6. What A Creepy Smile You Have
At the beginning of the film, we see a dusty, desolate wasteland identified as the Planet of Galactic Peace. A bald man is digging a hole, or something. An ominous hooded rider appears, and grabs the man, takes away his pain and recruits him for a quest. He then removes his hood and we see the pointed ears of a Vulcan. The man exclaims, youre a Vulcan! the Vulcan laughs (which is out of character for Vulcans, in case you didnt know) and then the man gets this weird, goofy smile as the theme music swells. Why is this so bad? This movie came out when I was 7, when I took most of what I saw in TV shows and movies as realistic. But this is where I fell off the Star Trek V-train. Like I said, several parts of this movie make the viewer ask, what is that? or why did that just happen? This is one of them. Why was the guy smiling so weirdly? My dad said it was because a Vulcan was laughing, my mom said it was because he was surprised to see a Vulcan around all those dusty holes, my brother said I should shut up and leave him alone. So it didnt make any sense. But beyond that, it was just stupid; it looks like a poorly-made farce rather than something that once aspired to be serious. And this is before the title sequence.