Tuesday, 24 August 2021

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991)

 

“Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” is a Sci-Fi Action Adventure based on Gene Roddenberry’s original creation, screenplay written by Nicholas Meyer and Denny Martin Flinn, story by Leonard Nimoy, Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal and Directed by Nicholas Meyer.

 

The Klingons are forced to make peace with the Federation, following an explosion on their moon, resulting in damage to their ozone layer which could be completely depleted in as little as 50 years at which point their planet would be uninhabitable.

The Federation are eager to enter peace talks as it will mean an end to 70 years of conflict, so Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew, Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Scotty (James Doohan), Sulu (George Takei), Chekov (Walter Koenig), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) are called upon to help in the negotiations because of their vast experience of dealings with the Klingons.

However, things don’t quite go according to plan as on the eve of their retirement, Kirk and McCoy, are charged with, and convicted of, assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor, and are imprisoned on the snowy hard-labour penal colony of Rura Penthe.

 

However, the loyal Enterprise help them escape so they can thwart the diabolical plot aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.

 

A decent Star Trek adventure with all the usual faces and a few additions, Kim Cattrall as Lt. Valeris, Mark Lenard as Sarek, Brock Peters as Admiral Cartwright, Kurtwood Smith as Federation President and Christopher Plummer as Chang.

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