Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier

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Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier ★½ 1989 (PG)

A renegade Vulcan kidnaps the Enterprise and takes it on a journey to the mythic center of the universe. Shatner's big-action directorial debut (he also co-wrote the script) is a poor follow-up to the Nimoy-directed fourth entry in the series. Heavy-handed and pretentiously pseudo-theological. 107m/C VHS, DVD . William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Laurence Luckinbill, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, David Warner, Melanie Shatner, Harve Bennett; D: William Shatner; W: David Loughery, William Shatner; C: Andrew Laszlo; M: Jerry Goldsmith. Golden Raspberries '89: Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Shatner), Worst Director (Shatner).