Q&As About 'Star Trek': 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?
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