14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
8. The Godcast
After the shuttle Copernicus lands on Sha Ka Ree, as Kirk and company stroll off on their God Trek, they are watched by everyone up on the Enterprise bridge via the main viewer. But the perspective is from off to one side of the shuttle. Who put a camera there?
This of course is an old movie and TV gimmick, and happened in previous Star Trek movies, notably when the Enterprise receives an impossible closeup of the Klingon battlecruiser Amar being digitized, and then receiving video of the V’ger cloud after Epsilon Nine annihilates it, and in Star Trek IV the Federation council magically has very dramatic footage of the Enterprise bridge during its Star Trek III self destruct.
That one shot alone wouldn't merit notice but when Kirk gets zapped for asking why The God Thing needs a ride, the voyeurs on the bridge all gasp in horror; they're clearly still seeing what's happening on the planet.
How?
Just who or what is transmitting this? The God Thing? Sure, an omniscient viewpoint seems perfect for an upper or lowercase god, but we know this one’s just a wolf in cheap clothing. No one in the film even questions how they are seeing all of this in the first place, and if they're receiving some sort of livestream "Godcast."
Dramatic but dumb.