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* [[Awesome Music]]: The score by Jerry Goldsmith. He returned after 10 years and gave it his full orchestra treatment. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qGLqxzR0L0 Star Trek V Theme]
* [[Canon Sue]]: What Shatner turns Kirk into. He freeclimbs El Capitan, personally leads a squadron of [[Space Marine|space marines]] [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|who don't do anything]], gets Uhura to strip naked to provide a distraction, charges into a hostage rescue operation on horseback, is the only character who flat-out refuses Sybok's [[Epiphany Therapy]], and is the first person to think of asking God what he needs with a starship.
** Still, it could have been a lot worse - it actually ends up being {{spoiler|Spock and the drunken Klingon general}} that save the day.
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** The original script was actually worse, featuring Spock and McCoy also succumbing to the [[Epiphany Therapy]], thus leaving Kirk as ''the only heroic character'' for a good portion of the movie.
* [[Crack Pairing]]: Uhura and Scotty? Seriously? Granted, it probably wouldn't have been out of place in TOS or one of the earlier films, but the attraction between the two comes out of absolutely nowhere, and is never referenced again.
** It's actually very low-key hinted at in the previous film. Observe the crew when they're approaching the Enterprise-A... Uhura practically cuddles up to Scotty when they see the ship's name.
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: In a movie full of painful humor, Spock says this after saving Kirk:
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** When Klaa blasts the Pioneer 10 probe, it emits a cartoonish shriek (?!).
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: Kirk: "I thought I was dead." Spock: "Impossible. You were never alone."
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Jerry Goldsmith, [[Academy Award]] nominee for ''[[Star Trek: The
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Sybok, ''Leif Eriksson'' was the one who proved the earth was round!
** [[What an Idiot!|You're both wrong.]] The idea of a spherical Earth dates all the way back to [[Ancient Greece|Pythagoras, Herodotus, Plato, and Aristotle]]. By the time of Columbus' voyage, only the most conservative religious groups still took the idea of a flat Earth from the Bible literally. The premise of the entire voyage was that the Earth was round! Columbus' only problem was that he underestimated the size of the Earth. All that the Vikings proved was that there was a landmass beyond the sea (which, according to [[Norse Mythology]] was supposedly the giants' homeworld of Jotunheim). If you want to get technical, the first person to "prove" the Earth was round was Juan Sebastian Elanco, Ferdinand Magellan's second-in-command who took over the expedition to circumnagivate the globe after Magellan was killed in the Phillipines.
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* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: It's a bit uncomfortable in retrospect watching the scene in which Scotty hits his head on the bulkhead (after saying "I know this ship like the back of me head!") knowing that James Doohan developed Alzheimer's disease towards the end of his life.
* [[Ho Yay]]: "Please, Captain. Not in front of the Klingons."
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* [[Idiot Plot]]: Most of the movie, see [[Plot Induced Stupidity]].
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: "What does God need with a starship?"
** From the DVD bonus features: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kestt5BI3eg "Captain Kirk is climbing the mountain,] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2ftCitvyQ why is he climbing the mountain?"]
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* [[So Bad It's Good]]
* [[Special Effect Failure]]: Every damn special effect in the movie. Apart from a few good shots of the Klingon ship, which were pilfered from the previous two films.
** As mentioned, ILM was busy (this was the summer of ''[[Indiana Jones and
** Ironically, the Rock Monsters that were originally going to be chasing Kirk rather than the disembodied head of not-God were tossed out because the one suit they made looked "like crap," according to many. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120103213240/http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/202840/no_love_for_the_star_trek_v_rockman.html Seen here], we can see that they actually looked far better than the effects in the damned movie.
*** They look pretty decent standing posed for still photography, but that's still different than looking good in motion and intended to be watched on the big screen. Also there were apparently worries about the wearers' safety, since the suits were designed to emit smoke but the device to do so kept malfunctioning.
** Most of the effects problems were apparently to do with the motion control photography being done at 16fps instead of the usual 24fps, as a cost-saving measure. Notably, the static shots of the ''Enterprise'' and the Klingon ship generally don't look too bad, but whenever they move they do it in a stuttery, jerky fashion that looks like something out of an old Ray Harryhausen flick.
*** Basically, the fact that Bran Ferren (the man behind the effects) has never been allowed near another movie to this day says it all.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: The scene with McCoy's dying father. [[DeForest Kelley]] gets to '''[[He Really Can Act (Sugar Wiki)|act]]'''.
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* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: Kirk meets a villain who [[Epiphany Therapy|draws out his subjects' greatest pain]], but when the time comes he won't let the guy near him, thus blowing a perfectly good opportunity to deal with the loss of his son.
** Except that was the point of the scene. That Kirk doesn't want the pain drawn out, and he doesn't want to deal with it. He wants to hold onto it, keep it. It's not the emotional response that's considered healthy in modern Western society, but it's still an entirely human and understandable one.
*** That decision came back to bite him on the ass in [[Star Trek VI:
* [[Took the Bad Film Seriously]]: Lawrence Luckinbill as Sybok.
* [[Vindicated
** And with ''Into Darkness'' easily trumping both of those in fan distaste, it's probably not looking too bad these days.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: [[Word of God|According to Shatner]] and several others in on the original creation process of the movie, the plot would have followed the current form of the film much the same... until they met [[God]]. Instead of being a random alien, this would turn out to be ''[[Satan]]'' and McCoy would sacrifice himself to spare Spock and Kirk -- who would simply dive into Hell after their friend and drag him out of Hell with Satan nipping at their heels.
** This was nixed by various other people working on the film as just being too polarizing and not fitting for Star Trek. Or something equally bizarre -- which resulted in a string of compromises that resulted in a script far worse for the wear. Combined with the [[Special Effects Failure]] [[It Got Worse|that would later fly up]]...
** It should be noted that in one episode of [[Star Trek:
** The "rock monsters" mentioned
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