By ordering a Photon Torpedo strike. All he did was kill Sybok.
Those Klingon Bird of Prey Disrupter Guns must be way more powerful that Starfleet Photon Torpedoes.
"Live long and suck it, Zachary Quinto!"
Kirk realized that this entity, while powerful, was no god. He hoped to destroy or at least delay the creature and allow them to escape, which succeeded except for the inability of the damaged transporter to get all three of them out of there. Nothing shows us that the entity was killed by the Klingon disrupters either. It gets shot again, and like before may take it a minute to regroup itself, but Kirk is gone by that point. So the entity remains trapped in it's prison.
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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
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Sadly, I don't think any of these ideas were well thought out. Even if the studio had not interfered and given Shatner a larger budget, I don't think they would have delivered anything too deep in regards to the ending. Basically, Shatner wanted God to end up being the devil, which would become a group of rock monsters and then get shot by the Klingons. It was never really set to be much more than it is on paper. There were many good ideas here that simply never got explored or expanded on. Shatner wanted rock monsters and that is as deep as it got. I like your idea of the creature being something unkillable, something ancient and akin to the Old Ones in Lovecraft's world. We needed far more of a reveal to "God" than just realizing the obvious, that he is an impostor.
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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
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