But that free fall was really performed by stuntman Kenny Bates, earning him the credit for the highest descender fall in the United States at that time. The location was also used in the movie Tremors, starring Kevin Bacon. Six degrees achieved! To make those scenes feel special, it was the final sequence on the schedule.
With all of the dust-ridden deserts and giant cliffs already behind them, the last days of production were spent around the campfire, on a set on the Paramount lot. They had a small celebration with champagne and cake after the last shot was done. A tie-in product was created so fans could have their very own marshmallow dispensers via mail order; this was And yes, you can still find them on eBay.
Even in the future, that seems like an unlikely shaving method. They pass deck 52 twice oops , then go all the way to 78 when Star Trek lore tells us that the ship only has 23 decks. Not only that, the lowest number is traditionally the highest deck; the bridge atop the saucer section is deck 1.
Shatner took a lot of flak for the film, but he sums up his experience beautifully in the behind-the-scenes doc:. An email will not be created automatically. The email will only be created once you click on the "Send Email" button.
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I could have sworn that Q only helped Zero come through Guardian of Forever; Zero brought all the others more or less on his own. Add a comment. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. He thoroughly knew the actors and characters and allowed them to get the best performance out of themselves, and he had quite the eye for set pieces. This film is full of interesting and occasionally brilliant shots, although it should be noted they sometimes work better as still images rather than in motion.
His storycrafting, too, was not at fault. His idea was dark, subversive, but literal. The Enterprise encounters a hostage situation in the desert, engineered by a televangelist who believes God is speaking directly to him. They travel to Eden, only to find it resembles Hell. As you can see, much of the original story found its way into the final film, but with less a focus on the religious extremism and the inherent hypocrisy of religious violence and more of a focus on action and slapstick.
To say Paramount hated the idea was an understatement. Everyone aside from Shatner despised the idea. Very often the creative process relies on such conflict, and somehow the good ideas bubble up to the surface. It seems, therefore, that the filming script for Star Trek V was basically the first draft. The comedy is probably the one aspect that stands out for its inappropriateness. The Final Frontier is easily the darkest of the six original films in its premise, yet the first third is basically a comedy.
Not all of the comedy was a misfire. Nimoy plays Spock back at his deadpan best, even if not all the lines quite hit the mark, and his comedy moments are better than, say, Scottie hitting his head. But there is a purpose to these scenes that is important. Spock is not cold and logical as in The Motion Picture , nor as wise as in Khan or as clueless as Voyage , but something approaching curious.
McCoy is… well, McCoy. Deliberately done so. Still, by the time the story reaches Nimbus III the comedy all but vanishes, save for a fan or two.
Nimbus III is an odd setting unless you consider the film as an allegory. It is an inhospitable, unwanted desert, the lives of the inhabitants kept miserable due to a string of poor foreign policy decisions by the major superpowers.
Considering that the Federation, Klingon Empire, and Romulan Star Empire were originally space America, space Russia, and space China respectively, and that at the time of writing the Russia-Afghanistan war was about to end with a defeat of the Russians, it should have been obvious that Nimbus III was meant to be an allegory of the Middle East. So what of Sybok? Sybok was always written as unhinged, but at the behest of the studio his character was softened and made more ambiguous.
At least, in a way. Originally meant to be a Jimmy Swaggart type of fraudulent televangelist, the character became less overtly allegorical and more sympathetic. However, over time this change actually has benefited the film enormously. Look behind the eyes when Sybok is reconsidering his options, and you can see him strengthening his resolve. One could even claim he is radicalizing himself.
With the political situation in the toilet, the Federation must act. It must at least be seen to act more than the Klingons and the Romulans, despite the fact that no one cares what happens to the people who live there, even the ambassadors.
So, while the Romulans do nothing at all and focus on building their empire focusing on cheap and nasty exports like Romulan Ale and poorly built PADDs, probably , and the Klingons send someone by accident, the Federation send a big name as a show of force without committing the best of what they can offer. That the Admiral who sends the poorly equipped Enterprise-A on this unwanted mission is played by Harve Bennett is telling.
Of course, Starfleet are in a bind. There are plenty of such occurrences in history — North Korea and North Vietnam were contemporaneous ones — but the modern equivalent would arguably be IS.
As such, it is treated as a hostage situation rather than a coup, something Sybok clearly is happy to play along with. At this stage his motivations are unclear, but it is obvious he wants to engineer a conflict in the region, and that he has the home advantage with guerilla fighters. That space America is heading into the conflict, drastically misunderstanding it and drastically underprepared simply to save international face could quite easily be interpreted a commentary on Vietnam, although comparisons to either Iraq War make sense nowadays.
We can be certain that The Final Frontier was not written as an allegory on the rise of Islamic State, or indeed any of the events of the last 25 years. Contemporaneous events were the inspiration, some of which I have mentioned, but that a quarter of a century later a film can be politically relevant is startling.
It is what separates the very good from the timeless. Animal Farm may be a fine story, but it will forever be an allegory of the Russian Revolution. Am I saying that Star Trek V should be treated in the same way as ? But perhaps if I had more courage I would say yes.
The plan, as presented, does not work. A single line about a magnetic shield would solve all problems. His plan A was to radicalize the ambassadors and have them take over the Enterprise.
A finished script would have made it explicit. In this case, I choose the interpretation where the film makes sense, because that one is certainly there if you go looking for it. On Nimbus III a battle erupts. Actual guns too, not phasers. One of them even has a minigun. Is Sybok deluded? Yes, but it is important to note that he believes what he says. He believes he is a peaceful man and all others are violent, as all extremists do.
This non-violent man then parades the captured crew through the street, forces the Enterprise crew at gunpoint to take him to their ship, and then begs defense against the Klingons who are about to kill everything in sight.
Safely aboard, Sybok begins radicalizing everyone in sight. His poisonous ideology spreads quickly due to offering easy answers, a way into paradise, self-confirmation of belief, absolution of past misdeeds, and a gun in the face. His techniques are the same used by any religious fanatic hoping to draw people to their cause.
That the Enterprise senior staff fall so quickly and so completely under this spell is alarming, although in truth only Chekov, Sulu and Uhura do, which is less than half. Meanwhile, our three heroes are put in prison and escape, which is perhaps not the best scene of this more serious half of the film. They are shortly captured after their escape which sees them randomly fly past different decks of the Enterprise , thus rendering the entire thing pointless.
In the interrogation, we have possibly the greatest scene in the entire franchise, where Sybok radicalizes McCoy, and attempts to do so with Spock.
McCoy is plagued with guilt about the death of his father, or rather the euthanasia of his father. To make matters worse, soon after a cure was found. A doctor put in the position of doing the right thing yet causing a needless death?
The acting in this scene is incredible as DeForest Kelley sells McCoy as a man truly hiding a secret pain that he has yet to overcome, his face showing a mixture of abject horror at confronting it, despair at the death of his father and uncontrollable mania before Sybok finally grants him a release.
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