Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The undiscovered country...

...the future."

~(Klingon Chancellor Gorkon)~

 

 

"If there is to be a brave new world,

our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it."

~(Klingon Chancellor Gorkon)~

"Jim.  Is it possible we've become old and inflexible
that
we've outlived our usefulness?"
~(Spock)~

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is a 1991 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the sixth feature film based on the Star Trek science fiction television series. It was directed by Nicholas Meyer and written by Meyer with Denny Martin Flinn. After the destruction of the moon Praxis leads the Klingon Empire to pursue peace with their long-time adversary the Federation, the crew of the USS Enterprise must race against unseen conspirators with a militaristic agenda.

The Undiscovered Country was initially planned as a prequel to the original series, with younger actors portraying the crew of the Enterprise while attending Starfleet Academy, but the idea was discarded because of negative reaction from the cast and the fans. Faced with producing a new film in time for Star Trek's 25th anniversary, Flinn and Meyer, the director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, wrote a script based on a suggestion from Leonard Nimoy about what would happen if "the wall came down in space", touching on the contemporary events of the Cold War.

Nimoy visited Meyer's house and suggested, "[What if] the wall comes down in outer space? You know, the Klingons have always been our stand-ins for the Russians..." Meyer recalled that he replied "'Oh, wait a minute! Okay, we start with an intergalactic Chernobyl! Big explosion! We got no more Klingon Empire...!' And I just spilled out the whole story!" The story deliberately included references to the contemporary political climate; the character of Gorkon was based on Mikhail Gorbachev, while the assassination storyline was Meyer's idea. He thought it was plausible that the Klingon leader who turned soft towards the enemy would be killed like similar peacemakers throughout history: Anwar El Sadat, Gandhi, and Abraham Lincoln.

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Now that I have an unlimited membership to Netflix, been watching a lot of movies I've already seen, even ones didn't care much for first time around such as this Star Trek sequel;
because...
 I watch them alone in closed caption.

 

Even my mother and sister admit to understanding movies better in closed caption when they visit, although still preferring to watch them without closed caption if I've already seen the movie in closed caption. 

If that didn't make sense,
maybe now is a good time to inform you I am hearing impaired.

 

 

 

Catching these three quotes turn watching this sequel again into a real gem find.