What exactly WAS the point of Star Trek V anyway?

[The Rock]

The crew and Sybok try to meet God, but it turns out that it's not really God and it's just an evil alien that they manage to kill pretty easily with a few shots. Then the movie ends. That's it.

The reason I'm asking is was there originally a point to the movie before all of the script rewrites and the massive budget cuts? At some stage during the production was the encounter with the evil alien actually going to lead to something?

 

[Winterwind]

I haven't read Shatner's "Memories" books for years but as I recall his story idea was inspired by catching TV evangelists on the tele. So... blindly following false gods and prophets is bad.

 

[Galileo7]

"The Way To Eden" reboot .... hijacking of the 1701 to go to "eden"...
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[Tenacity]

that they manage to kill pretty easily with a few shots

Was Shaka Khan actually killed, or just knocked back a bit allowing our heroes a chance to escape? My take was that it was still alive and marooned once again.

Once off the planet they were safe, the "god" made clear it could not get away from the planet by it's own power.

 

[Greg Cox]

Was Shaka Khan actually killed, or just knocked back a bit allowing our heroes a chance to escape? My take was that it was still alive and marooned once again.

Once off the planet they were safe, the "god" made clear it could not get away from the planet by it's own power.

That was my assumption, too. That "God" was still trapped at the center of the galaxy, lacking a starship to escape on.

 

[GeorgeKirk]

 

[Kor]

Humans and Klingons can be chummy and drink Scotch together on the Enterprise observation deck. This chumminess is then cancelled out by the following movie.

Kor

 

[Lance]

What exactly WAS the point of Star Trek V anyway?

To determine, once and for all, the exact extent to which God does, or does not, need a starship.

Masterful. Love it

 

[WarpFactorZ]

To determine, once and for all, the exact extent to which God does, or does not, need a starship.

But they didn't even answer that! Spock just got blasted into a rock for asking.

Humans and Klingons can be chummy and drink Scotch together on the Enterprise observation deck. This chumminess is then cancelled out by the following movie.

Which makes it all the more obvious that the movie was Kirk's McCoy-bathtub-bourbon-induced dream/nightmare. Here's cut dialog from the final scene:

KIRK: Oh my God. That was so weird. The Enterprise was hijacked by Spock's never-before-mentioned half-brother. And even though it's a new ship, it kept breaking down every second. Then, we somehow made it to the center of the galaxy in a few hours, and had to pass through the Great Barrier, which for some reason was there and not at the edge of the galaxy. Spock's half-brother said Faith would bring us through unscathed, yet somehow a clunky Bird of Prey made it too without that. Then we met God, but he wanted to steal the Enterprise too. Finally, for some reason Spock ended up on the Bird of Prey and shot God. Then we were boozing up with the Klingons. And you were there, Spock. And you too, McCoy. And Chekov and Sulu were idiots. Oh, and Scotty and Uhura were doin' it.

SPOCK: Fascinating....

MCCOY: That's fucked up, Jim.

ALL [taking a swig of McCoy-bathtub-bourbon]: Row, row, row, your boat.....

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

What was the point of TFF?

Easy. To fulfill Shatner's contractual obligation to direct a Star Trek film.

 

[Maurice]

The point was to demonstrate that actors are not necessarily screenwriters nor necessarily equipped to know a good script from a terrible one.

 

[ALF]

The point is that Spock comes around to enjoy Row, Row, Row Your Boat despite the lyrics.

 

[Lance]

The point is that Spock comes around to enjoy Row, Row, Row Your Boat despite the lyrics.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

It was all an elaborate ruse to get Uhura to do a fan dance.

 

[plynch]

to increase the value of the shares of the shareholders of Paramount (or Gulf+Western if it was the holding company).

 

[The Rock]

to increase the value of the shares of the shareholders of Paramount (or Gulf+Western if it was the holding company).

With how badly the movie was received financially and critically I can't imagine it raised any of their shares back then.

 

[arch101]

The Superman IV: The Quest for Peace of the Star Trek series.

 

[mb22]

to increase the value of the shares of the shareholders of Paramount (or Gulf+Western if it was the holding company).

I think Gulf+Western became Paramount Communications around the time of the film's release.

 

[Stoo]

The charismatic cult leader didn't really know how to find God, and if we want to search for him, maybe we should look within ourselves instead.

The film also strongly illustrates the bonds of brotherly love between the three leads.

FF has flaws for sure, but I wouldn't accuse it of having an aimless plot.

 

[Kor]

What was the point of TFF?

Easy. To fulfill Shatner's contractual obligation to direct a Star Trek film.

I thought it was something Shatner pushed for?

Kor