𝟐𝟓 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐠𝐨 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐇𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞!!!

INRYCO N-R-G Flor advertisement, 1975.*

Art: Ralph Winter

𝟐𝟔 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐠𝐨 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐇𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞!!!

In 2010, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier producer Ralph Winter (pictured above) spoke to TrekMovie.com about filming the fifth installment in the franchise. He was rather blunt about the film’s overall performance:

"We had fun and felt good about IV, that wasn’t the case on V. I think on V we were smoking our own press releases. We made the mistake of searching for god. That is what the first movie did. What did we think we were going to find? What did we expect? We were focused and we wrote a good script. Larry Luckinbill (Sybok) was terrific. There were a lot of good things about it. I think we were, not delusional, but we almost killed the franchise. And, unfortunately I almost killed the franchise in terms of the visual effects. We felt like we got taken advantage of by ILM and so we shopped to go to other places. We found a guy in New York, Bran Ferren, who had a pretty good approach to doing the effects, but ultimately they were horrible. And the combination of a story that was not working, it just wasn’t commercial, the effects were terrible – we almost killed the franchise, it almost died." 

He also spoke about William Shatner’s frequent lament that the film’s budget was curtailed beyond reason: