Awesome / Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

• The return of the Fan Dance. That is all.
  Uhura (smugly): Hello, boys! I've always wanted to play to a captive audience.
• Plan B, for "Barricade."
• Enterprise escaping Klaa's Bird of Prey over Nimbus III, warping out just as his torpedo was about to hit home, and just after Sulu had made a full-speed forced landing in a shuttle carrying Kirk and company. Even Klaa is duly impressed.
  Klaa: He's good!
• Only Kirk could have the balls to challenge what is supposed to be the Almighty.
  Kirk: What does God need with a starship?
  McCoy: Jim, what are you doing?
  Kirk: I'm asking a question.
  "God": Who is this creature?
  Kirk: Who am I? Don't you know? Aren't you God?
  Sybok: He... has his doubts.
  "God": You doubt me?
  Kirk: I seek proof.
  McCoy: Jim! You don't ask the Almighty for his ID!
  "God": Then here is the proof you seek. *zaps Kirk with lightning, knocking him backwards*
  Kirk: (struggling up) Why is God angry?
  Sybok: Why? Why have you done this to my friend?
  "God": He doubts me.
  Spock: You have not answered his question. What does God need with a starship?
  • Don't knock McCoy's reaction to 'God's' lashing out. Having seen his two friends get blasted, he knew full well he could be next, and the hesitant pause clearly showcases his fear of such... yet, he still mouths off to 'God'.
  "God": Do you doubt me?
  McCoy: I doubt any god who inflicts pain for his own pleasure!
• Spock's pain was slightly Narmish, but after McCoy's genuinely affecting experience of his father's death ("Release me..."), Kirk's refusal to share his pain is also affecting.
  Kirk: I don't WANT my pain taken away, I NEED my pain!
• And speaking of McCoy, DeForest Kelley deserves his own mention for acting the hell out of an otherwise lackluster movie.
• Scotty is all kinds of awesome in this movie, first he avoids Sybok's Mind Control (unlike everyone else on the crew). He then breaks Kirk and the gang out of jail, and then he manages to (partially) fix the transporter! To quote Kirk, "Mr. Scott, you're amazing!"
• Sybok's last lines before his Heroic Sacrifice.
  Sybok: I couldn't help but notice your pain.
  "God": (confused) My pain?
  Sybok: It runs deep. Share it with me!
  • This also deserves a bit of an explanation: For most of the film Sybok, who is Spock's Long-Lost Relative plays a bad ripoff of Jesus while searching for God IN SPACE! and treating the entire crew to Epiphany Therapy that makes them his loyal mooks. This makes this one bit deeply rewarding, since it turns Sybok's annoying Catchphrase on its head when he discovers that "God" is simply a Sufficiently Advanced Alien.
• The climax of the film. Kirk is running from the fake God alien, only to have a Klingon warship appear in front of him and blast "God." Kirk expects the Klingons are about to kill him, only to be beamed on board to see that the gunner is... Spock. Spock just shot a Sufficiently Advanced Alien pretending to be God.
  • Unsurprising that the Klingons would be on board with this - after all, they killed their gods, considering them more trouble than they're worth. OF COURSE their ship would have the firepower to take one out.
• General Korrd. Spock, too, telling him to stop pitying himself and do it. (Guess he got the hang of those "colorful metaphors" after all!)

  Spock: I am in need of your assistance.

  Korrd: My assistance?

  Spock: You are his superior officer.

  Korrd: I am a foolish old man.

  Spock: Damn you, sir. You will try.

  • The next we see of Korrd is a mixture of awesome and funny - he has a cowed Klaa sheepishly apologizing, and adds a Klingon AND? After Klaa adds to his apology, Korrd reacts with the air of "Very nice, kid. Now go sit in the corner and think about what you've done."
  • TNG showed that the Klingons respect someone who can curse well. And while Spock's cursing doesn't measure up to the standards of someone even like Picard, the fact that Spock curses at all no doubt got Korrd's attention just as well.
• This:
  Spock: ^Explanation In response to Klaa demanding that they give up Kirk or he'll destroy them Captain Kirk is not among us.
  Klaa: You lie!
  Spock: [Fascinating Eyebrow] I am a Vulcan. I am incapable of lying.

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