Editing Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (section)

==Plot==
The crew of the newly [[ship commissioning|commissioned]] {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-A}} are enjoying [[shore leave]] after the starship's [[shakedown cruise]], with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy camping at [[Yosemite National Park]]. Their leave is interrupted when the ''Enterprise'' is ordered by [[Starfleet#Starfleet Command|Starfleet Command]] to rescue a human, a [[Klingon]], and a [[Romulan]], all diplomats who have been taken hostage on Nimbus III, a planet set aside as a neutral location to advance dialogue among the [[United Federation of Planets|Federation]], Klingon Empire, and Romulan Star Empire. Learning of the ''Enterprise''{{'s}} mission, the ambitious Klingon Captain Klaa decides to pursue Kirk for personal glory.

On Nimbus III, the ''Enterprise'' crew discovers that Sybok, a renegade [[Vulcan (Star Trek)|Vulcan]], is behind the hostage crisis, prompting Spock to admit that Sybok is his half-brother. After the Enterprise crew saves the hostages, Sybok reveals that the hostage-taking was a ruse to lure a starship, which he plans to use to travel to the mythical planet Sha Ka Ree. Sybok believes it lies behind the Great Barrier, a powerful energy field at the galaxy's center, and that [[God]] is located there. To take control of the ship, Sybok uses his ability to reveal and heal the innermost pain of a person through the [[Vulcan (Star Trek)#Mind melds|Vulcan mind meld]], thus gaining the loyalty of most of the crew. McCoy's pain is that he had helped fulfill his terminally ill father's request to die, only to find later that a cure could have saved his father's life, which has caused him years of guilt. Spock's pain is the knowledge that his father rejected him at birth for being "too human", though he is unmoved by the experience since he has made peace with his father. Kirk refuses to let Sybok remove his pain, claiming that it is necessary to make him human.

The ''Enterprise'' successfully breaches the Great Barrier, unaware they are being followed by Captain Klaa's warship, a [[Klingon starships#Bird of Prey classes|Klingon bird-of-prey]]. They discover a lone barren planet, and Sybok, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy take a shuttlecraft down to the surface. It appears uninhabited, but after Sybok calls out, a glowing field appears which quickly morphs through many forms representing various religions before settling into the image of a bearded human face, to which Sybok explains that they have come for "your wisdom". The entity asks how they breached the barrier, and upon being told about the ''Enterprise'', it declares that it will use the ship to carry its wisdom to every corner of the universe. A skeptical Kirk asks, "What does God need with a starship?", and when the entity asks who he is, Kirk expresses doubt that the actual supreme being would not already know. Irritated, the entity attacks him and Spock, after which they discover it is a powerful and malicious being, imprisoned on Sha Ka Ree in the distant past, with the Great Barrier put in place to keep it from escaping.

Realizing his earlier naiveté, Sybok apologizes and attempts to distract the entity by physically attacking it, allowing the others the opportunity to escape. Kirk orders the ''Enterprise'' to fire a barrage of [[weapons in Star Trek#Photon torpedo|photon torpedoes]], but while Sybok is killed, the entity is only weakened. Spock and McCoy beam back to the ship right before the Klingon ship unexpectedly attacks and damages the ''Enterprise'', stranding Kirk on the planet with the weakened and enraged entity. As he is about to be killed, the Klingon Bird of Prey swoops down and destroys the entity with a volley of disruptor fire.  Kirk is beamed aboard the Klingon ship, where Spock is unexpectedly waiting. As Spock explains, he convinced the Klingon General Korrd (one of Sybok's hostages who had become a loyal follower) to order Captain Klaa to stand down and apologize for his actions, which Klaa grudgingly does. After returning to Earth, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy resume their camping trip at Yosemite.