FanFiltration said:The novel for "Star Trek V" does a much better job conveying the plot then the film, and is one of the few Trek novels I re-read every few years.
I don't think William Shatner did that bad of a job directing the actors. It was the lack of production value, and forced humor that hurt it much more. I would put the majority of blame on the producers, but Bennet did not truly want to do another Trek. William Shatner talked him into returning. That was a big error. You never want people who are not truly motvated involved on big project like that.
True. Though Bennet wanted to return to direct the academy days script written by David loughery aka as "top gun in space" to fans who hated the idea. It would have been the sixth star trek picture and therefore undiscovered country would have never been made and V would have been the last film as the original cast. Other than Cameo roles for Shatner and Dee Kelley in the first one. They would recast the roles with cheaper younger actors and put the older actors out to pasture after the bomb of a film V was.
It was even greenlit until they changed course and made the end of the cold war in outer space trek VI instead.
If you look at how old the actors are in VI there is a truth that Bennet realized TREK needed to be reborn. But not done by the suits who are affraid of change and did'nt want to rock the boat. Until the new head of productions greenlit JJ's movie they kept doing movies with old actors. The only exception to the rule is Nimoy being in the new film and he did not really have to be i would have preferred a true reboot instead of the throwing a bone to trekkies by having Nimoy in it.
I would have preferred an entirely new breakthrough concept like the New Battlestar Galactica which saved its own franchise from and revived it from the grave.
Who wants to see geriatrics in films. Aging action stars like Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, Stallone as rocky and rambo, willis as john MClaine, and Arnold as the terminator i find to be awfully cringeworthy playing these characters like they have not aged at all. As laughable as a seventy year han solo in the star wars novels being the hero,lol.