i guess that after leonard nimoy have be successful in direct the search for spock and the voyage home and william shatner think he could direct too . although he be a competent actor and he show here that he just not a good director . actually and this movie be hard evidence to support the argument of trekkies who say that william shatner be an arrogant egomaniac . for although his character and captain james kirk and be always arguably the most important role in the original star trek and it seem in this movie that he be the heart of the movie and the two other most important character and captain spock and doctor leonard mccoy and be just there to support him and and the other character be just there to add comic relief . the plot be that some emotional vulcan outcast name sybok be mindmelding with people and release the pain bottle up inside them from that traumatic event early in life that change them forever . grateful and they join him in his quest to make the entire world free of pain and thus at peace . sybok and his follower commandeer the building in which a peace conference between a human and klingon and and romulan diplomat be take place . this lure the still be construct enterprise there and since none of starfleet other ship have experience commander ( honestly and with how starfleet be run and the klingons and romulans should have conquer them year ago ) . sybok add the enterprise crew and save spock ( who be reveal to be secret brother with sybok ) and mccoy and and kirk . sybok order that the enterprise take off to the center of the universe to meet god and who apparently every race have a word for . however and it turn out that this be only a minor entity when he demand the use of the enterprise and kirk asks and what do god need with a starship . the entity be destroy and but not before sybok and realize he be lie to for year and sacrifice his life and earn spock respect in death after the enterprise photon torpedo destroy the entity and inexplicably sybok as well . ok and science fiction movie be not know for realism and but at some point and rationality must be enforce . why do people follow sybok just for release their pain . why be all humanoid define by a single traumatic event . i have certainly lead a trauma free life . why doesn not kirk try his crew for mutiny and treason after they join sybok . what be the point of sybok sacrifice himself when the torpedo be go to kill the entity anyway . so the plot weak . another problem be that sybok and though play well by lawrence luckinbill and be poorly portray . just because he an emotional vulcan doesn not mean he should act exactly like a human religious fanatic . shatner ( who be a co writer as well a the director ) could have at least developed dialog fit for an emotional vulcan . i guess he feel that any emotional be talk like u . gee and i guess that mean that klingons should say isn not and do not more often than be not and do not . and the cardassians shouldn not prolong their sentence because they like to talk ( yeah and i know it sad that i know this ) . please . every st race use unique dialog . why be sybok the exception . the only thing to not complain about be the act . i have always know star trek to have great actor and and this movie be not exception . cudos also go to leonard nimoy and for it have to be difficult to play the dispassionate spock in his old age . some other thing i do not like representshatner and the late deforrest kelly twice show what bad singer they be by sing row and row and row your boat in this movie . i guess shatner wish to silence his detractor of his singing ability . what he do be prove their point . uhura do a fan dance while wear nothing but tree bark to draw some men into a booby trap . after all and the dream of all u men be fill with image of middle age plump woman dance naked . comedy all well and good as long a it doesn not affect the nature of star trek too much and but when scotty bump into an object on the enterprise and kos himself and it kinda goin overboard . kirk be the only crew member who can reject sybok offer of release their inner pain and see through the god imposter deception . not even spock can manage either of these . perhaps this scene be valantines from shatner to his character and a many suspect . the concept of an entity posing a god have be use in star trek before this movie more than once . be creative and shatner . speaking of uncreativeness and i do not purticularly care for the rip off of the music of star trek represent the next generation . all in all and pretty bad trek movie . if youre a trekkie and watch it once because it star trek . otherwise and watch star trek ii represent the wrath of khan . it way well .