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At the beginning of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Sybok tells a man that he met that he needs to get off of Nimbus III:

SYBOK: Join my quest.

J'ONN: What is it you seek?

SYBOK: What you seek. What all men have sought since time began, ...the ultimate knowledge. To find it, we'll need a starship.

How did Sybok get to the planet in the first place if he didn't have a starship?

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    Hitch-hiking, hm? – Ghanima Sep 14 '16 at 00:23
  • I always assumed he bummed a lift on a freighter or some kind of cargo vessels. His obsession is with getting hold of a *top class starship* (be it Romulan, Klingon or Federation), not just passage off of the planet – Valorum Sep 14 '16 at 00:28
  • @Ghanima Definitely possible, although that would raise the question of why he didn't use his mind tricks on that crew and just use their starship. – Thunderforge Sep 14 '16 at 00:28
  • @Thunderforge - Because a cargo wessel wouldn't make it through the barrier. – Valorum Sep 14 '16 at 00:28
  • Nice ST:V question :) They are in style right now, http://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/140569/3213 – JK. Sep 14 '16 at 03:44
  • There was a comment in the movie, I forget who said it, something about people being convinced to settle the planet by overstating how good the place was. He might have come with the settlers. – JK. Sep 14 '16 at 03:48
  • @Valorum Ah yes, the barrier that nobody ever went through, but didn't make the Enterprise even shake in the slightest. Maybe in a cargo hauler, the ship would have given the tiniest of shakes, and Sybok didn't want to risk getting space-sick ;-) – Thunderforge Sep 14 '16 at 03:58
  • @JK. - All signs (script/novel) point to him having recently arrived. – Valorum Sep 14 '16 at 19:19
  • @Thunderforge - In the script and novel the journey is rather more fraught. – Valorum Sep 14 '16 at 19:20

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