Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Writers: Gene Roddenberry, William Shatner, Harve Bennett
Director: William Shatner
Release: June 9, 1989
Tagline(s): The greatest Enterprise of all is adventure.
Adventure and imagination will meet at the final frontier.
The crew of the starship Enterprise is taking you where no one has gone before.
It’s a place beyond mystery, beyond time, and until now, beyond reach. The last barrier in the universe is about to be broken.
An expedition to a remote planet. A surrender to a Vulcan renegade. An attack by an ancient enemy. A race towards the center of the galaxy.
Producer: Harve Bennett
Associate Producer: Brooke Breton
Executive Producer(s): Gene Roddenberry, Ralph Winter
Stars/Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimory, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei
Music by: Jerry Goldsmith, Hiroshima
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Adventure, Thriller
ID: tt0098382
Rating: PG
Runtime: 107 minutes
Based On: Based Star Trek: The Original Series
Synopsis: Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock’s long-lost half-brother who hijacks the Enterprise for an obsessive search for God at the center of the galaxy.
Declassified by Agent Palmer: Palmer’s Trek: Star Trek V The Final Frontier
Quotes and Lines
SYBOK: Each man hides a secret pain. It must be exposed and reckoned with. It must be dragged from the darkness and forced into the light. Share your pain. …Share your pain with me and gain strength from it.
J’ONN: What is it you seek?
SYBOK: What you seek. What all men have sought since time began, …the ultimate knowledge. To find it, we’ll need a starship.
McCOY: ‘You’ll have a great time, Bones. You’ll enjoy your shore leave. You’ll be able to relax.’ You call this relaxing? I’m a nervous wreck. …If I’m not careful I’ll end up talking to myself.
SCOTT (OC): U.S.S. Enterprise, shakedown cruise report. I think this new ship was put together by monkeys. Och, she’s got a fine engine, but half the doors won’t open, and guess whose job it is to make it right?
CHEKOV: Sulu! Look! The sun’s come out! It’s a miracle!
KIRK: Me? What did I do?
McCOY: What did you do? You piss me off. Human life is far too precious to risk on crazy stunts. Maybe it didn’t cross that macho mind of yours that you should have been killed when you fell off that mountain.
KIRK: It crossed my mind.
McCOY: And?
KIRK: And, as I fell, I knew I wouldn’t die.
McCOY: I thought he was the only one who’s immortal.
KIRK: It isn’t that, Bones. I knew I wouldn’t die because the two of you were with me.
SPOCK: I do not understand.
KIRK: I’ve always known …I’ll die alone.
McCOY: Well, I’ll call Valhalla and reserve you a room. It’s a mystery what draws us together. All that time in space …getting on each other’s nerves …and what do we do when shore leave comes along? We spend it together. Other people have families.
McCOY: God! I liked him better before he died.
McCOY: What’s the matter, Jim?
KIRK: I miss my old chair.
VIXIS: (in Klingon) The Starship Enterprise has been dispatched to Nimbus Three.
KLAA: (in Klingon) Enterprise? That’s Kirk’s ship. …If I could defeat Kirk…
VIXIS: (in Klingon) …you would be the greatest warrior in the galaxy.
KLAA: (in Klingon) Maximum speed! …Success!
UHURA: Hello boys! …I’ve always wanted to play to a ‘captive’ audience.
SYBOK: Now that we’re underway, it’s time I announced my intentions to the rest of the ship. Brave crew of the Starship Enterprise, consider the question of existence These are the questions which man has asked ever since he first gazed at the stars and dreamed. My Vulcan ancestors were ruled by their emotions. They felt with their hearts. They made love with their hearts. They believed with their hearts. And above all else, they believed in a place in which these questions of existence would be answered. Modern dogma tells us this place is a myth. A fantasy concocted by pagans. It is no fantasy! I tell you …it exists! My brothers, we have been chosen to undertake the greatest adventure of all time, …the discovery of Sha Ka Ree.
SYBOK: Our destination, …the planet Sha Ka Ree. It lies beyond the Great Barrier…
SCOTT: What are you standing around for? Do you not you know a jailbreak when you see one?
SPOCK: I am afraid I overshot the mark by one level.
McCOY: Nobody’s perfect.
SYBOK: I trust your message was received?
KIRK: You can’t expect us to stand by while you take this ship into the Great Barrier.
SYBOK: What you fear …is the unknown. The people of your planet once believed their world was flat. …Columbus proved it was round. They said the sound barrier could never be broken. …It was broken. They said warp speed could not be achieved. The Great Barrier is the ultimate expression of this universal fear. It is an extension of personal fear. Captain Kirk, I so much want your understanding. I want your respect. Are you afraid to hear me out?
KIRK: I’m afraid of nothing.
SYBOK: Wait outside. …I’m sure you have many questions. Here, …amid the stars of our own galaxy, we shall seek the answers together.
SYBOK: Sha Ka Ree. …’The Source’. …’Heaven.’ …’Eden.’ …’Call it what you will. The Klingons call it ‘Qui’Tu.’ To the Romulans, it’s ‘Vorta Vor.’ The Andorian word is, …is unpronounceable. Still every culture shares this common dream of a place from which creation sprang. For us, that place will soon be a reality.
KIRK: Dammit, Bones, you’re a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can’t be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They’re things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. …If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don’t want my pain taken away. I need my pain.
KIRK: You are mad.
SYBOK: Am I? …We’ll see.
GOD: Brave souls. Welcome.
McCOY: Is this the voice of God?
GOD: One voice, many faces.
KIRK: Excuse me. …I’d just like to ask a question. …What does God need with a starship?
GOD: Bring the ship closer.
KIRK: I said …’What does God need with a starship?’
McCOY: Jim, what are you doing?
KIRK: I’m asking a question.
GOD: Who is this creature?
KIRK: Who am I? Don’t you know? Aren’t you God?
SYBOK: He …has his doubts.
GOD: You doubt me?
KIRK: I seek proof.
McCOY: Jim, you don’t ask the Almighty for his I.D.
GOD: Then here is the proof you seek.
KIRK: Why is God angry?
SYBOK: Why? Why have you done this to my friend?
GOD: He doubts me.
SPOCK: You have not answered his question. What does God need with a starship?
SPOCK: Welcome aboard, Captain.
KIRK: I …thought I was going to die.
SPOCK: Not possible. You were never alone. …Please, Captain. Not in front of the Klingons.