10 Unluckiest Sci-Fi Movie Characters Ever
5. Leonard "Bones" McCoy - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Despite the many wondrous adventures Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley) had aboard the Enterprise, his most piercing personal pain was revealed in devastating fashion in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
The film's renegade Vulcan Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) - who also happens to be Spock's (Leonard Nimoy) half-brother - possesses the unique ability to reveal and even heal a person's most private, deeply felt pain. And when it comes to Bones, we learn the brutal bout of bad luck he remains haunted by.
Bones re-lives a memory where he agreed to euthanise his terminally ill father, but in a cruel bout of irony a cure was found a short while afterwards which could've saved his father's life. Ouch.
In what's near-universally agreed to be the worst Star Trek movie, Bones' revelation is by far the best scene - a harsher-than-harsh window into his interior life and the anguish that continues to drive him.