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What Went Wrong Here??

posted 4 years ago by exithereplease (3553)
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Should have been a major hit following the much critically acclaimed smash hit IV: The Voyage Home a few years earlier.

[–] Zinger (2441) 4 years ago

They met God. That's what went wrong.

[–] exithereplease (3553) 4 years ago

That's funny...I don't even remember that.

[–] Wuchak (8857) 4 years ago

But they didn't meet God.

[–] Zinger (2441) 4 years ago

Until he requested the use of their starship, he was a God.

[–] Wuchak (8857) 4 years ago

More accurately, the entity was a powerful being that masqueraded as God for its own self-interest. Sybok was fooled, but ultimately saw the truth and confessed his error, sacrificing himself to save the others. Kirk, Spock & McCoy were merely intrigued by the possibility that this being at the center of the galaxy was God, as Sybok claimed. That's why they went to Sha-Ka-Ree to find out. Of course they discovered it to be false.

There's been speculation that this powerful alien could be a renegade of the Cytherians featured in the 1991 Next Generation episode “The Nth Degree.”

In the apocryphal Q Continuum trilogy the entity is identified as “The One,” which was brought into the Universe through the Guardian of Forever via a being known as O. The entity was defeated by the Q continuum and imprisoned at the center of the galaxy by the impenetrable Great Barrier. It would stay there until it repented or the Universe was destroyed, whichever came first.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

It was an awful, boring movie. It remains one of the few movies I actually fell asleep during when I saw it theatrically. Of all the Star Trek movies (some of which are much stronger than others), this remains the only one I have never wanted to rewatch.

[–] Roguemail (1634) 4 years ago

Granted its poor, but I think Paramount severely cut the budget for this one, which didn't help. And it clearly shows.

That said, there were clearly problems with the script, and I know its easy to lay the blame at Shatners feet, but I suspect the truth is more complicated than that.

I thought there were some interesting story elements here, particularly regarding the Sybok character. I thought the scene where he shows the crew events from their past is probably the best scene.

[–] wrlord (1227) 4 years ago

Nothing went wrong. It was a damn entertaining movie, thematically in keeping with classic Star Trek, and the movie that most closely captures the feel of the original series.

[–] plusplus (467) 4 years ago

* ILM had no time to work on the effects.
* No money for a new score.
* A Phase II plot no one wanted to make, already toned down (originally contained the devil), poorly adapted. A leftover.