The 14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

2. He’s Dead, Jim?

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One of the big crowd-pleasing moments in the film is when Spock executes his FSNP (Famous Spock Neck Pinch as they called it behind the scenes on the original show) on the rude punk blasting his boom box. A gag homaged in Picard season 2.

But put yourself in the place of the other passengers on the bus. They see this punk being rude and then this weird looking character in a robe does something and the punk falls face-first into his boombox, shutting it off. From their point of view, what happened? Do you know anyone who can put someone to sleep like that? For all they know Spock killed the guy right in front of them.

Maybe they hate punk rock music that much.

In any case, Kirk and Spock are lucky the cops weren’t waiting for them at the Cetacean Institute.

Funny, but dumb.

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Maurice is one of the founders of FACT TREK (www.facttrek.com), a project dedicated to untangling 50+ years of mythology about the original Star Trek and its place in TV history. He's also a screenwriter, writer, and videogame industry vet with scars to show for it. In that latter capacity he game designer/writer on the Sega Genesis/SNES "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Crossroads of Time" game, as well as Dreamcast "Ecco the Dolphin, Defender of the Future" where Tom Baker performed words he wrote.