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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
1989 · Film · 106 min
Part of Star Trek: The Original Series Collection
Directed by William Shatner
Science FictionActionAdventureThriller
A renegade Vulcan with a startling secret hijacks the U.S.S. Enterprise in order to find a mythical planet.
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I find Ep 7 to be mostly unwatchable because it’s almost all fan service without a real story to be found. There was no plot for Ep 8 to hang itself on, just a few coathooks widely spread.
Ep 8 had some really interesting character arcs, but also made some basic errors. As a movie, I think that it’s the strongest of the three sequels. Given a lack of plot points to really hang off, Johnson seems to have done something interesting, but left even fewer plot points to hang off than Abrams left him. Let’s be clear: if Lucasfilm had disagreed with his direction, they would have taken him off the project.
Ep 9 was more fan service (who can we throw into this scene?) with an even more inexplicable plot hook (if the Emperor was coming back in any way, there should have been hints of that in Ep 7).
I do not understand the fascination with J J Abrams. He claims to be a fan of various media, but IMO he is the shallowest type of fan out there, appreciating only certain aesthetics without looking any deeper. His Star Trek films are the absolute worst of all the Star Trek films, even worse than Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Why are they the worst? Because they have become Generic Action Films with a Star Trek veneer. (This is more or less my complaint with Picard.) I dread the idea of seeing J J Abrams touch any more science fiction properties because he just doesn’t get them and turns them into Michael Bay films (but with lens flares instead of explosions).
I'm confused. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is also a feature film, so I don't get your point.
> I've always wondered why we never really saw toilets in Star Trek.
When the original series was made, you couldn’t show a toilet on TV – it simply wasn’t allowed.
But, beginning in 1989 with the release of the feature film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, you do get the occasional glimpse of an actual toilet here and there.
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Toilet