Amazon.com: Star Trek V left us nowhere to go but up, and with the return of Star Trek II director Nicholas Meyer, Star Trek VI restored the movie series to its classic blend of space opera, intelligent plotting, and engaging interaction of stalwart heroes and menacing villains. Borrowing its subtitle (and several lines of dialogue) from Shakespeare, the movie finds Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and his fellow Enterprise crew members on a diplomatic mission to negotiate peace with the revered Klingon Chancellor Gorkon (David Warner). When the high-ranking Klingon and several officers are ruthlessly murdered, blame is placed on Kirk, whose subsequent investigation uncovers an assassination plot masterminded by the nefarious Klingon General Chang (Christopher Plummer) in an effort to disrupt a historic peace summit. As this political plot unfolds, Star Trek VI takes on a sharp-edged tone, with Kirk and Spock confronting their opposing views of diplomacy, and testing their bonds of loyalty when a Vulcan officer is revealed to be a traitor. With a dramatic depth befitting what was to be the final movie mission of the original Star Trek crew, this film took the veteran cast out in respectably high style. With the torch being passed to the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation, only Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov would return, however briefly, in Star Trek: Generations. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating: - To Be...Or Not...To Be!
The Good Things
*Excellent action and special effects (especially the opening, which was probably the first really cool use of the shockwave effect that we now see everywhere else).
*Filming style is good.
*Storyline is smashing. Much darker, more dramatic than before. Lots of interesting political intruigue and mystery.
*Reveals a lot in the "Star Trek" universe. You finally get to see more of Klingon culture, and you get to see that they have pink blood, and so on.
*Characters are great; acting is good.
*Writing is good. A few memorable lines, and a few ... Read More
Rating: - Great Ending for the Best Enterprise Crew
Following on the heals of the train wreck that was `The Final Frontier', `The Undiscovered Country' was the last chance for the original Star Trek cast to go out on a high note. Undiscovered is probably the most underrated of all the Star Trek movies in fact I would probably rate it just below `The Wrath of Khan' in terms of quality. It's also probably the truest representation of Gene Rodenberry's vision of overcoming prejudice and bigotry.
The movie is written as an allegory for the breakup of the Soviet Union that was occurring at the time and the disaster at Chernobyl. The message ... Read More
Rating: - [4.5] One of the best Star Trek films
Wow, what an improvement over the previous Star Trek film: Star Trek V:The Final Frontier, but we won't even get into that. The Undiscovered Country is one of the best Star Trek films out of the current 10 film franchise, with its only competition including Star Trek II:The Wrath of Khan (my personal favorite), Star Trek IV:The Voyage Home (the non-trekkie favorite) and Star Trek:First Contact (almost everyone's favorite), however, there are plenty that say the 6th and final film featuring the TOS cast is the best, and it is certainly a strong and fullfilling end for the TOS cast (unfortunately the ... Read More
Rating: - Slightly repetetive but...
A fitting end for the old cast of the original TV series-turned sci-fi movies.
My own perspective: while Blake's Seven might do this theory better, I think of Star Trek as one long space opera. As much as the beloved Roddenberry was the creator, I'm happy with the results of the Nick Meyers/Harve Bennett collaborations. There is practically no modern movie set in space (with the exception of the first Alien movie) wherein the captain was not some sort of combination of superheroic visionary/poseable action figure. In the Nick Meyers-directed movies, the Kirk character is taken to its ... Read More
Rating: - What Does A Movie Series Do After It Has Been "Killed?" It Futilely Seeks Resurrection, But Finds Only Lost And Tired Ghosts!
The only thing "Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)" has going for it, is that it is indelible proof that Harve Bennett, Nicholas Meyer, and Paramount were not making Star Trek movies, never had a clue what Star Trek was about, and were unabashedly willing to "steal" Gene Roddenberry's name and show to make a few bucks. The cast, moreover, have clearly "out grown" their roles--especially in stature and age--performing like tired, lost, sad, and diminished versions (ghosts, if you will) of their characters. The overbearing action and special effects that cow ... Read More
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