Fabulous Film & Friends # 7 - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

On this week's action packed episode of Fabulous Film & Friends I finally come clean and admit that the reason I probably started this podcast is so I could add my voice to the already mountain-high logpile of fanboys slavering and spazzing about STAR TREK! My number one sci-fi love.

I’m joined by familiar voices Roseanne Caputi, my kid sister, who was dragged to the theater on nearly all of the screenings of the Star Trek movies, to say nothing of having to endure countless hours of replays on our home vhs player, then joining us once again, my good friend David Johnson, DMD, Salt Lake City’s number one pediatric dentist, and a passing Star Trek fan.

And beaming in with us for his first Triple F appearance is Burton Brown, another good friend originally from the Treasure Valley who, coincidentally, is also a denizen of Salt Lake City.

Burt works for the state of Utah as an IT specialist and, while I can’t speak to his current attitude, was the biggest Trekkie in Eastern Oregon/Western Idaho besides myself back in the day.

I asked Dave and Burt to be guests because on June 9, 1989 they made the fateful decision of saying yes in accompanying me in seeing William Shatner’s Star Trek V: The Final Frontier on opening night at the Pix Theater in Ontario, Oregon.

Then Roseanne came with me on my second trip, days later, as I tried to piece together and make sense of what I had seen.

I’m going to throw it out there: Star Trek V is easily the worst movie I have ever watched 40 times.

At that point in my life, I looked forward to Star Trek movies more than anything in the world, and I left the theater wanting to like it but knowing in my heart that it was a disaster, almost the kind of crazy bad movie you have in your dreams. And yet, I still can’t let it go.

The plot is simple: The Starship Enterprise is hijacked by a touchy-feely renegade Vulcan named Sybok, who takes the ship and its crew, famously led by Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy, to the center of the Galaxy to meet God.

As it is, I have a shouting, spitting, Richard Burton/Liz Taylor-style love/hate relationship with Star Trek in general, but it applies especially to this movie and I wanted to work through it with my fabulous friends!

Is it worth the trek?

Find out!

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