trashgang The last flick with the original crew and for me the best one. There's suspense all over the flick and it never had a boring moment. But the most interesting thing is the fact that the comedy was left out an the characters and away from the parodies.Somehow if I compare it with part V the whole crew looks younger. But it was the final call for the whole crew. And they would be honored in the beginning of the flick but of course things go wrong when Kirk and Bones are taken in prison. From there on all is top notch. A must see for all Trekkies and non Trekkies. Great story, perfect acting, stunning effects.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Blueghost None of the Star Trek feature films have been what one would call great art, even though they were entertaining at times. They had the disadvantage of needing to appeal to not just Star Trek fans, but also to a larger audience who did not know what Star Trek is all about.But ST VI breaks that mold some, and gives us an actual ST episode that looks at Star Fleet itself. Star Trek has always had a kind of law and order bent to it, and so it is that we have a mystery driving the plot and story forward. And we also a slightly more classic feel of ST as we know it in terms of story and characters.Here the characters act as their characters in the TV series of old. We don't necessarily see the total dynamic of how they interacted during times of crisis in the TV series, but we do see them in their roles as they progress through the adventure.The story itself comes close to skidding into Spockanian "illogic", because both Kirk and McCoy aren't really given much to do in terms of the overall story. In fact one wonders where this story element came from, and one wishes that perhaps a veteran on the writing team had given the Captain and the ship's Chief Surgeon something a bit more compelling to do, or with perhaps a different set of plot and story points during act II.The powers that be, in my not so humble opinion, probably had six films scheduled until the new TV series could take hold, and then the feature films would focus on the defunct and tragically crippled "Star Trek the Next Generation".As far as the minutiae of Trek-details go, well, there's lots for the fans to argue about in terms of the setting, props and general zeitgeist. Me, as a die-hard "dyed in the wool" fan, I don't have too many bones to pick with this film, other than wonder why this amount of script doctoring and film doctoring could not have been given to the previous films. I think both fans and general movie goers deserved it.So why wasn't it done? Simply put the Kirk-Spock era, at the time, was probably seen as working overtime, and the Trek powers that were probably thought that Picard and crew would take hold in the hearts and minds of classic and neo-Trek fans alike. But, as time and criticism has shown, this is not so, and the fault lies on the deliberate sociological and social-psychologists who tried to rework the general setting of Star Trek until it was broken.And now, at the time of this writing, the last of the three JJ Abrams "Trek" films is in the theatre, where the characters are played somewhat as caricatures of the original crew. One should note that these films are making a kind of over-the-top "hearkening back" to what mister Abrams believes classic Trek fans think of Star Trek.This fan says he's got it wrong, and should have watched ST VI, but this classic Trek fan also realizes that mister Abrams is making a film for a younger generation. Which is even more curious given the directing style and overall thrust, feel and look of the films.But getting back to ST VI, it is a film for the fans, and a kind of tribute to both show and the fans who supported it. In a sense ST 1 to ST VI were the missing infamous 4th season. And having the entire crew on the bridge with classic Sound FX and the classic tune humming in the background, was a good send off and tribute to both show and the fans who were there from the beginning with the family and friends manually hand cranking a cathode ray tube TV dial to see what Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise were up to every week.But again, all in all, ST VI, even though it's meant more for the fans than the general public, feels a little weak and marginally off kilter in execution. The space sequences could have been sharper. The location sequences could have been shot differently with a different story, but, that's neither here nor there. The creative team picked a certain script, shot it, and we're given what they produced.Not a bad film, but for a series finale, it could have been "bigger" without over-blowing the story to another "save the galaxy / universe" kind of tripe so frequent in other sci-fi shows and films.All in all a decent watch. I would have shot it differently, but that's another post for another time.

Maddyclassicfilms Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is directed by Nicholas Meyer. The film stars William Shatner, Christopher Plummer, David Warner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Brock Peters, Iman and Kim Cattrall.This final big screen adventure for the original crew is a fitting end. This film is a good blend of action, adventure, intrigue and comedy.The Federation and The Klingon Empire are tentatively beginning to make peace with one another. There are some within Starfleet who don't trust the Klingons, there are also Klingons who don't want to make peace. Kirk(William Shatner) and his crew are sent to negotiate with Klingon Chancellor Gorkon(David Warner). Joining the crew as helmsman(Sulu has now been promoted to Captain)is Vulcan Lt. Valeris(Kim Cattrall).The Chancellor's ship is fired upon and Federation personal beam aboard and assassinate the Chancellor. Kirk and McCoy(DeForest Kelley) beam aboard and try and help, but they are charged with his murder and sent to a Klingon penal colony. The crew must try and uncover the identity of the real assassins and rescue Kirk and McCoy.They must also deal with a villainous Klingon General called Chang(Christopher Plummer).The cast are all superb and the film shows that to achieve peace enemies must try and trust each other before there can be even a hope of peace. Gorkon knows the negotiations won't be easy, but he is willing to try despite that. Kirk is angry and distrustful due to what happened to his son David, but he soon learns that he must set aside his hate so there can be a better future.There would be more big screen adventures with Captain Picard and his crew, but this is the last time we see the original crew all together. That final scene on the bridge is very touching.

Mr-Fusion "Star Trek VI" is the reason I can't watch this movie series in numerical order. Well, mostly because it's a wildly uneven series, but also because this well-constructed grace-note is followed up with "Generations" - a movie that seems to want to muck up a good thing. "The Undiscovered Country" works so well because of, well, several reasons. One, it's a sincere send-off for the original crew. Everyone here's an aligned cog in a tuned machine. Two, it's a good murder-mystery/prison-movie/Cold War allegory. And there's a decent bit of fun to be had here, without toppling over into parody (you've gotta admit, watching Captain Kirk get into a fistfight with himself is pretty funny).But it's really just a solid movie, very watchable, and boasting a pretty great supporting cast. Unfortunately, it's sandwiched between two foul-ups (ehh, it's kinda all downhill from here on out, "First Contact" being a slight upward bump), but most importantly, these famous characters - by and large - don't go out like chumps.* 7/10 *You suck, "Generations".