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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Movie Review

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is a 1991 science fiction film directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. It’s one of the best Star Trek movies.

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“If there is to be a brave new world,

our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it“

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An explosion on the moon causes the Klingons to call for a peace summit. However, things get complicated when Kirk and McCoy get arrested for assassinating the Klingon chancellor. This is one of the most dramatic entries in the series where definitely a sense of adventure and action are lacking, but they are discarded in favor of real drama, which was a commendable approach.

The courtroom drama elements were particularly intriguing and the dialogue is fantastic. This was a rare storyline within the ‘TOS’ that genuinely felt like it could belong within the ranks of ‘TNG’ or even ‘DS9′. It was that good. Some of the humor is here, but for the most part the more mature approach worked wonders to make it a more serious and timeless movie.

And it also genuinely felt like a different, but still very satisfactory finale for the original ST crew. McCoy was somewhat less memorable this time around, but Kirk and Spock are so much fun per usual, and the new characters all mostly worked, though they could have used more extensive development.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country doesn’t have particularly well developed mystery and thriller elements, but they are at least there unlike its predecessors. That gave this entry an edge over others as it felt more suspenseful and more dangerous.

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The story ended on a really strong note not just for this movie, but for the entire franchise of six movies in ‘The Original Series’ roster. As for its technicalities, the effects are okay, though nothing particularly remarkable, and again in the action-adventure department the flick is rather lacking. The acting is all over the place per usual, but the direction was much better here as the actors themselves did not take the directorial chair thankfully this time around. Overall, this is the second best ST movie of the first six films in my opinion.