10 Sci-Fi Movie Villains Who Encountered Something Worse

10. Sybok - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

The William Shatner-directed Star Trek V: The Final Frontier may not be a great or even particularly good Trek movie - arguably the worst of the lot, even - but it does offer up a relatively unique motivation for its primary antagonist.

The main villain is Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill), the Vulcan half-brother of Spock (Leonard Nimoy) who plots to travel to the planet Sha Ka Ree because he believes that he can find God there.

Sybok eventually succeeds in his plan, coming face-to-face with "God," who actually turns out to be an evil alien entity which was sealed on the planet in the distant past. It's at this moment that Sybok realises he has effectively been duped into bringing a starship to the entity which it can use to escape.

Upon taking stock of this, he apologises to the Enterprise's crew, cites his own arrogance, and ultimately sacrifices himself to ensure that Spock and company can flee. In the very least, Sybok was an interesting, well-acted villain trapped in a woefully uneven movie, and one who got the opportunity to redeem himself once he realised what he was going up against.