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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

★ 5.7 · 1,298 ratings on TMDB

Adventure and imagination will meet at the final frontier.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier poster★ 5.7

A renegade Vulcan with a startling secret hijacks the U.S.S. Enterprise in order to find a mythical planet.

DirectorWilliam Shatner
CastCharles Cooper, David Warner, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, James Doohan, Laurence Luckinbill
GenresAction, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
The emergence reading

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing religion, power, exploration.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Dune (1984)E11/E12 · rare rung · power, religion

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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