What is your favourite moment from a Star Trek episode or movie you consider bad or mediocre?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Nowadays when I think of ST V, I can't help but wondering....

Spoiler: Strange New Worlds

Where's Captain Angel?

Probably dead, actually. Pirates usually don't live too long.

 

[Vger23]

Love it, hate it, or whatever in between…I’ve always maintained that Star Trek V is one of the most interesting productions in the entire franchise.

If anything, this thread seems to verify my feeling that the film is “less than the sum if its parts…” in that it has some truly worthwhile stuff in it, but ultimately it missed the mark overall

 

[1001001]

Love it, hate it, or whatever in between…I’ve always maintained that Star Trek V is one of the most interesting productions in the entire franchise.

If anything, this thread seems to verify my feeling that the film is “less than the sum if its parts…” in that it has some truly worthwhile stuff in it, but ultimately it missed the mark overall

My standard response to Star Trek V is that there’s a good movie in there trying to get out.

An adequate f/x budget and just a few tweaks to the script and it would be a top-tier Star Trek film for me.

 

[Robin Bland]

Love it, hate it, or whatever in between…I’ve always maintained that Star Trek V is one of the most interesting productions in the entire franchise.

If anything, this thread seems to verify my feeling that the film is “less than the sum if its parts…” in that it has some truly worthwhile stuff in it, but ultimately it missed the mark overall

Yeah. The weird thing is, whatever works or doesn't work for me, it has a helluva lot of rewatch value overall. I think it's probably the patchiest of all the Trek movies, but I've rewatched it many times and got more out of it than, say, Insurrection.

 

[Vger23]

My standard response to Star Trek V is that there’s a good movie in there trying to get out.

An adequate f/x budget and just a few tweaks to the script and it would be a top-tier Star Trek film for me.

I agree. The premise at its core had the potential to be a great Star Trek story…but it just had far too many challenges to overcome and get there and be truly great.

There’s a big part of me that would like to see one of these “alternate takes” (like the City on the Edge of Forever graphic novel or the Kelvinverse comics that re-imagine TOS episodes) with a re-telling of the basic premise. With 30+ years of “lessons learned” thinking about what might have / could have been…it could be a pretty cool experiment. JM Dillard’s novelization proves that even minor tweaks can create a substantial impact.

Even as it is now, flawed and all, I find it to be a fascinating and very enjoyable re-watch.

 

[Qonundrum]

"Gambit" comes across as a story with potential, in a show that feels like it's almost completely out of steam. Yet the cliffhanger and its resolution are nicely done. Even the climax comes across surprisingly exciting... certainly on paper, which is where the "plotting by numbers" also begins to show. And it's cool to have Jean-Luc having to infiltrate this group of thieves... Pity the rest of it is astonishingly underwhelming at best. Set reuse so un-re-dressed that you're more focused on recalling when you saw the bits and bobs of set cobbled together (90% of it being the battle bridge, so after that you're then bored to tears), scenes that go from exposition to exposition to bypass battle scenes, a bunch of big glowing incandescent light bulbs pose as a scanner to sift through artifacts of the Vulcan brainadope weapon thingy (the actors were working overtime to have to act above that prop), too much sleep-acting, and incidental music that's so bad that the scene would be more tense if it wasn't there. In what's supposed to liven and shake up the show's season in a big 2-part adventure, the end result still feels too much the opposite. No amount of eyeliner applied some eleven years after the New Wave fad started to splutter could compensate for that.

 

[Nyotarules]

TMP Kirk and Co viewing the Enterprise

NEMESIS The look on Picard's face when Data slapped the com badge on him before the ship blew up.

BEY any scene where Jaylah speaks

 

[Mister Spock]

Stupid really, but I like Sulu's sort of knitwear kimono coat when he's hiking with Chekov in The Final Frontier. And Chekov's in a very natty bomber jacket as well.