Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

"The battle for peace has begun."

1991 1h 50m EN

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★7.0TMDB · 1,484🍅84%Rotten Tomatoes●65Metacritic★7.2IMDB · 84,387

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After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Enterprise. Both worlds brace for what may be their deadliest encounter.

“The battle for peace has begun.”

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Cast

William Shatner
Captain James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy
Captain Spock
DeForest Kelley
Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
James Doohan
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott
Walter Koenig
Cmdr. Pavel Chekov
Nichelle Nichols
Cmdr. Uhuru
George Takei
Captain Hikaru Sulu
Mark Lenard
Sarek

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Nicholas Meyer
Writers: Nicholas Meyer, Denny Martin Flinn, Iain McCaig
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Made its money back 3.6× over at the box office.

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ERA

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35 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

CAST

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Part of the "Star Trek: The Original Series Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Nicholas Meyer, shot by Hiro Narita. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Cliff Eidelman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Ronald Roose shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The battle for peace has begun.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Nicholas Meyer directs. Hiro Narita behind the camera. Cliff Eidelman scores. Ronald Roose cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Made its money back 3.6× over at the box office.
235 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "Star Trek: The Original Series Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Nicholas Meyer, shot by Hiro Narita. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Cliff Eidelman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Ronald Roose shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "The battle for peace has begun.".
9IMDB entry: tt0102975 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 17 themes, including "spacecraft", "plan", "farewell", "court case".
11Released under 28 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Hiro Narita
Original score: Cliff Eidelman
Editing: Ronald Roose
Production design: Herman F. Zimmerman
Costume design: Dodie Shepard
Makeup / hair: Nancy J. Hvasta Leonardi
Sound: Michael Herbick
Stunt coordinator: Don Pike
Runtime: 110 min · 1h 50m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $27,000,000
Box office: $96,888,996
Return: 359% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Rotten Tomatoes: 84% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 65/100
IMDB rating: 7.2/10 · 84,387 votes
MPAA: PG

Awards

Nominated for 2 Oscars. 2 wins & 9 nominations total

Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film

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Part of

Star Trek: The Original Series Collection

Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection contains the first six Original Series films starring the U.S.S. Enterprise's cast and crew from the 1960s TV series of the same name.

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Nicholas Meyer

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CinemaSerf2022-07-01
★ 7/10
Fresh from their flirtation with the Almighty, our crew of intrepid explorers are on the eve of hanging up their phasers when they are summoned to carry out one last mission. This time, it's just a courtesy job to escort the Klingon High Chancellor to a conference on Earth. They meet, have a nice state dinner and exchange some Shakespeare; next thing the Klingon has been assassinated and "Kirk" and "McCoy" have been fitted up for the crime and imprisoned on a cold penal colony that makes "Hoth" look like Barbados. Now we have a race to free them and get to the new venue of the peace meeting before the warmongering "General Chang" (Christopher Plummer, complete with a bolt-on eyepatch) and his Federation co-conspirators put the kibosh on the proceedings and they all die fighting. This is the last ensemble outing for the whole crew and it's a great bit of action adventure in the spirit of "Wrath of Khan" (1982). A fitting finale for their last voyage together.
GenerationofSwine2023-01-10
★ 10/10
I mean, there are better Star Trek movies, but this was 1991 and the Berlin Wall fell and the Klingons were the metaphor for the USSR (despite what the current everything is political writers of Picard say, despite their attempts to invert it) and spray cans destroyed to O-Zone layer... ... and so do moons. So.... this fit PERFECTLY into 1991. PERFECTLY, and good science fiction is always a commentary on politics, culture, religion, something contemporary that needs to be poked at and examined. And that is EXACTLY what VI does, and it does it to the letter. It examines the old cold warriors in a new time of peace.