Humor in Star Trek V

[darkshadow0001]

Watching ST:V at the moment, and while not the best Trek film ever, it does have some great one-liners

Like:
"Hold your horse, Captain" (Spock)
"Be one with the horse" (Kirk)

and I know there were a few others, but I can't remember them at this point. Watching it on VHS so I can't backtrack as easily on DVD

 

[dayxday1000]

Star Trek V blew goats. I didn't think it was funny at all.

 

[Augustus]

The banter between Kirk, Spock and McCoy is the only thing that to me makes Trek V watchable...

 

[Timewalker]

For me the jailbreak scene is the only watchable part of this abominable movie.

Personally, I wouldn't want to "be one" with a horse.

 

[Sheliak]

"Up your shaft!"

 

[cardinal biggles]

^Wrong film.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

^LOL, biggles. ^^ I liked the funny lines, the singing that would make Simon Cowell freak a little and the slapstick comedy. But that's me.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Watching ST:V at the moment, and while not the best Trek film ever, it does have some great one-liners

Like:
"Hold your horse, Captain" (Spock)
"Be one with the horse" (Kirk)

and I know there were a few others, but I can't remember them at this point. Watching it on VHS so I can't backtrack as easily on DVD

Don't fret with all the negativity towards this movie. The movie is far better than Nemesis or Insurrection and made, when inflation is taken into account, FAR more money (even when inflation isn't taken into account it still made more)..

TREK V is what it is. A troubled film but it has its moments. Those who hate it as bad as they do actually hate Shatner and so they lump this movie in with him. Its part of the lore of some fans. Hate Shatner/hate TREK V. Apparently they didn't hear shatner...GET A LIFE

Rob
Scorpio

 

[darkshadow0001]

Watching ST:V at the moment, and while not the best Trek film ever, it does have some great one-liners

Like:
"Hold your horse, Captain" (Spock)
"Be one with the horse" (Kirk)

and I know there were a few others, but I can't remember them at this point. Watching it on VHS so I can't backtrack as easily on DVD

Don't fret with all the negativity towards this movie. The movie is far better than Nemesis or Insurrection and made, when inflation is taken into account, FAR more money (even when inflation isn't taken into account it still made more)..

TREK V is what it is. A troubled film but it has its moments. Those who hate it as bad as they do actually hate Shatner and so they lump this movie in with him. Its part of the lore of some fans. Hate Shatner/hate TREK V. Apparently they didn't hear shatner...GET A LIFE

Rob
Scorpio

I'm not. I actually enjoy watching the film every once in awhile, despite what others say. I just never realized some of the humor the movie had before.

 

[nx1701g]

For me the jailbreak scene is the only watchable part of this abominable movie.

"Whad'ya standin' around for. Don't cha know a jailbreak when you see one?"

 

[SchwEnt]

Star Trek V blew goats. I didn't think it was funny at all.

I agree. And even worse than unfunny, it was tacked on humor.

As if they saw TVH was funny and popular, so let's take this TFF script that's fairly serious and [insert humor here].
Just because it worked and was natural to TVH, doesn't mean you can just add-on to TFF. Removing the unfunny humor from STV may just have improved the movie.

 

[Iamnotspock]

Spock: "The designers tested it, using the most intelligent and recourceful person they could find. He failed to escape."

Kirk: "This... person... He didn't, by any chance have pointed ears, and an unerring capacity for getting his shipmates into trouble did he?"

Pause

Spock: "He did have pointed ears."

 

[trevanian]

Spock: "The designers tested it, using the most intelligent and recourceful person they could find. He failed to escape."

Kirk: "This... person... He didn't, by any chance have pointed ears, and an unerring capacity for getting his shipmates into trouble did he?"

Pause

Spock: "He did have pointed ears."

It's a funny exchange, and I personally LOVE TFF, but I think this is a good example of how the movies get Kirk wrong (even the good ones sometimes ... )

Kirk's reply to the "most resourceful" bit should have been, "Nobody ever tried locking me in one of these," because anybody who has seen 5 episodes knows KIRK is the one who can get out of anything (and he doesn't always rely on Spock's help either.) Later on when they have Spock piloting the shuttle I thought it was wrong as well ... Kirk ENJOYS doing stuff, HE is the command pilot (according to the series), yet he is just sitting back letting the jr Capt do the flying.

Now the later bit ... "debate ShaKahRee till you're green in the face" (pause) ... THAT is really good comic timing.

 

[TheMurph]

I liked the humor in STV. Not a great movie by any means, but it is a good Star Trek movie to pop in once in awhile.

 

[CoveTom]

Kirk's reply to the "most resourceful" bit should have been, "Nobody ever tried locking me in one of these," because anybody who has seen 5 episodes knows KIRK is the one who can get out of anything (and he doesn't always rely on Spock's help either.)

It's true that we know Kirk is very resourceful and always takes charge of the situation. But how often do we actually hear him boasting about it? I don't think he does that much. I kind of think your suggested reply would be out of character.

Plus, Spock was obviously speaking positively about himself -- something he is noted for doing -- and Kirk was using humor in reply, which is perfectly in character.

 

[dayxday1000]

This is the only Star Trek movie that I don't own. I thought it was so bad that I refused to reward Paramount with any more of my hard earned money for delivering that turd bucket. I remember going to a convention sometime between the release of STIV and STV and Harve Bennett was there explaining that, beginning with STII, the budgets had been scaled back for the 3rd and 4th films. But since STIV had done so well with main stream audiences, Paramount was poised to return the Star Trek franchise to an "A" film status with lots of marketing $$, special FX $$ etc. I realize that there was a writer's strike, but I went into the theater high expectations based on what Bennett said, and what I got was an astonishing peice of crap with lousy FX, a substandard plot with some guy who is supposed to be Spock's brother (whom we've never heard about), and lame attempts at humor ( I can just see the suits at Paramount sending out a TPS report about putting more humor in the movies because people thought the whale movie was funny).

Anyway, I've never seen the movie since it was in the theaters, and I hope I never see it again.

PS, the bridge of the big E looked great at the end of STV but looked like a TNG reject for STV. Just one more thing they messed up......

 

[sbk1234]

Star Trek V blew goats. I didn't think it was funny at all.

I agree. And even worse than unfunny, it was tacked on humor.

As if they saw TVH was funny and popular, so let's take this TFF script that's fairly serious and [insert humor here].
Just because it worked and was natural to TVH, doesn't mean you can just add-on to TFF. Removing the unfunny humor from STV may just have improved the movie.

While I don't agree that this film "blew goats," (actually, I rather enjoyed it) I do agree that there was trouble with the humor. This was summed up perfectly here. The places where the humor worked were those where the humor came legitimately from the situations, not the one-liners thrown in to at humor to cash in on STIV's humor.

 

[trevanian]

PS, the bridge of the big E looked great at the end of STV but looked like a TNG reject for STV. Just one more thing they messed up......

I've never understood how anybody could like that thing at the end of TVH. They shot it in smoke after painting it white and chroming up a few verticals, which was a way to make a so-so set look worse (or actually, more closely, like it had gone through the original BSG afterlife where everybody's coat turns white.)