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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Paramount Pictures, 1989) is the fifth feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. It is often referred to as ST5:TFF or TFF. The film was directed by William Shatner, following two films directed by his co-star, Leonard Nimoy. Shatner also came up with the initial storyline. The titular "Final Frontier" refers to transcending the boundaries of our universe, and into the realm of God, truly where no man has gone before.

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Plot summary

Following the events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
, the crew of the USS Enterprise is enjoying some well-deserved shore leave. The newly-christened starship's shakedown cruise goes poorly and is in Earth Spacedock for repairs. In Yosemite, Captain James T. Kirk faces two challenges: climbing El Capitan and teaching camp fire songs to Captain Spock. Unfortunately their rest is interrupted when the crew is sent on an urgent mission to rescue hostages on a desolate planet called Nimbus III.

A Klingon commander named Klaa learns of the Enterprise's mission and pursues so that he can capture or kill Kirk, whom the Klingon people see as a criminal because of his actions in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
. His actions are not authorized by the Klingon government, however, and he takes this quest on merely to obtain personal prestige as a warrior.

Upon their arrival at Nimbus III, the Enterprise crew discovers that a renegade Vulcan named Sybok, the emotionally-driven half-brother of Spock, has taken Klingon, Romulan and Federation representatives hostage. Sybok reveals that he used the hostage situation as a ruse in order to obtain passage onto the Enterprise.

Sybok then uses his unique ability to share with and help conquer a person's greatest emotional trauma to gain the trust of most of the crew. Sybok then seizes control of the Enterprise, so he can breach a dangerous energy field known as The Great Barrier, to reach a mythical planet named Sha Ka Ree, where a mysterious entity awaits. Sybok claims to have had visions from the entity of its existence, and feels compelled to follow those visions in order to experience the entity's possible wisdom and power first-hand. Together, he and the crew begin to search for this mysterious planet.

However, although they manage to pass through the Great Barrier and discover Sha-Ka-Ree, the entity there turns out to be a malevolent force, trapped on the planet aeons ago and using Sybok as a pawn to acquire a starship as a means for its escape. Sybok sacrifices himself to delay the evil being long enough to allow Spock to convince the Klingon ambassador to order Klaa (who followed the Enterprise into the Barrier and to the planet) to rescue Kirk and McCoy (who had accompanied Sybok during his meeting with the entity).

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