14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

I daresay no fans were dancing in the aisles at this moment where The Final Frontier baldly went where no Trek had gone before by having Uhura do a burlesque act. It’s stupid on several levels.

First, why would Uhura strip to her birthday suit to do this? Heretofore unknown exhibitionist streak? It's dark. And where did the palm fronds come from?

Second, did no one consider that the attendants of the stunted unicorn horses might not all be males? Or if all humanoid males, maybe one or more of them might be—crazy thought I know—gay? Or maybe just not stupid horny?

Of course, if you think about it, the only women we clearly see on Nimbus III are a bartender, a triple breasted furry dancer, and newly-arrived Romulan, Caitlin Dar. Maybe there's a dearth of dames on this rock, but it's still silly.

Speaking of the lack of female representation, beyond Sybok’s Army of Light appearing to be all bros, even Starfleet leaves the ladies out of the action. It’s Kirk and the boys who charge the city, leaving Uhura to fly the shuttle instead of “he’s good” helmsman Sulu. This is even worse than Star Trek III, which ditched Uhura's arse on Earth whilst the boys went on their macho Genesis fetch quest.

Poor underused—and here overexposed—Uhura.

To add insult to injury, they didn't even use Nichelle Nichols' singing voice for the scene.

This leaving the action to the boys perhaps tells us more about Shatner’s stuck-in-the-60s default than anything else. It was dumb then and it's dumb now. Bad Bill.