10 Real Reasons Behind Annoying Movie Moments

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is without question the consensus-worst of all the Trek movies for many reasons, and though it boldly introduces a villain, Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill), who pursues God, the resulting presentation of "God" (George Murdock) is an abject mess.

Late in the film, Sybok, Kirk (William Shatner), and the Enterprise crew encounter an entity posing as God, which ends up amounting to little more than the giant face of a bearded man projected in front of the cast.

The reason for this weirdly cheap-looking approach was that Industrial Light & Magic, who provided the VFX for the prior three Trek movies, were too busy working on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Ghostbusters II to commit to the film.

As a result, the production had to look elsewhere, ultimately settling on Bran Ferren's effects company, Associates and Ferren, who due to the film's locked-in release date, had roughly half the time that ILM did to deliver VFX work on the previous pictures.

With time running out and the budget ballooning, complex VFX shots were aggressively cut, including an intended "God blob" effect, which was switched out for the considerably simpler shot of Murdock's face surrounded by smoke and lights.