The 14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
11. Target Practice
SULU: Now we’ve given them something else to shoot at.
SOMEONE: Aye, sir!
What a truly insipid statement, and a stupid reply, leading into the one truly dumb thing in this otherwise excellent space battle.
What’s so dumb?
That the two starships don’t split up and try to get to the planet from radically different trajectories, making it harder for Chang’s ship to target them both. The goal is getting someone down to the Camp Khitomer Peace Conference, not playing clay pigeon to Bard-blathering Chang’s Bird of Prey. Instead, Sulu rushes in near the Enterprise (at least as depicted on Chang’s tactical display) and just gets walloped.
If not for the deus ex Spock-ina climax where they use the “gaseous anomaly” gear to target their invisible adversary, they’d have been busy getting hammered (and not in the fun way) instead of making a sensible effort to save the day.