10 Biggest Idiots In Star Trek

by John K Kirk

1. Sybok (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier)

Supposedly one of the most gifted and radical of Vulcan thinkers; excommunicated from Vulcan for his decision to embrace emotion and abandon logic and telepathically powerful enough to beguile an army, including the crew of the USS Enterprise into following him and he gets taken in by some extra-galactic entity with no name that promises him Heaven but just wants a ride?

There were a myriad of problems with this movie, but Sybok was the big, fat gaping idiot at the centre of it. Oh and he's Spock's brother, to boot. Would you trust a message from an alien creature who claims to be God? If you have a conversation with an alien being who says he's God but can't get into our galaxy, wouldn't you have some doubts?

Of course, that's the best and somewhat redeeming line in this movie, offered by Captain Kirk: "what does God need with a starship?" If Kirk can come up with that in about five minutes of meeting this bad special effect, don't you think that the gifted intellectual should have? No, because Sybok's a know-it-all idiot who thinks that he has the keys to heaven.

Even Gene Roddenberry found him somewhat apocryphal. If the "Great Bird of the Galaxy" can't see him as a viable addition to the Star Trek universe, then neither should you. This is the king of Star Trek idiots who needs to be dismissed by pretending he didn't exist. So, hopefully, these will either make your list or at least provide food for thought.

I'm sure that there are others who deserve worthy mention to this rogues' gallery, but perhaps these will provide a decent comparison and start to your own collections. Hey, it's a big universe out there, and it's full of all sorts of idiots to laugh and wonder at ... you just have to make sure that you're clear on who truly deserves that distinctive status. That way you'll be safer at conventions.

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John Kirk is a Teacher-Librarian and currently a History/English Teacher with the Toronto District School Board. But mostly, John teaches Geek. Comics, Sci-Fi (Notably Star Trek), Fantasy and Role-Playing and table-top games all make up part of John’s repertoire, There is a whole generation of nerds-in-embryo who rely on him to make sense of it all, to teach that with great power comes great responsibility, that the force will be with us always and that a towel IS the most useful thing to have in one’s possession. When John isn’t in the classroom, he can be found in his basement writing comic reviews for www.popmythology.com and features for Roddenberry Entertainment's www.1701news.com.