Star Trek V The Final Frontier
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Paramount Pictures  (1989) 107 mins PG

4.9 (16,333 votes)
The crew of the USS Enterprise have finally come home for some well deserved rest after many long years of voyaging through space. While Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) are vacationing in Yosemite they are called away on an urgent mission in the newly christened Enterprise. Their mission is to rescue some hostages on a distant barren planet, along the way they are followed by a Klingon intent on stopping them from completing their mission. When they discover that the hostage situation was a ruse by Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill), Spock's half-brother, to gain access to the Enterprise in order to cross the Great Barrier (or the Final Frontier). Sybok claims that a being calling itself Sha-Ka-Ree is on the other side of this long closed off and unexplored area of space. Kirk and Spock go along with Sybok in his efforts to meet this being, but will this be a good or a ...

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Cast and Crew
William Shatner  ......  Captain James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy  ......  Captain Spock
James Doohan  ......  Capt. Montgomery Scott
DeForest Kelley  ......  Dr. Leonard McCoy
Walter Koenig  ......  Commander Pavel Chekov
Laurence Luckinbill  ......  Sybok
Director  .....  William Shatner
Producer  .....  Ralph Winter; Gene Roddenberry; Harve Bennett
Writer  .....  William Shatner; Gene Roddenberry
Cinematography  .....  Andrew Laszlo
Musician  .....  Jerry Goldsmith
Notes
Goofs:
Plot holes: With only one shuttle craft on Nimbus III, and the transporters offline, there is no way that all of the insurgents could have gotten off the surface and onto the Enterprise as it warps away immediately. (more)

Trivia:
William Shatner asked Paramount for money to complete the film the way he originally intended, for release on DVD. Paramount refused. (more)

Filming Locations:
Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Sybok: I thought weapons were forbidden on this planet. Besides, I can't believe you'd kill me for a field of empty holes.
J'Onn: It's all I have.
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Awards:
3 wins & 3 nominations (more)