I'll never understand Final Frontier's hate

I like aspects of it. I think it captures the spirit of the characters as well as any of the movies, and I enjoyed seeing them have fun together and how much they cared for one another.

But there's a lot of bad. Some silly continuity-type stuff - how the Enterprise can suddenly get to the centre of the galaxy in a matter of hours, how there are suddenly 70+ decks on the ship, how the decks count the wrong way, etc.

And the special effects are pretty terrible. That doesn't bother me too much.

The villain is terrible... largely because there really isn't much of a villain. They set Klaa up as the bad guy, but he's a nothing character, He wants to beat Kirk so he will be considered the best warrior in the galaxy, which is fair enough... but that's pretty much all we ever know about him. Contrast with Kruge in ST III, where we see his motivation, but also learn things about his character - he's willing to kill a woman who loves him (and he loves back?) because she knows more than she should, he kills subordinates who fail him - he's ruthless, but also quite smart and extremely determined. A good bad guy, and the film gives him a decent death.

Klaa... we know nothing about him, see little of him in action, and then at the end his villain role vanishes because his boss tells him off, so we can have 20 mins of Kirk fighting "god". And "god" is a villain who comes out of nowhere, we never know much of anything about him, and then he's defeated easily. Bleargh.

And some of the humour is just awful. Scotty head bumping? Uhura fan dance? Come on.

So yeah, I do think it's a pretty weak entry in the series. In fact, just about the weakest.