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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Movie - Star Trek V - the final frontier


Score : 5/10  
Year :1989
Director: William Shatner
Music : Jerry Goldsmith
Country : USA
Language : English. 
Duration: 1h46
Writers : 
William Shatner& Harve Bennet & David Loughery (story) ; David Loughery (screenplay) 

 After Star Trek II-IV, the fifth movie, the final frontier drops in quality with a medium story revolving a character never mentioned before and his quest which must implicate the the broken Enterprise and its crew, through the final frontier : the center of the galaxy, which the Enterprise crew had actually tried already in a TOS episode. 
Not only that, but the conclusion to that part of the story is very reminiscent of ... TWO other TOS episodes... as if Shatner - writer & director of this movie - couldn't think of a better conclusion recalled those episodes and just slightly altered those scenes for the present ending. I find that to be a bit rehashing and cheap, and although somewhat entertaining, to be too much of a copy paste than having a truly original story to offer. 

 As a completist and a trekkie, I do watch it, but far less often than the previous 3 movies. 

 The final frontier, however, does hugely improve the visual effects of the great barrier at the center of the galaxy and explores different facets of Vulcan philosphy, rarely seen at that point and only shown again in the prequel show Enterprise (more on that in a later review of said show).

 Jerry Goldsmith returns to Stat Trek with a score which is greatly recognized as Star Trek the next generation theme, and which I love quite a bit. 

 The usual Star Trek humor is quite present and helps to raise the entertainement a bit over this medium story. 
The final frontier isn't the best Star Trek, sometimes rehashing in unoriginal ways previous stories, and even resembles Mad Max in a less violent fashion, but it still entertains and is better than Star Trek the Motion Picture.


Starring : William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, David Warner, Laurence Luckinbill, Charles Cooper, 
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