The Agony Booth Does "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier"

[tim31]

Because they're not born logical? They attain it through discipline and maturity.

[Bounty]

Ah, the old "Vulcans are logical NO EXCEPTIONS" brainbug. Well, they're not, they're in fact very traditionalist, very impulsive creatures who are trying to achieve an ideal of logic - one they themselves admit they are very unlikely to reach in their lifetime.

Until they reach that ideal, which they don't, they're as flawed as any other culture. Which is why they cling on to rituals and decorations from their past - one which they idolize as being the foundation of their way of life and hence worth emulating.

[Galvatron]

The campfire sequence could have been one of the best character moments of the film had it cut off at the exchange in which McCoy wonders what kept them stuck together for so long when normal people have families cueing Kirk's quiet delivery of the line "Other people, Bones.

Agreed. Spock's and McCoy's reaction to Kirk's "I've always known, I'll die alone" combined with Goldsmith's underrated score was pure gold no matter bad the rest of the movie was.

I think the entire movie would have benefited greatly if they'd replaced Klaa with a trio of Klingon battlecruisers as seen in the beginning of TMP and shown us the Romulans dispatch a warship of their own. This would have set the stage for the "planet of galactic peace" becoming the potential flashpoint of a full-scale war. They utterly wasted the opportunity to follow up on "there shall be no peace as long as Kirk lives" from the previous film.