Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

"What does God need with a starship?", 27 February 2008

By the time The Final Frontier was released in 1989, it's amazing how far the crew of the Enterprise had sunk. Gone was the campy appeal of the original series - replaced by childish jokes and lame one-liners. The plot involving Spock's half-brother (Was there ever any mention of a half-brother before this movie? How convenient!) searching for what is essentially God is so utterly ridiculous that it hardly merits mention. Most of the crew is shoved to the background as the movie centers on Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, who I swear seem to be doing their best Moe, Larry, and Curly routine. Shatner seems intent on embarrassing himself at every possible turn, Nimoy acts as if he'd rather be anywhere else, and Kelley is just pathetic. In the end, I've got nothing positive to say and I'm scratching my head in vain trying to remember why I rated this dog a 2/10 instead of a 1/10. It's that bad!

2/10