My thoughts on Star Trek V....half of it (maybe more than half) is simply brilliant and really evokes the feeling of the original series and the ship feels like a ship for the first time since TMP.

All the early stuff with Laurence Luckinbill is great (some nice nods to Luckinbill Of Arabia).

The humour is a little forced at times (as if they were told to put it in because the gags in The Voyage Home were a big hit) but most of the time it's pretty much on the level of the original series.

The effects aren't that special however and as soon as they get to Sha Ka Ree it becomes clear they ran out of time and money to finish the film.

On the whole it's nowhere near as bad as a lot of detractors make out and if Paramount put in the same amount of work they did on TMP put in the rock monsters and the like and edited out some of the slightly forced bits (especially with the Klingons) it might surprise a few people about how solid some of the performances actually are (though it is the only film I can think of which might actually be better without David Warner, I love the guy but it's certainly not his finest few hours).

The Slowwww Motion Picture is still my favourate Star Trek film.

I know it's cobbled together from bits from OS episodes, I don't care that we have three loooong effects scenes (they are perfectly justified by the story and I have a very long attention span) it's the only Star Trek film that is truly cinematic and worthy of being seen on a big screen.

And it's the only one where the crew actually explore anything.

Hopefully the next Star Trek film will have the new/old crew going out into space and doing a bit of seeking out for a change.