14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

13. Sybok’s In-Flight Haircut

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Once the Enterprise finds the planet Sean Connery...er, Shaka Zulu, er, Sha ka Ree, somewhere between exiting the bridge and leaving on the shuttle Sybok inexplicably gets a haircut.

Seriously. This happens.

He has shoulder length hair from the first time we see him and all the way to when he leaves the bridge with Kirk to go see the "busy man" that is presumably God. But the moment we see him on the shuttle and up til his demise he inexplicably has a much shorter and tidier hairdo.

Gee Sybok, were you not wanting to face the Almighty with the sin of a dirty hippie haircut? Or maybe you worried this “God” would mistake you for his Son...

And how did this haircut happen? Was there a barber in the turbolift? Or did the party just stop at a shipboard salon en route. Did the Enterprise's less than skeleton-crew include a hairdresser?

Or maybe the hair and makeup people forgot his hair extensions.

In any case, it's just inexplicable.

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Maurice is one of the founders of FACT TREK (www.facttrek.com), a project dedicated to untangling 50+ years of mythology about the original Star Trek and its place in TV history. He's also a screenwriter, writer, and videogame industry vet with scars to show for it. In that latter capacity he game designer/writer on the Sega Genesis/SNES "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Crossroads of Time" game, as well as Dreamcast "Ecco the Dolphin, Defender of the Future" where Tom Baker performed words he wrote.