Star Trek V: The Final Frontier: Difference between revisions

With a brand-new ''Enterprise'', Kirk and crew set out to resolve a hostage situation only to discover that they've been suckered as part of a grander scheme. Who's behind it? Why Spock's [[Long-Lost Relative|long-lost half-brother Sybok]], of course! Sybok commandeers the ''Enterprise'', winning over most of the crew by using his [[Telepathy|telepathic]] [[Epiphany Therapy]] on them. Failing to realize that there is [[No Such Thing as Space Jesus]], Sybok makes them set a course for the [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|center of the galaxy]], where he believes [[God]] is waiting. With the bulk of his crew now working against him, Kirk must [[Die Hard on an X|John McClane]] his way up the ''Enterprise'' armed with his wits, a pair of rocket boots... and ''Trek's'' very first fart joke.

 

 

Still, the concept ''was'' Shatner's idea, and he knew about the studio's humor requirements before he even began work. Gene Roddenberry himself had expressed strong reservations about the pitch; He had good reason to be concerned, as he had previously written [http://www.well.com/~sjroby/godthing.html his own story] about the crew meeting God and hated the result. But Shatner persisted with the idea of [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|Kirk coming up against God and winning]]. ''[[Star Trek]]'' and religious topics have always been uneasy bedfellows; ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' is the only series to pull it off, and Trekkies are divided on even that. (Of course, considering that Roddenberry's counterproposal was, as usual, having the ''Enterprise'' crew go back to 1963 so Spock could be the second gunman on the grassy knoll, Shatner's idea was still probably the better one.)

 

This movie isn't a total write-off, though: ''Star Trek V'' also features plenty of [[Character Development]] scenes between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy (the [[Book Ends]] with the three camping are quite enjoyable), an absolutely ''brilliant'' backstory scene involving McCoy and his father, and has a collection of well imagined individual sequences such as [[Coming in Hot]] with a shuttlecraft.

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* [[Agent Mulder]] & [[Agent Scully]]: Sybok and Kirk, respectively. McCoy goes from Scully to Mulder when they meet "God" and back to Scully when "God" starts being a dick.

 

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