20 Most Cringeworthy Moments In The New Star Trek Movies

14. Chekov's Accent (Again) From Star Trek

In the first Star Trek movie, we get the end of an era: the last time Majel Barrett ever voices an Enterprise computer. This touching moment comes just after Chekov tries to access the ship's public address system... only to have it reject his log-in because he pronounces "Victor" and "Wicktor." Yes. Truly touching. It makes you want to touch your fingertips to your closed eyelids and press. Hard. This is cringey not just because the producers have decided to play the "accents is funny" card again, and not just because it completely takes attention away from Majel Barrett's last performance (which, admittedly, only a hardcore fan will care about anyway). It's cringey because it makes no damn sense. Pike wants Chekov to make the shipwide announcement, for one thing - presumably because he was too busy being fatherly to somebody. Why, exactly? Isn't that what Communications is for? And why would the P.A. system need a voice log-in? And while we're at it, was Chekov simply assigned a random log-in and has never used it before, so the computer can't recognise his pronunciation? "You're overthinking it," your friend says, "It's funny." Like hell it is.