Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

What to make of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier? Of all the Star Trek feature films, the fifth entry in the series is considered by most fans to be the weakest and least satisfying. Even though it was produced by Harve Bennett, who had saved the franchise with Star Trek II, its plot - a renegade Vulcan hijacks the starship Enterprise and takes it to the center of the galaxy on a quest to find God - is rather pretentious and its director, William Shatner, learned that success at directing episodes of "T.J. Hooker" did not ensure success in the making of a multi-million dollar film. 

Star Trek V is set a short time after The Voyage Home. It is the 23rd Century, and although Capt. James T. Kirk (Shatner) and his loyal crew have been assigned to the new Enterprise-A, their new starship turned out to be a lemon. Nothing seems to be working properly, so while chief engineer Montgomery Scott (James Doohan) and the rest of the crew make critical repairs to the starship's systems, Kirk, Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Dr. "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley) go down to Yosemite National Park for some R & R. 

The ever-restless (and somewhat reckless) Kirk tries to free climb El Capitan, but has to be saved by his half-human, half-Vulcan first officer when he loses his grip and nearly falls to his death. Later, Kirk says to his friends that he was not afraid as he fell because he knew they were there. "I've always known I'll die alone," he reveals in one of the movie's rare poignant moments.

But the idyllic campout is cut short when a shuttlecraft piloted by Cmdr. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) lands nearby with bad news. Shore leave has been canceled and all officers are to report back to the Enterprise. Sure enough, no sooner does Kirk step inside the bridge than Admiral Bob Bennett (Harve Bennett in a cameo) informs the captain that a group of terrorists has taken over the planet Nimbus III, the "Planet of Galactic Peace."