In one of Shatners books he said that he got handcuffed by studio execs on the ending of the movie. He needed more money for the ending he wanted. He could have made that up, but that is the reason he provided. I liked 5 as well. The row, row, row your boat scenes were among my favorites in all of Trek.
There are actually storyboards and some effects-free test shots to back him up. He definately had a more grand ending in mind.
Yeah my point exactly. Star Trek isn't Star Wars.... you aren't there to see lightsaber battles or grand space dogfights.... it's all about row, row, row your boat. The TOS films, yes even three, all further character development, particularly between Kirk, Spock and McCoy. By the time six rolls around, a crew that was quite splintered in the first film is again inseparable and people guilty about not making time for a family realize that they had one all along. The only really odd thing is the fact that Kirk doesn't seem to give a crap about his dead son in four and five, but I suppose that would have kind of been a bummer in the light-hearted voyage home.
Voyager was a great show burdened by some of the worst episodes in the franchise. Nobody remembers the Q civil war or the numerous borg battles, they remember that episode where going past warp 10 turned Tom and Janeway into space salamanders and they porked and had a litter of tadpoles. It is a great series.... it just grows it's beard in season 4 or 5 instead of 2 or 3 as per usual. Enterprise is actually great as well assuming you completely ignore the Xindi war arc which was really inappropriate. It gets MUCH better in those final episodes. The series finale kinda blew though. They couldn't help it though as they got cancelled out of nowhere.
The only Star Trek I can honestly say isn't worth a watch are the first two Kelvin movies and Discovery.
Well... Discovery had two or three good episodes if you can ignore all the canon breaking, ill-advised set design, costume changes and all the other garbage they screwed up. And it looks like they aren't going to do a very good job explaining the changes considering Captain Pike is going to take command in season two and he wears a proper TOS uniform while everyone else we've seen in the series on any ship up to this point wears those bland blue jumpsuits because......reasons??