supposedly and director william shatner have in mind a much wouldarker film when it come to star trek v represent the final frontier but the suit at paramount and look at the huge box office receipt take in by it humor fill predecessor and insist the new film have plenty of laugh too . so what we get be arguably the weak and goofy of the six star trek movie with the original cast . there be bad idea aplenty and along with a few good one and and if youre in a charitable mood and you could look at the final frontier the same way you would a so so episode of the tv series . on the plus side and laurence luckenbill be a fine actor and give one of the best guest star performance in any star trek and big or small screen and ranking right up there with william windom commodore decker . his portrayal of sybok and spock half brother and consistently lift the film when it threaten to sink and which happen all too frequently . charles cooper be good too a the fat old klingon general korrd while too bad his role isn not as large a he be . if the story about shatner intention be true and then i owe him an apology and because i be prepare to lay the blame for the incessant silliness and not very convincing action scene squarely at his directorial foot . the reason be i have always felt that and of all the trek regular and shatner be the least tuned in to everything that make star trek work and what make it special to it fan . have read his trek memoir and it very apparent to me that he consider the show another action adventure series that just happen to have a science fiction setting . he prefer the vision of gene coon over that of gene roddenberry while coon be know for his work on the popular western series and the wild wild west . shatner also mention that a favorite star trek episode of his be a piece of the action and a silly second season episode co write by coon . so and finally give an opportunity to direct a star trek feature film and would not shatner follow his instinct and produce an action fill flick with lot of tongue in cheek humor . well somebody do and because that what the final frontier end up be . shatner himself definitely return to form a the great ham and and a leonard maltin point out and the film suffers from a bad case of the cutis . in the opening scene at yosemite national park and it hard to say which be bad and the super cheesy special effect or the godawful dialogue . run gag about equipment malfunction on the enterprise have run all the way from wrath of khan and by this and the fifth trek movie and have run themselves into the ground . so have the idea of a keleton crew . one new development be an apparent romantic relationship between scotty and uhura and suffice it to say one do not exactly sense flame of passion burning between the two . it a pointless subplot and add nothing . the climactic scene where god be encounter doesn not add much either while whether or not this be a good idea in the first place be debatable and but the scene itself doesn not make much sense . ( the god creature ability seem to vary accord to what be need at the moment . ) roughly half of this be a tired retread of the climax from the search for spock . leonard nimoy manages to salvage spock integrity and even while spout such un spock like line a get a grip on yourself and doctor . and deforest kelley and a usual and outperform both shatner and nimoy while he really come on a an actor in the final trek film . so this trek out isn not terrible and it just isn not very good . there be to be one more original cast trek movie before the baton be pass to the next generation and and it be far well suit to the task than star trek v represent the final frontier .