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…
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
I’ve always loved Star Trek. Not the diabolical new shit. They’ve been a long-running series of abominations – from JJ Abrams Star Trek reboot in 2009 to the two sequels (Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond), to each series: Discovery, Picard, Strange New Worlds, and most recently, Starfleet Academy. (I can’t comment on the animated slop, Lower Decks; I’ve only seen the pilot, and that was awful. Maybe it improved. Maybe. Maybe we’ll have world peace tomorrow.) The people in charge of the franchise – JJ Abrams originally, and then Alex Kurtzman – just don’t understand the property. JJ acknowledged that in an interview, where he proclaimed he…