A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

On Quora, Justin Mihalick asks: Were the films Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country the two worst Star Trek films with the original cast? No. I do not agree with that supposition, at least not as far as  Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country  is concerned. Of the six  Star Trek  feature films released between December 1979 and December 1991, actor-director William Shatner’s  Star Trek V: The Final Frontier  is considered by most fans and film reviewers to be the weakest of the bunch. It got low marks for its low-budget special effects, an uneven script, a story twist that the late Gene Roddenberry disliked intensely (although, to be fair to Harve Bennett, David Loughery, and William Shatner, Roddenberry disliked many of the movies’ concepts, such as the more militaristic aspects of Starfleet introduced by Nicholas Meyer in  Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ), and cheesy humor that was added into the script because Paramount wanted  Star

What was the worst Star Trek movie, and how would you have made it better? As a  Star Trek  fan who has every  Star Trek  film (six with The Original Series cast, four with The Next Generation cast, and the three Kelvin Timeline movies), I’d have to say it’s a three-way tie between: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Star Trek: Nemesis Star Trek Into Darkness How would I have made them better? With  Star Trek V,  the fault is not in who directed the film - William Shatner - but rather the story that Harve Bennett, David Loughery, and Shatner chose to tell. Clearly, pitting the  Enterprise-A  against a heretical Vulcan who is on a quest to literally meet God was a horrible idea; maybe having Kirk and his crew go off on a deep-space mission of exploration and discovering that the Organians have mysteriously vanished and a Klingon warlord is preparing the Empire for a second war against the Federation would have been better. Another thing I would have done to make  Star