20 Most Messed Up Deaths From The Star Trek Movies

19. 'God'

"God is dead"… literally. Nietzsche would have had a field day beyond the Great Barrier! Don't blame us for any blasphemy. Send your complaints to 1989, or go do some mountaineering or something. In the meantime, let's all head on down to 'Sha Ka Ree'… Sean Connery… Shangri-La.

Asking the big questions is never the issue. Finding the answers is. Sybok was most definitely not the 'Messiah,' though quite the disappointment by comparison. His visions of 'God' and the 'Garden of Eden' turned out to be the 'devil' and a desolate rock, probably not far from a supermassive black hole. Realising his error, the half-brother stepped in, only to be finished off by a photon torpedo. Or was he?

When it came to the 'death' of the dodgy deity at the galactic core, it was, of course, the Klingons who delivered the final blow. They had slain their (otherwise 'real') gods millennia ago. "More trouble than they were worth," as Worf put it in Homefront. We're also assuming Sha Ka 'last place in the unholy lookalike contest' died at all.

In place of faster-than-light transportation, 'God' might equally have asked for (much) better box office receipts. No one needs a starship if you kill off the franchise. With a more than poor performance in theatres, Star Trek V very nearly did just that. The most messed-up thing would have been missing out on The Undiscovered Country. Divine intervention? No. Merely the Paramount higher-ups giving it another life.