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Overview

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Director:
William Shatner
Writers (WGA):
Gene Roddenberry (creator: based on "Star Trek")
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Release Date:
9 June 1989 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller more
Tagline:
The Enterprise is back. This time, have they gone too far? more
Plot:
Capt. Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock's half brother who hijacks the Enterprise for an obsessive search for God. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(20 articles)
Star Trek Meets 'Battlestar Galactica' In Proposed Sequel
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Writer sells Mourning After pitch
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User Comments:
Dont Blame William Shatner more (230 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Additional Details

Runtime:
107 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Klingon
Color:
Color (Technicolor) | Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby SR (35 mm prints)

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Trivia:
Originally, the opening of Kirk's El Capitan ascent would have been a galactic shot of the Milky Way, zooming into the solar system, and finally an aerial view of Yosemite. This was too expensive to film. But a similar tracking shot was done years later at the beginning of Star Trek: First Contact (1996) during Picard's Borg assimilation flashback dream. more
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
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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Soundtrack:
Fanfare from Star Trek Television Series more

FAQ

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12 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Dont Blame William Shatner, 6 April 2004
Author: IMDBReader

V has some of the best moments in the entire series. The camping scene is both funny, and insightful. I also love the scene in the brig. ("I oughtta knock you on your Goddam ass!"......."Want me to hold him, Jim?")

The only mistake was hiring an effects crew who had never done motion control blue screen model effects before. And that was NOT William Shatner's fault. That was Ralph Winter's and Harve Bennet's fault. Quit blaming William Shatner. The producers hold the purse strings, and hired idiots. Watch the new DVD and you will see model test shots that were not for action blocking, but were the effects team actually trying to figure out how to do the effects. Lame

Watch this movie, focus on the characters, and ignore the space shots, and it's pretty good. I think since they reworked ST:TMP with new effects based on the original story boards, they should have done the same for ST:V for the new DVD. That would have fixed the whole movie.

Besides all of the exterior ship shots, the scenes I would have fixed are as follows:

The turboshaft - Change the deck numbers to make sense and erase the shadow made by the boom holding them up.

All viewscreens - Insert remastered footage digitally to replace the poor rear-projection versions. The new Enterprise would have an even clearer screen, not a grainy, dim one. The only one that worked was the observation windows as they approached the great barrier.

The fall scene at the beginning. Inserting the closeup of Kirk and Spock ruined the entire scene.(Exactly like the parasailing scene in Die Another Day) Seeing a real stuntman is always better than seeing a fake shot of the actor.

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