Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Scored from 299 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise are dispatched to a remote planet to rescue hostages, only to have their ship hijacked by Spock's long-lost half-brother Sybok, a renegade Vulcan on a spiritual quest. Sybok commandeers the Enterprise to journey beyond the Great Barrier at the center of the galaxy in search of God.
Released in 1989, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is an action, adventure and fantasy film.
The calibrated figure is built from 299 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 303 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,056 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Star Trek V: The Final Frontier lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1980s (3,141 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 299.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
