Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
幻游百科,影视科幻的百科全书
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| Series: | TOS |
| US Release: | 1991-12-06 |
| Prod. #: | 006 |
| Date: | 2293 |
| Stardate: | 9521.6 |
| Director: | Nicholas Meyer |
| Story: | Leonard Nimoy and Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal |
| Screenplay: | Nicholas Meyer & Denny Martin Flinn |
| Producers: | Steven-Charles Jaffe & Ralph Winter |
"The battle for peace has begun."
The Chancellor of the Klingon Empire asks for peace negotiations with the Federation, but factions on both sides try to prevent the two adversaries from reaching an understanding.
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◆ 片 名：星舰迷航记6未来之战 / 英文：Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country / 港译：星空奇遇 6 / 台译：星舰迷航记 6:迈入未来 / 其他：星际旅行 6:未知的国度
◆ 导 演：Nicholas Meyer
◆ 主 演：William Shatner Leonard Nimoy DeForest Kelley James Doohan
◆ 类 型：动作（Action） 科幻（Sci-Fi） ◆ 国家地区：美国
◆ 发行公司：派拉蒙（Paramount）
◆ 制作公司：派拉蒙（Paramount） ◆ 首映日期：1991年12月6日
◆ 影片简介：
克林帝国发生了意外的爆炸事件，求援于联邦，并提议修好。联邦出现了两种意见，鸽派主张出援，科克所在的鹰派则倾向强硬立场。科克被怪罪应为克林船舰受攻击负责，当他前往解危氏，又被指控杀害克林帝国使者。
第五集電影並沒有讓影迷們感到很滿意，主要是因為演員已經不再風采依舊了，但更主要的原因其實是影片中的設定，有些設定和之前的不符，以至於會得到一些瘋狂影迷的反感。雖然如此，第六集電影終於再度挽回局勢，它入圍了奧斯卡最佳音效剪輯和最佳化妝兩個獎項。在這集，企業號 NCC-1701-A 正式除役，本集最大的重點為星際聯邦和克林貢這個強大的外星種族進行和談並簽訂條約，STAR TREK 用這一集代表當年蘇聯瓦解，冷戰結束。1991 年 12 月 6 日，「邁入未來」片尾打出所有主要演員的簽名，想想他們竟然已經為了 STAR TREK 奉獻了二十五年！
星曆 9521.6，原企業號舵手蘇魯如願地當上精進號的艦長已經三年了，他悠閒地記錄著艦長日誌，報告全艦平安。突然，克林貢的衛星普拉西斯爆炸了！精進號本想過去支援，但克林貢人表示整個情況已經控制住，希望精進號遵守約定，留在中立區外。蘇魯艦長於是將這件事情呈報上去。
兩個月後，聯邦召開秘密會議，會議報告克林貢因為普拉西斯事件，帝國可能只剩下五十年的壽命，他們希望聯邦能撤掉中立區的防守，並展開和談。眾人當然不肯！但艦隊特使力保寇克艦長當和談大使，希望寇克艦長能接克林貢議長高更到聯邦地區來，寇克艦長無奈地表示企業號一行人再三個月就退伍了，不應該再淌這團渾水，但史巴克表示現在正處於歷史的轉戾點，應該要把握住機會，寇克艦長不得已只好接下任務。
由於企業號舵手已經成為另一艘星艦的艦長，一位星艦學院第一名畢業的瓦肯軍官華勒莉斯自願來頂替這個位置。離開太空站，史考特很驕傲地站在正反物質引擎的前方看著它運轉，企業號再度出航！寇克艦長回到他的艙房，記下艦長日誌：「艦長日誌，星曆 9522.6，我從來不會相信克林貢人，以後也不會，喪子之痛我絕不原諒他們﹝請參照《石破天驚》一文﹞！」華勒莉斯這時正好來通知克林貢船已經接近，寇克艦長回到艦橋與高更議長通話，並邀請他到企業號上共進晚餐。
晚餐時間，議長帶著他的女兒和張將軍一行人來到企業號上，張將軍口氣很衝，他表示很希望見到寇克艦長，在戰士對戰士的情況下見面。餐會中，高更議長引用莎劇的話來向大家敬酒，本來有一個共同的話題會使氣氛更融洽，沒想到議長的女兒說沒看過克林貢莎劇的不算瞭解莎劇，張將軍一時興起還現場來一段 taH pagh taHbe'﹝To be or not to be.﹞，大家越聊越不愉快，火藥味愈來愈濃，史巴克只能一直幫雙方打圓場。
送走議長一行人，華勒莉斯斥喝兩位嘲笑克林貢人的軍官後回到艦橋上，這時，克林貢船突被兩發光雷打中！因為沒有升起防護罩的關係，克林貢船馬上癱瘓，內部變成了失重狀態，有兩位穿著聯邦制服的人開始在克林貢船上進行一場屠殺行動，連議長也遭了殃。企業號正在查詢兩枚光雷的由來，因為電腦記錄顯示企業號發射了光雷，但彈藥室的清點記錄是滿膛的，寇克艦長和醫官表示要過去克林貢船幫忙，史巴克於是在寇克艦長背部黏了一個小東西。當他們傳送過去後，議長還有一口氣在，但是醫官搶救不及，議長留下一句話：「別讓這件事就這樣結束了！」之後就過世了。
寇克艦長和醫官因為這個攻擊事件被補，克林貢人開始審判他們，並派一個上尉－－沃夫來為他們辯護，雖然沃夫很盡則，但所有的言詞都對寇克艦長不利，更誇張的是，他不相信克林貢人的那段日誌還被播放出來！最後，他們被判到露拉潘地終身監禁。史巴克因為發現光雷發射時，企業號下方的輻射能量遽增，他認為當時可能是隱形船發射的，因為電腦的記錄被修改，他也開始懷疑企業號上可能有內賊，這時契可夫在艦上找到克林貢的血漬，於是開始尋找沾血漬的重力靴，沒想到，重力靴的主人已經把它調包過了，這一條線索中斷。
露拉潘地是一個冰天雪地的地方，周圍沒有電網，只有磁力場防止把人傳送走，這時有一個變形人表示願意幫助寇克艦長和醫官逃走。在雪中行走，醫官幾乎要放棄了！寇克艦長告訴他史巴克在他背後黏的小東西是追蹤器，只要出磁力場，史巴克就會知道。走出磁力場，一群克林貢人突然圍了上來，原來變形人被克林貢人收買，她的任務就是把寇克艦長和醫官帶出來殺掉，正當克林貢人要說出到底是誰想殺他們時，企業號把他們傳送回來了！
史考特在廚房喝飲料，發現通風口怪怪的，打開一看，赫然發現兩件制服！那是屬於柏克和山諾所有，很不幸地，他們被用近距離擊昏模式的光炮給打死了！寇克艦長覺得事有蹊蹺，決定和史巴克一起騙出兇手。兇手抓到了！沒想到竟然是新上任的華勒莉斯！史巴克很生氣，他利用一種瓦肯的讀心術來讓華勒莉斯供出其他同黨。企業號在得知和談地點後，開始前往基度瑪營，途中，隱型艦出現了！是由張將軍指揮的，因為它可以在隱形狀態下攻擊，企業號根本一點辦法都沒有，這時精進號也過來幫忙，史巴克做了一枚特殊的追蹤光雷，終於偵測到隱形艦的位置，克林貢艦敵不過兩艘星艦，終於全毀。
在基度瑪營，會議進行到一半，一個人準備在二樓槍殺聯邦主席，寇克艦長及時趕到，史巴克帶著華勒莉斯進入會場，刺客轉而要殺死華勒莉斯滅口，幸好史考特在刺客背後對他開了一槍，所有參與暗殺的人全部被逮捕。
全員又回到企業號上，寇克艦長和蘇魯艦長互相道別，正當寇克艦長想坐下來繼續指揮企業號時，艦隊要他們回航並解除任務，史巴克突然道：「如果我是人類，我想我的反應會是....去他的命令，如果我是人類。」寇克艦長隨意指著一顆星，命企業號航向它，直到明天早上。寇克艦長開始記下他最後一次的「艦長日誌」....
艦長日誌，星曆 9529.1，這是企業號最後一次在我的的指揮下航行，本艦，以及她的歷史，不久將成為另一批軍官所關心的事，我們把未來交給他們以及後來的子孫。他們將追續我們的旅程，航向所有未發現的國度，勇敢地邁向前所未至的地方....
剧情
轉載自科幻科學報，原作者Geordi
星曆9521.6，原企業號舵手蘇魯如願地當上精進號的艦長已經三年了，他悠閒地記錄著艦長日誌，報告全艦平安。
突然，克林貢的衛星普拉西斯爆炸了！精進號本想過去支援，但克林貢人表示整個情況已經控制住，希望精進號遵守約定，留在中立區外。蘇魯艦長於是將這件事情呈報上去。
兩個月後，聯邦召開秘密會議，會議報告克林貢因為普拉西斯事件，帝國可能只剩下五十年的壽命，他們希望聯邦能撤掉中立區的防守，並展開和談。
眾人當然不肯！但艦隊特使力保寇克艦長當和談大使，希望寇克艦長能接克林貢議長高剛到聯邦地區來，寇克艦長無奈地表示企業號一行人再三個月就退伍了，不應該再趟這團渾水，但史波克表示現在正處於歷史的轉戾點，應該要把握住機會，寇克艦長不得已只好接下任務。
由於企業號舵手已經成為另一艘星艦的艦長，一位星艦學院第一名畢業的瓦肯軍官華勒莉斯自願來頂替這個位置。離開太空站，史考特很驕傲地站在正反物質引擎的前方看著它運轉，企業號再度出航！
寇克艦長回到他的艙房，記下艦長日誌：「艦長日誌，星曆9522.6，我從來不會相信克林貢人，以後也不會，喪子之痛我絕不原諒他們（請參看第三集）！」華勒莉斯這時正好來通知克林貢艦已經接近，寇克艦長回到艦橋與高剛議長通話，並邀請他到企業號上共進晚餐。
晚餐時間，議長帶著他的女兒和張將軍一行人來到企業號上，張將軍口氣很衝，他表示很希望見到寇克艦長，在戰士對戰士的情況下見面。餐會中，高剛議長引用莎劇的話來向大家敬酒，本來有一個共同的話題會使氣氛更融洽，沒想到議長的女兒說沒看過克林貢莎劇的不算瞭解莎劇，張將軍一時興起還現場來一段：taH pagh taHbe'（To be or not to be.），大家越聊越不愉快，火藥味愈來愈濃，史波克只能一直幫雙方打圓場。
送走議長一行人，華勒莉斯斥喝兩位嘲笑克林貢人的軍官後回到艦橋上，這時，克林貢艦突然被兩發光雷打中！因為沒有升起防護罩的關係，克林貢艦馬上癱瘓，內部變成了失重狀態，有兩位穿著聯邦制服的人開始在克林貢艦上進行一場屠殺行動，連議長也遭了殃。
企業號正在追查兩枚光雷的由來，因為電腦記錄顯示企業號發射了光雷，但彈藥室的清點記錄是滿膛的，寇克艦長和醫官表示要過去克林貢艦幫忙，史波克於是在寇克艦長背部黏了一個小東西。當他們傳送過去後，議長還有一口氣在，但是醫官搶救不及，議長留下一句話：「別讓這件事就這樣結束了！」之後就過世了。寇克艦長和醫官因為這起攻擊事件被捕，克林貢人開始審判他們，並派一名上尉－－武夫來為他們辯護，雖然武夫很盡則，但所有的言詞都對寇克艦長不利，更誇張的是，他不相信克林貢人的那段日誌還被播放出來！最後，他們被判到羅拉平代終身監禁。
史波克發現光雷發射時，企業號下方的輻射能量遽增，他認為當時可能是隱形艦發射的，因為電腦的記錄被修改，他也開始懷疑企業號上可能有內賊，這時契可夫在艦上找到克林貢的血漬，於是開始尋找沾血漬的重力靴，沒想到，重力靴的主人已經把它調包過了，這一條線索中斷。
羅拉平代是一個冰天雪地的地方，周圍沒有電網，只有磁力場防止把人傳送走，這時有一個變形人表示願意幫助寇克艦長和醫官逃走。在雪中行走，醫官幾乎要放棄了！寇克艦長告訴他史波克在他背後黏的小東西是追蹤器，只要出磁力場，史波克就會知道。走出磁力場，一群克林貢人突然圍了上來，原來變形人被克林貢人收買，她的任務就是把寇克艦長和醫官帶出來殺掉，正當克林貢人要說出到底是誰想殺他們時，企業號把他們傳送回來了！
史考特在廚房喝飲料，發現通風口怪怪的，打開一看，赫然發現兩件制服！那是屬於柏克和山諾所有，很不幸地，他們被用近距離擊昏模式的光炮給打死了！寇克艦長覺得事有蹊蹺，決定和史波克一起騙出兇手。兇手抓到了！沒想到竟然是新上任的華勒莉斯！史波克很生氣，他用瓦肯的心靈融合來讓華勒莉斯供出其他同黨。
企業號在得知和談地點後，開始前往基度瑪營，途中，隱型艦出現了！是由張將軍指揮的，因為它可以在隱形狀態下攻擊，企業號根本一點辦法都沒有，這時精進號也過來幫忙，史波克做了一枚特殊的追蹤光雷，終於偵測到隱形艦的位置，克林貢艦敵不過兩艘星艦，終於全毀。
在基度瑪營，會議進行到一半，一個人準備在二樓槍殺聯邦主席，寇克艦長及時趕到，史波克帶著華勒莉斯進入會場，刺客轉而要殺死華勒莉斯滅口，幸好史考特在刺客背後對他開了一槍，所有參與暗殺的人全部被逮捕。
全員又回到企業號上，寇克艦長和蘇魯艦長互相道別，正當寇克艦長想坐下來繼續指揮企業號時，艦隊要他們回航並解除任務，史波克突然道：「如果我是人類，我想我的反應會是……去他的命令，如果我是人類。」寇克艦長隨意指著一顆星，命企業號航向它，直到明天早上。寇克艦長開始記下他最後一次的「艦長日誌」：
艦長日誌：星曆9529.1，這是企業號最後一次在我的的指揮下航行，本艦，以及她的歷史，不久將成為另一批軍官所關心的事，我們把未來交給他們以及後來的子孫。他們將追續我們的旅程，航向所有未發現的國度，勇敢地邁向前所未至的地方……
The Klingon economy is thrown into turmoil after the explosion of Praxis, a key Klingon energy production facility. The Klingon Empire sues for peace with the Federation. Starfleet chooses to send the USS Enterprise-A to meet with Chancellor Gorkon to open negotiations, a decision that doesn't sit well with Captain Kirk, who lost his son to Klingon commander Kruge in 2285. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)
Captain Kirk, upon rendezvousing with Gorkon's battle cruiser Kronos One at the Klingon border, invites the Klingon chancellor along with his guests to dinner aboard the Enterprise. The dinner does not go well, as the humans and the Klingons spar on the eventual course of the projected peace, discussing, among other things, the possible annihilation of Klingon culture.
While en route to Earth some time after the ceremonial dinner, the Enterprise appears to fire upon the unguarded Kronos One with a pair of torpedoes. The hits are scored in strategic spots on the ship's underside, and, among other things, artificial gravity on board the Klingon vessel fails. During the calamity, two men wearing Starfleet uniforms beam aboard Kronos One and fight their way through to the chancellor's private room. Chancellor Gorkon is assassinated, although General Chang is notably absent. Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy, after having beamed aboard Kronos One in an effort to save the chancellor's life, are arrested, accused of the crime and taken to Qo'noS for trial while Gorkon's daughter, Azetbur, becomes the new chancellor. Azetbur wishes to push forward with diplomatic negotiations, this time, for reasons of security, on a neutral world, the location of which is kept a secret from the general public and from most Starfleet and Klingon Defense Force officers.
Kirk and McCoy, after a show trial on Kronos, are taken to the gulag Rura Penthe, a forced labor camp. After a brief time there, they meet a shapeshifter by the name of Martia, who conveniently offers them a method of escape. After making their way across the frozen wasteland that is the prison world, they are betrayed by Martia, who is killed by Klingon guards upon arriving at the scene. The Enterprise, however, manages to beam up the two in time, and escape across the border unmolested.
The Enterprise contacts the starship USS Excelsior, commanded by Captain Hikaru Sulu, and learns of the location of the peace conference. Both ships, at opposite ends of Federation territorial space, head for the conference at Camp Khitomer at maximum speed. Shortly before reaching it, the Enterprise is intercepted by Chang's modified Klingon Bird-of-Prey (see: unnamed Klingon starships). Chang fires upon the Enterprise multiple times, and then upon the Excelsior when Sulu arrives midbattle, until a specialized torpedo, modified by Captain Spock and Dr. McCoy to track engine emissions from the Klingon ship, impacts Chang's vessel. The Excelsior and the Enterprise then fire repeatedly on the ship, which succumbs to the assault. It should be noted that while the vessel had the capability to fire while cloaked, it did not have the capability to raise shields while cloaked, giving it a huge and obvious weakness once it was found.
Parties from both ships beam to the conference, halt an assassination attempt on the Federation President, kill the assassin, and arrest several conspirators. Afterwards, the Enterprise heads back for Earth to be decommissioned, but not before the crew takes one last defiant joyride.
Memorable Quotes
"There is an old Vulcan proverb: 'Only Nixon could go to China.'"
- - Spock
"An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains - however improbable - must be the truth."
- - Spock
"As I imagine this work will occupy us throughout most of the week, it would be my hope that the delegations could return to their capitals to implement the provisions of Phase One no later then the first of next month."
- - Federation President
"You know what, Spock? Everybody's human."
"I find that remark insulting."
- - Kirk, Spock
"Then we're dead."
"I've been dead before."
- - Scotty, Spock
"Tell me, Doctor. What is your current medical status?"
"Well, aside from a touch of arthritis, I'd say pretty good!"
- - Chang, Doctor McCoy
"I offer a toast. The 'undiscovered country.' (There is silence) The future."
- - Gorkon
"Note to the galley: Romulan ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions."
- - Kirk, personal log
"Do you know anything about a radiation surge? Chekov?"
"Only the size of my head."
- - Kirk, Chekov (both nursing a terrible hangover)
"Well, quite frankly, Mr. President, we can clean their chronometers."
- - Col. West, on an attack on the Klingons
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!"
- - Chang (quoting Shakespeare)
"What is it with you, anyway?"
"Still think we won't get out of here?"
"More than ever!"
- - McCoy and Kirk, on Kirk's "way with women" (actually a shapeshifter) while trying to escape
"If shoe fits, wear it!"
- - Chekov
"Captain, I have orders from Starfleet Command. We're to put back to Spacedock immediately...to be decommissioned."
"If I were human, I believe my response would be, 'Go to Hell.'"
- - Uhura, Spock
"Course heading, Captain?"
"Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning."
- - Chekov, Kirk
"I'd give money if he'd shut up."
- -McCoy to Spock, about Chang quoting Shakespeare
Background Information
Landmarks
- Although this is the final Star Trek film to feature the entire Star Trek: The Original Series cast together, only Leonard Nimoy (Spock), DeForest Kelley (Leonard H. McCoy) and Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) make their final Star Trek appearances in this film. William Shatner (James T. Kirk), James Doohan (Montgomery Scott), and Walter Koenig (Pavel A. Chekov) would later appear together in Star Trek: Generations, while George Takei (Hikaru Sulu) appeared in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Flashback". It should also be noted that Spock, Scotty, and McCoy have appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation, long after the events of this film.
- This movie is the first canon instance of Sulu's first name, Hikaru, being stated. Prior to the film, it was commonly used in the novels, but had never been made official.
- This is also the first instance, and very nearly the only one, of a central cast member being permanently promoted off the Enterprise (in Sulu's case, to command of the Excelsior). The only other actual cases (i.e., not involving a ship's outright destruction or decommissioning) are Riker accepting command of the USS Titan in Star Trek: Nemesis and Worf accepting an appointment as Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire in "What You Leave Behind" (though at this point he was serving aboard Deep Space 9, rather than the Enterprise).
- This is currently the only Star Trek movie shot in Super 35 format instead of anamorphic.
Cast
- Rene Auberjonois' role as Colonel West was cut from the theatrical release, as Gene Roddenberry was uncomfortable with ideas that were presented in his scenes. The scenes were later restored for the home release. Auberjonois would later play Constable Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
- Grace Lee Whitney (Janice Rand) and Mark Lenard (Sarek) are the only actors, besides the original cast, to appear in both this film and the first Star Trek: The Original Series film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
- Rand was supposed to be the character that wakes up Sulu to inform him that Starfleet was looking for the Enterprise instead of Christian Slater. Slater was a huge fan of the show and his mother - Mary Jo Slater, the movie's casting director - petitioned heavily to get him a part.
- Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn and Kurtwood Smith would later star together in the Deep Space Nine fifth season episode "Things Past", where Auberjonois plays Odo, Dorn plays Worf and Smith plays Thrax.
Story and production
- Original plans for the movie had Kirk married and all members of the main cast scattered around to different jobs. Uhura was a radio show hostess, Scotty a teacher and Sulu a taxi driver on some backwater alien colony. Budget limitations forced to leave all this out from the movie, and the scene at Starfleet Command was used instead.
- An early storyboard draft featured the HMS Bounty in spacedock being disassembled by Starfleet engineers.
- An early draft of the script featured a flashback to Kirk's days at Starfleet Academy.
- Lt. Valeris was originally intended to be Lt. Saavik, but the scriptwriters decided later that it was out of character for Saavik to be a traitor.
- Many of General Chang's quotes and the subtitle, "The Undiscovered Country," come from Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy, by William Shakespeare. Chang also quotes from "Richard III", "Julius Caesar", "King Lear", "The Merchant of Venice", "Henry IV, Part II", and "Henry V".
- Chang's demand, "Don't wait for the translation! Answer me now!" is a reference to Adlai Stevenson's similar demand of Soviet Union representative Valerian Zorin at the United Nations during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Nichelle Nichols objected to the scene in which the crew desperately searches through old printed Klingonese translation dictionaries in order to speak the language without the standard universal translator being used. It seemed more logical to her that Uhura, being the ship's chief communications officer, would know the language of the Federation's main enemy, or at least have the appropriate information in the computer. However, director Nicholas Meyer bluntly overruled her.
- Uhura originally had a very racist line "Would you let your daughter marry one?" (that is, a Klingon), but the line had to be cut because Nichols absolutely refused to say it. Chekov's line "Guess who's coming to dinner?" was also originally Uhura's, but Nichols considered it also to be racist and declined to say it. The line was moved to Chekov.
- The first scene at the Rura Penthe was heavily influenced by the Bridge On the River Kwai, where the commandant of the POW camp gives a similar speech to the new British prisoners.
Sets and props
- If you could see a clear picture of General Chang's eyepatch, you'd see Klingon writing painted on the heads of each rivet. (The makeup artist painted them on for fun. They were never really intended to be seen.) Although no clear scene from the movie shows them, they can be seen on the movie poster used in this article.
- Most of the Enterprise-A sets were redresses of Enterprise-D sets:
- Kirk's and Spock's quarters (Data's quarters)
- Transporter room (Enterprise-D transporter room)
- Sickbay (Enterprise-D sickbay)
- Laboratory (Beverly Crusher's office)
- Officer's mess hall (the dining room, redress of Enterprise-D observation lounge)
- Engineering (clear redress of the Enterprise-D engineering. They simply replaced the display graphics and repainted some surfaces.)
- Corridors (retouched with more metallic appearance)
- These sets had been in turn recycled by TNG from the first three movies. The TNG warp core was a complete redress of the first movie's plasma conduits, Data's quarters a redress of Ilia's quarters. Even the sickbay from TNG was recycled from the movies' sickbay.
- The office of the Federation President is a redress of Ten Forward. A viewscreen is located in place of the art ornament behind the bar counter, and the walls are painted with some shade of brown. The easily noticeable windows are covered with curtains, and a view of Paris first seen in "We'll Always Have Paris" is visible through them.
- The Enterprise has some strange upwards-sliding doors. There's nothing wrong with them, but when they are opened they would also cut the flow of whatever is moving through the pipes running along the ceiling of most of the corridors.
- One of the models of the aircraft carrier Enterprise in Kirk's quarters was built by writer Ronald D. Moore when he was 11.
Miscellaneous
- Gene Roddenberry saw the movie three days before he died.
- The kitchen scene was quickly written into the movie just to demonstrate that you can't fire a phaser on board the ship without triggering an alarm. (This raises the question - just how tactically important is the kitchen that it needs an unsecured locker full of phasers?)
- The blue food at the dinner scene was so disgusting that actors had to be bribed to eat it. Shatner did it and won $240, before throwing up.
- On the bridge, just before the first torpedo was fired at the Klingon vessel, there were about four extra bridge crew members, one of which was already sitting down. After the first shot was fired, when everybody was trying to find out what had happened, out of nowhere there were enough bridge crew to fill about eight more seats.
- During the search of all uniforms on board the Enterprise, a crewman takes off the cover of a power conduit. When he moves to put the cover down, you can see production markings on the back.
- It's rather odd that during the confrontation between the Enterprise, the Excelsior, and Chang's ship over Khitomer no mention is made of any other ships in orbit (just how did all those dignitaries get there, anyway?)
- Then again, if you think about it some more, it would make sense for the conference to require that all dignitaries be brought to Khitomer, and then have their ships disembark, perhaps even to the nearest starbase. This would ensure that no parties would bring a warship into orbit, then threaten to attack the dignitaries and/or their transportation. Khitomer should be able to protect themselves long enough for any Starfleet ships to come in.
- Given how severely the Klingons were demanding Kirk's extradition for the deaths of Kruge and his crew at the start of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, it's curious that the Klingons don't seem interested in prosecuting him for this now that they have him in custody.
- After the first day of shooting, someone noticed that Valeris's jacket was trimmed in grey, not red to match her red sweater. Since re-filming would have been too expensive, it was quickly decided to just let it pass.
- This is, to date, the only movie to not to include what have come to be called "Okudagrams" (Named after scenic artist Michael Okuda). All wall signs, no matter how small and insignificant, are completely serious. No humorous pictures or phrases of any kind anywhere on any set. No reasons were given. It was simply how production wanted it to be done.
- In the credits at the end of the movie, Uhura is spelled "Uhuru"
Links and References
Cast
- William Shatner as James T. Kirk
- Leonard Nimoy as Spock
- DeForest Kelley as Leonard McCoy
- James Doohan as Montgomery Scott
- Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov
- Nichelle Nichols as Uhura
- George Takei as Hikaru Sulu
- Kim Cattrall as Valeris
- Mark Lenard as Sarek
- Grace Lee Whitney as Janice Rand
- Brock Peters as Cartwright
- Leon Russom as Bill (the commander-in-chief)
- Kurtwood Smith as the Federation President
- Christopher Plummer as Chang
- Rosana DeSoto as Azetbur
- David Warner as Gorkon
- Michael Dorn as Colonel Worf
- Paul Rossilli as Kerla
- Brett Porter as Stex
- Jeremy Roberts as Dmitri Valtane
- Boris Lee Krutonog as Lojur
- Iman as Martia
- Katie Johnston as young Martia
- Darryl Henriques as Nanclus
- Michael Snyder as Crewman Dax
- Rene Auberjonois as Colonel West
- Eric A. Stillwell as an extra
- Alan Marcus as an assassin (Burke or Samno) (uncredited)
- Judy Levitt as a military aide
- Shakti as the aide-de-camp
- Carlos Cestero as the munitions man
- Edward Clements as the young crewman
- Michael Bofshever as an Excelsior engineer
- Angelo Tiffe as a navigator
- Christian Slater as night-shift communications officer
- Louis Ortiz as an alien crewman (uncredited)
- John Schuck as the Klingon ambassador
- Robert Easton as the Klingon judge
- Clifford Shegog as a Klingon officer
- William Morgan Sheppard as the Klingon commandant
- Todd Bryant as the Klingon translator
- Jim Boeke as a Klingon general
- Matthias Hues as a Klingon general
- David Orange as the sleepy Klingon
- Douglas Dunning as a Klingon (uncredited)
- J.D. Walters as a Klingon (uncredited)
- Tom Morga as the Brute
- John Bloom as the Behemoth alien
- Doug Engalla as a prisoner at Rura Penthe
References
Adam and Eve; artificial gravity; Beta Quadrant; bird-of-prey; boat; boatswain's whistle; Bridge; Julius Caesar; Camp Khitomer; Marc Chagall; chameloid; chancellor; China; cloaking device, Klingon; coffee; colonel; commander in chief; commandant; crew quarters; Davis (Crewman); deflector shield; dilithium; Earth; Earth Cold War; Enterprise-A, USS; Excelsior class; Excelsior, USS; USS Excelsior personnel; Federation President; Federation-Klingon Cold War; France; galley; Garden of Eden; gravitational unit; gravity boot; gulag; Hamlet; Adolf Hitler; Interstellar Law; Jackal mastiff; Khitomer; Khitomer Accords; Khitomer Conference; Khitomer conspiracy; kill setting; Klingon Bird-of-Prey; Klingon Empire; Klingons; Klingon history; Klingon Neutral Zone; Klingon uniform; Kobayashi Maru scenario; Kronos One, IKS; K't'inga-class; Abraham Lincoln; listening post; magnetic boot; magnetic gravity boots; medical tricorder; Morska; Neutral zone; neutron radiation; Richard M. Nixon; Operation Retrieve; Paris; penal colony; phaser; photon torpedo; plasma; plasma exhaust; Praxis; Qo'noS; Romulan ale; Romulan Star Empire; Rura Penthe; sabotage; San Francisco; SD-103; SD-103 type; Shakespeare, William; sickbay; smoking; Starfleet; Starfleet Academy; stun setting; subspace; subspace shockwave; targ; Tiberian bat; torpedo bay; torpedo launcher; United Federation of Planets; Ursva; viridium patch; Vulcan; Vulcan mind meld; warp drive; weapons locker; Advocate
Other references
Ahwahnee, USS; Aries, USS; Challenger, USS; communications station; Constellation, USS; Constitutionclass; Davis (Crewman); Eagle, USS; Efrosian; Emden, USS; Endeavour, USS; Helin, USS; John Muir, USS; Kongo, USS; Korolev, USS; Oberth-class; Oberth, USS; Potemkin, USS; science station; Scovil, USS; Springfield, USS; Starbase 24; Whorfin, USS; D. Wise
Timeline
- 1938
- Hitler quoted as saying "we need breathing room."
- 2220s
- Beginning of a 70-plus year-long period of what Spock describes as "unrelenting hostilities" with the Klingons.
- 2285
- A Klingon sergeant kills David Marcus.
- 2290
- Excelsior begins 3-year exploratory tour in Beta Quadrant.
- 2293
- Praxis explodes.
Media
Apocrypha
- Star Trek VI was adapted into novel form by Jeanne M. Dillard
- A comics adaptation was written by Peter David and drawn by Gordon Purcell and Arne Starr
- An interesting novel and comic sequel to the events of this film, "The Ashes of Eden", written by William Shatner and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, depicts a plot created by a Klingon-Romulan alliance, staged in Chal, a homeworld populated by a race of genetically-engineered Klingon-Romulans. Kirk is called there by a native of the planet, Teilani, to help her people with this crisis.
External Links
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country at Wikipedia
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country at the Internet Movie Database
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