disappeared; they chipped away at the ending until there was very little left of it.
- The movie would’ve shown an addition to Mount Rushmore. With the focus on the Kirk-Spock-McCoy trinity, Sulu and Chekov didn’t get a whole lot to do in this movie.
This 1989 entry in the Star Trek film series was an earnest and noble effort by William Shatner, who directed and plotted the film, to tackle a subject that only he and Star Trek would dare attempt.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is a 1989 American science fiction film directed by William Shatner and based on the television series Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry. It is the fifth installment in the Star Trek film series, and takes place shortly after the events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home .