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Article: Star Trek V: The Search for God
- Article from:
- Literature/Film Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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If Star Trek V had been subtitled "The Search for God" instead of "The Final Frontier," the change would have been more than a statement of the movie's central theme; it would also have been a recognition of the theological preoccupations of the earlier films in the series and, behind that, of the episodes in the television series itself.1 In Star Trek I (Star Trek : The Motion Picture) a machine finds a soul; in Star Trek II Spock dies that his shipmates (and he himself) might live; in Star Trek III Spock's soul is discovered and reunited with his body; and in Star Trek IV the resurrected Spock comes to terms with himself and the human and Vulcan (mortal and divine) halves of his nature, ...