Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country PG
Nick Meyer and Bennett (Star Trek 2 and 3, and 4) reunite to make a movie to take the sour taste of the previous film out of everyone's mouths, (Star Trek 5). The movie opens with a bang, an impossible subspace wave has struck Excelsior under Sulu’s command, and passed by. The wave was caused when a Klingon moon exploded, shattering it, and bnlasting the atmosphere of the Klingon home planet. Starfleet offers assistance. In this outing, it is a Cold War parable where Kirk and McCoy are blamed for the killing of the Klingon chancellor and Spock must try and rescue them. Instead of having Saavik return as the villain, because that just seemed wrong, Valeris was introduces as Spock’s new friend, who is clearly up to something from the first scene, but is likeable. The Enterprise is sent to make a peace offering with the Klingons and they have dinner, but assassins go aboard the Klingon command ship and kill their leader, causing a massive situation. Kirk and Bones are sent to a Klingon prison planet in place of the as of then not discovered assassins, and Spock must commit a daring rescue. Then they race to another planet called Khitomer where there is another space president about to be killed, and they rescue him also, and uncover the plot. The only drawback is the unending use of pop culture and Shakespeare references in this, which dates it to around 1991. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry died shortly before production completed on the film but he saw a work print.
Review by Adam Browne
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