Forum Overview :: Orbitor 1 :: Star Trek V has one of the greatest lines in the history of cinema.

[quote name="Brody Wilder"]I'm not here to argue that Star Trek V is a good movie. It's objectively NOT a good movie. The fact that it's better than 99% of the direct-to-streaming sci-fi movies of the past ten years only means that the direct-to-streaming sci-fi movies of the past ten years were almost universally unwatchable. But it had exactly one quote that rivals <i>fucking Ghostbusters</i> for utility. There are a lot of great quotes in Ghostbusters. I remember the one about stairs every time I'm forced to climb stairs! But the most universally applicable has to be, "Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say yes." That philosophy's got me both into and out of a whole bunch of hilarious situations. I'm indebted to that line. Star Trek V has a quote very much like that. Director William Shatner gave actor William Shatner the best line of the movie, and probably the best line of 1989: "Excuse me, I'd just like to ask a question. What does God need with a starship?" Honestly, that's pretty amazing. I think about it every time a big man wants me to do him a favour. I know that Shatner's still with us, for the moment, and especially back in his '80s TJ Hooker days he was supposed to be a rampant egomaniac with a girdle and a hairpiece and so on. But come on, that's a pretty pithy expression of something we all need to learn at some point. I'm just glad I got to learn it as a child. Thank you, Star Trek V, the worst Star Trek movie until Insurrection.[/quote]