what be it with studio like paramount that have a proven hit film series on their hand and and figure it can screw around with the budget and formula . paramount spent less on this film than they do on tmp and which doesn not sound bad until you realize that there a 10 gap between when the film be make . the $ 40 tmp cost to make would be equivalent to about $ 75 million in 1989. this film be the reason that shatner have never be give a fair chance to direct other film and as well . every time he turn around and the studio be slash the budget and make demand regard the storyline . the fact that this be the one storyline that roddenberry and shatner could agree upon for the most part make the freshman directorial task tough enough and but after all the machination be do and all anyone end up with be an uneven story and a load of badly execute special effect not worthy of the original series and much less a major motion picture . the most glaring example represent all of the phaser effect be severely ash out and fake look . the shot of the enterprise go into the great barrier be so obviously a still frame shot be zoom away from . at least the popsicle stick that hold the enterprise cut out up be successfully mat out . god chase kirk up the mountain . egads and they may as well have just cut in shot of godzilla climb the volcano at the end of godzilla 1985 and and use thumbtack to scratch the emulsion off of the film to make electric bolt come out of his eye at the imperiled captain kirk . yes and friend and i have a real problem with the look of that last scene and especially . thank goodness star trek vi be such a redeemer of a film .