14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
12. I Need Jim Kirk
KIRK: With all due respect, the Enterprise is a disaster. There must be other ships in the Quadrant.
ADMIRAL BOB: Other ships, yes, but no experienced commanders. Captain, ...I need Jim Kirk.
Granted...but does Admiral Bob need him on a less than a skeleton-crewed “disaster” of a ship?
While we can all appreciate that for once the Enterprise is not the “only ship in the quadrant,” sending Kirk out with a plot-convenience-sized crew just big enough for a handful of Sybok’s Galactic Army of Light to wrest control from is just as bad a cheat, if not worse.
Bob says there are other ships, so why not send one of those in support? Or have Kirk take command of the mission from one of them? Or have him replace that ship's captain and pointlessly grade reduce this new Will Decker like he did in The Motion Picture?
Okay, maybe not that last one.
Truly memorable adversaries present serious challenges to the protagonists, but rather than make Sybok into a Spockian Super Genius who’s figured out how to take over a starship against incredible odds, the script takes the lazy route of giving him a primrose path to success.
Bob may need Jim Kirk, but this movie needed a less dumb script.