14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

The Galileo shuttle makes a risky improvised “emergency landing plan B” crash landing, and no one runs down to check for casualties.

From Scotty’s reaction to Kirk’s announcing “B for barricade” it’s clear this is not going to be any sort of ordinary coming aboard. Only Scotty goes to check, and he does it from what’s apparently the flight deck control room. Good thing no medics were needed.

So why are no emergency personnel sent down to the hangar? Is the ship THAT empty? Only Scotty appears to check, and he does it from what’s apparently the flight deck control room. Good thing no medics were needed.

And since this has come up several times...Just how empty is this ship, anyway? Watching carefully, there are 27 Starfleet types who appear. This doesn’t even seem to be enough for a less than skeleton crew. At best, maybe, a couple of finger bones.

Anyway, when six of them are left on the planet, there are at minimum of 21 on the Enterprise, counting the leads. Even taking Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura and Sulu out of the equation, that’s still 16 Starfleet to Sybok’s entire party of 12 seen leaving the shuttle: himself, J'onn, the three ambassadors, and seven of his “Galactic Army of Light”. That means at best he’s got about eight armed men to take the ship.

Eight.

There’s absolutely no excuse for the utter lack of resistance. Scotty spots Sybok’s armed party coming aboard the ship and does…nothing. He doesn’t sound the alarm or even punch an intercom to warn Chekov on the bridge so he can lock the doors or turn off the turbolift, get hand phasers to stun the intruders, or even bonk bonk them on the head with that broken log recorder. No, stupid Scotty just skulks off into the ship’s sewers to hide out.