The troubled production of the final border has been killed

William Shatner’s epic of 1989 “Star Trek V: Final Borders”, to this day, is still one of the worst “Star Trek” films. The huge budget of the film is likely to be of 30 million dollars to its crew, as its visual effects lack that the groups seem poor and cheap. Likewise, the scenes that included Nimbus III and the city of Paradise were clearly filmed in the Mohafi Desert, and there was an installation of many screenshots in the movie, forcing Satner to shoot actual projection screens. (Don’t look good.)

The “final borders” were suffering from countless production problems. Upon starting the shooting, there was a strike by the Teamsters Federation, forcing Paramount to search for non -unionist drivers in a move, of course, aimed at inviting Teamsters Retaliation. (This may not be linked, but a truck was detonated in a car park shortly before the shooting.) Also, the studio could carry his usual team from the impacts in the Industrial Light & Magic, so he had to rent a team much cheaper than technicians at the last minute. This was everything on his head Shatner makes doubtful directing decisions all the timeAt least according to the producer Harf Bennett (who spoke frankly about the failure of the movie).

It is recognized that the hypothesis of the film is a great swing, because it includes a terrorist named Sibuk (Lawrence Lukenbil) who kidnaps the USSS and takes it to the center of the galaxy, where God believes (!). The film until the peak with Sybok and the crew of the institution facing an object can be likely to be the physical manifestations of the Great Park. Star Trek has always been interested in asking great philosophical questions about the nature of the universe, but confronting God faced to face seemed ridiculous, even for Trekkies long ago.

Ultimately, the “final borders” bombed the box office, achieving $ 70.2 million (compared to 133 million dollars made by “The Voyage Home” from Leonard Nimoy). For a moment, it seemed to be a series of “Star Trek” films at the end.

In 1989, the sub -title “The Final Borders” involves, yes, this will already be the last movie “Star Trek”. It was also a reference to the opening narration of the original “Star Trek” TV series, bringing everything Full Circle. More than that, its hypothesis was so expansion that it really felt, well, the last limits of human awareness. The space can be easily passed in “Star Trek”, but no end to the human spirit is still largely exposed. Satner was allowed to display the film’s hypothesis himself, as he was allowed to dispute a “Voyage Home” group to submit certain contractual demands. It was stipulated that Satner could not only direct the “Star Trek V”, but he could also collect the treatments of the text program. As such, his idea was that the film was about to meet God face to face.

After the film was made, it was not clear where the privilege would go. Bennett began to work to restart the drug, which was supposed to distinguish Kirk and Facebook as young people in the Starfleet Academy. New actors were scheduled to play, and the film series would be allowed to start again. Unfortunately, the idea of ​​”Prequel” for Bennett was canceled after changing the system in Paramount, and the new administration ignored its concept. The 1991 number of Cinefantastique also quoted Bennett as saying that, at some point, he was working on the movie “Star Trek”, which is severely inspired by Michael Curtiz Western “Santa Fe Trail”, but this was also ignored amid administrative swap. The idea of ​​Bennett to restart the property with new young actors, of course, will eventually be used in 2009 for “Star Trek” JJ ABRAMS.

In the end, though, the new Paramount felt that “Star Trek” should be replaced and decided to collect the original series “once again” to get “Frontier”.

Bennett moved as a producer because his projects were killed, but it was very possible, for a few moments of luster, that “Star Trek” could have been restarted early in 1990. This was when “Star Trek: The next generation” was already on the air, so it seemed that the audience did not want to see the original “Star Trek”. The concession had been repeatedly re -operated, Kirk and Co.. – At least as we got to know them – it was possible to put it for rest. It would have been a bold step – Paramount Chutzpah could not have for another 19 years.

However, the new Paramount in 1990 was more interested in saving the property already had instead of falling into the trap of restart. Studio Nicholas Maeer, a writer/director “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and a decisive shareholder in the “Voyage Home” scenario, was rented to deal with a completely new production that includes the original “Star Trek”. Mayer Star Treke Sixth placed: Uncommon country, which is a symbolic post -Cold War, which was organized, such as political excitement. Everything was about the fall of the Klingon Empire, which is meant as a clear parallel to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1988. This preparation was more time than the “final borders”, in addition to being more intimate than the perspective of the personality. Some feel that the “Uncommon Country” may be one of the best “Star Trek” films never. It was definitely a much better end for the “Star Trek” actors from “The Final Frontier”.

The next movie, “Star Trek”, was “Star Trek Generations” in 1994, a movie inspired by “The Next Generation” that appeared in Shatner in a supportive role. Meanwhile, Bennett continued to create a Time Trax in 1993, and even worked with Stephen Spielberg Development The animated series that was discussed slightly “the invasion of America” In 1998.