Every Star Trek Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

12. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was William Shatner's only Star Trek film... and it wasn't particularly great either.

After Leonard Nimoy had directed two Trek features (namely, The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home), the man who portrayed Captain Kirk was next in line to take the creative reigns on the franchise. The end result, however, was less than exemplary, making The Final Frontier the most self-indulgent Trek film ever made.

It's not that Shatner's direction necessarily impeded the film, but its story of Spock's half brother looking for God (or rather a god), only for Kirk to then best said God, felt remarkably puerile, and nowhere near as interesting as the idea Shatner originally conceived of when the film was in the earliest stage of pre-production, which was said to have taken its inspiration from American televangelists.

The Final Frontier was meant to be 'Kirk's film', but making a Trek film with that in mind almost seemed to contradict the series' tenets of teamwork, togetherness and friendship - even if it opened with Kirk, Bones and Spock chewing the fat by a campfire.