Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
PG

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Adventure and imagination will meet at the final frontier.

1989 • 106 min • Science Fiction · Action · Adventure · Thriller

Synopsis

A renegade Vulcan with a startling secret hijacks the U.S.S. Enterprise in order to find a mythical planet.

Our family guide

Best from age 9
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Movie Knight Score
1330 reviews
  • 60 Reviewers · 5 · 65%
  • 57 Audience · 1325 · 35%

Captain Kirk and his crew face a renegade Vulcan who takes hostages and hijacks the Enterprise to seek a mythical planet. They embark on a perilous journey through space, confronting danger and questioning beliefs.

Violence & peril
3/10
Language
1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
2/10
Romance & sensuality
1/10
Scary moments
2/10

Heads up

  • Some sci-fi action violence
  • Brief alcohol consumption
  • Characters in peril in space

What it models well

  • Friendship and loyalty
  • Heroism and self-sacrifice
  • Seeking truth and understanding

Talk about it after

  • The nature of belief and faith
  • Dealing with family conflict
  • The meaning of paradise

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Top billed cast

Director: William Shatner • Crew: David Loughery, William Shatner, Harve Bennett, David Loughery

Trailers & clips

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) Original Trailer [FHD]

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Reviewer notes

Not recommended

"Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" is a highly watchable film which features a much greater reliance upon rollicking humour than we have become accustomed to during the more recent adventures. This humour works for the most part and William Shatner seems inexhaustibly determined in his new role as director to include as much eye catching action as he possibly can into the running time - he really delivers the good...

Not recommended

Starts off promisingly, but descends quickly into a somewhat outlandish tale as the crew of the Enterprise meet up with the half brother of "Spock". We are then lumbered with a search for "God" that messes up the whole point of escapist fantasy with religiosity and along the way subjects us to a mind-numbing attempt at indoctrination. Of course there is scope for a discussion on a more ethical approach to the univ...

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

I know, I know, I know, please don't hate me. Please. But, this came out in '89, my parents were busy, they dropped Heath and I off at the theater and didn't come in with us, and, yeah, that happened a lot growing up, but this was the FIRST STAR TREK MOVIE I GOT TO SEE BY MYSELF. And, really, it sort of became MY Star Trek movie. Not the ones I shared with my father, but MY Star Trek. And now when I watch...

Recommended

_**At the end of the day, it entertains**_ This 1989 entry in the Star Trek film series was an earnest and noble effort by William Shatner, who directed and plotted the film, to tackle a subject that only he and Star Trek would dare attempt. Unfortunately it's become law in Trekdom to pick apart this film as a turkey of astronomical proportions; consequently a sort of bandwagon phenomenon has developed amongst ...

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

**Underrated and fun!** This is my favorite Star Trek movie. The whole film bubbles with humour and the music score is fantastic. I love the bookend _'Row, row, row your boat'_ sequences. An emotional and funny film - my favourite goosebumps moment being when Kirk says 'I've always known...I'll die alone". Brings tears to my eyes that part - it really does. You'll have to excuse me, I'm getting emotional thi...

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