Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

Costume Design by:

- Nilo Rodis-Jamero ( notable efforts: Return of the Jedi (1983) - most of Rodis-Jamero's career was in visual effects and production design)

The much maligned fifth entry of the Star Trek film series, The Final Frontier involved the crew of the Enterprise having to rescue a group of ambassadors by the religious cultist Sybok (Laurence Luckenbill) on the backwater planet Nimbus III. The costume designer (as well as art director), Nilo Rodis-Jamero, was a newcomer, but his costumes for this film would be following the design sense that Robert Fletcher established in the previous four movies. This can be seen clearly with the outfit worn by Spock when on holiday with Kirk, as Spock wears his traditional Vulcan attire under the more conventional jacket. The jacket feels slightly contemporary, but is is distinguished by the bright green padding. The troushers also have bright green suspenders, with red markings at the ends of the legs.

Kirk's outfit also feels rather contemporary, consisting of a blue jumper with a panel of ridged orange material around the neck giving a slightly futuristic feeling. The trousers also have green streaks at their ends too.

One of the most notable outfits in this film in my opinion is the one worn by the captive Earth ambassador Talbot (David Warner), who is clad in a white jacket (appearing beige in the auction photos thanks to aging) adorned with green lining on the sides, that is worn over a wraparound grey shirt and green-lined white vest.

The Romulans' ambassador, Caithlin Dar (Cynthia Gouw), is clad in a flowing silver dress, with a purple sash trailing down from the waist, and worn with a black belt, with a golden necklace that is actually trailing from a golden headpiece, the bands trailing down from her ears.

The Klingons are still unchanged from Robert Fletcher's original designs first seen in The Motion Picture, with one of their number, Klaa (Todd Bryant) only distinguished by not wearing any furred underclothes with his armor, not really worth including here. The Klingon ambassador, Korrd (Charles Cooper) wears the same officers uniform that Kruge wore in The Search for Spock, but is distinguished by wearing a large coat of grey and black lined fabric, adorned with several medals. This coat would make several reapparances in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, worn by other Klingon leaders.

One notable member of the Klingon taskforce commanded by Klaa is his lieutenant Vixis (Spice Williams), who is in a more form-fitting version of the Klingon armor with a modified collar, as well as no fur sleeves.

We seen some Vulcans again, only this time in a flashback sequence Spock endures thanks to Sybok, but we only see a brief appearance from a younger Sarek (Jonathan Simpson) - both of their outfits are barely visible in the film itself thanks to a combination of dark lighting and close-ups, but this particular Vulcan robe (supposedly designed by Robert Fletcher for The Search for Spock) on the YourProps website bears more than a resemblance to the outfit worn by Sarek here - perhaps, this was originally a background robe for that film's Vulcan sequence, and was briefly reused here?

Lastly is the the deluded Sybok, who for most of the film wears a gown that also looks rather similar in design to the ceremonial gown Spock wore in The Motion Picture's Vulcan ritual scene, though Sybok's has a triangular design motif, with various coloured stones adorning it in a pattern, giving him the feeling of being an alien prophet...which, in a way, he is.