To make a sixth movie possible, it couldn’t cost more than the last one. Mancuso refused to allow the series to end on the low note of The Final Frontier, especially with the quarter-century anniversary of the franchise coming up in 1991.īut even Mancuso had to face reality. who had been involved with Star Trek since the second motion picture - to make a sixth movie at all. After the critical and financial disappointment of Star Trek V, it took the personal intervention of Paramount CEO Frank Mancuso Sr.
