Star Trek V: (Beyond) The Final Frontier?
If you ask any Trekker which is the worst of the original series movies, they’ll tell you Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. In it, Kirk and company’s shore leave (on Earth) is cut short because they’re required to take a very new but underprepared Enterprise 1701- A to Nimbus III, where Federation, Klingon, and Romulan ambassadors have been taken hostage. When they get there, the Enterprise’s crew find the mastermind is Sybok, Spock’s half-brother – a man we never knew existed – and that this has all been a ploy. Sybok has an ability to free people from their psychological and emotional pain, after which they become unquestioningly devoted to…
A Look Back: Star Trek V – The Final Frontier
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) is widely considered the worst of the six The Original Series (1966 – 1969) movies. A Vulcan visionary, Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill), engineers a hostage situation on the planet of galactic peace, Nimbus III – a planet that hosts ambassadors from the Federation, the Klingon Empire, and the Romulan Empire. The Enterprise 1701-A, under the command of James T. Kirk (William Shatner), is sent to neutralise the situation and rescue the hostages. While Kirk’s mission initially seems successful, the hostages turn on Kirk and his crew. They have become fanatical supporters of Sybok, who has the power to explore a person’s pain, and free…