10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is considered incredibly dumb by some. But how dumb is it, really?

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[oriain]

Hear me out. If Uhura didn't do the fan dance, we'd never have Rutherford doing the fan dance. Worth it, if you ask me.

[shadmiller]

Am I the only one who thinks "God" looks like the Cowardly Lion from Wizard of Oz?

[LS-tmoc]

Honorable Mention: The german title of this movie is "Am Rande des Universums" which means "At the edge of the universe". They fly to the center of the galaxy...yeah...

[grahamcann]

You missed the worst part of the Fan Dance; Nichelle Nichols voice being dubbed.
As always thank you all so very much for the videos.

[GSBarlev]

6:30 After _V-Ger_ it's my headcanon that Klingons have a general order to eliminate pre-warp Earth probes on sight. Given how difficult the probe was to hit plus the weird noise it made when it got blown up, I would further assert that the Klingons' actions just saved the galaxy.

[Jayjay-qeum]

At the 10th Golden Raspberry Awards, The Final Frontier was nominated for six Razzie Awards (Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Actor for Shatner, Worst Supporting Actor for Kelley, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Picture of the Decade), winning three (Picture, Director, amd Actor).

[twocvbloke]

No.7 can be answered easily, the Enterprise-A was a very broken ship when handed over to Kirk & Co. under her newly painted on name, given she kept belching out red alerts in spacedock for no apparent reason, Scotty most likely switched it off because a red alert from someone scratchign their nose too loudly would have been quite annoying... :P

[StarFleet_Tech]

We finally saw the toilet, although it was in the brig!

[martincolvill]

I met the actor who played "Claw/Klaugh at a trek convention many years ago. Very nice fellow. He sat all alone with a stack of pictures with him in Klingon regalia and if you bought one he'd sign it.
No one approached him or talked to him. It was sad.

[tyrant-den]

'And in star trek v i got such a great performance out of me, because I respect me so much."

[RyogaHabiki]

My Head Canon is Star Trek V never happened (As we know it). While around the campfire, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy decided to "create a story", each man got a few minutes to talk and make a narrative and then the next person got a chance. Thus creating the bulk of the movie, but it was all a campfire story. Which is why it ends with those 3 around the same campfire. Likely at the end of the next day of their vacation.

[imonlybleeding]

I’ve never been able to put Star Trek V at the bottom of my list of Trek movies, mainly because of the presence of Yosemite in the movie. Being a hiker and having actually hiked (not climbed) to the top of El Cap, I have a sentimental attachment to those scenes. That being said, one of the flaws is in the scene of Kirk climbing El Capitan. Shatner was filmed on a fake rock face, in Yosemite, but much closer to the ground than depicted in the movie – the problem being that part of the actual El Capitan is visible in the background, miles away from the fake El Cap.
Another scientific error is the Klingons shooting the Pioneer probe. At the speed our current probes are going, it will take thousands of years to go even one light year. So, because its only been a few hundred years by the time of Trek, the Klingons would have to be hanging out alarmingly close to Earth, and there is no way Pioneer would be far enough out in interstellar space to be used as target practice for some apparently-bored Klingons.

[michaeldufresne]

Well, it was directed by Shatner so you shouldn't be too surprised by how dumb it was

[roberthelme]

Shatner’s ego is on full, glorious display in V and as a result the film is campy trash. Having said that, there are some magnificent moments with The Big Three, some of the best ever.

[Potrimpo]

Out of all of them, one critical thing you missed was Kirk was the only experienced commander. He was on Earth while the situation was at Nimbus 3.

Kirk did say there should be other ships in the quadrant, but no experienced commanders?

Surely they all couldn't be John Harriman or Willard Decker.

[chrisburton]

I REALLY hope Brie said " wolf in cheap clothing" ironically.

[CaptRobertApril]

Drunken ghost story told around the campfire. It never happened. That simple approach solves pretty much all of the problems.

[cirian]

The main issues were.

1: constant studio inference
2: constant budget cutting
3: SFX not done by ILM

[BasementBerean]

I recently watched this movie after many years. It was charmingly dumb, but it held up better than I thought it would.

[TTony-tudm]

Funny aside: in the trek novel “The Autobiography of James T Kirk”, Kirk and company go to a movie on some planet (Iotia maybe?). The movie they see….is this one! Apparently the people on that world knew of Kirk and his crew’s exploits and made a movie about them. In his narrative Kirk critiqued it by saying something along the lines of “while the character somewhat resembled us, the contrived situations they were put in and their outlandish reactions to them showed it as a work of pure fiction”. A clever way to put this misstep outside canon while still acknowledging its existence