American screenwriter who wrote the screenplay of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier from a story he developed with William Shatner and Harve Bennett.
David Loughery is an American screenwriter whose first produced film was the science-fiction fantasy Dreamscape.
He was hired to write Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, released in 1989, working from William Shatner's idea of a charismatic figure who hijacks the Enterprise in order to find God. Loughery is credited with the screenplay and shares the story credit with Shatner and the producer Harve Bennett.
During the rewrites the antagonist became Sybok, a Vulcan who has embraced emotion and is revealed to be Spock's half-brother, and the campfire scenes with Kirk, Spock and McCoy in Yosemite were added. Loughery's later films include Passenger 57, Lakeview Terrace and Obsessed.