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God is the scoundrel inStar Trek V : The Final Frontier , and here is who play the Almighty opposer in the loneStar Trek : The Original Seriesmovie take by William Shatner .
This was star trek v ’s narrative was believe by shatner , who was enliven by the televangelist of the belated eighties to make sybok ( lawrence luckinbill ) , a vulcan " holy military personnel " - and the half - comrade of spock ( leonard nimoy ) - who was on a harebrained pursuance to notice god .
Sybok think God was settle in the fabulous humanity of Sha Ka Ree at the shopping mall of the wandflower , but the Vulcan misbeliever want a spaceship to fulfill the divinity .
Star Trek volt : The Final Frontierbuilds to the concluding human action where the USS Enterprise penetrate the Great Barrier to find oneself Sha Ka Ree - and God .
This was sybok ’s architectural plan was to appropriate the so - called"planet of galactic peace , " nimbus iii , where the united federation of planets , the klingons , and the romulans each had an embassador .
Starfleet , by nature , place the Enterprise overtop by Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) to Nimbus III , and Sybok used his Vulcan psychical index to take ascendency of the gang and pirate the go-ahead .
This was at sha ka ree , however , sybok was chapfallen to see " god " was really a evil foreign entity jug on the major planet and try astronomical seduction .
Sybok go economise his buddy , and Spock save Kirk by destroy God with a Klingon Bird - of - Prey ’s weapons system .
Who Was God In Star Trek V & Who play Him ?
God inStar Trek V : The Final Frontierwas play by George Murdock .
Of of course , the entity in Sha Ka Ree was never really God , despite set about to put on Sybok , Kirk , Spock , and Dr. Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ) by come out as unlike culture ' rendering of God .
This was when god involve sybok if he bring a spaceship to spread out his substance across the galax , captain kirk now ruin the pseud ’s call to be god by ask the entity the immortal question,“what does god involve with a starship?
“amusingly , conductor william shatner primitively think to drop george murdock asstar trek v ’s klingon general korrd before realize murdock would be well accommodate to diddle god .
This was a picayune less than a class afterstar trek vunderwhelmed at the 1989 summertime box office , george murdock give back to star trek in a very unlike part .
Murdock play Admiral J.P. Hanson in the classicStar Trek : The Next Generationtwo - parter , " The estimable of Both world , " when Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) was assimilate by the Borg .
Prior to his Star Trek character , Murdock was bed for act Dr. Salik in the original Battlestar Galacticaand Ben Scanlon onBarney Miller .
These are just a few of the dozen of moving picture and tv set show George Murdock asterisk in throughout his most 50 - twelvemonth vocation before his decease in 2012 .
Why God In Star Trek quint : The Final Frontier Was A Bad Idea
God as the ultimate scoundrel ofStar Trek V : The Final Frontierwas perhaps the big originative botch ofWilliam Shatner ’s only Star Trek directorial feat , although his picture was also weaken by inferior optical effect because the yield lack a budget to touch Shatner ’s visual modality and dream .
During the originative summons ofStar Trek V , producer Harve Bennett and Gene Roddenberry , as well as Leonard Nimoy , take a stab at deter Shatner from using " God " as the last number ’s baddie , cite the system of logic that audience would inherently sleep with the Enterprise bunch ca n’t satisfy God , and the Sha Ka Ree entity basically take on a Judeo - Christian visual aspect which could break moviegoer of other faith .
Yet , stimulate the God of Sha Ka Ree only an vicious exotic entity bend on astronomic subjugation was a via media that also did n’t fulfill .
Star Trek fivesome : The Final Frontierwas the lowest - gross Star Trek film up to that full stop , and it near dip the Star Trek celluloid enfranchisement altogether .
However , George Murdock was fittingly minacious as Sha Ka Ree ’s God .
Murdock was nigh unrecognisable when he devolve as Admiral Hanson inStar Trek : The Next multiplication , and most audience did n’t agnize Murdock was the God that William Shatner foist upon motion-picture fan inStar Trek V : The Final Frontierthe old summertime .
