10 Movies Everyone Remembers For ONE Awesome Scene
4. McCoy Euthanises His Father - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
It's near-universally agreed that the fifth Star Trek movie - directed by William Shatner, no less - is the worst of the lot, because despite many of the films settling into a passably episodic groove, only does The Final Frontier dare to be so shockingly easy to forget.
The cast tries hard to make the uneventful material work, resulting in a single fantastic scene which clearly belonged in a better Trek film.
The scene in question sees the villainous Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) forcing Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) to relive the traumatic moment where he agreed to euthanise his terminally ill father.
The kicker is that a cure was discovered for McCoy's father's illness shortly after he assisted him in death, yet by making McCoy relive this trauma, Sybok also allowed him to let go of his guilt and move on.
In a movie that's otherwise bereft of really any interesting ideas, we got one of the most affecting single scenes in the series' entire cinematic canon.