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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Directed by Nicholas Meyer

Science Fiction

Most recently watched by AllAboutSteve, CaptainBigTime, sleestakk, themarc, seanCduregger

Overview

After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Enterprise. Both worlds brace for what may be their deadliest encounter.

Rated PG | Length 110 minutes

Actors

William Shatner | Leonard Nimoy | DeForest Kelley | James Doohan | Walter Koenig | Nichelle Nichols | George Takei | Mark Lenard | David Warner | Kim Cattrall | Rosanna DeSoto | Christopher Plummer | Kurtwood Smith | Brock Peters | Paul Rossilli | John Schuck | Iman | Leon Russom | Michael Dorn | Grace Lee Whitney | Robert Easton | Clifford Shegog | William Morgan Sheppard | Brett Porter | Jeremy Roberts | Michael Bofshever | Angelo Tiffe | Boris Lee Krutonog | Christian Slater | Tom Morga | Todd Bryant | John Bloom | Jim Boeke | Carlos Augusto Cestero | Edward Clements | Katie Johnston | Doug Engalla | Matthias Hues | Darryl Henriques | David Orange | Judy Levitt | Shakti Chen | Michael Snyder | René Auberjonois | Denise Lynne Roberts

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Viewing Notes

The crews of the Enterprise and the Excelsior must stop a plot to prevent a peace treaty between the Klingon Empire and the Federation. I’m very glad that Final Frontier wasn’t the last outing for the full original trek crew. This is a much better send off film, made at the tail end of the cold war between the US and the Soviet Union which was alluded to in the original series with the Romulans and the Klingons there, an event in Klingon space sees the Federation and the Klingons making peace mirroring the Soviet Union and the US doing the same.  They do a great job with the effects and managing to reclaim a few of the sets that had been built for the Motion Picture and had been claimed by The Next Generation series while Star Trek IV was in production. You can tell in a few shots, but they do disguise it well. We have a great cast, an amazing score which fits the darker themes of this film and I positively loved the signature send off kicking of the end credits. While some of the scenes may not play exactly into what Roddenberry envisioned for humanity, we see the characters learn and change throughout and I think that’s more the message of Trek, that we can be better than we start out. And so I finish off the last of the original cast Trek films with my second favorite behind Wrath of Khan.

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