Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country on DVD
Screenplay by Nicholas Meyer and Denny Martin Flinn
Story by Leonard Nimoy, Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal
Directed by Nicholas Meyer
Cast: Captain James T. Kirk-William Shatner, Mr. Spock-Leonard Nimoy, Dr. Leonard McCoy-DeForest Kelley, Montgomery Scott-James Doohan, Captain Hikaru Sulu-George Takei, Pavel Andreivich Chekov-Walter Koenig, Nyota Uhura-Nichelle Nichols, General Chang-Christopher Plummer, Valeris-Kim Cattrall, Klingon Ambassador-John Schuck, Azetbur-Rosanna Desoto, Yeoman Burke, Yeoman Samno, Admiral Cartwright-Brock Peters, Colonel Worf-Michael Dorn, Colonel West-Rene Auberjonois, Dax-Michael Snyder, Federation Council President-Kurtwood Smith, Chancellor Gorkon-David Warner, Brigadier Kerla-Paul Rossilli, Captain Klaa-Todd Bryant, Martia-Iman, Janice Rand-Grace Lee Whitney, Sarek-Mark Lenard, Mr. Valtane, Ensign-Christian Slater
Stardate 9521.6
Released December 6, 1991
Following the violent explosion
of an energy production facility on the Klingon moon of Praxis, the collapse of
the Klingon Empire is considered imminent. In 2293, the United Federation of
Planets decides that this is the opportunity to finally negotiate a true,
lasting peace with the Klingons. Chancellor Gorkon, the leader of the Klingon
High Council, immediately heads towards Federation space for the proposed peace
conference.
Captain
Spock suggests that the U.S.S. Enterprise be Gorkon's escort, forcing
Kirk, who still harbors deep resentment for the brutal death of his son at the
hands of the Klingons, to meet the Chancellor's ship. The two ships rendezvous
peacefully and are proceeding towards the conference when the U.S.S.
Enterprise suddenly appears to fire on the Klingon ship;
Federation-uniformed men beam to the ship and mortally wound Gorkon. After
beaming over to the Klingon ship with Kirk to lend assistance, Doctor McCoy is
unable to save Gorkon's life. McCoy is arrested, along with Kirk, for the
murder. After a quick trial before the Klingon High Council, the two men are
sentenced to imprisonment on a Klingon penal colony. Unknown to the Klingons,
however, is that prior to Kirk's beam-out from the Enterprise, a
quick-thinking Spock surreptitiously attached a homing patch to the back of
Kirk's uniform.
On
Rura Penthe, the ice-cold Klingon penal planet, Kirk and McCoy meet a
Chameloid, Martia, who approaches the pair with an escape plan. The proposed
plan, however, turns out to be an elaborate ruse designed to lure Kirk and
McCoy into the open, where they can be killed as escapees.
Arriving
in the nick of time, the U.S.S. Enterprise tracks Kirk's homing signal and
rescues the two officers just before they are killed by the colony's nefarious
prison warden. Safely aboard, Kirk and McCoy decide to avoid contact with
Starfleet while they work to figure out what happened to the Klingon
Chancellor's ship and to identity Gorkon's true killer. They are assisted in
this investigation by Captain Hikaru Sulu, commander of the U.S.S. Excelsior.
Meanwhile,
Gorkon's daughter, Azetbur, works to continue her father's plan of peace with
the Federation, putting her life in serious danger. Learning of this, Kirk and
Spock become convinced that there is an organized conspiracy behind the
assassination intended to prevent the peace. They set a trap for the suspected
conspirators on the U.S.S. Enterprise. Ultimately, Lieutenant Valeris, a
promising young Vulcan protege of Spock's is revealed to be one of the leaders
of the dissident movement. When Spock performs a Vulcan mind-meld with Valeris,
he finds that both Federation and Klingon conspirators are in league against
the proposed peace.
The
Federation ships proceed to the location of the conference, at Khitomer, but
before landing parties are able to beam down both the U.S.S. Enterprise
and the U.S.S. Excelsior are attacked by an invisible vessel—one capable
of firing while remaining cloaked. The audio transmissions of the vessel
identify it as Klingon General Chang's Bird-of-Prey, an unknown prototype.
Faced with an unstoppable new form of technology, the two starships sustain
considerable damage. Racing against time, equipment on the U.S.S. Enterprise
usually used for studying gaseous anomalies is fitted into a photon torpedo.
Using some new technology of their own, the U.S.S. Enterprise tracks the
cloaked Bird-of-Prey and destroys it.
With
the orbiting Klingon threat gone and Valeris apprehended, the U.S.S.
Enterprise crew arrives at the peace talks just in time to prevent the
planned assassination of the President of the United Federation of Planets. The
conference continues, and the first steps are taken towards peace between the Klingon
Empire and the Federation.
The
U.S.S. Enterprise is recalled by Starfleet Command for decommissioning,
but Kirk, in typical fashion, indulges himself and takes the ship out for one
last voyage before passing the baton to a new generation of explorers destined
"to boldly go where no one has gone before."
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