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(Groom Lake, Star Trek 5: Final Frontier, TV: Tek War, TJ Hooker)
Producer:
Harve Bennett
Screenplay:
David Loughery
Music:
Jerry Goldsmith
Cast:
Captain James T. Kirk: William Shatner
Spock: Leonard Nimoy
Bones: DeForest Kelley
Scotty: James Doohan
Chekov: Walter Koenig
Uhura: Nichelle Nichols
Sulu: George Takei
John Talbot: David Warner
Sybok: Laurence Luckinbill
Korrd: Charles Cooper
Caithlin Dar: Cynthia Gouw
The Final Frontier, was the subtitle of Star Trek 5,
which insinuates it'll be the last one in the series, but we know that there
will be at least ten by now once the sequel to
Star Trek: Insurrection
is released, but why does this entry into the series get such a bum deal?
Probably because it has a dull storyline in which renegade Vulcan Sybok
(Laurence Luckinbill) takes over Nimbus III, the Planet of Galactic
Peace and taking hostages John Talbot (David Warner), Klingon counsil
Korrd (Charles Cooper) and Caithlin Dar (Cynthia Gouw) and
once he gets his hands on the Starship Enterprise, he takes that over too
and pilots it towards the centre of the universe, heading towards the Great
Barrier, which will cause big trub if it happens, especially when they meet
God. Not sure if he's accompanied by The Devil and Bob though...
As usual the Klingons turn up and cause bother for no reason other than to
eek out the running time. Couple that with Shatner's leaden direction, in his
movie-directorial debut, some overbearing one-liners and the fact that the
cast all look way too old given that they were only meant to tour the universe
for five years in the beginning and it really is a clunker.
Things don't improve from there either with a widescreen image that is not
only non-anamorphic, but isn't quite in the correct 2.35:1 widescreen Panavision
ratio as stated on the sleeve. It's approx 2.20:1, has occasional print flecks
and doesn't look particularly lively, although space scenes are still good.
The average bitrate is 7.88Mb/s, often peaking over 9Mb/s.
The soundtrack has been remastered to Dolby Digital 5.1 and excels where it
counts, but it's not used as often as in other Trek movies because it simply
doesn't have as much action or entertainment. DD5.1 is available in English
only as the Germans get Dolby Surround.
There's are just 15 chapters to the film, with subtitles in 15 languages:
English (and hard of hearing), Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic,
Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish and Turkish. The menus are static and silent and aside from that,
the only extras are a Theatrical Trailer (2½mins) and a
Teaser Trailer (1½mins), both non-anamorphic and, respectively,
in 2.35:1 and 16:9.
How long until we get some proper Special Edition DVDs, similar to MGM's James Bond series?
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