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the Last Crusade. This meant that special effects company ILM couldn't supply the required special effects to the film and therefore Paramount got another company to do these for the film. The result is hardly worth writing home about as they tend to compete on the same level of the effects from the TV series.

Extra wise the film contains a lot of arguments put across from the cast as to why the film doesn't work, Documentaries about the making of the film has Shatner saying why the Executives at Paramount wanted thing done their way and how he didn't agree. This on its own is more entertaining than the film as Shatner really does show some anger towards Paramount. There is also the chance to see the lengths that the production team went to get the proposed ending. There are a number of deleted scenes and also a text commentary that helps lift the film when watching it again. Overall this isn't a bad package of extras, but seeing the calibre of the film its not surprising that the back up entertainment is actually better than the main feature itself.

This was easily the lowest point in the Kirk tenure of the franchise, the problems that I have mentioned with the film just doesn't help and by the end the viewer starts to see the whole film fall apart. As I said earlier as a two part TV movie this would have been good and compared to the recent Red Dwarf offering is still a lot better in entertainment, its just that this is the fifth film in the franchise and the standards have dropped considerably. Add in a number of scenes in which the characters are not performing at their potential then this is a film that can be given a wide berth without actually impacting anything else in the series of films.

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