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Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country [VHS] | ![Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XTS50JFQL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Nicholas Meyer
Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig
Studio: Paramount
Category: Video
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 630242335X
UPC: 097363230137
EAN: 9786302423358
ASIN: 630242335X
Theatrical Release Date: December 6, 1991
Release Date: August 25, 1993
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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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 Can I safely say it was boring? March 8, 2010
Andariel Halo (Phenomynouss@hotmail etc is my e-mail)
Well it was. Following along that old time tradition of labeling the odd-numbered Star Treks as inferior to the even-numbered ones, I set myself up for failure with the 1st, 3rd, and 5th, and got varying degrees of just that.
But I may have been far too generous in watching this film, due to its being even-numbered, and made by the same director who made Wrath of Khan.
I can't precisely point out just where or why, but this entire film felt like it was missing several hours of exposition, perhaps backstory from episodes of "The Next Generation" I never saw, and I end up feeling completely lost and confused, even in the face of the obvious.
The story claims to be some sort of "Cold War in Space!" idea, yet perhaps my being born in 1988 and never experiencing the Cold War leads me to not really understand this concept. I can definitely see it, but I can't FEEL it.
The story involves some kind of planetary explosion that threatens to destroy the Klingon Empire, so a Klingon ambassador goes to the Federation to try to negotiate a lasting peace treaty and an opening of the two nations to work together and help them. For reasons of "DRAMA!", Kirk is inexplicably racist against Klingons. This is explained via that old Red Herring, David, his son who was killed by the Klingons. In my original review for Search for Spock, I praised this as a show of Christopher Lloyd's Klingon guy's menace and its immediate effect on Kirk, which of course could not be as powerful as the loss of Spock, given that Kirk never really knew David.
But after watching the entire Original Series, and seeing Kirk's almost friendly relationship with enemy Klingons, this sudden fanatic, racist hatred of them in Star Trek VI really does seem to come out of nowhere. I mirrored Spock in feeling sudden confusion and shock at Kirk's inexplicable hatred of Klingons.
And for some reason, I never really feel as though this hatred is anything more than a Red Herring, or otherwise a plot device that never really ends up fully utilized by the script. He hates Klingons, yes, but this never in any way forces him to confront his racism or compromise his principles due to racism (or overcoming that racism), and in the end Kirk just handsomes his way through the events without really learning anything beyond the cheap and tawdry after-school special "Well I know now that Klingons don't ALL really want to hurt us, so I'll stop being racist!" message.
Racism is NOT a jealousy or a grudge or something cheap and tawdry that can be resolved by a single moment or sheer willpower. It can definitely be world-changing for a racist to have someone of the other race do something for or to them to completely change their view, but this movie has nothing at all like that---there are no Klingons who really affect Kirk in this way, not even the ambassador who confides in Kirk, up to his own death.
The main storyline involves an assassination of the Ambassador by people dressed as Federation crewmembers, coming after the apparent attack on the Ambassador's ship by the Enterprise, though the Enterprise did not fire. This leads to Kirk and McCoy being arrested by the Klingons (as they left the ship to go help the Ambassador afterwards) and them being sentenced to a prison planet after being incompetently defended by Colonel Worf (played by Michael Dorn, but not the same Worf as in TNG).
So we get an entire long and dreadfully dull sequence of Kirk and McCoy on a snowy prison planet, tangling with a shapeshifter, escaping, only to be betrayed by her and caught by the Klingons.
Meanwhile, Spock begins to uncover the conspiracy of the Ambassador's assassination, and for the life of me it just.. makes.. NO.. SENSE!!!
I fail to see the logic behind any of the motives behind the revealed conspirators, including a purely reverse-race based decision to cast the Admiral played by Brock Peters (who is black, btw) as the main racist against Klingons. The documentaries I saw seemed to vaguely imply that this decision was made based on some sort of attempt to show racism in an ironic sort of light, given that the black guy is one of the highest ranking people in Starfleet and is racist against similar brown (alien) people.
But the entire thing just makes NO SENSE! So he's racist, but WHY does he want to assassinate the Ambassador? Is he looking to provoke war with the Klingons? If so, WHY? Unless the Klingons are as stupid as they've been gradually shaped into being (as in, from TOS slick and smarmy clever bastards to TNG proud warrior race guys who hold honor above reason), then there's no concievable way the Federation could go to war with the Klingons and expect not to be horribly butchered, even if they win the war. Maybe the Romulans would emerge and smash the shattered remnants of the Federation? Maybe the Dominion would launch a lightning strike against them?
There's a thousand and eight logical and rational reasons NOT to go to war with the Klingons, but the racism against the Klingons is played up to a fanatical degree that is not only arbitrary (as the characters involved in this conspiracy, without revealing their identities, have absolutely nothing in their brief backstory or personality to support or justify this) but they seem to be incapable of realizing that THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE MAJORITY OF THE KLINGONS WANT!
Why else would General Chang, played by Christopher Plummer (who absolutely has a damn BLAST playing this guy, and hams it up so much he chews up more scenery than Shatner in three Star Trek films) and his group be working so closely with the heads of STARFLEET COMMAND to do this?
Star Trek Deep Space Nine had an episode called "In the Pale Moonlight" about how, in the midst of the Dominion War, the Federation was losing horribly. Casualties mounted every day, and the crew of Deep Space Nine could look horribly forward to looking through the daily casualties to find the names of friends, family, and loved ones killed in the war. This leads to Captain Sisko facing a crisis, as the Romulans have a high-ranking Senator looking to persuade the Empire to joining the Dominion in crushing the Federation.
So Sisko has a Cardassian spy work with a forger to create a false holo-recording of top Dominion officials apparently scheming to secretly attack the Romulans while they're recovering from a botched attack on the Federation before. They hope to use this lie to bring the Romulans in against the Dominion.
Unfortunately, that Senator recognizes its a fake, and leaves to go back to Romulus, undoubtedly with renewed hatred for the Federation for this latest attempt. Instead, the Cardassian spy has his ship blow up, making it look like a Dominion job, and ensuring the Romulans will find the fake holorecording.
Sisko realizes he has the blood of the Senator and others on his hands now, as he has betrayed Starfleet principles by engaging in shady dealings, bribery, threats, and indirect murder. And yet he can live with it because he did what he thought was right, and the war will soon turn with the Romulans to reinforce the Federation side.
This episode created immense controversy, as detractors claimed it went completely against Gene Roddenberry's vision of Star Trek as a peaceful, utopian future of exploration and diplomacy.
And it was one of the highest rated Star Trek episodes ever.
Shockingly, there's no such similar controversy about this movie, in which Starfleet ADMIRALS (and not just Captains) are in on a conspiracy to assassinate not only a Klingon Ambassador, but the FEDERATION PRESIDENT not out of any righteous need to end a losing war or stop a killing spree or crime, but to CAUSE a losing war, a killing spree, a crime. They seek to unleash a war between the Federation and the Klingons in which undoubtedly the Klingons would lose... and kill MILLIONS if not BILLIONS of Federation soldiers and civilians.
And all because of racism/hatred that up until then had never made itself even slightly known, and even when it was revealed, did not make a lick of sense.
Also, it was pretty boring.
 Great send-off for TOS January 29, 2010
jackbauerfan
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
After the commercial and critical EPIC failure of part 5, they almost stopped the franchise. They had several ideas for a new movie, possibly a new series. They almost greenlit a prequel called Starfleet Academy, but the project was shelved (although they did take some ideas from it for the 2009 reboot). Leonard Nimoy then came up with an idea for a sixth movie. He asked "what if the wall came down in outer space?" He was referring to the events of the cold war. So they decided to follow his suggestion and produce a sixth Star Trek movie. Many people consider this one of the best Star Trek movies, and some people consider to be on the same level as "Wrath of Khan". I like this movie, but I don't like it as much as parts two or four. It think it is about on the same level as Search for Spock. It's a good Star Trek movie, but there are better.
The movie takes place a few years after the events of part five. In the time since the last movie, Sulu has been given his own command, the starship Excelsior. Also, the crew of the Enterprise is a few weeks away from retirement. The events of the previous movie are not even mentioned. It's like they were saying "well, we really screwed up last time. We'll just pretend like that movie never happened, okay?" And that's fine with me. They try to carry on the themes from the trilogy, which was a wise move on their part. The movie opens with Sulu and the Excelsior discovering that a Klingon moon has exploded. The moon, Praxis, was the Klingon empire's key energy production facility, and the Klingon Empire is now thrown into turmoil. They request a peace treaty with the Federation. Kirk and the Enterprise are ordered to meet with Chancellor Gorkon and escort him to earth. This is difficult for Kirk, seeing as how his son David was killed by Klingon's a few years earlier. Nevertheless, Kirk tries to be polite to the Klingons, and has them aboard the Enterprise for dinner, in a great, comical scene. Kirk meets Gorkon's daughter Azetbur, and his chief of staff General Chang. Chang seems particularly interested in Kirk, seeing him as fellow warrior.
As they near earth, the Enterprise suddenly appears to fire on the Klingon ship. Then two men in space suits beam onto the Klingon ship. They kill several Klingons, including Gorkon. Kirk beams over to the Klingon ship, and he and McCoy are sent to a prison planet. They later escape and try to figure out who framed them. They deduce that it was not the Enterprise who attacked Gorkon' ship, it was a Klingon ship that can fire while cloaked. The two men who beamed over to the Klingon ship and killed Gorkon were two Enterprise officers. Kirk and crew uncover a plot to stop the peace talks. They plan another execution at the peace conference. They head to the peace conference to intervene, but are intercepted by Chang and the cloaked bird of prey. He fires on the Enterprise, severely injuring it. Spock and McCoy modify a torpedo which tracks the invisible bird of prey and blows it up. Then they beam down to the peace conference just in time to save the Federation president from being assassinated. All charges against Kirk and his crew are dropped, and they are ordered to return home. However, they decide to go on one final cruise before they are decomissioned.
As I said before, this is a satisfying end to the first series of Star Trek movies. It has Kirk once again having to deal with getting old. He also has to get over his own bigotry and accept what is happening with the Klingons. I don't think this movie is one of the best Trek movies, but it is still a great movie and a great sendoff for the crew of the original series.
 Another brilliant Trek story November 20, 2009
Michael Andrews (New York, NY)
"Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" is....fun. Its also, like Wrath of Khan and The Voyage Home, smart, full of intrigue, packed with cool heroes and villians, with great emsemble acting, taut direction and a clever screenplay.
This time around, the Federation discovers their most hated enemy, the Klingons, are facing extinction. They set about wanting to make a peace pact with them, however reluctantly. Captain Kirk, who lost his son, David, to the murderous hand of the Klingons in "Search for Spock" definitely wants nothing to do with his foes. "Let Them Die" he says to Spock. Anyway, after a dinner meeting with Klingon representatives, their chancellor is assassinated, and Kirk and McCoy are framed. From this point on, the film takes on the tone of a detective story, with Spock and the rest of the Enterprise crew racing against time to clear their allies' names and find the true killer before all out war devastates the galaxy. Brilliant stuff, giving you the best of what the Star Trek mythology is all about. See it.
star trek - the discovered dvd October 2, 2009
D. M. Funk
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is a very difficult dvd to find and buy, so when i found what i thought i couldn't, i jumped, bought and viewed. and i might add, was not disapointed. the delivery of the item was solid and 'on the ball'. i didn't expect it to be dressed in an original sleeve so i wasn't suprised when it arived in a plain but durable wrapper. bottom line is that it is a pleasure to buy from a reliable vendor who sends what it says and says what it will send. now, the movie? of course it is good; probably the best of the bunch. to see the original players/actors age with grace with a knock-out story-line. the physical science applied is what will probably be faced when humans reach that final frontier with little left to someone's imagination . when i taught physics in high school ages ago, i used this movie as a go-to for not only entertainment but more for 'this is a real possibility'. like why would i buy an item of so-so quality and enjoyment?
fantastic September 14, 2009
Lester J. Keller Jr. (Baton Rouge, La USA)
One of my all time favorite Star Trek Movies.If U like Star Trek like I do you will NOT be dissapointed in this movie!!!
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