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"The battle for peace has begun."

An interstellar cataclysm cripples the Klingon Empire's homeworld, leading to their Chancellor seeking peace with the Federation. But covert acts attempt to thwart the peace process with the assassination of the Klingon Chancellor. With Captain James T. Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy as the prime suspects, the Starships Enterprise-A and Excelsior must attempt to uncover the truth before the conspirators can plunge the Federation and Klingon Empire into fullscale war!

Summary

Prelude

Praxis exploding — "*I cannot confirm the* existence of Praxis."

An explosion erupts, creating a massive subspace shock wave.

Aboard the USS Excelsior, Captain Hikaru Sulu takes a sip of tea, reads a report handed to him by his science officer Dimitri Valtane, and records his log:

"Stardate 9521.6, Captain's log, USS Excelsior, Hikaru Sulu commanding. After three years, I have concluded my first assignment as master of this vessel, cataloging gaseous planetary anomalies in Beta Quadrant. We're heading home under full impulse power. I'm pleased to report that ship and crew have functioned well."

USS Excelsior escapes shockwave — *Excelsior* emerges from the shockwave

Suddenly, red alert klaxons sound on the bridge as the subspace shockwave reaches the Excelsior, throwing Sulu and his crew to the deck. Sulu orders helmsman Lojur to turn Excelsior into the wave and the ship clears the disturbance. At his post, Valtane locates the origin of the shockwave – Praxis, a Klingon moon, which Sulu notes is the Empire's key energy production facility. Sulu orders communications officer Janice Rand to hail the moon and offer their assistance, then asks Valtane for more data. Valtane, perplexed, says that he can confirm Praxis's location... but not its existence. An image appears on the viewscreen: Praxis, or rather barely half of it, ripped in two by some catastrophe, to the disbelieving horror of Sulu and the rest of the bridge crew. Rand reports that she has intercepted a message from Praxis and puts it up: the viewscreen is filled with the grisly image of a Klingon officer, standing on a deck heaving beneath his feet and surrounded by flames, shouting desperately at the pickup. The message abruptly cuts off and is replaced by an official transmission from Klingon Brigadier General Kerla, speaking for the Klingon High Command. Kerla explains that there has been an "incident" on Praxis, but that everything is under control and Federation assistance is not required, warning the Excelsior to obey treaty stipulations and remain outside the Neutral Zone.

Rand asks Sulu if they should notify Starfleet and Sulu simply replies: "Are you kidding?!"

Act I – The Mission and Catastrophe

Flag officers with service ribbons — "*Ladies and gentlemen, the C-in-C.*"

Two months later on Earth, the senior crew of the USS Enterprise-A assembles for a meeting at Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco. The C-in-C of Starfleet opens the meeting, bluntly stating that the Klingon Empire has only fifty years of life left in it. Federation Special Envoy Spock announces that the destruction of Praxis has polluted the Klingon homeworld's ozone so badly that the planet has only fifty years remaining without diverting resources from its significant military expenditures. At the behest of Vulcan ambassador Sarek, Spock has opened a dialogue with Klingon Chancellor Gorkon, who wishes to end all hostilities between the Empire and Starfleet, proposing the dismantling of all starbases in and around the Neutral Zone. The Military aide asked Bill that are they talking mothballing the Starfleet, but Bill said that their "exploration and scientific programs would be unaffected." Admiral Cartwright interrupts, vehemently objecting, saying the Klingons must not be offered safe haven in Federation space, suggesting Starfleet use military force in order to dictate terms from a superior position. Captain Kirk agrees that giving the Klingons free reign in Federation space is a "terrifying idea." However, Spock counters, arguing that they must act now to support the Gorkon initiative before conservative elements in the Klingon Empire can seize control and try to fight to the death.

Spock has volunteered the Enterprise and its crew to welcome Gorkon and his aides aboard and escort their ship to a peace meeting on Earth. Kirk protests that he is hardly the man for the job but is overruled and commanded to extend full diplomatic courtesy. Verbally sending the Enterprise on its way, the commander in chief thanks the assembled Starfleet officers and reminds them the meeting they've just had is classified, dismissing them too.

At this point, Kirk is left alone with Spock, who reminds him of an old Vulcan proverb that "only Nixon could go to China." Kirk is angry that Spock would volunteer the Enterprise without consulting him. Spock states that his father requested he open the negotiations with the Klingons. Though Kirk knows that Spock's father is the Vulcan ambassador, Kirk is furious at Spock for forcing him to treat the Klingon "animals" like honored guests after what they did to his son; Spock knows how he feels about the Klingons, but reminds Kirk they are dying. Kirk snaps, "Let them die!" Upon Spock's somewhat startled reaction, Kirk asks Spock if he has realized that the Enterprise crew is due to stand down in just three months time, saying that they have all done their "bit for king and country" and Kirk says that Spock should have trusted him. They stand in the conference hall in silence, looking at each other from opposite ends of the long conference table.

Valeris — "*Regulations specify thrusters* only *while in spacedock.*"

Soon after, Captain Kirk and party are ferried to the Spacedock One aboard SD-103 and board the Enterprise. Upon arriving at the bridge, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy meet Lieutenant Valeris, a young Vulcan female and the first Vulcan to graduate at the top of her class at Starfleet Academy, who is volunteering as helmsman. "Let's get this over with. Departure stations," Kirk announces to his crew. After an awkward moment when Kirk orders Valeris to depart Spacedock at one quarter impulse power despite regulations specifying thrusters only, the Enterprise departs Spacedock and the Sol system to rendezvous with Gorkon's battle cruiser, Kronos One.

David Marcus photo — A photo of Kirk's son David Marcus

"Captain's log, stardate 9522.6. I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my boy. It seems to me our mission to escort the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion and I'd like to believe him. But how on Earth can history get past people like me?"

Valeris then interrupts Kirk in his quarters. She informs him that the Enterprise is almost upon arrival at the rendezvous point. Valeris then tells Kirk how much of an honor it is to serve with him. Kirk tells her she piloted well out of Spacedock and Valeris tells him she has always wanted to try it.

Spock and Valeris — "*History is* replete *with turning points, lieutenant. You must have faith.*"

Later, Valeris discusses logic and philosophy with Spock in his quarters in terms of their current mission. Spock says history is replete with turning points and she must have faith that the universe will ultimately unfold as it should. When Valeris begins to ask if that is logical, Spock points out a simple fact that has taken him a lifetime to learn; logic is only the beginning of wisdom and not the end. Spock is soon to retire, with this being his last voyage on the Enterprise as a member of the crew and he intends for Valeris to replace him. Valeris states that she could only succeed Spock. Upon this, an announcement is made through the ship's intercom that all hands are to report to duty stations as a Klingon battlecruiser has arrived off the Enterprise's port bow.

Upon rendezvous with Gorkon, Captain Kirk reluctantly, but formally, invites the Chancellor and his staff to have dinner aboard the Enterprise at 1930 hours as guests of the Federation. Valeris then suggests opening up the supply of Romulan ale that is aboard, thinking it may help the evening progress more smoothly. Kirk compliments her thinking and leaves the bridge. "Guess who's coming to dinner?", Commander Chekov quietly says.

Later, in the transporter room, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scott are on hand to greet Gorkon and his party. All behave cordially on the surface. Gorkon introduces his daughter, Azetbur, his military adviser, Brigadier General Kerla, and General Chang, his chief of staff. While Gorkon is dignified and gracious, offering Spock his sincere gratitude for his actions towards peace, Chang, who has an especially smug, obnoxious demeanor, tells Kirk that he has so wanted to meet the great Captain Kirk, "warrior to warrior" out of admiration. "Right," Kirk coldly replies. He leads the Klingon delegation out of the room, thinking they might enjoy a brief tour of the vessel.

Shortly afterward, both Kirk and Gorkon's staff dine together. Gorkon gives a toast to "the undiscovered country – the future". Spock recognizes the line from Hamlet, specifically from act III, scene I, and Gorkon tells Spock that one has never read Shakespeare properly until reading the text in "the original Klingon." McCoy diplomatically offers a toast to Gorkon, calling him "one of the architects of our future." The dinner proceeds with surface pleasantries gradually melting to reveal angry hostility. In particular, Chekov says the Federation believes all worlds have the sovereign claim to inalienable Human rights and Azetbur points out that this statement is racist and that the Federation is little better than a homo sapiens only club, "present company excepted, of course," Chang adds. Chang tells Kirk that they all need breathing room, which Kirk points out is the same thing Hitler said in 1938, which offends Chang. Thinly masking his disappointment, Gorkon simply quips that they have a long way to go.

As the Klingons prepare to leave, Kirk sarcastically jokes that they must do this again sometime. Gorkon says he knows Kirk doesn't trust him, and offers that "if there is to be a brave, new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it." Chang walks up to Kirk before leaving, telling him "parting is such sweet sorrow," and steps onto the transporter platform while Kirk shakes his head. Once the Klingons are safely beamed off the ship, the entire senior staff relaxes, observing that the Klingons exhibited poor manners; Spock notes that they were little better. "I'm going to sleep this off. Please let me know if there's some other way we can screw up tonight," Kirk says before leaving. McCoy announces he is going to find a pot of black coffee. Spock raises his eyebrow.

"The Enterprise hosted Chancellor Gorkon and party to dinner last night. Our manners weren't exactly Emily Post. Oh, note to the galley, Romulan ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions."

Lying down to sleep, and nursing a terrible hangover, Kirk is summoned to the bridge by Spock. Sensors are picking up an enormous amount of neutron radiation which appears to be emanating from Enterprise (which an equally hungover Chekov painfully jokes that it is only the size of his head). A photon torpedo shoots out and strikes Kronos One. The entire bridge crew immediately jumps into action, as a second photon torpedo knocks out the gravity. Kirk asks Scotty if Enterprise actually fired and Scotty denies it as according to the inventory the ship still has her entire complement of torpedoes.

As the Klingons begin floating helplessly about, a transporter beam engages and two men in Starfleet uniforms with closed helmets and gravity boots begin walking through the corridors, shooting every Klingon they come in contact with, including Gorkon.

When auxiliary gravity is restored on Kronos One, Gorkon is discovered, mortally wounded. A furious Chang accuses Kirk of defiling the peace they're striving to work for, and saying that he'll blow them out of the stars. Kirk denies that they fired, although the ship's data banks say they did according to Spock. Kirk orders that the Enterprise surrender, much to the surprise of the bridge crew. He prepares to board Kronos One leaving Spock in command – where he'll be able to get Kirk out of trouble. Spock subtly slaps a small black patch on Kirk's back. McCoy decides to go too in case they need a doctor. "Uhura, tell them we're coming and tell them we're unarmed!", Kirk says.

When they materialize on Kronos One, Kerla asks if Kirk has "lost his mind." Kirk swears they genuinely do not know what has happened and that they only want to help. Kerla reluctantly allows them to follow him to Gorkon, who is badly wounded. Chang tells him about the torpedoes, the gravity, and the assassins. McCoy tries to save Gorkon but fails due to his lack of knowledge of Klingon anatomy. Before dying, Gorkon reaches up to Kirk, grasping the back of his head, and begs him not to let it end this way. General Chang has Kirk and McCoy arrested for murder under article 184 of Interstellar Law.

Act II – The Trial and Spock's Investigation

On the Enterprise Uhura relays the news of their arrest. Spock then formally assumes command of the ship and begins a full-scale investigation. When Chekov asks what will happen if they cannot piece together what transpired, Spock says then "in that case, Mr. Chekov, it resides in the purview of the diplomats."

Efrosian Federation President — "*This President is not above the law!*"

On Earth, the Klingon Ambassador is speaking with the Federation President in his office in Paris, defending his government's decision to arrest Kirk and McCoy for the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon. The president has ordered a full-scale investigation too, but the Klingon ambassador says that by the articles of interstellar law Kirk and McCoy must stand trial in a Klingon court. Sarek and Romulan ambassador Nanclus concur. As the Klingon Ambassador leaves, the commander-in-chief, Admiral Cartwright, and Colonel West enter. They propose a plan they call Operation Retrieve, to rescue Kirk and McCoy, West states that they could go in and get Kirk and McCoy in less than 24 hours with acceptable losses in manpower and equipment. The president asks what would happen then if they precipitate a full scale war and West frankly states "Then Mr. President, we can clean their chronometers." Nanclus tells the president that the Klingons are vulnerable and there would never be a better time to strike them. Cartwright says that the longer they wait, the less accessible the hostages become. The president then dismisses everyone saying he'll keep all this in mind. Everyone except for Sarek leaves the president alone. At the door, the C in C stops and reminds the president that Kirk and McCoy have literally saved the planet. The president knows this and tells the C in C that they are now going to save it again… by standing trial.

Uhura receives a message from Starfleet Command ordering them to return to Earth immediately. Both she and Chekov agree they cannot abandon the captain and Dr. McCoy. Valeris tells the both of them how 400 years ago on the planet Earth, when workers felt threatened by automation, they flung their wooden shoes called sabots into the machines to stop them, thus coining the word "sabotage." Uhura comes up with a response that Enterprise's backup systems are all inoperative. "Excellent. I-I-I mean, too bad," Chekov says.

Azetbur, now Klingon Chancellor, communicates with the President. She says in one week she will attend a peace conference at a neutral, secret site on the condition that they will not extradite Kirk and McCoy and that the Federation will make no attempts at a military extraction. If they do so, the Klingons will consider it an act of war.

After ending the transmission to the Federation President, Azetbur's advisors (including Kerla) suggest attacking the Federation now while they still can, or else the Federation will take advantage of Praxis' destruction and enslave them. Azetbur stands up to them, saying that war is obsolete, as they are in danger of becoming. One of her advisors sneers, "better to die on our feet than live on our knees!" Azetbur firmly says that her father wanted peace, and Chang, standing aside in the corner, speaks for the first time, reminding her gently that her father's wishes got him killed. Azetbur stands her ground, saying the peace process will go forward, but adds, with resolve, that Kirk will pay for her father's death.

Spock's investigation is proceeding. The computer says that Enterprise fired and the torpedo inventory says they didn't, so they'll have to inspect each torpedo visually.

Worf (Colonel) — "*If the gravitational field was not functioning, how could these men be walking?*"

The trial begins, with Chang as prosecutor and Colonel Worf as Kirk and McCoy's defense attorney. In a Klingon trial on Qo'noS, the prosecution and defense question witnesses at the same time. The first witness says the murderers were wearing magnetic boots, a fact which, while viewing the trial back on the bridge of the Enterprise gets Spock to thinking. Chang then begins questioning McCoy, starting with McCoy's current medical status, to which McCoy jokes "other than a touch of arthritis, I'd say, pretty good!" Chang tries to impugn McCoy's medical competence and questions whether he really tried his best to save Gorkon. McCoy says he desperately tried to save Gorkon as he was the last best hope for peace. The judge then excuses him.

Chang then turns to Kirk and calls him "the architect of this tragic affair." Chang accuses Kirk of plotting to kill Gorkon as revenge for the death of his son, a charge Kirk denies. Worf objects, stating Kirk has not been identified as the assassin. Chang enters into the record an excerpt from Kirk's personal log:

"I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I have never been able to forgive them for the death of my boy."

Kirk admits that he did indeed say this. Chang uses a number of examples from Kirk's record to show that it's possible he arranged for Gorkon's murder, such as his demotion from admiral to captain for insubordination. Kirk is maneuvered into stating that of course he is responsible for the actions of every member of his crew. The judge finds both guilty as charged, which carries a death penalty. Worf argues that the bulk of the evidence against his clients is circumstantial and begs the court to consider this upon sentencing. The judge agrees then commutes their death sentences to life without parole on the penal asteroid of Rura Penthe, known throughout the galaxy as the aliens' graveyard.

On Excelsior, where Sulu and his crew have also been watching the trial, the captain directs that a message be sent to Enterprise, telling them that Sulu and the crew of Excelsior stand ready to assist them.

With the trial concluded, Spock asks Valeris to replay the footage of the torpedo launch. Scott insists that all the Enterprise torpedoes have been visually accounted for, and there is no way the ship could have fired. Spock repeats a maxim of one of his ancestors: "once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." If Enterprise could not have fired, it must have come from a cloaked ship, probably a Bird-of-Prey, hiding underneath Enterprise. Scotty objects that a Bird-of-Prey cannot fire its weapons while cloaked, but Spock rejoins that apparently this one can. Unfortunately, they have no evidence, only a theory which happens to fit the facts available. Chekov argues that if there was a cloaked ship, the assassins must have beamed onto Gorkon's ship from there, not Enterprise, but Spock reminds him that someone was responsible for firing the torpedoes or making the false entry in the ship's data banks; either way, the person or persons responsible are aboard Enterprise. Spock puts Valeris in charge of a search for two pairs of gravity boots.

Klingon commandant — "*… only a magnetic shield prevents beaming.*"

Kirk and McCoy are taken from Qo'noS, along with a group of other prisoners, to the frozen wasteland of Rura Penthe, an appropriately harsh place protected only by a magnetic shield. On arrival at the prison, they are greeted by the warden, who warns them that escape is quite impossible, and that anyone who is disobedient or fails to work hard enough will be punished via exile from prison to the surface where nothing can survive; a fact which is graphically demonstrated when a naked prisoner is dragged out and thrown into the snowy wastes to rapidly freeze to death. Inside the prison, Kirk almost immediately has an altercation with a large alien, but is rescued by an exotic looking woman, Martia.

In the galley, Spock and Valeris observe the search going on. When Chekov asks Valeris why the assassins didn't simply vaporize the boots, she pulls a phaser out from a weapons locker and vaporizes a nearby pot. An alarm goes off and she deactivates it, explaining to Chekov that you cannot fire an unauthorized phaser set to vaporize aboard a starship. Scotty and Uhura come in wanting to know who triggered the alarm by firing the phaser. They continue to stall for time by claiming malfunctioning equipment. Uhura reminds Spock that they have lost all contact with Kirk and McCoy. Spock notes this but says that if he knows Kirk well, by this time he is deep into planning his escape.

Horned alien, Dennis Ott — "*Not everyone keeps their genitals in the same place.*"

Meanwhile, Kirk is engaged in hand-to-hand combat with another alien, and is surprised when he wins. Kirk informs McCoy and Martia that he was lucky the brute had knees. Martia tells Kirk that that was not his knee, noting that not all species have their genitals in the same place. Martia offers to help Kirk and McCoy escape. That night in their bunks, Kirk admits he'd gotten so used to hating Klingons and that it never even occurred to him to take Gorkon at his word. Martia comes in, gives Kirk a big kiss and tells him where to meet her to plan an escape.

Act III – The Rescue and Revelation

Aboard Excelsior, Sulu's officer tells him that Starfleet wants to know what has happened to the Enterprise. Sulu states that he nor the Excelsior personnel know anything about the Enterprise and dismisses the officer. Now Sulu is getting really worried.

Dax's feet — "*If the shoe fits, wear it!*"

In the transporter room, Chekov finds some small dried remains on the transporter platform and takes a sample of it to Spock, who discovers that it is Klingon blood, which must have been floating through the Klingon ship and got tracked back to Enterprise by the assassins walking through it. Spock notes this as the first piece of evidence to corroborate their theory and therefore expands the search to include all uniforms aboard ship. Valeris eventually finds the magnetic boots; however, they are in the locker of a crewman whose feet are shaped differently from Humans'; the boots couldn't possibly be his much to Chekov's surprise.

Martia as the Brute: "*They don't take girls.*"

Martia as child — Martia, appearing as a small Human girl

Kirk and McCoy get into a lift for mining duty and discover that Martia is a shapeshifter. She changes bodies several times in the course of leading them out of the range of the magnetic shield. Uhura and Spock have noted Kirk's exit from the beaming shield as well. Spock orders the ship to Rura Penthe. It seems that what he put on Kirk's back was a viridium patch which enabled him to track the captain.

Klingon translation books — "*We is condemning food… things and… supplies to Rura Penthe… over…*"

The Enterprise passes into Klingon space and gets the attention of a Klingon listening post. If they respond while using the universal translator, the sentries would pick it up. In badly broken Klingon, Uhura identifies her ship as a freighter, IKS Ursva, headed to Rura Penthe to "condemn" food, supplies and "things." The Klingons at the listening post are fooled and end up making a Klingon joke, in which the Klingons and the Enterprise crew forcibly laugh at.

Martia's death — "*Not me, you idiot,* him!"

As Martia produces warm clothes and other supplies and lights a flare for heat, Kirk realizes that Martia is setting him and McCoy up to be killed. She's spoken previously of a huge reward to the person who gets them, and the flare is a dead giveaway. Martia changes into a duplicate Kirk and they fight, rolling all over the snow before being stopped by a jackal mastiff, Klingon guards, and the warden. Kirk and Martia (still appearing as Kirk) stand next to each other. Kirk convinces the warden to shoot Martia, since they don't want any witnesses. Kirk then asks who wanted them killed. Just before the warden can identify the culprit, Kirk and McCoy are beamed out of the cave – with Kirk swearing the whole way up.

Materializing on the transporter pad, Kirk asks Spock if he couldn't have waited just two more seconds, as the warden was about to explain the whole thing. When Chekov sheepishly asks if they want to go back, McCoy answers "Absolutely not!" Kirk adds, "It's cold." Chang finds out about this from the commandant and prepares to intercept the Enterprise.

Sitting in the Enterprise's officers' mess, Scott discovers two sets of uniforms with Klingon blood on them. Scott runs up to Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Chekov in a corridor and they subsequently find Yeomen Burke and Samno, both dead, killed by a phaser stun at close range. They were the ones on guard in the transporter room when Gorkon and party first beamed aboard the Enterprise. To lure out the assassin, an announcement is made over the ship's intercom ordering the court reporter to sickbay and that statements will be taken from Burke and Samno, as if they are merely injured. Someone walks into the darkened sickbay with phaser in hand – it is revealed to be Valeris. Valeris is stunned to see Kirk and her mentor Spock in the bio-beds instead of the dead crewmen. Hurt and angry over her betrayal, Spock challenges Valeris to shoot him (while Kirk prefers she doesn't), and violently slaps the phaser out of her hand. McCoy emerges from the shadows and informs her that the operation is over.

On the bridge, Valeris claims that as she did not fire the crew has no proof against her, but Kirk does. He reminds her that his personal log was used as evidence against him at the trial; she must have recorded him talking on his personal log that night when Valeris was standing outside his doorway. Valeris dodges the accusation by accusing Kirk and the entire ship of betraying Starfleet. When McCoy calls her on it and asks her what she thinks she's been doing, she says she's been working to save Starfleet. She doesn't believe Klingons can ever be trusted, and reminds Kirk that they killed his son and how he said to "let them die" rather than help, and Kirk can't help but feel ashamed that he made such a statement. She reveals that some Klingons conspired with Starfleet officers to kill their own Chancellor – how trustworthy can they be? McCoy ponders the concept of peace between the Klingons and Federation being so unacceptable to members of both sides that they worked together to prevent it (while implying the irony that the conspiracy actually proves that Humans and Klingons actually can coexist and work together). Kirk demands the names of her co-conspirators, and Valeris claims she does not remember. "A lie?", Spock asks. "A choice," she replies.

Mind Meld Spock Valeris — "Names, lieutenant!"

Spock slowly walks up to Valeris near the viewscreen and forces her into a mind meld, discovering that the conspirators include Admiral Cartwright, General Chang, and the Romulan Ambassador, Nanclus. Kirk asks where the peace conference will be held, so Spock looks further into her mind to the point it causes her physical pain, but Valeris ultimately does not know where the peace conference is. The Enterprise contacts the Excelsior and Sulu tells Kirk that the conference will be held at Camp Khitomer, beginning later that day.

Act IV – Realizations and Confrontations

Later, in Spock's quarters, Kirk admits that he couldn't get past the death of his son and that it took Gorkon's death to get him to realize how prejudiced he was. Spock admits he was prejudiced by Valeris's accomplishments as a Vulcan and speculates that he and Kirk – with their inflexible thinking – are obsolete.

The Khitomer conference begins, as Enterprise drops out of warp and races towards the planet at impulse. If Chang's ship is there, it's cloaked, and the only means of detecting it would be the same surge of neutron radiation that occurred when Gorkon's ship was fired upon. Tension mounts on board the ship as they get ever closer to transporter range. With just over 40 seconds to go, Chang contacts Kirk over subspace and asks him, "warrior to warrior," to admit that Kirk prefers for the Federation and Klingons to remain enemies, and continue slaughtering each other in glorious combat: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends…"

Then, with another quote of "to be or not to be…" in Klingon, Chang signals his gunner, and the Bird-of-Prey opens fire with photon torpedoes. With the cloak in place, Enterprise's shields take a pounding, but they cannot return fire. Although Chang continues to taunt Kirk, Uhura tries but fails to locate the source of his transmissions.

Excelsior is hurtling to Khitomer at maximum warp. Aboard the bridge, which is trembling with the force of acceleration, helmsman Lojur warns, "She'll fly apart!" Sulu retorts, "Fly her apart then!"

On Khitomer, Azetbur's speech has begun and a Klingon stands up and walks out carrying a briefcase. Admiral Cartwright nervously watches, sweat dripping down his face.

Chang's Bird-of-Prey — "*Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war!*"

In space, Enterprise continues to take heavy damage, and Scott warns their shields are collapsing. A minor explosion on the bridge prompts Kirk to order auxiliary power, but Spock reports that the auxiliary circuits have been destroyed. Watching Enterprise attempting to evade, Chang quotes The Merchant of Venice:

"Tickle us, do we not laugh? Prick us, do we not bleed? Wrong us... shall we not revenge?"

Spock realizes that even with her cloak in place, the Bird-of-Prey's impulse engines will still vent plasma exhaust; Uhura suggests using the equipment they have on-board to catalog gaseous anomalies as a guidance system. Spock asks McCoy to help him "perform surgery" on a photon torpedo to enable it to do so. "Fascinating!", the physician says. Kirk continues to order evasive maneuvers in an attempt to mitigate the torpedo impacts across the hull.

Enterprise continues to suffer heavy damage, but before she can be crippled, Sulu arrives with Excelsior, taking some of the pressure off Enterprise as Chang chooses to divide his attacks between opponents. However, Chang has merely been slowed down: with his ability to fire while cloaked, Chang is still running circles around both ships.

At Khitomer, the Klingon who left has found a vantage point on an upper level and is cutting a small hole in one of the glass panes to aim a weapon at the President.

Chang relentlessly fires Shakespeare quotations such as:

"I am constant as the northern star…"

and continues firing torpedoes, weakening Enterprise's shields to the point that it takes a direct hit on the ventral-port side of the saucer section that ruptures the hull. Spock and McCoy complete their modifications to the photon torpedo, and with a great deal of satisfaction, Kirk gives the order to fire. It homes in on the cloaked Bird-of-Prey and lands a direct hit, but not before Chang gives his last Shakespeare quote from Hamlet:

"To be or not to be."

Enterprise and Excelsior then target the location of the explosion, unleashing a barrage of torpedoes that destroy Chang's now decloaked (and shield-less) ship.

West as klingon assassin — "*It's Colonel West!*"

The Enterprise crew beams down just in time for Kirk to knock the president out of the way of the would-be assassin's phaser rifle blast. He identifies himself to the dazed president. Cartwright orders them arrested and Spock retorts "Arrest yourself!" displaying a handcuffed Valeris. McCoy says that they have a full confession just as the Klingon assassin is about to shoot Valeris. At that moment, Scott kicks in the door to the assassin's hiding place, and shoots him just before he can kill Valeris. He falls through the glass pane to the floor. The Commander In Chief and Colonel Worf rush to the body and find out that it's not a Klingon; it's Colonel West. Cartwright takes advantage of the ruckus and tries to flee but is thwarted when Sulu, armed and accompanied by two security guards, transports from Excelsior and holds him there.

Khitomer Conference, 2293 — The Khitomer Conference saved

A confused and angry Azetbur demands to know what is going on. Kirk tells her this is all about the future and that history has not ended quite yet. Thinking of Gorkon's reference to the future as "the undiscovered country," Kirk notes that people can be very frightened of change. Azetbur tells Kirk he's restored her father's faith and Kirk tells her she's restored his son's. At that moment, the room breaks out into applause as the remaining Enterprise officers (including Sulu) walk up and join Kirk on the platform.

Epilogue

As Enterprise and Excelsior rendezvous above Khitomer, Kirk and crew reenter the bridge and exchange pleasantries with Captain Sulu. "Nice to see you in action one more time, Captain Kirk. Take care," Sulu says as Excelsior moves away from the Enterprise, departing Khitomer. "By God, that's a big ship," McCoy says. "Not so big as her captain, I think," Scott adds. Chekov muses, "So… this is good-bye."

Constitution II class bridge, 2293 — The last flight of the *Enterprise*

"I think it's about time we got underway ourselves," Kirk mentions. Uhura then tells Kirk that they've received direct orders from Starfleet Command to return Enterprise to Spacedock for decommissioning. The crew looks around at each other, emotional that their time together as a crew is now coming to an end.

Spock contemplates that for a moment and then remarks, "If I were Human, I believe my response would be 'Go to Hell.' If I were Human." When Chekov asks for a course heading, Kirk tells him "Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning."

Uhura steps over near Scott and everyone watches as Enterprise heads off toward the stars on one final voyage.

"Captain's log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man – where no one – has gone before."

Log entries

Sulu: "Stardate 9521.6, Captain's log, USS Excelsior, Hikaru Sulu commanding. After three years, I have concluded my first assignment as master of this vessel, cataloging gaseous planetary anomalies in Beta Quadrant. We're heading home under full impulse power. I'm pleased to report that ship and crew have functioned well."
Kirk: "Captain's log, stardate 9522.6. I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my boy. It seems to me our mission to escort the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion, and I'd like to believe him, but how on Earth can history get past people like me?"
Kirk: "The Enterprise hosted Chancellor Gorkon and party to dinner last night; our manners weren't exactly Emily Post. Oh, note to the galley: Romulan ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions."
Kirk:" Captain's log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew; to them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man – where no one – has gone before."

Memorable quotes

Shakespeare

Hamlet

"I thought I would assume a pleasing shape." (Act II, Scene II)

- Martia, to Kirk

"The undiscovered country." (Act III, Scene I)

- Gorkon, toasting

"To be, or not to be." (Act III, Scene I)

- Chang's last words

Julius Caesar

"Cry havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!" (Act III, Scene I)

- Chang

"I am constant as the northern star." (Act III, Scene I)

- Chang

King Henry IV, Part II

"Have we not heard the chimes at midnight?" (Act III, Scene II)

- Chang, to Kirk

King Henry V

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends." (Act III, Scene I)

- Chang

"The game's afoot." (Act III, Scene I)

- Chang

The Merchant of Venice

"Tickle us, do we not laugh? Prick us, do we not bleed? Wrong us, shall we not revenge?" (Act III, Scene I)

- Chang, paraphrasing

Richard II

"Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings." (Act III, Scene II)

- Chang, at Kirk's trial

Romeo and Juliet

"Parting is such sweet sorrow." (Act II, Scene II)

- Chang, to Kirk

The Tempest

"Our revels now are ended." (Act IV, Scene I)

- Chang

General quotes

"Do we report this, sir?"
"Are you kidding?"

- Rand and Sulu, after Praxis explodes

"I must protest. To offer Klingons safe haven within Federation space is suicide. Klingons would become the alien trash of the galaxy."

- Cartwright, on the proposed peace treaty with the Klingons

"I don't know whether to congratulate you or not, Jim."
"I wouldn't."

- Cartwright and McCoy, to Kirk on his diplomatic mission with Gorkon

"There is an old Vulcan proverb. Only Nixon could go to China."

- Spock, to Kirk

"Don't believe them! Don't trust them!"
"They're dying."
"Let them die!"

- Kirk and Spock, on the Klingons

"You must be very proud."
"I don't believe so, sir."
"She's a Vulcan all right."

- Kirk, Valeris and McCoy

"I've never trusted Klingons and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my boy."

- Kirk, recording his personal log

"History is replete with turning points, Lieutenant."

- Spock, to Valeris

"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end."

- Spock

"Guess who's coming to dinner?"

- Chekov, after the Klingons accept Kirk's invitation

"I offer a toast. The undiscovered country … The future."

- Gorkon

"In space, all warriors are cold warriors."

- Chang, to Kirk

"Human rights. Why the very name is racist. The Federation is no more than a homo sapiens only club."

- Azetbur, at dinner

"We need breathing room."
"Earth, Hitler, 1938."
"I beg your pardon."

- Chang and Kirk

"If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it."

- Gorkon, to Kirk

"Did you see the way they ate?!"
"Terrible table manners!"
"I doubt that our own behavior will distinguish us in the annals of diplomacy."

- Uhura, Chekov and Spock

"Valeris, do you know anything about a radiation surge?"
"Sir?"
"Chekov?"
"Only the size of my head."
"I know what you mean."

- Kirk, Valeris and Chekov, as Kirk and Chekov suffer a terrible hangover

"We come in peace and you BLATANTLY defile that peace! And for that, I shall blow you out of the stars!"
"We haven't fired!"
"Captain, according to our databanks we have. Twice."

- Chang, to Kirk, Kirk's response and Spock's shocking revelation

"Don't let it end this way, Captain."

- Gorkon's last words to Kirk

"This president is not above the law."

- Federation President, to the Klingon Ambassador

"Then, quite frankly, Mister President, we can clean their chronometers."

- Colonel West, on attacking the Klingons

"Sir… Those men have literally saved this planet."
"Yes, Bill, I know that. And now they're going to save it again. By standing trial."

- Commander-in-Chief and Federation President, on Kirk and McCoy

"I'll bet that Klingon bitch killed her father!"

- Scott, suspecting Azetbur killed Gorkon

"Doctor McCoy, would you be so good as to tell me your current medical status?"
"Aside from a touch of arthritis, I'd say pretty good!"

- Chang and McCoy, during the trial

"James Tiberius Kirk… What would your favorite author say, Captain? Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings. Tell us your sad story Kirk, Tell us how you planned to take revenge for the death of your son."
"That's not true."
"Objection! Captain Kirk has not been identified as the assassin!"
"Sustained."

- Chang, Kirk, Colonel Worf, and Klingon Judge

"Do you deny being demoted by these charges?! Don't wait for the translation!! Answer me now!!"
"I cannot deny it."
"You were demoted?"
"Yes."
"For insubordination?"
"On occasion, I have disobeyed orders."

- Chang and Kirk

"An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

- Spock quotes Sherlock Holmes

"This is the gulag Rura Penthe. There is no stockade. No guard tower. No electronic frontier. Only a magnetic shield prevents beaming. Punishment means exile from prison to the surface. On the surface, nothing can survive. Work well, and you will be treated well. Work badly, and you will die."

- Rura Penthe Commandant, the welcome speech that Kirk, McCoy, and the other new prisoners receive upon arriving on Rura Penthe, an homage to the speech made by Colonel Saito to the British POWs from The Bridge on the River Kwai

"If my surmise is correct, those boots will cling to the killers' necks like a pair of Tiberian bats."

- Spock, on finding the gravity boots

"I'm Martia. You're Kirk and McCoy, I presume."
"How did you know that?"
"We don't get many presidential assassins."

- Martia, introducing herself to Kirk and McCoy on Rura Penthe

"I was lucky that thing had knees."
"That was not his knee. Not everybody keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain."

- Kirk and Martia, after he beats the horned alien prisoner in a fight

"What is it with you, anyway?"
"Still think we're finished?"
"More than ever."

- McCoy and Kirk, after Kirk kisses Martia

"Perhaps you know Russian epic of Cinderella? If the shoe fits, wear it!"

- Chekov, to Crewman Dax

"Mr. Scott, start your engines."
"Aye, aye sir."

- Spock and Scott

"Leave me. I'm finished."
"No! Bones, I'm wearing a viridium patch on my back. Spock slapped it there just before we went on Gorkon's ship."
"Why, that cunning little Vulcan."

- McCoy and Kirk

"An accident wasn't good enough."
"Good enough for one. Two would've looked suspicious. Killed while attempting escape … now that's convincing for both."

- Kirk and Martia, as she transforms into Kirk

"I can't believe I kissed you."
"Must have been your lifelong ambition."

- Kirk and Martia, after she transforms into Kirk

"Isn't it about time you became something else?"
"I like it here."

- Kirk and Martia, transformed as Kirk

"Kill him! He's the one!"
"Not me, you idiot! HIM!"

- Martia, transformed as Kirk, and the real Kirk

"Who? Who wanted us killed?"
"Since you're all going to die, anyway, why not tell you? His name is…!"

- Kirk and Rura Penthe Commandant, as Kirk and McCoy are beamed aboard the Enterprise

"Couldn't you have waited just two more seconds!?"
"Captain?"
"He was just about to explain the whole thing!"
"You want to go back!?"
"Absolutely not!!"
"It's cold!"

- Kirk, Spock, Chekov, and McCoy, right after Kirk and McCoy are beamed to the Enterprise before learning who ordered their assassination

"First rule of assassination. Kill the assassins."

- Kirk, on seeing the bodies of Burke and Samno

"You have betrayed the Federation. All of you."
"And what have you been doing?"
"Saving Starfleet!"

- Valeris and McCoy

"Then we're dead."
"I've been dead before."

- Scott and Spock

"Thank you, Captain Sulu."
"Don't mention it, Captain Kirk."

- Kirk giving his thanks to Sulu after he provides him with the location of the peace conference

"You were right. It was arrogant presumption on my part that got us into this… situation. You and the Doctor might have been killed."
"The night is young."

- Spock and Kirk

"You're a great one for logic. I'm a great one for rushing in where angels fear to tread."

- Kirk, to Spock

"Is it possible that we two, you and I, have grown so old and so inflexible that we have outlived our usefulness?"

- Spock, to Kirk

"Do you want to know something? Everybody's Human."
"I find that remark… insulting."

- Kirk and Spock

"Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing it does not necessarily follow that we must do that thing."

- Federation President, at the peace conference

"I can see you, Kirk."
"Chang."
"Can you see me? Oh, now be honest, Captain, warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way, don't you, as it was meant to be? No peace in our time. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends."

- Chang and Kirk, over the intercoms at Khitomer

"Come on. Come on!"
"She'll fly apart."
"Fly her apart, then!"

- Sulu and Lojur, as the Excelsior heads for Khitomer

"Doctor, would you care to assist me in performing surgery on a torpedo?"
"Fascinating!"

- Spock and McCoy

"I'd give real money if he'd shut up."

- McCoy to Spock, about Chang's endless Shakespeare quotes

"We've got a heartbeat!"

- McCoy, as the torpedo is activated

"Where's that damn torpedo?"
"It's ready, Jim. Lock and load!"

- Kirk and McCoy, as the torpedo is loaded

"Some people think the future means the end of history. Well, we haven't run out of history quite yet."

- Kirk, to Azetbur

"You've restored my father's faith."
"And you've restored my son's."

- Azetbur and Kirk, before the peace conference erupts in applause

"Once again we've saved civilization as we know it."
"And the good news is, they're not going to prosecute."

- Kirk, on the bridge, and McCoy's response

"Nice to see you in action one more time, Captain Kirk. Take care."

- Sulu, saying farewell to his former commanding officer

"So… this is goodbye."

- Chekov

"Captain, I have orders from Starfleet Command. We're to be put back into Spacedock immediately. To be decommissioned."
"If I were Human, I believe my response would be: Go to hell! If I were Human."

- Uhura and Spock

"Course heading, Captain?"
"Second star to the right. And straight on 'til morning."

- Chekov and Kirk, with Kirk quoting James Barrie's Peter Pan

Background information

Landmarks

This is the second of two Star Trek productions (the other being Star Trek V: The Final Frontier) between 1986 and 2005 to be produced without any involvement from Rick Berman.
Although this is the final Star Trek film to feature the entire Star Trek: The Original Series cast together, only Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) and DeForest Kelley (McCoy) make their final official Star Trek appearances in this film (Kelley's appearance as an admiral in TNG: "Encounter At Farpoint" the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation had occurred four years previously). James Doohan (Scotty) would appear in TNG: "Relics", and then with William Shatner (James T. Kirk), and Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov) in Star Trek Generations. George Takei (Hikaru Sulu) appeared in VOY: "Flashback" and Leonard Nimoy (Spock) appeared in TNG: "Unification I" , "Unification II", Star Trek, and Star Trek Into Darkness.
Chronologically, McCoy, Spock and Scotty appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation long after the events of this film.
This movie is the first canon instance of Sulu's first name, Hikaru (Japanese for "shining"), being stated. Prior to the film, it was commonly used in the novels (and reportedly approved by Gene Roddenberry and George Takei ^{(citation needed • edit)}), but had never been made official.
This is currently the only Star Trek movie shot in Super 35 format instead of anamorphic. ^{(citation needed • edit)}
The film was nominated for two Academy Awards. It was nominated for "Makeup" and "Sound Effects Editing." It was also nominated for the Hugo Award for "Best Dramatic Presentation" and five Saturn Awards, winning for "Best Science Fiction Film."
Leonard Nimoy co-wrote the story for this final outing of the TOS cast. Likewise, the final outing of the TNG cast (Star Trek Nemesis) was co-written by one of its cast members, Brent Spiner.
The film confirms Kirk's middle name, which had previously been established in the animated series episode "Bem" as "Tiberius," for the first time in live action production.
Finally, just before the closing titles roll, the signatures of the seven main cast members from The Original Series are displayed one by one, writing themselves on the starfield.

Cast

Rene Auberjonois' role as Colonel West was cut from the theatrical release, as Gene Roddenberry was uncomfortable with ideas that were presented in his scenes. ^{(citation needed • edit)} The scenes were later restored for the VHS, LaserDisc, and DVD release, but the BluRay release contains the theatrical cut. Auberjonois later played Constable Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

West wore an admiral's rank insignia, which was incorrect. The naval equivalent of colonel is captain. While the notion of a Starfleet Marine Corps had been discussed and seen in fan writings and some older role-playing games, West's rank of colonel was the first ever on-screen hint of Army/Marine-like ranks in Starfleet and would be the only one until the MACOs were introduced on Star Trek: Enterprise.

Michael Dorn only found out he had a role in this film as Worf's grandfather when Nicholas Meyer and Herman Zimmerman were walking past the soundstages for Star Trek: The Next Generation and informed him about it. [1]
The only actors, aside from the original cast, to appear in both this film and in Star Trek: The Motion Picture are Grace Lee Whitney (Janice Rand) and Mark Lenard. In both films, Whitney appeared as Janice Rand, whereas Lenard appeared as Sarek in The Undiscovered Country and a Klingon captain in The Motion Picture. This was the penultimate appearance of Rand, who went on to appear in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Flashback". She is a lieutenant jg in this film, although "Flashback" incorrectly depicts her as a lieutenant commander at the time of the film's setting. Some of the comics set around the time of Sulu taking command of Excelsior not only support her lieutenant commander rank, but imply that she was also the Excelsior's first officer.
Rand was supposed to be the character that wakes up Sulu to inform him that Starfleet was looking for the Enterprise instead of Christian Slater's character. Slater was a huge fan of the show and his mother – Mary Jo Slater, the movie's casting director – petitioned heavily to get him a part. ^{(citation needed • edit)}
Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn and Kurtwood Smith would later star together in the Deep Space Nine fifth season episode "Things Past", where Auberjonois plays Odo, Dorn plays Worf and Smith plays Thrax.
This is Rene Auberjonois and John Schuck's fourth film together. The first was MASH, followed by Brewster McCloud, and McCabe & Mrs. Miller.
Merritt Butrick appears posthumously as David Marcus, via a photo in Kirk's quarters.

Story and production

The Undiscovered Country was almost never made as a Star Trek film, not only due to the dismal box office receipts of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, but also for an unbroken string of, for Paramount Pictures, disappointing yet very expensive film releases as well, leaving the studio deeply in the red, only aggravated by a worldwide recession. However as seen on the Star Trek VI DVD set and also according to William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories, Paramount, specifically its president Frank Mancuso, Sr. – who had been intimately involved with Star Trek ever since Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – , did not really want to end the Original Crew run on The Final Frontier low note, especially with the 25th anniversary of the Star Trek franchise coming up, and wanted one more film, but found himself seriously hampered by the strictest of budget limitation: under NO conceivable circumstance was a potential new film to exceed the budget of The Final Frontier, not even by one dollar. It was at this point that Harve Bennett proposed his Starfleet Academy prequel, featuring a brand new, and thus far cheaper, cast, and was green lighted by Mancuso to go into pre-production, and proceeded as such, until Gene Roddenberry vehemently objected, and with him the fanbase and the secondary cast. But it was only when the (at the time) head of Paramount Communications (formerly Gulf+Western, owner of Paramount Pictures), Martin Davis, found out about the Academy concept and furiously demanding an Original Crew film be made, that Bennett's project was scrapped on the spot. Because nobody had thought of informing the highest boss, nearly eighteen months of valuable pre-production time had been lost. Because he wanted to do the prequel, and Mancuso no longer dared to continue, Harve Bennett left Star Trek after a decade with the franchise. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 347-348; Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, pp. 24-30)
Earlier, a revised draft of Bennett's script featured a scene in which Kirk flashed back to his days at Starfleet Academy, allowing William Shatner and others to reprise their Original Crew roles as cameos – Bennett's effort to appease Roddenberry's (et al.) criticisms, before his project was scrapped altogether. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 343-345)
Thoroughly chastized by his boss Davis, Mancuso subsequently turned to Leonard Nimoy in May 1990 to get a completely new film, featuring the entire Original Crew, started. It was during this meeting that Nimoy suggested the contemporary real world Gorbachev/Perestroika/Glasnost events as an allegory for the Federation and the Klingon Empire as basic story line, which was enthusiastically embraced by Mancuso. Informed that Bennett had gone, Nimoy requested to return Nicholas Meyer into the fold as co-writer and director, which was also embraced by Mancuso. In the early summer Nimoy and Meyer had an extended meeting at his holiday address in Cape Cod where they essentially hammered out the details as eventually featured in the film, though they became seriously hampered by studio politics through trying to burden the pair with the woefully inadequate dilettante Konner/Rosenthal "writing" duo. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 349-363) As the upper studio echelons were at the time, for the aforementioned reasons, embroiled in a tumultuous and very messy power struggle, derisively called the "The Studio Shuffle" in the contemporary press, the executive sponsors, Sid Ganis and Teddy Zee, of the Konner/Rosenthal duo were a short time later kicked out, and so were they, without having made a single noteworthy contribution whatsoever – according to both Nimoy and Meyer, what little they did turn in, immediately and literally trashed by (other) executives upon reading, was blatant plagiarism of their own story outlines. Yet Nimoy and Meyer (their relationship having actually become strained because of executives playing the one against the other in this matter, as it only became later apparent to both men) were too premature in their relief of being rid of the interloping duo, as the latter, near the end of the production, started legal procedures against both men for writing credits, partially succeeding, and nearly stripping Nimoy of any and all creative credit. (see below) Incidentally, Paramount veteran of 31 years Mancuso was also gone less than a month after he had approached Nimoy, unceremoniously fired over the telephone by Davis. [2]^(X)
When Nimoy was reaching out to Meyer, the latter was working in London, UK, working as writer/director on the MGM film Company Business (featuring Kurtwood Smith, he to subsequently play the President of the United Federation of Planets in The Undiscovered Country), which ironically, had a similar glasnost theme. However, Meyer felt that the producers had "butchered" the film, and being vocal about it, it had at the time led in the industry grapevine to the rumor that it was this that led him to recycling the theme in The Undiscovered Country. For the remainder of the year Nimoy and Meyer, now reinforced by scriptwriter Denny Martin Flinn (he actually wanted, as it was Meyer who brought him in), communicated with each other by phone, fax and the early email, which however, made them susceptible to the studio politics as played by Ganis and Zee. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, pp. 28, 30; [3]) Incidentally, before Nimoy even contacted Meyer at his holiday address, Meyer had already been informed by Davis and Mancuso, when the latter two were in London, that a "thirty million dollars" sixth Star Trek film was green-lighted. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 354-358, )
When the Klingons return to their ship after the dinner on the Enterprise, Chang speaks a Klingon phrase into his communicator (without English subtitles). Chang says "daHmacheH" which, in English, means "Ready to return now." During the dinner, Azetbur says a unsubtitled Klingon phrase that, when translated to English, means "Daddy" or "Father."
Originally, a prologue was planned for the film, in which it was established that, before they all got the call to reassemble: Kirk was in a revitalized relationship with Carol Marcus; McCoy was making a nuisance of himself by showing up drunk at medical celebrity events (as he despises the hypocrisy of it all); Spock's status was "classified;" Uhura had become a radio show hostess; Scotty was working as an engineering professor; Chekov was competing as a not altogether successful chess grandmaster (losing to Betazoids – which was another attempt to tie in the Original Crew franchise with that of Star Trek: The Next Generation); and Sulu was working as a taxi driver on some backwater alien colony. A fully worked-out prologue sequence, approved for shooting, had already been scripted by Co-Script Writer Flinn. Last-minute mandatory budget limitations, however, forced the creative production team, much against their grain, to scrap the entire prologue sequence, leaving only the introductory Original Crew scene at Starfleet Command instead. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 26; Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 376-378)

HMS Bounty, Star Trek VI — Element from a proposed scene from storyboard

An early storyboard draft featured HMS Bounty in spacedock being disassembled by Starfleet engineers, under the supervision of Professor of Engineering Scott, before he got the call to meet up with his fellow former crew-members. This actually was part of the above-mentioned planned prologue of the film.
It was originally intended for the Vulcan traitor to be Lt. Saavik, but the role was instead assigned to Lt. Valeris as a new character. According to William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories, this change was vehemently resisted by Gene Roddenberry, who felt that Saavik was too popular a character to be handled this way. Meyer (thoroughly fed up with the disruptive and incessant interlopings of Roddenberry, ever since he came aboard Star Trek, a decade earlier), could not care less what Roddenberry's thoughts on the matter were, rightfully claiming that the character was his creation, not Roddenberry's, and proceeded as planned. Yet, Meyer wanted only Kirstie Alley to reprise the role, but as she was at the peak of her popularity with Cheers at the time and her asking price was far too high. Only when Alley turned out to be unavailable, was it then decided to change the character, instead of casting yet another actress for the same part. Kim Cattrall initially refused the role as she was under the false impression that she had to portray Saavik, but jumped at the opportunity when she learned that that was not to be the case, as she considered Saavik "just a girl", whereas Valeris was a woman. Ironically, Cattrall had auditioned for the role of Saavik for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. To her big disappointment, Robin Curtis had never been considered to reprise the role of Saavik for this film. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 31; Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 374-375) Other stories say that Kirstie Alley refused Nicholas Meyer's requests that she reprise the role, as she was uncomfortable about her weight, and that she did not want to look overweight onscreen in the form-fitting uniforms. ^{(citation needed • edit)}
Many of General Chang's quotes and the subtitle, "The Undiscovered Country," come from Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy, by William Shakespeare. Chang also quotes or paraphrases Richard II, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV, Part II, Henry V, and The Tempest.
Chang's demand, "Don't wait for the translation! Answer me now!" is a reference to Adlai Stevenson's similar demand of Soviet Union representative Valerian Zorin at the United Nations during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. (Star Trek Encyclopedia)
Nichelle Nichols objected to the scene in which the crew desperately searches through old printed Klingonese translation dictionaries in order to speak the language without the standard universal translator being used. It seemed more logical to her that Uhura, being the ship's chief communications officer, would know the language of the Federation's main enemy, or at least have the appropriate information in the computer. However, director Meyer bluntly overruled her. Chekov can be heard explaining at the beginning of the scene that "a universal translator would be recognized". (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Special Edition) DVD-special feature, "text commentary") In the alternate reality of Star Trek Into Darkness, Uhura — who may have had a different education from that of the Prime Uhura — does speak Klingonese (or as she and Captain Kirk refer to it, "Klingon").
Uhura originally had a line "Would you let your daughter marry one?" (that is, a Klingon), but the line had to be cut because Nichols absolutely refused to say it. Chekov's line "Guess who's coming to dinner?" was also originally Uhura's, but Nichols considered it also to be racist and declined to say it. The line was moved to Chekov. It was a reference to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, the first major film to deal with interracial marriage, in which Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and Sidney Poitier starred. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 365-366; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Special Edition) DVD-special feature, "text commentary")
On the Special Edition release of Star Trek VI, it was revealed that Brock Peters' scene in the council chamber had to be shot in numerous takes, as he was very uncomfortable with the racial undertones in his lines that the Federation take the opportunity to "bring them to their knees", which was itself, a reference to another film in which that line was said about African Americans.
The perceived racism toward the Klingons was of great concern to Roddenberry as well, as he felt there was no place for it in his Star Trek universe, but his considerations were entirely ignored by both Meyer and Nimoy. Aghast, he then summoned a meeting, even though Roddenberry had no formal say in the film whatsoever. Complete with heavy legal representation, a very charged meeting followed between the two sides, which quickly turned into a shouting match as Meyer finally unleashed his years of pent up frustration with Roddenberry in full. In later years Meyer came to regret his behavior. "He was not well, and maybe there were more tactful ways of dealing with it, because at the end of the day, I was going to go out and make the movie. I didn't have to take him on. Not my finest hour.", a rueful Meyer recounted in 2011. Roddenberry died a few months later. ([4]^(X) ; Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 366-367) Meyer remained regretful of his behavior as he reiterated the incident as recent as 2016 when he retold the story in Roger Lay, Jr.'s 50th anniversary documentary Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen (Chapter 5: "End of an Era: Charting the Undiscovered Country").
In December 1990 a finalized script draft was turned in to the studio, and this version was approved to go into production. Meyer, finished in London, relocates to Los Angels later that month. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 30)
However, less than a month later in early January 1991, the original, immovable studio budget restriction decree reared its ugly head in full force, as David Kirkpatrick, who had replaced Teddy Zee as the Paramount Motion Picture Group President in another round of "The Studio Shuffle", demanded a detailed budget breakdown for the script as submitted. Somewhat falsely reassured by the remarks Davis and Mancuso made to him in London the previous spring, Meyer came back with a total figure of US$40 million dollar. Kirkpatrick's reply was short and to the point; It would not do. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, pp. 33-35)
A desperate scramble among the creative staff ensued to trim as much as possible of the budget as possible; the entire prologue was (albeit painfully) scrapped, scenes were trimmed, all planned set construction for new starship interiors was abandoned (though a new Kronos One corridor set did get build ultimately), the planned live-action shoots in Alaska for the Rura Penthe scenes were scrapped as were plans for new studio models and other visual effects elements. Starship sets were to be entirely recycled from Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was concurrently in production, but was slated for its summer hiatus, when filming of The Undiscovered Country was planned to start, and only existing studio models were to be used. Major cast and crew even agreed to deferred payment of (part of) their wages. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, pp. 35-36)
Co-Producer Steven-Charles Jaffe, a former Trekkie, was so desperate to see the film come to fruition that he even went as far to suggest dropping Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) as the visual effects vendor for the film, instead going for a cheaper company. However the Associates & Ferren visual effects debacle for the previous film was still very much fresh on the minds of his colleagues, and no one was willing to go that far. However, the planned 110 visual effects cuts were whittled down to just 51. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 35)
With an absolute, rock-bottom downward revised budget of US$30 million dollar Meyer returned to Kirkpatrick & co. and vigorously and emotionally made a case for it. Kirkpatrick strictly adhered to the US$25 million dollar the previous film had originally been budgeted at, but was willing to up the budget with US$2.5 million to the total that film had actually cost, but not a penny more. Moved to tears, Meyer knew that the film could not be made for that amount and continued to make a passionate plea for it. After Kirkpatrick had deliberated with his colleagues, the verdict came back: The film was canceled. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 368-371)
Yet, a few weeks later, with all activity on the film halted and production crews sent home, Meyer received a call from interim Paramount Pictures President Stanley R. Jaffe (not related to producer Jaffe), standing in for the released Mancuso, who had heard that the production was in trouble. Informed by Meyer that he could not make the film as he was shy of US$2.5 million dollars, Jaffe succinctly retorted, "Okay, you've got it," effectively canceling Kirkpatrick's cancellation decision. Instead, it became Kirkpatrick who got "canceled" in April as a result of yet another round in "The Studio Shuffle". (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 371, 393)
One of the major reasons Meyer could not budge from his budget was that there was one of the most expensive sets that absolutely had to be built, and that there was no way around it: the refit-Enterprise bridge set. The original set had a few months earlier been temporarily stored on the outside studio parking lot, in order to make room for other sets. A freak weather event completely wrecked the set beyond salvation, save for some parts such as the two turbolifts. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Special Edition) DVD-special feature, "text commentary") However, once rebuilt, the set had to do double duty as the USS Excelsior bridge as well by means of reshuffling the variable wall panels, as the original, more cavernous Excelsior bridge set had already been struck years earlier, shortly after its use in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Ironically, the Excelsior bridge scenes were shot first, before it became the Enterprise bridge. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Special Edition) DVD-special feature, "text commentary") Aside from his intimate familiarity with The Next Generation sets (which he had helped design and built), it was one of the most overriding reasons why Production Designer Herman Zimmerman was brought in, as he was the one who had been responsible for the bridge redesign as featured in The Final Frontier. In the process, it has also explained why The Next Generation's USS Enterprise-D received a new battle bridge, as it had been the (heavily re-dressed) original refit-bridge that had stood in for it in the early seasons of the series. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 35)
Trimming down the visual effects cuts to 51 turned out to be too ambitious, as 30 of the originally jettisoned effects sequences had to be produced by ILM and inserted after all, in order to make the film "cut" well. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 35)
While the studio had no budget from new studio models, one was actually constructed as something of a labor of love by ILM staffers John Goodson and Bill George, the SD-103-type. The script had a scene featured which both men felt needed embellishment, and so, of their own volition, they constructed the model. (Cinefex, issue 49, p. 48) The model went on to later become the Sydney-class. It has made The Undiscovered Country the feature in which the fewest new Star Trek starship designs were featured. George incidentally turned out to be a stickler for detail; As he was aware that the Excelsior now a new and smaller bridge, he made the effort to replace the originally larger bridge module on the Excelsior-class filming model with a smaller one, in order to reflect the change. (American Cinematographer, January 1992, pp. 58-59)
Reportedly, William Shatner was champing at the bit to assume the director's role for the film in order to redeem himself for The Final Frontier, but as writer Flinn had dryly noted, "It's amazing what three million dollars will accomplish." As Shatner had, already since Star Trek: The Original Series days, entered into a mutual "favored-nation clause" covenant with Nimoy which stipulated that, simply put, what the one got so did the other, this meant that Nimoy was to receive the same remuneration for his portrayal of Spock alone – and thereby discounting his writer's fee. However, it was also the reason why Nimoy, already being two for one in director's chores, declined the original offer by Mancuso to direct the film himself, instead opting for Meyer. It is not only for Star Trek that star cast salaries had habitually inflated exponentially with each sequel, and it had been one of the overriding reasons why Bennett's "Academy"-project was green-lighted originally, but also one of the reasons why Meyer could not give in any further to the budget demands of Kirkpatrick. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 244, 350; Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 30)
Also on the DVD (and in his memoir Star Trek Movie Memories), William Shatner stated that he was unhappy with the final cut of his interchange with Spock in the Council Chamber, as he felt that it made Kirk seem too cynical and bitter. He originally had done the scene in one take, adding a dismissive wave after his comment to "Let them die!" which was subsequently edited out of the final film despite Meyer promising Shatner that he wouldn't do that, according to Shatner.
The dinner scene in the officers' mess as scripted was originally longer, and filled with a bit more build up and escalating comments between the Federation and Klingon crews. The scene was originally to build almost to blows, when Gorkon says the line "It seems we have a long way to go." [5]^(X)
The first scene at Rura Penthe was heavily influenced by The Bridge On the River Kwai, where the commandant of the POW camp gives a similar speech to the new British prisoners.
According to Denny Martin Flinn in a 2003 audio commentary for The Undiscovered Country, Martia's alien language exclamation "Fendo pompsky" became a popular gag among the crew. Used in place of certain expletives, the line was even embroidered on the inside of the production crew jackets.
The romantic comedy Frankie and Johnny was filming at nearby soundstages on the Paramount Pictures lot during production. Director Garry Marshall arranged for William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForest Kelley to appear in full Star Trek costume and makeup, out of camera shot, behind a door in one scene, to elicit genuine surprise from star Al Pacino when he opened it. [6]
The poster artwork for the film was designed by John Alvin, who took over from previous Trek poster artist Bob Peak. Alvin was asked to design the poster in the style of Peak's.
Co-producer Ralph Winter provided the film with a remarkable coda. Though understandably proud of what he and the creative team had achieved, he had second thoughts on Bennett's abandoned "Academy"-project, reasoning in hindsight that it would have instituted a long-term studio strategy for a sustainable Star Trek live-action production line, as opposed to the somewhat chaotic, spur-of-the-moment planning as hitherto employed. "With a long term plan you could milk this forever," Winter mused. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 35) As it so happened, Winter got his wish sooner than even he could have foreseen, as David Kirkpatrick's immediate studio successor turned out to be Brandon Tartikoff. Brought in at the tail-end of the production of The Undiscovered Country, Brandikoff was yet to leave his mark on Star Trek by exactly doing that, what Winter had imagined.

Sets, props, and costumes

General Chang's eyepatch had the Klingon crest painted on the heads of each rivet. The makeup artist painted them on for fun and they were never intended to be seen. ^{(citation needed • edit)}
Filming took place during the break between the fourth and fifth seasons of The Next Generation. Most of the Enterprise-A sets were redresses of USS Enterprise-D sets:
- Kirk and Spock's quarters (Data's quarters, which were originally Kirk's quarters from Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
- Transporter room (Enterprise-D transporter room)
- Sickbay (Enterprise-D sickbay)
- Laboratory (Beverly Crusher's office)
- Officers' mess hall (the dining room, redress of Enterprise-D observation lounge)
- Engineering (clear redress of the Enterprise-D engineering; they simply replaced the display graphics and repainted some surfaces)
- Corridors (retouched with more metallic appearance)
- Galley (redress of Counsellor Troi's Office, later the USS Sutherland bridge)

These sets had been in turn recycled by TNG from the first three movies. The TNG warp core was a complete redress of the first movie's warp plasma conduits, Data's quarters a redress of Kirk's and Ilia's quarters. Even the sickbay from TNG was recycled from the movies' sickbay.

Captain Kirk's quarters featured two different maps of the Milky Way galaxy created for early TNG episodes (TNG: "Conspiracy", "The Emissary")
Captain Sulu's coffee table was a bit more than a cute addition to the Excelsior bridge. Beneath it was the support for an apparatus used to shake the whole bridge set during the Praxis explosion. As a side note, you may also notice the coffee cup that broke had no markings on it like the one Sulu was drinking from moments earlier. It was such a nice cup, the prop department didn't want it damaged. A similar table, likely for the same reason, can also be seen on the Enterprise bridge as well, between the captain's chair and the helm/nav console. ^{(citation needed • edit)}
Pfaltzgraff made the china used in the film, and sold 3,000 sets of reproductions. The company logo can be seen at the bottom of the aforementioned broken cup. [7]

Federation president's office — Federation President's office in Paris

The office of the Federation President is a redress of Ten Forward. A viewscreen is located in place of the art ornament behind the bar counter, and the walls are painted with some shade of brown. (Star Trek Encyclopedia (2nd ed., p. 502)) The doors for the set accidentally retained the TNG style insignia during filming, and this can clearly be seen in the film.
One of the models of the original USS Enterprise in Kirk's quarters was built by writer Ronald D. Moore when he was eleven.
The book used by Uhura while frantically searching for a linguistic reference of the Klingon language while entering Klingon territory is actually the 1951 catalog for the "Alloy Steel Products Company, Inc.". ^{(citation needed • edit)} Interestingly, the title of the modified book states Introduction to Klingon Grammer, in which "grammer" should be spelled as "grammar".
Several props and costumes from this movie were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including a Rura Penthe miner's mask [8], a Vulcan Khitomer attendee's costume [9], a Klingon court attendee lot [10], a Klingon canteen [11], and a Klingon uniform lot, partially worn by Scott Leva. [12] Also sold off was a desk lamp, which was featured during the Starfleet staff meeting. It was designed by F.A. Porsche and labeled as model "Jazz". [13]

Miscellaneous

Gene Roddenberry saw the movie two days before he died. According to William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories (1995, p. 394), Roddenberry, after seeing the film, gave thumbs up all around, and then went back and phoned his lawyer, Leonard Maizlish, angrily demanding a full quarter-hour of the film's more militaristic moments be removed from the film, but Gene died before his lawyer could present his demands to the studio.
Originally, director Nicholas Meyer wanted to bring back composer James Horner, whom he worked with on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan to score The Undiscovered Country. However, Horner turned the offer down, saying his "career had moved past Star Trek." Meyer then offered the film to composer Jerry Goldsmith, but he turned it down, citing the poor results of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, which he had also worked on. The film eventually went to composer Cliff Eidelman. According to the liner notes for the soundtrack album, Meyer's original concept for the score was to adapt Gustav Holst's The Planets, but getting the rights to the music proved too expensive. (Eidelman's score therefore pays homage to Holst, most notably in the opening credits where the score bears a close resemblance to "Mars," the first movement from The Planets.) An excerpt from The Planets was used a few years later in the trailer for Star Trek Generations. Eidelman was picked because of his extensive knowledge of Holst's "The Planets", having written his master's thesis on the complete suite.
This movie and Star Trek: The Motion Picture are the only Star Trek films released before the alternate reality films not to use the opening fanfare from the "Theme from Star Trek" in the main title music.
According to William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories, the original story credits for the film were to be "Story by Leonard Nimoy and Nicholas Meyer, Screenplay by Denny Martin Flynn" as nothing from the original submission by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal were used in the final film. According to Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, Konner and Rosenthal went to the Writers Guild of America for arbitration as they felt they should deserve story credit. The WGA spoke to Nimoy and he showed them his notes where he had initially come up with the story idea for the film and they initially sided with Nimoy. However Konner and Rosenthal appealed again and eventually the WGA changed the credits to "Story by Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal, screenplay by Nicholas Meyer and Denny Martin Flynn," leaving Nimoy out of the credits. An incensed Nimoy contacted his lawyer and said if this weren't resolved by the end of the upcoming weekend, he would immediately sue Paramount and the WGA over the matter. Nimoy's lawyer reportedly worked non-stop over the weekend, working with Meyer's attorney, with Konner and Rosenthal's attorney, until finally coming up with a credit which was acceptable to all: "Story by Leonard Nimoy and Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal, Screenplay by Nicholas Meyer & Denny Martin Flynn."
The galley scene was quickly written into the movie just to demonstrate that you can't fire a phaser (set to kill) on board the ship without triggering an alarm. (This raises the question as to why a phaser locker is in the galley. The answer could be found as early as "The Corbomite Maneuver". While the Enterprise is being towed by Balok's ship, Yeoman Janice Rand brings hot coffee to the bridge. Dr. McCoy asks her how she made coffee when the "power was out" in the galley. Her pragmatic answer was, "I used a hand phaser and zap – hot coffee.")

The blue food at the dinner scene was so disgusting that actors had to be bribed to eat it. Each actor was offered twenty dollars for every bite. Shatner did it, and won $240, before throwing up. (According to Leonard Nimoy, it was chunks of squid treated with blue food coloring.) Reportedly, Shatner was the only member of the cast able to swallow any of it, and the first time Shatner ate the colored squid, he turned and looked right at Nick Meyer and said, "Where's my twenty?" Meyer called "cut!" and pulled out the twenty and gave it to Shatner. (William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories)
Spock attributes the quote "If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" to an ancestor. This quote (and numerous variations) derives from the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Fans, noting the similarities between the characters of Spock and Holmes, have long speculated that Spock might be a descendant (on the side of his Human mother, Amanda Grayson) either of the fictional Holmes or the historical Doyle; the first such speculation is found in a Ruth Berman article in Spockanalia in 1966. ^{(citation needed • edit)} Writer/director Nicholas Meyer, a Holmes fan, wrote the well-received Sherlock Holmes novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and adapted it into an Academy Award-nominated screenplay.
During the search of all uniforms on board the Enterprise, a crewman takes off the cover of a power conduit. When he moves to put the cover down, you can see production markings on the back.
At the dining room, you can see paintings of many dignitaries, including Surak, founder of Vulcan philosophy and American President Abraham Lincoln. The Enterprise crew met recreations of both of them in TOS: "The Savage Curtain". Another painting is of an unnamed Andorian dignitary.
After the first day of shooting, someone noticed that Valeris's jacket was trimmed in Sciences division gray, not cadet and trainee red, to match her cadet red turtleneck undergarment. Since re-filming would have been too expensive, it was quickly decided to just let it pass. ^{(citation needed • edit)}
Valeris also wears the incorrect rank insignia of lieutenant commander, although exclusively being referred to in both dialogue and credits as a lieutenant.
During the Battle at Khitomer, Uhura mentions that the Enterprise is carrying equipment to study gaseous anomalies. In the beginning of the film, Sulu states that the Excelsior is also on a mission to study gaseous anomalies. It is not clear whether this is done intentionally, as the Enterprise's mission is strictly escort duty for the Chancellor's ship.

According to George Takei's autobiography To the Stars, early drafts did feature the Excelsior discovering the Bird-of-Prey's weakness and using their gaseous anomaly equipment to find it. According to Takei, William Shatner asked that the scene be re-written, arguing that Captain Kirk would never need anyone to come charging to his rescue. The second edition of the Star Trek Chronology states that the study was a long-term one and that Enterprise, as well as several other Federation ships, had been outfitted with such equipment.

The sets for the Excelsior and Enterprise-A bridges were redresses of the same set, which were made up of modules to be rearranged, as needed.
In the final shot of the Enterprise bridge crew, the helmsman's chair is left empty, symbolizing that Sulu is not present.
In the credits at the end of the movie, Uhura is misspelled "Uhuru."
The final scene also has the characters standing in a staged lineup. The producers wanted it known that it was the last movie.
The final captain's log was actually shot on the bridge of the Enterprise. This, however, was the last scene shot. Instead of using a dubbed log, they recorded it live. ^{(citation needed • edit)}
The Khitomer hall was represented by the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, located in southern California.
The footage of the Enterprise-A in spacedock is actually modified footage from Star Trek IV (budgetary constraints, as well as the disappearance of the spacedock interior miniature from ILM's archives, dictated its use). This marks the second time that footage shot for a previous film was re-used for a second time (the other being the Genesis sequence from Star Trek II, which also appeared in Star Trek III and Star Trek IV).
The Bird-of-Prey explosion from this film was later used in Star Trek Generations.
For some unknown reason, the art on the label for the special features disc of some editions of the Special Collector's Edition features an upside-down close-up image of the Enterprise-B while still in drydock from the film Star Trek Generations; Paramount Home Entertainment later corrected this problem by reissuing it as a silver labeled DVD. A similar error occurs on the HD and Blu-ray editions of the film, with the Enterprise-B on the back cover.
During the dinner scene, Kirk says that having Romulan ale is "One of the advantages of being a thousand light years from Federation Headquarters." Given that 78 years later, a faster and more advanced USS Voyager would expect to take seventy years to travel seventy thousand light years, one may infer that it would take far longer than a year for the Enterprise to reach the rendezvous point with Kronos One. It is more likely that Kirk was speaking metaphorically and not quoting an exact figure.
A scene in the script and novelization took place on Excelsior just after Sulu's conversation with Kirk, where Valtane was to have told Sulu, "Do you realize you've just committed treason, sir?" Sulu was supposed to reply something along the lines of "I always hoped that if I ever had to choose between betraying my country or betraying my friend, I'd have the courage to betray my country." This exchange remained in the novelization.
The events of this film were later revisited in VOY: "Flashback", in which it is established that Tuvok served as an ensign aboard the Excelsior. External footage of the Excelsior and the Praxis explosion wave were reused directly from the film, but all other scenes were specially re-shot, partly to include Kate Mulgrew and Tim Russ, who had not appeared in the film originally, but also because the movie's actors had aged significantly since the film was shot, meaning new footage of the actors filmed for the episode would not have matched any of the reused movie footage.
As with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, this film shows Spock having full command of the Enterprise. In fact, this is the only film in which Spock actually gives Kirk orders.
Spock references the events of this film during TNG: "Unification II", citing his guilt over committing Kirk to be a negotiator in the Klingon peace talks and the consequences that followed.
After TOS: "Whom Gods Destroy" and TAS: "The Survivor", this marks the third time that a shapeshifter has assumed the form of Captain Kirk.
A similarly extended, establishing prologue was later envisioned for the subsequent movie, Star Trek Generations, but it too, though partially filmed, was scrapped for budgetary reasons, as well as for running-time considerations.
NBC, Star Trek's former network, fittingly premiered Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country on November 6, 1994, a good 12 days in advance of Star Trek Generations's nationwide release. It was the first time any kind of Star Trek was seen on The Peacock Network since Star Trek: The Animated Series in 1973.

Dating

In Star Trek VI, during his trial, Bones says that he has been the ship's surgeon for 27 years. He took the post from Mark Piper at some point in 2265, after "Where No Man Has Gone Before", or in early 2266, before "The Corbomite Maneuver". This statement establishes a time frame for the film from 2292 to 2293.

The film ends with the last voyage of the ship and crew. The prologue of Star Trek Generations is set more precisely in 2293, or 78 years before 2371. In the prologue, a news reporter and Scotty talk with Kirk about how he has settled down into his retirement, suggesting that the retirement from the previous film is still a very recent thing for him.

StarTrek.com, Star Trek Chronology, and Star Trek Encyclopedia (3rd ed., p. 691) use the year 2293. Memory Alpha uses this year as well.

Behind the scenes

Concept art

Production gallery

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Production history

5th draft script: 28 December 1990
Start of principal photography: 11 April 1991
End of principal photography: 2 July 1991
Screening for Gene Roddenberry (2 days before his death): 22 October 1991
Hollywood, California premiere: 3 December 1991
US theatrical premiere: 6 December 1991
CD soundtrack: 10 December 1991
Comic adaptation: 1991
Australia theatrical premiere: 1 January 1992
Novelization: 1992
UK theatrical premiere: 14 February 1992
Japan theatrical premiere: 28 February 1992
Germany theatrical premiere: 5 March 1992
Hungary theatrical premiere: 1 May 1992
Netherlands theatrical premiere: 5 June 1992
Spain theatrical premiere: 19 June 1992
US LaserDisc: 25 June 1992
France theatrical premiere: 22 July 1992
Japan LaserDisc: 10 February 1993
VHS: 25 August 1993
UK network television premiere: 7 January 1995 on BBC1
UK LaserDisc: 1996
France LaserDisc: 1996
Widescreen VHS: 2 April 1997
Region 1 DVD: 26 January 1999
Special Edition Region 1 DVD: 27 January 2004
Special Edition Region 2 DVD: 1 March 2004
iTunes Store: 2006
Blu-Ray: September 2009

Different versions

Aspect ratios. The film was originally filmed and edited in Super 35 (4-perf). It was composed for multiple aspect ratios (meaning that all the important action had to be centered in a fairly small part of the frame). Every release is a reduction (croppings) from the original, never-released full frame using so-called "soft mattes". For theatrical release, the master was reduced to the usual 2.39:1 aspect ratio used for anamorphic 35mm projection (all the other Trek movies were filmed in this ratio, using anamorphic lenses instead of Super 35). A 2.20:1 version was also prepared for 70mm release (the same was done with all the previous Trek films). The film has never been commercially available in either theatrical aspect ratio, until the Blu-ray release. The non-widescreen television broadcasts and VHS releases were reduced to the 1.33:1 aspect ratio, thus easing up the matte on the top and bottom, but cropping some of the sides. Early widescreen VHS and laserdisc transfers and the first DVD release were opened up to yet another ratio, 2.00:1, and then centered high on the screen with space at the bottom for subtitles, but was non-anamorphic. The Special Edition DVD release was opened up to the same 2.00:1 ratio, but was anamorphicly enhanced for widescreen TVs. Which portion of the full frame is used varies from shot to shot, rather than being a purely mechanical reduction – and the choices are made differently in each release, including the two 2.00:1 releases. Apparently the 2.00:1 is the director's preferred aspect ratio. However, for the May 2009 Blu-ray release, the film was made available in its original theatrical ratio of 2.39:1 for the first time.
Extra scenes and edits. Until 2009, the theatrical cut had never been released commercially in English (however has aired on TV a few times before then). The original 1992 home video release added back in the "Operation Retrieve" scenes (originally, the scene in the president's office ended with the line "This president is not above the law"), the scene between Spock, Scotty and Valeris directly before the trial, and the unmasking of Colonel West on Khitomer (just a few shots are added: Colonel Worf touching West's blood and saying "This is not Klingon blood" between Cartwright trying to escape and Sulu stopping him, the actual unmasking and the C-in-C and Worf looking at each other directly after). These scenes remained in all subsequent commercial releases until 2009. The 2003 Special Edition DVD release re-edited the scene when Scotty is drinking coffee from a mug and drawing on a blueprint (using alternate shots) and added in flash frames of Cartwright, Chang, and Nanclus during Spock and Valeris' mind meld and slight alternate takes during her interrogation on the bridge. The original cut, albeit with the 2.00:1 aspect ratio, was present on the 1993 dubbed German VHS release. It was also released on iTunes, cut at 2.00:1 (640x320). The various releases of the movie on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in 2009 featured the original theatrical cut in its original aspect ratio.
The end credits had a different format for the theatrical version. It featured the Starfleet Insignia at the top and the screen split between a white background and dark lettering and the other side with a dark background with white lettering.

Apocrypha

Star Trek VI was adapted into novelization by Jeanne M. Dillard.
A comics adaptation was written by Peter David and drawn by Gordon Purcell and Arne Starr.
A novel and comic sequel to the events of this film, The Ashes of Eden, written by William Shatner and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, depicts a plot created by a Klingon-Romulan alliance, staged in Chal, a homeworld populated by a race of genetically-engineered Klingon-Romulans. Kirk is called there by a native of the planet, Teilani, to help her people with this crisis.
The conference at Khitomer was explored again in the non-canon Star Trek novel Assignment: Eternity.
While it was mentioned in the film that the crew was standing down, it wasn't directly stated that the entire Enterprise senior staff was retiring so it's been generally believed that most of the crew were simply stepping down and retiring from active ship duty. To that end, several novels have postulated that only Kirk, Spock, and Scott actually fully retired and then Spock became part of the diplomatic corps and became an ambassador.
- The novel Provenance of Shadows established that McCoy started doing research at Starfleet Medical and other novels have had McCoy as Chief of Starfleet Medical as well. "Encounter at Farpoint" clearly establishes that McCoy was an admiral at that point in time.
- According to the novel The Star to Every Wandering, at the time of Star Trek Generations, Chekov was working a ground assignment on Earth waiting for an executive officer position to open up. It's likely he was assigned to Excelsior as executive officer shortly thereafter (according to the non-canon novel The Sundered, he took the post of executive officer on the Excelsior), eventually commanding two starships on his own before becoming an admiral.
- In the movie, Uhura said she was supposed to be chairing a seminar at the Academy, and The Lost Era novels established that she was going to do that very thing when she was recruited for Starfleet Intelligence and eventually rising to become an admiral and head of Intelligence by 2360 at the latest.
- The Starfleet Corps of Engineers novels have established that Montgomery Scott eventually became the head of the Corps of Engineers and other books established Scott as having helped to design and work on building the USS Enterprise-E. In fact, the novel Ship of the Line, which dealt with the actual launch of the Enterprise-E, established that Scott was acting chief engineer for the ship's shakedown cruise with Geordi La Forge as his first assistant chief.

Awards and honors

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country received the following awards and honors.

Year	Group	Award	Nominee(s)	Result
1992	Academy Awards	Makeup	Michael M. Mills, Edward French, Richard Snell	Nominated
	Academy Awards	Sound Effects Editing	George Watters II, F. Hudson Miller
	Hugo Awards	Best Dramatic Presentation	Screenplay by Nicholas Meyer and Denny Martin Flinn, Story by Leonard Nimoy and Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, Directed by Nicholas Meyer
1993	Saturn Awards	Best Make-Up	Michael M. Mills, Edward French
		Best Costumes	Dodie Shepard
		Best Writing	Nicholas Meyer, Denny Martin Flinn
		Best Supporting Actress	Kim Cattrall
		Best Science Fiction Film	-	Won

Links and references

Credits

Opening credits

Starring

Co-Starring

and

George Takei

Also Starring

and

Christopher Plummer

Casting by

Mary Jo Slater, CSA

Music Composed and Conducted by

Cliff Eidelman

Co-Producer

Marty Hornstein

Associate Producer

Brooke Breton

Edited by

Ronald Roose

Production Designer

Herman Zimmerman

Director of Photography

Hiro Narita

Executive Producer

Leonard Nimoy

Based on Star Trek created by

Gene Roddenberry

Story by

Leonard Nimoy and Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal

Screenplay by

Nicholas Meyer & Denny Martin Flinn

Produced by

Ralph Winter and Steven-Charles Jaffe

Directed by

Nicholas Meyer

Closing credits

Cast

Sarek – Mark Lenard
Excelsior Communications Officer – Grace Lee Whitney
Admiral Cartwright – Brock Peters
Chief in Command – Leon Russom
Federation President – Kurtwood Smith
Chang – Christopher Plummer

Azetbur – Rosana DeSoto
Chancellor Gorkon – David Warner
Klingon Ambassador – John Schuck
Klingon Defense Attorney – Michael Dorn
Kerla – Paul Rossilli
Klingon Judge – Robert Easton
Klingon Officer – Clifford Shegog
Klingon Commander – W. Morgan Sheppard
General Stex – Brett Porter
Excelsior Officer – Jeremy Roberts
Excelsior Engineer – Michael Bofshever
Excelsior Navigator – Angelo Tiffe
Helmsman Lojur – Boris Lee Krutonog
Excelsior Communications Officer – Christian Slater

Martia – Iman
The Brute – Tom Morga
Klingon Translator – Todd Bryant
Behemoth Alien – John Bloom
First Klingon General – Jim Boeke
Munitions Man – Carlos Cestero
Young Crewman – Edward Clements
Martia as a child – Katie Jane Johnston
Prisoner at Rura Penthe – Douglas Engalla
Second Klingon General – Matthias Hues
Nanclus – Darryl Henriques
Sleepy Klingon – David Orange

Stunt Coordinator

Donald R. Pike

Stunt Performers

Ed Anders (as Excelsior crewman in sleep wear)
Jeff Bornstein (as Excelsior crewman in sleep wear)
Eddie Braun (as Excelsior bridge crewman)
Charlie Brewer (as stunt double for Brett Porter)
Hal Burton
Gary Baxley
Brett Davidson (as Excelsior crewman in sleep wear)
B.J. Davis (as Burke)
Dorothy Ching-Davis (as Excelsior crewman in sleep wear)
Maria Doest (as Excelsior crewman in sleep wear)
Joe Farago (as Excelsior bridge crewman)
Sandy Free (as Excelsior bridge crewman)
Joy Hooper (as Excelsior crewman in sleep wear)
Tom Huff
Jeff Imada (as Stunt double for George Takei)
Jeffrey S. Jensen
Robert King
Scott Leva (as Excelsior bridge crewman / Klingon transporter officer)
Alan Marcus (as Samno)
Cole McKay (as Excelsior bridge alien crewman)
Eric Norris
Noon Orsatti (as Excelsior bridge crewman)
Deeana Pampena (as Stunt double for Grace Lee Whitney)
Gary T. Pike (as Gorkon's soldier / Klingon officer)
Donald B. Pulford (as Stunt double for William Shatner)
Joycelyn Robinson (as Excelsior bridge crewman / Stunt double for Iman)
Danny Rogers
Don Ruffin (as Excelsior bridge crewman / Chang's assistant / Klingon officer)
Spike Silver
Erik Stabenau (as Excelsior bridge crewman / Stunt double for Rene Auberjonois)

Unit Production Manager

Marty Hornstein

First Assistant Director

Douglas E. Wise

Second Assistant Director

Katy E. Garretson

Art Director

Nilo Rodis-Jamero

Costume Designer

Dodie Shepard

Second Unit Director

Steven-Charles Jaffe

Film Editor

William Hoy

Visual Effects Supervisor

Scott Farrar

Make-Up Supervisor

Michael J. Mills

Make-Up Department Head

Ken Myers

Visual Effects Editor

Thomas R. Bryant

Set Decorator

Mickey S. Michaels

Set Designers

Camera Operator

Kirstin R. Glover

First Assistant Photographer

Robert Morey

Second Assistant Photographer

Richard M. Stevens

Still Photographer

Gregory Schwartz

Chief Lighting Technician

Raman Rao

Assistant Chief Lighting Technician

John Beyers

Chief Rigging Electricians

Charles Lang
Keith Barber

Assistant Chief Rigging Electrician

John Cybulski

Rigger

Joe Morris

Lighting Technicians

Ian Christenberry
Jeff Durling
Thom Embree
Michael Katz

First Company Grip

Ben Beaird

Second Company Grip

Clyde Hart

Dolly

Jeff Case

Grips

Daniel Cook
Dennis Flanderka
Arnaud Peiny

Production Sound

Gene S. Cantamessa

Boom Operator

Steve G. Cantamessa

Cable Person

Mark R. Jennings

Script Supervisor

Terry D. Frazee

Assistant Special Effects

Donald E. Myers
Donald Frazee
Logan Frazee
Eugene Crum
Scott Lingard
Joseph C. Sasgen

Make-up Artist for Mr. Shatner

Brian McManus

Make-Up Artist

Special Alien Make-Up Created by

Edward French

Klingon and Vulcan Prosthetics Created by

Richard Snell Designs, Inc. (Richard Snell)

Jackal Mastiff Created by

Greg Cannom

Hair Stylists

Property Master

Don L. Hulett

Assistant Property Masters

Jamie Buckley
Richard Beck

Special Props

Greg Jein

Leadperson

Edward G. Fitzgerald

Costume Supervisor

Elaine Maser

Key Costumers

Costumers

Greg Hall
Robert M. Moore
Adrienne Childers

Assistant Film Editors

Daniel Candib
Scott Caldwell

Apprentice Editors

Michael Hofacre
Richard Sellmer

Supervising Sound Editors

George Watters II
F. Hudson Miller

Sound Editors

R. J. Palmer
Frank Howard
Jack Woods
Bruce E. Bell
Suhail F. Kafity
Thomas Fucci

ADR Editors

Fred Stafford
Bobbi Banks

Foley Editors

Victoria Martin
Matthew Harrison
Butch Wolf

Assistant Sound Editors

Marva Fucci
Maggie Ostroff
Greg Thompson
Marcy Stoeven Gibbens

Apprentice Sound Editor

Jonathan Phillips

Special Sound Effects

Alan Howarth
John Paul Fasal

Foley Artists

Ken Dufva
David Lee Fein

Music Editor

Bunny Andrews

Assistant Music Editor

Robin K. Eidelman

Foley Mixer

Greg Curda

ADR Mixer

Bob Baron

Voice Casting

Barbara Harris

Re-Recording Mixers

Jeffery J. Haboush
Michael Herbick
Greg P. Russell, CAS

Recordists

James Cavarretta
Mike Haney
Gary Ritchie

Orchestrator

Mark McKenzie

Additional Orchestrations by

William Kidd

Orchestra Contractor

Carl Fortina

Music Preparation

Bob Bornstein

Music Score Recorded at

Twentieth Century Fox

Music Scoring Mixer

Armin Steiner

Location Manager

Rhonda Baer

Second Second Assistant Director

Randy Suhr

DGA Trainee

David Trotti

Production Office Coordinator

Sheila Barnes

Assistant Production Office Coordinator

Laurie Gauger

Construction Coordinator

Richard J. Bayard

Construction Foreperson

Cliff Bergman

Labor Foreperson

Mike Apperson

Production Painters

Gary A. Clark
Henry S. Coia

Casting Associates

Jan Glaser, CSA
Wendy Engalla

Extras Casting

Central Casting
- Chuck Maytum

Assistants to Mr. Meyer

Michael McCusker
Adam Nimoy

Assistants to Mr. Winter

Rebeca R. Brookshire
Mary Beth Gentle

Assistant to Mr. Jaffe

Deborah L. Krainin

Assistant to Mr. Shatner

Mary Jo Fernandez

Assistant to Mr. Brenton

Brent Lon Hershman

Production Accountant

Brian Wensel

Assistant Production Accountants

Mindy Sheldon
Debbie Tieman

Construction Accounting Assistant

Scott Russell

Graphic Designer

Michael H. Okuda

Unit Publicist

Bob Hoffman

Production Intern

Scott Benton

Production Assistants

Roland Armstorff
R. Harrison Gibbs
Joe Lotito
Russell Alan Steele

Art Department Production Assistants

Buffee Friedlich
Aaron M. Albucher
John Downer

Transportation Coordinator

Gerald L. "Jerry" Sater

Transportation Captain

Tony Fox

Craft Service

Bill Nuzzo

First Aid

Ken Clarke

Klingon Language Specialist

Marc Okrand

Set Security

Brian Wallace

Second Unit Photography

Director of Photography

John V. Fante

First Assistant Director

Christopher T. Gerrity

Script Supervisor

Andrea Walzer

First Assistant Photographer

Frank Del Boccio

Second Assistant Photographer

Frank Parrish

Alaska Liaison

Bob Crockett

Helicopter Camera Operator

Clinton O. Johnson

Opticals

Cinema Research Corporation

Color Timer

Dale Grahn

Negative Cutting

Theresa Repola Mohammed

Dolby Stereo Consultant

Thom Ehle

Main Title Design and Computer Illustration

David Oliver Pfeil

Special Visual Effects by

Industrial Light and Magic, a Division of LucasArts Entertainment Company Marin County, California

Visual Effects Producer

Peter Takeuchi

Visual Effects Art Directors

William George
Mark Moore

Optical Photography Supervisor

Bradley Kuehn

Computer Graphics Supervisor

Jay Riddle

Visual Effects Coordinator

Jil-Sheree Bergin

Visual Effects Editor

Michael McGovern

Motion Control Camera Operators

Peter Daulton
Patrick Sweeny

Motion Control Camera Assistants

David Hanks
Katie O'Neill

Plate Camera operator

Patrick Turner

Plate Camera Assistant

Robert Hill

Computer Animation

Scott Anderson
Eric Armstrong
John Berton
Richard Cohen
Wade Howie
Joe Letteri
Jim Mitchell
Joe Pasquale
Alex Seiden

Computer Graphics Production Supervisor

Gail Currey

Optical Camera Operators

Jon Alexander
Donald Clark
Jeffrey Doran
Selwyn Eddy III
Keith Johnson
Patrick Repola
Kenneth Smith

Optical Line Up

Peg Hunter
David Karpman
Jennifer Lee
Thomas Rosseter
John D. Whisnant
Debra Wolff

Optical Processing

Michael Ellis
Robert Fernley
Nelson Hall

Optical Scanning Coordinator

Lisa Vaughn

Effects Camera Supervisor

Bruce Walters

Effects Camera Operators

Charlie Clavadetscher
John Graves
Steven Reding
Eric Swenson

Rotoscope Supervisor

Thomas Bertino

Rotoscope Artist

Kathleen Beeler
Rebecca Petrulli-Heskes
Sandy Houston
Terry Molatore
Jack Monogovan
Ellen Mueller
Carolyn Rendu

Animation Supervisor

Wes Ford Takahashi

Animation Effects Animators

Gordon Baker
Christopher Green
Peter Crosman

Animation Effects Coordinator

Shari Malyn

Scanning

Joshua Pines
Randall K. Bean
George Gambetta

Assistant Visual Effects Editor

Robin Lee

Negative Cutter/Projectionist

Timothy Greenwood
Preston Richards

Model Shop Supervisor

Lawrence Tan

Model Makers

Jon Foreman
Brian Gernand
Jon Goodson, Jr.
Jack Haye
Richard Miller
Alan Peterson
Susan Ross
Kim Smith
Eben Stromquist
Paul Theren
Wim Van Thillo
Charles Wiley

Stage

Richard Demolski
Robert Finley, Jr.
Ross Lorente
Craig Mohagen
David Morton
Charles Ray

Production Assistants

Carol Lee Griswald
Alia Almeida Agha
Nancy Luckoff
Tina Matthies

Production Accountant

Pam Kaye

Matte Painting Effects by

Matte World – Marin County, California

Supervising Matte Photographer

Craig Barron

Matte Artist Supervisor

Michael Pangrazio

Executive of Project Management

Krystyna Demkowicz

Camera Assistant

Paul Oehlke

Motion Control Camera

Joel Hladecek

Camera Operator

Wade Childress

Model Maker

Howie Weed

VCE Photographic Effects by

Peter Kuran

Animation Effects

Al Magliochetti
Kevin Kutchaver

Optical Effects Line Up

Linda Henry
Tim Segulin

Optical Printing

Rick Hannigan
David Tucker

VCE Administration

Jacqueline Zietlow

Additional Digital Compositing by

Pacific Data Images

Optical Supervisor

Les Dittert

Animator

Barb Meier

Production Support

Karen Logan

Tactical Displays by

CimityArt
- Barbara Cimity
- Cliff Boule
- Nina Salerno
- Randy Weeks
- Craig Newman
- Katie O'Hara

24-Frame Video Displays by

Video Image
- Janet Earl
- Aaron Katz
- David Katz
- Pete Martinez
- Monte Swann
- Jim Unsinn

Video Coordinator

Jeffrey Harstedt

Ultra-Violet Effect and Lighting by

WildFire, LA

Planet Interior/Exterior, Snow and Ice Scenery by

Foam Tec, Inc.

Rear Screen Projection Compositing by

CIS

Process Compositing by

Hansard

Soundtrack Album available on

MCA Compact Discs and Cassettes

Theme from the Star Trek TV Series

Music by Alexander Courage

Color by

Technicolor®

Filmed with

Panavision®

Special Thanks to

Alaska Film Commission
Alaska Helicopter Company
Dave Archer Studios
Proton
Pfaltzgraff
Durand International
Hydrel

Uncredited co-stars

David Keith Anderson as Enterprise-A crewmember
Rene Auberjonois as Colonel West
Lena Banks as Federation president's assistant
Terrence Beasor as Klingon voices
Robert Bruce as Klingon officer
Faith Burton as Starfleet flag officer
Eddie Caldwell as Romulan
Max Cervantes as Daz
Barron Christian as Klingon assistant to Commandant
Dragon Dronet as Klingon spectator
Andre Dukes as Klingon Rura Penthe guard
Douglas Dunning as Alien delegate
Joe Durrenberger as Klingon officer
Farrel as Klingon General
Mark Gonzaga as Vulcan delegate
Trent Christopher Ganino as Klingon judge
Clay Hodges as Klingon officer
Ampy Koran as
- Klingon officer
- Klingon helmsman
Bruce Koski as Alien delegate
Tony Lawson as Klingon
Susan Lewis as Enterprise-A officer
Beau Lotterman as Romulan delegate
Daryl F. Mallett as Rura Penthe prisoner
James Mapes as Zelonite official
Marin as Enterprise-A crewman
Patrick Michael as Enterprise-A crewman
Claude Nemeth as Klingon Rura Penthe guard
Dennis Ott as Knee Jerk Alien
Jim Portnoy as Starfleet flag officer
Douglas Price as
- Khitomer flag bearer
- Klingon spectator
Evans Ricciardi as Starfleet flag officer
Denise Lynne Roberts as Enterprise-A crewmember
Richard Sarstedt as Romulan delegate
Eric A. Stillwell as Klingon spectator
Geraldine Sylvester-Bush as Vulcan delegate
Kevin G. Tracey as presidential adviser
Roma Lee Tracy as silver tube amazette alien dignitary
Guy Vardaman as Klingon officer
J.D. Walters as Klingon
Clint Zehner as Rura Penthe prisoner
Unknown actors as
- Five Klingon Kronos One crewmen
- Four presidential advisers
- Three Klingon Rura Penthe guards
- Klingon judge
- Romulan delegate
- Romulan delegate
- Romulan delegate
- Tellarite delegate
- Tellarite delegate
- Tellarite delegate
- Zelonite ambassador
- Zelonite official
- Female USS Excelsior security officer
- Male USS Excelsior security officer
- Bekka
- Branz
- Carson
- Carter
- Chanak
- Danz
- Donas
- Fambi
- Gavin
- Isang
- Jarkra
- Marva
- Moonsafi
- Pashtor
- Raz
- Rho
- Rogg
- Sanarek
- Sangrom
- Sheeza
- Smalla
- Stoyra
- Straeth
- Strath
- Strom
- Suryan
- Tamaron
- Taral
- Tashmom
- Trag
- Trax
- Vell
- Zan
- Zanatos
- Zorath

Uniforms for each of these named officers, each including a name tag, were sold off at the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay.

Uncredited stunt performers

Greg Gault as stunt double for David Warner
Dennis Madalone as a Klingon officer
Charlie Skeen as
- Klingon officer
- Stunt double for Christopher Plummer

Stand-ins

Patrick Michael as stand-in for Leonard Nimoy
Joycelyn Robinson as stand-in for Iman
Lita Stevens
Kenny Studer
Jim Thompson
Martin Valinsky
Philip Weyland as stand-in for William Shatner

Uncredited production staff

David Abbott – Special Makeup Effects Artist
Aaron Albucher – Assistant Production Accountant
Dave Archer – Artwork Provider: Paintings
Margaret Bessara – Prosthetic Makeup Artist: David Warner, Kurtwood Smith, and Robert Easton
Tom Boyd – Musician: Oboe
Barney Burman – Special Makeup Effects Artist
Rob Burman – Special Makeup Effects Artist
Mary Burton – Makeup Artist: Iman
Cogswell Video Services, Inc. – Visual Effects Unit Video Assist Company
Danna Edwards – Costumer
Robert Fletcher – Costumes Design
Christopher Gilman and Dilligent Dwarves Effects Lab – Prop and Wardrobe Creator and Provider
Kristin R. Glover – Camera Operator
Nancy J. Hvasta Leonardi – Assistant Makeup Artist
Jeff Kleeman – Development and Production Executive for Paramount Pictures
Norman Ludwin – Musician: Bass
Iain McCaig – ILM Storyboard Artist
Mike McCarty (for Dilligent Dwarves Effects Lab) – FX artist: Ran parts for Klingon costumes
Steve Neill – Special Makeup Effects Artist
Scott Schneider – Model Maker
Marlene Stoller – Hair Artist
Rick Stratton – Makeup Artist
Todd Tucker – Special Make-Up Effects Artist
Danny Valencia – Hair Stylist
Karen Westerfield – Prosthetic Makeup Artist
Philip Weyland – Dialogue Coach

References

19th century; 1938; 2223; 2266; 2290; 2343; 24-hour clock; Aamaarazan; abduction; accident; act; act of war; Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise; address; admiral; admiration; advocate; aft; agenda; aide-de-camp; alarm; alien; Alpha Quadrant; ambassador; ambition; amount; anatomy; ancestor; annals; answer; architect; arrest; arthritis; article; artificial gravity; ash; assassin; assassination; automation; attack; author; auxiliary circuit; auxiliary gravity; auxiliary power; back; back-up system; battle cruiser, Klingon; battle stations; beaming; beaming shield; bearing; behavior; Beta Quadrant; Beta Quadrant sector; black; blood; "bloody"; boat; boatswain's whistle; "Bones"; bow; bridge; brigadier; Brotherhood of Aliens; bug; Burke; Camp Khitomer; capital; cardiac arrest; career; chairing; chameloid; chain of command; Chancellor of the Klingon High Council; Chang's Bird-of-Prey; charge; chief of staff; chimes; China; choice; Christ, Jesus; chronometer; Cinderella; circuit A; circumstantial evidence; citizen; citizenship; civilization; client; cloaking device, Klingon; close range; club; coat; Code blue; coffee; cold warrior; colleague; colonel; commander in chief; commandant; communications station; commutation; computer; comrade; Concise History of the Klingon Empire, A; condolences; conference; confession; confiscation; conspiracy; Constitution-class; Constitution II-class; control tower; conversation; Coon, G.L.; coordinates; course; court; court reporter; creature; crew quarters; crewman; cruise; crime; damage report; data; data banks; daughter; Davis; day; death; death sentence; decommissioning; deflector shield; degree; demotion; departure stations; depiction; dialogue; dilithium; dinner; diplomacy; diplomat; diplomatic corps; diplomatic function; dockmaster; doctor; Earth; Earth Cold War; Earth year; echo bar; economy; Efrosian; electronic frontier; energy production facility; engine room; Enterprise-A, USS; epic; error; evening; evidence; Excelsior-class; Excelsior, USS; excerpt; exile; existence; exoneration; exploration; exploration program; explosion; extradition; extremist; eyepatch; fact; faith; father; Federation; Federation headquarters; Federation members; Federation President; Federation-Klingon Cold War; Federation space; feeling; feet; first officer; flag of truce; flare; flatbed shuttle; forgery; "for king and country"; France; free will; freighter; friend; fuel; full ambassador; future; galley; gang; Garden of Eden; gas; gavel; general; generation; genitals; "give real money"; graveyard; gravitational field; gravity; gravity boot; ground; guard tower; guest; guilt; gulag; hailing frequency; Hamlet; hand; handcuffs; head; hearing; heart; heartbeat; helm; helmsman; Henry IV, Part I; Henry IV, Part II; Hitler, Adolf; Holmes, Sherlock; hostage; hostility; hour; Human (homo sapiens); Human rights; idea; idealism/idealist; idiot; "If you eliminate the impossible..."; ignorance; impulse power; information; insubordination; intercept course; interstellar law; Introduction to Klingon Grammer; jackal mastiff; joke; judgment; Julius Caesar; K't'inga-class; key; kiss; Khitomer; Khitomer Accords; Khitomer Conference; Khitomer conspiracy; kill setting; king; Klingon Bird-of-Prey; Klingon Empire; Klingons; Klingon High Command; Klingon frontier; Klingon history; Klingon Neutral Zone; Klingon Defense Force uniforms; Klingon space; Klingonese; knee; Kobayashi Maru scenario; Kronos One; laughter; level; Lincoln, Abraham; "linguistic legerdemain"; light; light year; listening post; listing; livelihood; location; logic; lunatic; lying (lie); machine; madam; magnetic boots (gravity boots); Marcus, David; master; medical status; medical tricorder; meeting; Megazoid; Merchant of Venice, The; meteor shower; midnight; Milky Way Galaxy; military advisor; military budget (budget); military operation; mine; mission; mission of peace; model; money; month; moon; mooring; morning; Morska; mothballing; motive; multiple choice; murderer; mythology; name; NAR; neck; negotiation; neutral zone; neutron radiation; news; night; Nixon, Richard M.; Northern Star; obedience; objection; officers' mess; Okrand; Okrand's Unabridged Klingon Dictionary; olive branch; Operation Retrieve; opportunist; order; oxygen; ozone; pair; pardon; Paris; parole; patricide; peace; peace conference; peace summit; peace talks; peace treaty; penal asteroid; penal colony; permission; personal log; Pfaltzgraff; phaser; photon torpedo; physics; piano; place; plasma (ionized gas); plasma exhaust; plate; pollution; port (facility); port (side of ship); port gate; Post, Emily; pot; Praxis; prejudice; president; prison; prisoner; progress; problem; prototype; proverb; pulse; punishment; Qo'noS; question; quarters; rank; reality; refuse; rendezvous; report; reprieve; resource; result; retirement; revenge; reward; risk; Romulan; Romulan ale; Romulan government; Romulan border; rose; rudder; Rura Penthe; Russian; sabot; sabotage; Saboteurs; safe haven; safety precaution; Salak; Samno; San Francisco; saucer; scene; science station; scientific program; Scots language; screaming; SD-103; SD-103 type; second; secret; sector; Sector 70; seminar; sensor; sentence; service record; Shakespeare, William; ship's bell; ship's surgeon; shoe; shouting; show trial; sickbay; silent running; size; slave; smell; smoking; sniper rifle; son; sorrow; space station; Spacedock One; special envoy; species; speculation; Spoken Languages of the Klingon Empire; sponsor; starbase; starboard; Starfleet; Starfleet Academy; Starfleet Command; Starfleet Command Intelligence Database; Starfleet Headquarters; Starfleet regulations; state dinner; statement; stern; stockade; story; stun setting; subspace; subspace channel; subspace message; subspace transmission; subspace shock wave; suicide; surface; surgeon; surgery; surrender; table; table manners; tail pipe; targ; tear; tear duct; Tempest, The; terrorism; territory; theory; thing; thousand; three-year mission; thruster; Tiberian bat; tickling; toast; torpedo bay; torpedo launcher; torpedo room; touch; tour; translation; transporter pad; transporter range; transporter room; trash; trial; truth; universal translator; universe; Ursva; value; vessel; viridium patch; volunteer; Vulcan; mind meld; walking; warp drive; warrior; weapons locker; web; week; wisdom; Wise, D.; witness; wood; word; worker; wound; year; Z-axis; Zelonite

Library computer references

Starship Mission Assignments: Ahwahnee, USS; Challenger, USS; Constellation, USS; Eagle, USS; Emden, USS; Endeavour, USS; Helin, USS; John Muir, USS; Kongo, USS; Korolev, USS; Lantree, USS; Oberth, USS; Potemkin, USS; Republic, USS; Scovill, USS; Sector 21185; Sector 21186; Sector 21290; Sector 21399; Sector 21803; Sector 21835; Sector 21836; Sector 21837; Sector 22849; Sector 22858; Sector 22956; Sector 22958; Sector 23094; Springfield, USS; Starbase 24; Starship Mission Assignments; Whorfin, USS
Operation Retrieve star chart: Alpha Bayard; Alpha Beaird; Alpha Cooper; Alpha Crum; Alpha Glover; Alpha Johnson; Alpha McCusker; Alpha Meyers; Alpha Saunders; Alpha Suhr; Apperson's Asteroid; Arnold's Planet; Baber Nebula; Barnes Nebula; Barnett's Star; Bergman's Planet; Beta Christenberry; Beta Cook; Beta Flinn; Beta Friedlich; Beta Garretson; Beta Gonzales; Beta Lingard; Beta Michaels; Beta Penthe; Beta Penthe I; Beta Penthe II; Beta Penthe III; Beta Penthe IV; Beta Penthe V; Beta Penthe VII; Beta Penthe system; Beta Schwartz; Beta Sternbach; Breton's Planet; Brookshire's Planet; Buckley's Planet; Cantamessa's Star; Cole's Star; Constitution II-class; Cybulski's Planet; Delta Hart; Downer's Star; Excelsior-class; Farrar's World; Foster Nebula; Frazee's Nova; Friedlich Nebula; Gamma Fitzgerald; Gauger Star; Gullory Nebula; Harstedt's Planet; Hershman's Star; Hodges Nebula; Jaffeworld; Latonaworld; Meyer's Star; Molly's Star; Moreyworld; Narita's Planet; Nimoy's Star; Nollman's Planet; Nuzzo Station; Operation Retrieve star chart locations; Okrand Colony; Rao-Beyers; Rooseworld; Sasgen's Star; Sector 21166; Sigma Trotti; Stevens Nebula; Theta Gentle; Theta Hulett; Wenselworld; Winter's Nova; Wise Nebula; Zimmerman's Star
Federation star chart ("The Explored Galaxy"): Aldebaran; Alfa 177; Alpha Carinae; Alpha Centauri; Alpha Majoris; Altair VI; Andor; Ariannus; Arret; Babel; Benecia; Berengaria VII; Beta Aurigae; Beta Geminorum; Beta Lyrae; Beta Niobe; Beta Portolan; Camus II; Canopus III; Capella; Daran V; Delta Vega; Deneb; Eminiar; Fabrini; First Federation; Gamma Canaris N; Gamma Trianguli; Holberg 917G; Ingraham B; Janus VI; Kling; Kzin; Lactra VII; Makus III; Marcos XII; Manark IV; Memory Alpha; Mudd; Omega IV; Omega Cygni; Organia; Orion; Pallas 14; Phylos; Pollux IV; Psi 2000; Pyris VII; Regulus; Remus; Rigel; Romulan Neutral Zone; Romulus; Sarpeid; Sirius; Talos; Tau Ceti; Theta III; Tholian Assembly; Vulcan

Unused Material

democracy; economics; employment; gunboat diplomacy; prerogative

Unreferenced material

Arc; Bayard, D.; Brookshire, R.; Cantemessa, G.; Downer, J.; Flinn, D.M.; Garretson, K.; Glover, K.; Hulett, D.; Jaffe, S.C.; Michaels, M.; Morey, R.; Narita, H.; Rodis, N.; Sector 21185; Sector 21290; Sector 21399; Sector 21803; Sector 21835; Sector 21837; Sector 22849; Sector 22956; Sector 23006; Tathwell, D.; Thomas, C.; Wise, D.; Zimmerman, H.

Timeline

1938: Hitler quoted as saying "we need breathing room"
2220s: Beginning of a seventy-plus year-long period of what Spock describes as "unrelenting hostilities" with the Klingons
2285: A Klingon sergeant kills David Marcus
2290: Excelsior begins three-year exploratory tour in the Beta Quadrant
2293: Praxis explodes

External links

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country at StarTrek.com
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country at Wikipedia
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country at the Internet Movie Database
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country script at Star Trek Minutiae
"Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" at MissionLogPodcast.com, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast

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-<!-- See [[Memory Alpha:Episode data project]] -->
+|<!-- See [[Memory Alpha:Projects/Episode data project]] -->
-|          aSelf = Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
+|image             = The Undiscovered Country poster.jpg
+|screenplay        = [[Nicholas Meyer]] & [[Denny Martin Flinn]]
-|         sTitle = Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
+|story             = [[Leonard Nimoy]] and [[Lawrence Konner]] & [[Mark Rosenthal]]
-|sProductionSerialNumber = Unk
+|director          = [[Nicholas Meyer]]
-|   nReleaseYear = 1991
+|producer          = [[Steven-Charles Jaffe]] & [[Ralph Winter]]
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+|date              = 9521.6-9529.1 ([[2293]])
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-| wsScreenplayBy = [[Nicholas Meyer]] & [[Denny Martin Flinn]]
-|      wsStoryBy = [[Leonard Nimoy]] and [[Lawrence Konner]] & [[Mark Rosenthal]]
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-''"The battle for peace has begun."''
+"''The battle for peace has begun.''"
-An interstellar cataclysm cripples the Klingon Empire's homeworld, leading to their Chancellor seeking peace with the Federation. But covert acts attempt to thwart the peace process with the assassination of the Klingon Chancellor. With Captain James T. Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy as the prime suspects, the Starships ''Enterprise''-A and ''Excelsior'' must attempt to uncover the truth before the conspirators can plunge the Federation and the Klingon Empire into war.
+An interstellar cataclysm cripples the Klingon Empire's homeworld, leading to their Chancellor seeking peace with the Federation. But covert acts attempt to thwart the peace process with the assassination of the Klingon Chancellor. With Captain James T. Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy as the prime suspects, the Starships ''Enterprise''-A and ''Excelsior'' must attempt to uncover the truth before the conspirators can plunge the Federation and Klingon Empire into fullscale war!
 == Summary ==
 === Prelude ===
-[[File:Praxis exploding.jpg|thumb|"''I cannot confirm the existence of Praxis.''"]]
+[[File:Praxis exploding.jpg|thumb|"''I cannot confirm the ''existence'' of Praxis.''"]]
-A massive explosion erupts which is followed by a subspace shock wave which reaches out through the local area of the galaxy.
+An explosion erupts, creating a massive [[subspace shock wave]].
+Aboard the {{USS|Excelsior|NCC-2000}}, [[Captain]] [[Hikaru Sulu]] takes a sip of [[Vulcan tea|tea]], reads a report handed to him by his [[science officer]] [[Dimitri Valtane]], and records his [[log]]:
-:"''Stardate 9521.6, Captain's log, {{USS|Excelsior}}, [[Hikaru Sulu]] commanding. After three years, I have concluded my first assignment as master of this vessel, cataloging gaseous planetary anomalies in [[Beta Quadrant]]. We're heading home under full impulse power. I'm pleased to report that ship and crew have functioned well.''"
+:"''[[Stardate]] 9521.6, [[Captain's log, USS Excelsior|Captain's log, USS ''Excelsior'']], Hikaru Sulu commanding. After [[2290|three years]], I have concluded my first assignment as master of this vessel, cataloging gaseous planetary anomalies in [[Beta Quadrant]]. We're heading home under full impulse power. I'm pleased to report that ship and crew have functioned well.''"
-While taking a leisurely sip of [[Ensign]] [[Tuvok]]'s blend of [[tea]], Sulu reads a routine report from his science officer [[Dmitri Valtane|Valtane]] when the ''Excelsior'' starts to shake. A gigantic energy [[shock wave]] approaches the ship; the shields are raised just in time. The ship slowly turns into the wave and clears it soon after. The source is [[Praxis]], a Klingon moon, home of the key energy production facility for the entire [[Klingon Empire]]. Valtane then scans for Praxis, but cannot confirm its existence. Sulu tells his communications officer, [[Lieutenant Junior Grade|Lt. J.G.]] [[Janice Rand]], to signal the [[Klingon High Council|Klingon High Command]] and offer assistance. It seems that Praxis has been all but destroyed. A distress signal from Praxis comes through, with a Klingon miner surrounded by flames and screaming for help, but it is blocked by a transmission from Qo'noS. Klingon Brigadier General [[Kerla]] explains he is speaking for the High Command, admitting there has been an "incident" on Praxis, but that everything is under control. He tells Sulu to obey treaty stipulations and remain outside the [[Neutral Zone]]. An exasperated Sulu exclaims out loud "An 'incident'". Lt. [[Janice Rand]] asks Sulu if they should notify Starfleet and Sulu simply answers: "''Are you kidding?!''"
+[[File: USS Excelsior escapes shockwave.jpg|left|thumb|''Excelsior'' emerges from the shockwave]]
-{{Bginfo|The ''Voyager'' episode [[Flashback (episode)|"Flashback"]] incorrectly depicted her as a [[lieutenant commander]], even though she was a lieutenant jg in ''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.'' Some of the comics set around the time of Sulu taking command of ''Excelsior'' not only support this, but imply that she was the ''Excelsior''{{'}}s first officer.}}
+Suddenly, [[red alert]] klaxons sound on the [[bridge]] as the subspace shockwave reaches the ''Excelsior'', throwing Sulu and his crew to the deck. Sulu orders [[helmsman]] [[Lojur]] to turn ''Excelsior'' into the wave and the ship clears the disturbance. At his post, Valtane locates the origin of the shockwave &ndash; [[Praxis]], a [[Klingon]] [[moon]], which Sulu notes is the [[Klingon Empire|Empire]]'s key energy production facility. Sulu orders [[communications officer]] [[Janice Rand]] to hail the moon and offer their assistance, then asks Valtane for more data. Valtane, perplexed, says that he can confirm Praxis's location... but not its existence. An image appears on the viewscreen: Praxis, or rather barely half of it, ripped in two by some catastrophe, to the disbelieving horror of Sulu and the rest of the bridge crew. Rand reports that she has intercepted a message from Praxis and puts it up: the viewscreen is filled with the grisly image of a [[Unnamed Klingon military personnel (23rd century)#Officer on Praxis|Klingon officer]], standing on a deck heaving beneath his feet and surrounded by flames, shouting desperately at the pickup. The message abruptly cuts off and is replaced by an official transmission from Klingon [[Brigadier]] [[General]] [[Kerla]], speaking for the [[Klingon High Council|Klingon High Command]]. Kerla explains that there has been an "incident" on Praxis, but that everything is under control and [[Federation]] assistance is not required, warning the ''Excelsior'' to obey treaty stipulations and remain outside the [[Federation-Klingon border|Neutral Zone]].
+Rand asks Sulu if they should notify [[Starfleet]] and Sulu simply replies: "''Are you kidding?!''"
-=== Act I - The Mission and Catastrophe ===
-[[File:Flag officers with service ribbons.jpg|thumb|''"Ladies and Gentlemen, the C-in-C"'']]
-Two months later, on [[Earth]], the senior crew of the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-A|-A}} assembles for a meeting at [[Starfleet Command]]. The [[Commander in chief]] of Starfleet opens the meeting saying that the Klingon Empire has fifty years of life left in it. The C in C then turns the meeting over to [[Spock]], who's been acting as a Federation Special Envoy, announces that two months previously an explosion on the Klingon moon Praxis has polluted the [[Qo'noS|planet]]'s ozone and that the Klingon Homeworld has only fifty years of life left without diverting resources from its military expenditures. Spock, at the behest of the Vulcan ambassador [[Sarek]], has opened a dialog with [[Gorkon]], the Klingon [[Chancellor]], who wants to end all hostilities and dismantle all bases in and around the Neutral Zone. [[Admiral]] [[Cartwright]] objects, saying the Klingons must not be offered safe haven in Federation space. He declares that the Klingons would become the "alien trash of the galaxy", which brings a look of disbelief from McCoy. Cartwright suggests using military force so they can dictate terms from a far superior position. [[James T Kirk|Kirk]], while not agreeing with the hard line tactics outlined by Cartwright, agrees that giving the Klingons free reign in Federation space is a "terrifying idea". Spock says they must act now to support the Gorkon initiative before more conservative elements can seize control of the Empire and try to fight to the death.
+=== Act I &ndash; The Mission and Catastrophe ===
-Spock has volunteered the ''Enterprise'' and its crew to welcome Gorkon and his aides aboard and escort their ship to a peace meeting on Earth. Kirk protests that he is hardly the man for the job but is overruled and commanded to extend full diplomatic courtesy.
+[[File:Flag officers with service ribbons.jpg|thumb|"''Ladies and gentlemen, the C-in-C.''"]]
+Two months later on [[Earth]], the senior crew of the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-A|-A}} assembles for a meeting at [[Starfleet Headquarters]] in [[San Francisco]]. The {{dis|Bill|Admiral|C-in-C}} of Starfleet opens the meeting, bluntly stating that the [[Klingon Empire]] has only fifty years of life left in it. Federation Special Envoy [[Spock]] announces that the destruction of Praxis has polluted [[Qo'noS|the Klingon homeworld]]'s ozone so badly that the planet has only fifty years remaining without diverting resources from its significant military expenditures. At the behest of [[Vulcan]] ambassador [[Sarek]], Spock has opened a dialogue with Klingon [[Chancellor]] [[Gorkon]], who wishes to end all hostilities between the Empire and Starfleet, proposing the dismantling of all [[starbase]]s in and around the Neutral Zone. The [[Unnamed Starfleet Headquarters personnel (23rd century)#Military aide|Military aide]] asked Bill that are they talking [[mothball]]ing the Starfleet, but Bill said that their "exploration and scientific programs would be unaffected." [[Admiral]] [[Cartwright]] interrupts, vehemently objecting, saying the Klingons must not be offered safe haven in Federation space, suggesting Starfleet use military force in order to dictate terms from a superior position. Captain [[James T. Kirk|Kirk]] agrees that giving the Klingons free reign in Federation space is a "terrifying idea." However, Spock counters, arguing that they must act now to support the Gorkon initiative before conservative elements in the Klingon Empire can seize control and try to fight to the death.
+Spock has volunteered the ''Enterprise'' and its crew to welcome Gorkon and his aides aboard and escort their ship to a peace meeting on Earth. Kirk protests that he is hardly the man for the job but is overruled and commanded to extend full diplomatic courtesy. Verbally sending the ''Enterprise'' on its way, the [[commander in chief]] thanks the assembled Starfleet officers and reminds them the meeting they've just had is classified, dismissing them too.
-At that point, Kirk is left alone with Spock, who reminds him of an old Vulcan proverb that "''only [[Richard M. Nixon|Nixon]] could go to China.''" Kirk is angry that Spock would volunteer the ''Enterprise'' without consulting him. Spock states that his father, though Kirk knows that Spock's father ''is'' the Vulcan ambassador, to open the negotiations. Kirk is furious at Spock for having to treat the Klingon "animals" like honored guests after what they did to his son; Spock knows how he feels about the Klingons, but says "they are dying". Kirk snaps, "Let them die!"  Upon Spock's somewhat startled reaction, Kirk asks Spock if he has realized that the ''Enterprise'' crew is due to stand down in three months time, saying that they have all done ''"our bit for king and country"'' and Kirk says that Spock should have trusted him.
+At this point, Kirk is left alone with Spock, who reminds him of an old Vulcan proverb that "''only [[Richard M. Nixon|Nixon]] could go to [[China]].''" Kirk is angry that Spock would volunteer the ''Enterprise'' without consulting him. Spock states that his father requested he open the negotiations with the Klingons. Though Kirk knows that Spock's father ''is'' the Vulcan ambassador, Kirk is furious at Spock for forcing him to treat the Klingon "animals" like honored guests after what they did to [[David Marcus|his son]]; Spock knows how he feels about the Klingons, but reminds Kirk they are dying. Kirk snaps, "''Let them die!''" Upon Spock's somewhat startled reaction, Kirk asks Spock if he has realized that the ''Enterprise'' crew is due to stand down in just three months time, saying that they have all done their "bit for king and country" and Kirk says that Spock should have trusted him. They stand in the conference hall in silence, looking at each other from opposite ends of the long conference table.
-[[File:Valeris.jpg|thumb|''"Regulations specify thrusters only while in spacedock."'']]
-Captain Kirk and party are ferried to the [[Earth Spacedock]], and board the ''Enterprise''. Arriving on the bridge, Kirk, Spock and McCoy meet Lieutenant [[Valeris]], a young Vulcan female and a brilliant graduate of Starfleet Academy, who is volunteering as helmsman. At one quarter impulse power the ''Enterprise'' departs Spacedock and the Sol system to rendezvous with Gorkon's [[battle cruiser]], ''[[Kronos One]]''.
-[[File:David Marcus photo.jpg|thumb|''Kirk's son David'']]
-:"''Captain's log, stardate 9522.6. I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my [[David Marcus|boy]]. It seems to me our mission to escort the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion and I'd like to believe him. But how on Earth can history get past people like me?''"
+[[File:Valeris.jpg|left|thumb|"''Regulations specify thrusters ''only ''while in spacedock.''"]]
-Valeris then interrupts Kirk. Valeris informs Kirk of arriving at the rendezvous point. Valeris then tells Kirk how she enjoyed leaving the space dock. Kirk tells her she piloted well out of Spacedock and Valeris tells Kirk she's always wanted to try it.
+Soon after, Captain Kirk and party are ferried to the [[Spacedock One]] aboard ''[[SD-103]]'' and board the ''Enterprise''. Upon arriving at the bridge, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy meet Lieutenant [[Valeris]], a young Vulcan female and the first Vulcan to graduate at the top of her class at [[Starfleet Academy]], who is volunteering as helmsman. "''Let's get this over with. Departure stations,''" Kirk announces to his crew. After an awkward moment when Kirk orders Valeris to depart Spacedock at one quarter impulse power despite [[General Orders and Regulations|regulations]] specifying [[thruster]]s only, the ''Enterprise'' departs Spacedock and the [[Sol system]] to rendezvous with Gorkon's [[battle cruiser]], ''[[Kronos One]]''.
+[[File:David Marcus photo.jpg|thumb|A photo of Kirk's son [[David Marcus]]]]
-Valeris discusses logic and philosophy with Spock in his quarters in terms of their current mission. Spock says history is loaded with turning points and she must have faith that the universe will unfold as it should. When Valeris asks if that is logical, Spock points out a simple fact that has taken him a lifetime to learn; logic is only the beginning of wisdom and not the end. Spock is going to retire, with this being his last voyage on the ''Enterprise'' as a member of the crew and wants Valeris to replace him.  Valeris states that she could only succeed Spock.  Upon this, an announcement is made that all hands report to duty stations as a Klingon battlecruiser has arrived.
+:"''[[Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A)|Captain's log]], stardate 9522.6. I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my boy. It seems to me our mission to escort the [[Chancellor of the Klingon High Council]] to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion and I'd like to believe him. But how on Earth can history get past people like me?''"
-Upon rendezvous with Gorkon, Captain Kirk reluctantly, but formally, invites the Chancellor and his staff to have dinner aboard the ''Enterprise'' at 1930 hours as guests of the Federation. Valeris then suggests opening up the supply of [[Romulan ale]] that is aboard, thinking it may help the evening progress more smoothly. Kirk compliments her thinking and leaves the bridge.
+Valeris then interrupts Kirk in his quarters. She informs him that the ''Enterprise'' is almost upon arrival at the rendezvous point. Valeris then tells Kirk how much of an honor it is to serve with him. Kirk tells her she piloted well out of Spacedock and Valeris tells him she has always wanted to try it.
+[[File:Spock and Valeris.jpg|left|thumb|"''History is ''replete ''with turning points, lieutenant. You must have faith.''"]]
-Later, in the transporter room, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty are on hand to greet Gorkon and his party. All behave cordially on the surface. Gorkon introduces his daughter, [[Azetbur]], his military adviser, Brigadier General [[Kerla]], and General [[Chang (General)|Chang]], his [[chief of staff]]. While Gorkon is dignified and gracious, offering Spock his sincere gratitude for his actions towards peace, Chang, who has an especially smug, obnoxious demeanor, tells Kirk that he has so wanted to meet the ''great'' Capt. Kirk, ''"warrior to warrior"'' out of admiration.
+Later, Valeris discusses logic and philosophy with Spock in his quarters in terms of their current mission. Spock says history is replete with turning points and she must have faith that the universe will ultimately unfold as it should. When Valeris begins to ask if that is logical, Spock points out a simple fact that has taken him a lifetime to learn; logic is only the beginning of wisdom and not the end. Spock is soon to retire, with this being his last voyage on the ''Enterprise'' as a member of the crew and he intends for Valeris to replace him. Valeris states that she could only succeed Spock. Upon this, an announcement is made through the ship's [[intercom]] that all hands are to report to duty stations as a Klingon battlecruiser has arrived off the ''Enterprise''{{'}}s port bow.
-[[File:Gorkon.jpg|thumb|''"I offer a toast &ndash; the undiscovered country &ndash; the future."'']]
-Shortly afterward, both Kirk and Gorkon's staff dine together. Gorkon gives a [[toast]] to "the undiscovered country &ndash; the future". Spock recognizes the line from ''[[Hamlet]]'' and Gorkon tells Spock that one has never read [[Shakespeare]] properly until reading the text in "the original Klingon". McCoy diplomatically offers a toast to Gorkon, calling him ''"one of the architects of our future."'' The dinner proceeds with surface pleasantries gradually melting to reveal angry hostility. In particular, Chekov says the Federation believes all worlds have the sovereign claim to inalienable ''human'' rights and Azetbur points out that this statement is racist and that the Federation is little better than a ''homo sapiens'' only club. Chang tells Kirk that they all need breathing room, which Kirk points out is the same thing [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] said, which offends Chang. Thinly masking his disappointment, Gorkon simply quips that they have a long way to go.
+Upon rendezvous with Gorkon, Captain Kirk reluctantly, but formally, invites the Chancellor and his staff to have dinner aboard the ''Enterprise'' at 1930 hours as guests of the Federation. Valeris then suggests opening up the supply of [[Romulan ale]] that is aboard, thinking it may help the evening progress more smoothly. Kirk compliments her thinking and leaves the bridge. "''Guess who's coming to dinner?''", Commander [[Pavel Chekov|Chekov]] quietly says.
-As the Klingons prepare to leave, Kirk sarcastically jokes that they must do this again sometime. Gorkon says he knows Kirk doesn't trust him, and offers that "''if there is to be a brave, new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it.''" Once the Klingons are safely beamed off the ship, the entire senior staff relaxes, observing that the Klingons were pretty awful, but so were they themselves.
+Later, in the [[transporter room]], Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and [[Montgomery Scott|Scott]] are on hand to greet Gorkon and his party. All behave cordially on the surface. Gorkon introduces his daughter, [[Azetbur]], his military adviser, Brigadier General [[Kerla]], and General {{dis|Chang|General}}, his [[chief of staff]]. While Gorkon is dignified and gracious, offering Spock his sincere gratitude for his actions towards peace, Chang, who has an especially smug, obnoxious demeanor, tells Kirk that he has so wanted to meet the ''great'' Captain Kirk, "''warrior to warrior''" out of admiration. "''Right,''" Kirk coldly replies. He leads the Klingon delegation out of the room, thinking they might enjoy a brief tour of the vessel.
-:"''Captain's log, supplemental. The ''Enterprise'' hosted Chancellor Gorkon and his party to dinner last night. Our manners weren't exactly Emily Post. Oh, note to the galley, Romulan ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions.''"
-[[File:Kronos one stateroom.jpg|thumb|''"We're hit...!"'']]
+[[File:Gorkon.jpg|thumb|"''I offer a toast &ndash; the undiscovered country &ndash; the future.''"]]
+Shortly afterward, both Kirk and Gorkon's staff dine together. Gorkon gives a [[toast]] to "the undiscovered country &ndash; the future". Spock recognizes the line from ''[[Hamlet]]'', specifically from act III, scene I, and Gorkon tells Spock that one has never read [[Shakespeare]] properly until reading the text in "the original Klingon." McCoy diplomatically offers a toast to Gorkon, calling him "''one of the architects of our future.''" The dinner proceeds with surface pleasantries gradually melting to reveal angry hostility. In particular, Chekov says the Federation believes all worlds have the sovereign claim to inalienable ''Human'' rights and Azetbur points out that this statement is racist and that the Federation is little better than a ''homo sapiens'' only club, "''present company excepted, of course,''" Chang adds. Chang tells Kirk that they all need breathing room, which Kirk points out is the same thing [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] said in [[1938]], which offends Chang. Thinly masking his disappointment, Gorkon simply quips that they have a long way to go.
-Lying down to sleep, and nursing a terrible hangover, Kirk is summoned to the bridge by Spock. Sensors are picking up an enormous amount of [[neutron radiation]] which appears to be emanating from ''Enterprise'' (which an equally hungover Chekov painfully jokes that it is only the size of his head). A [[photon torpedo]] shoots out and strikes ''Kronos One''. A second photon torpedo knocks out the gravity. The torpedo bay, according to Mr. Scott, is still fully loaded; no matter what the instruments say, the ''Enterprise'' could not have fired.
+As the Klingons prepare to leave, Kirk sarcastically jokes that they must do this again sometime. Gorkon says he knows Kirk doesn't trust him, and offers that "''if there is to be a brave, new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it.''" Chang walks up to Kirk before leaving, telling him "''parting is such sweet sorrow,''" and steps onto the transporter platform while Kirk shakes his head. Once the Klingons are safely beamed off the ship, the entire senior staff relaxes, observing that the Klingons exhibited poor manners; Spock notes that they were little better. "''I'm going to sleep this off. Please let me know if there's some other way we can screw up tonight,''" Kirk says before leaving. McCoy announces he is going to find a pot of black [[coffee]]. Spock raises his eyebrow.
-As the Klingons begin floating helplessly about, a [[transporter]] beam engages and two men in Starfleet uniforms with closed helmets and gravity boots begin walking through the corridors, shooting every Klingon they come in contact with, including Gorkon.
+:"''The ''Enterprise'' hosted Chancellor Gorkon and party to dinner last night. Our manners weren't exactly [[Emily Post]]. Oh, note to the galley, Romulan ale no longer to be served at [[diplomatic function]]s.''"
+[[File:Kronos one stateroom.jpg|left|thumb|"''We're hit&hellip;!''"]]
+Lying down to sleep, and nursing a terrible hangover, Kirk is summoned to the bridge by Spock. Sensors are picking up an enormous amount of [[neutron radiation]] which appears to be emanating from ''Enterprise'' (which an equally hungover Chekov painfully jokes that it is only the size of his head). A [[photon torpedo]] shoots out and strikes ''Kronos One''. The entire bridge crew immediately jumps into action, as a second photon torpedo knocks out the gravity. Kirk asks Scotty if ''Enterprise'' actually fired and Scotty denies it as according to the inventory the ship still has her entire complement of torpedoes.
+As the Klingons begin floating helplessly about, a [[transporter]] beam engages and two men in Starfleet uniforms with closed helmets and [[gravity boot]]s begin walking through the corridors, shooting every Klingon they come in contact with, including Gorkon.
 [[File:Why that cunning little Vulcan.jpg|thumb|"''Why that cunning little Vulcan.''"]]
-When auxiliary gravity is restored on ''Kronos One'', Gorkon is discovered, mortally wounded. A furious Chang accuses Kirk of defiling the peace they're striving to work for, and saying that he'll blow out of the stars. Kirk denies that they fired, although the ship's data banks say they did according to Spock. Kirk orders that the ''Enterprise'' surrender, much to the surprise of the bridge crew. He prepares to board ''Kronos One'' leaving Spock in command &ndash; where he'll be able to get Kirk out of trouble. Spock subtly slaps a small black patch on Kirk's back. McCoy decides to go too in case they need a doctor.
+When auxiliary gravity is restored on ''Kronos One'', Gorkon is discovered, mortally wounded. A furious Chang accuses Kirk of defiling the peace they're striving to work for, and saying that he'll blow them out of the stars. Kirk denies that they fired, although the ship's data banks say they did according to Spock. Kirk orders that the ''Enterprise'' surrender, much to the surprise of the bridge crew. He prepares to board ''Kronos One'' leaving Spock in command &ndash; where he'll be able to get Kirk out of trouble. Spock subtly slaps a [[viridium patch|small black patch]] on Kirk's back. McCoy decides to go too in case they need a doctor. "''Uhura, tell them we're coming and ''tell'' them we're unarmed!''", Kirk says.
-When they arrive on ''Kronos One'' Kerla asks if Kirk has "lost his mind". Kirk and McCoy insist they don't know what's happened and that they want to help, Kerla reluctantly allows them to follow him to Gorkon, who is badly wounded. Chang tells him about the torpedoes, the gravity, and the assassins. McCoy tries to save Gorkon but fails due to his lack of knowledge of Klingon anatomy. Before dying, Gorkon reaches up to Kirk and begs him not to let it end this way. General Chang has Kirk and McCoy arrested for murder.
+When they materialize on ''Kronos One'', Kerla asks if Kirk has "lost his mind." Kirk swears they genuinely do not know what has happened and that they only want to help. Kerla reluctantly allows them to follow him to Gorkon, who is badly wounded. Chang tells him about the torpedoes, the gravity, and the assassins. McCoy tries to save Gorkon but fails due to his lack of knowledge of Klingon anatomy. Before dying, Gorkon reaches up to Kirk, grasping the back of his head, and begs him not to let it end this way. General Chang has Kirk and McCoy arrested for murder under article 184 of [[Interstellar Law]].
+=== Act II &ndash; The Trial and Spock's Investigation ===
-On the ''Enterprise'' Uhura relays the news of their arrest. Spock then formally assumes command of the ship and begins a full-scale investigation. When Chekov asks what will happen if they cannot piece together what happened, Spock says then "''in that case, Mr. Chekov, it resides in the purview of the diplomats.''"
+On the ''Enterprise'' Uhura relays the news of their arrest. Spock then formally assumes command of the ship and begins a full-scale investigation. When Chekov asks what will happen if they cannot piece together what transpired, Spock says then "''in that case, Mr. Chekov, it resides in the purview of the diplomats.''"
-[[File:Efrosian Federation President.jpg|thumb|''"This President is not above the law!"'']]
-On Earth, the [[Unnamed Klingons#Klingon Ambassador|Klingon ambassador]] is speaking with the [[Federation president#Efrosian President, c. 2293|Federation President]], defending his government's decision to arrest Kirk and McCoy for the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon. The president has ordered a full-scale investigation too, but the Klingon ambassador says that by the articles of interstellar law Kirk and McCoy must stand trial in a Klingon court. Sarek and Romulan ambassador [[Nanclus]] concur. The commander-in-chief, Admiral Cartwright, and [[Colonel]] [[West]] enters. They propose a plan they call [[Operation Retrieve]], to rescue Kirk and McCoy, West states that they could go in and get Kirk and McCoy in less than 24 hours with acceptable losses in manpower and equipment.  The president asks what would happen then if they precipitate a full scale war and West frankly states ''"Then Mr. President, we can clean their chronometers."''  Nanclus tells the president that the Klingons are vulnerable and there would never be a better time to strike them.  Cartwright says that the longer they wait, the less accessible the hostages become.  The president then dismisses everyone saying he'll keep all this in mind.  Everyone except for Sarek leaves the president alone.  At the door, the C in C stops and reminds the president that Kirk and McCoy have literally saved [[Earth|the planet]].  The president knows this and tells the C in C that they are now going to save it again... by standing trial.
+[[File:Efrosian Federation President.jpg|left|thumb|"''This President is not above the law!''"]]
-Uhura receives a message from Starfleet Command to return to Earth immediately. Both she and Chekov agree they cannot abandon the captain and Dr. McCoy. Valeris tells them how 400 years ago on the planet Earth, when workers felt threatened by automation, they flung their wooden shoes called ''sabots'' into the machines to stop them, thus coining the word "[[sabotage]]." Uhura comes up with a response that ''Enterprise''{{'}}s backup systems are all inoperative.
+On Earth, the [[Klingon 23rd ambassador 001|Klingon Ambassador]] is speaking with the [[Efrosian president 001|Federation President]] in his office in [[Paris]], defending his government's decision to arrest Kirk and McCoy for the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon. The president has ordered a full-scale investigation too, but the Klingon ambassador says that by the articles of interstellar law Kirk and McCoy must stand trial in a Klingon court. [[Sarek]] and [[Romulan]] [[ambassador]] [[Nanclus]] concur. As the Klingon Ambassador leaves, the commander-in-chief, Admiral Cartwright, and [[Colonel]] [[West]] enter. They propose a plan they call [[Operation Retrieve]], to rescue Kirk and McCoy, West states that they could go in and get Kirk and McCoy in less than 24 hours with acceptable losses in manpower and equipment. The president asks what would happen then if they precipitate a full scale war and West frankly states "''Then Mr. President, we can clean their chronometers.''" Nanclus tells the president that the Klingons are vulnerable and there would never be a better time to strike them. Cartwright says that the longer they wait, the less accessible the hostages become. The president then dismisses everyone saying he'll keep all this in mind. Everyone except for Sarek leaves the president alone. At the door, the C in C stops and reminds the president that Kirk and McCoy have literally saved [[Earth|the planet]]. The president knows this and tells the C in C that they are now going to save it again&hellip; by standing trial.
+Uhura receives a message from Starfleet Command ordering them to return to Earth immediately. Both she and Chekov agree they cannot abandon the captain and Dr. McCoy. Valeris tells the both of them how [[19th century|400 years ago]] on the planet Earth, when workers felt threatened by automation, they flung their wooden shoes called ''sabots'' into the machines to stop them, thus coining the word "[[sabotage]]." Uhura comes up with a response that ''Enterprise''{{'}}s [[backup system]]s are all inoperative. "''Excellent. I-I-I mean, too bad,''" Chekov says.
-Azetbur, now Klingon Chancellor, communicates with the President. She says in one week she will attend a peace conference at a neutral, secret site on the condition that they will not extradite Kirk and McCoy and that the Federation will make no attempts at a military extraction. If they do so, it will mean war.
-[[File:Azetbur.jpg|thumb|''"War is...obsolete. As we are in danger of becoming."'']]
-Azetbur's advisors (including Kerla) suggest attacking the Federation now while they still can. The warriors prefer to fight and die. Azetbur stands up to them, saying that war is obsolete and the peace process must go forward, and Kirk alone will pay for her father's death. Chang states that her father died for what he wanted.
+Azetbur, now Klingon Chancellor, communicates with the President. She says in one week she will attend a peace conference at a neutral, secret site on the condition that they will not extradite Kirk and McCoy and that the Federation will make no attempts at a military extraction. If they do so, the Klingons will consider it an act of war.
-Spock's investigation is proceeding. One computer is saying that ''Enterprise'' fired and the other one says they didn't, so they'll have to inspect each torpedo visually. If they're all there, it'll prove someone has forged an entry in the data banks.
+[[File:Azetbur.jpg|thumb|"''War is&hellip; obsolete. As we are in danger of becoming.''"]]
-=== Act II - The Trial and Spock's Investigation ===
+After ending the transmission to the Federation President, Azetbur's advisors (including Kerla) suggest attacking the Federation now while they still can, or else the Federation will take advantage of Praxis' destruction and enslave them. Azetbur stands up to them, saying that war is obsolete, as they are in danger of becoming. One of her advisors sneers, ''"better to die on our feet than live on our knees!"'' Azetbur firmly says that her father wanted peace, and Chang, standing aside in the corner, speaks for the first time, reminding her gently that her father's wishes got him killed.  Azetbur stands her ground, saying the peace process will go forward, but adds, with resolve, that Kirk will pay for her father's death.
+Spock's investigation is proceeding. The computer says that ''Enterprise'' fired and the torpedo inventory says they didn't, so they'll have to inspect each torpedo visually.
-[[File:Worf_(Colonel).jpg|thumb|''"If the gravitational field was not functioning, how could these men be walking?"'']]
-The trial now begins, with Chang as prosecutor and [[Worf (Colonel)|Colonel Worf]] as Kirk and McCoy's defense attorney. In a Klingon trial, the prosecution and defense question witnesses at the same time. The first witness says the murderers were wearing magnetic boots, a fact which, back on ''Enterprise'', gets Spock to thinking. Chang then begins questioning McCoy beginning with McCoy's current medical status, to which McCoy jokes stating ''"other than a touch of arthritis, I'd say, pretty good!"''  Chang tries to impugn McCoy's medical competence and questions whether he really tried his best to save Gorkon. McCoy says he desperately tried to save Gorkon as he was the last best hope for peace. Then the judge excuses him.
+[[File:Worf (Colonel).jpg|left|thumb|"''If the gravitational field was not functioning, how could these men be walking?''"]]
+The trial begins, with Chang as prosecutor and [[Colonel]] {{dis|Worf|Colonel}} as Kirk and McCoy's defense attorney. In a Klingon trial on Qo'noS, the prosecution and defense question witnesses at the same time. The first witness says the murderers were wearing magnetic boots, a fact which, while viewing the trial back on the bridge of the ''Enterprise'' gets Spock to thinking. Chang then begins questioning McCoy, starting with McCoy's current medical status, to which McCoy jokes "''other than a touch of arthritis, I'd say, pretty good!''" Chang tries to impugn McCoy's medical competence and questions whether he really tried his best to save Gorkon. McCoy says he desperately tried to save Gorkon as he was the last best hope for peace. The judge then excuses him.
 Chang then turns to Kirk and calls him "the architect of this tragic affair." Chang accuses Kirk of plotting to kill Gorkon as revenge for the death of his son, a charge Kirk denies. Worf objects, stating Kirk has not been identified as the assassin. Chang enters into the record an excerpt from Kirk's personal log:
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 :"''I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I have never been able to forgive them for the death of my boy.''"
-Kirk admits he did say this. Chang uses a number of examples from Kirk's record to show that it's possible he arranged for Gorkon's murder. Kirk is maneuvered into stating that of course he is responsible for the actions of every member of his crew. The judge finds both guilty as charged, which carries a death penalty. Worf argues that the bulk of the evidence against his clients is circumstantial and begs the court to consider this upon sentencing. The judge commutes their death sentences to life without parole on the penal asteroid of [[Rura Penthe]], known throughout the galaxy as the aliens' graveyard.
+Kirk admits that he did indeed say this. Chang uses a number of examples from Kirk's record to show that it's possible he arranged for Gorkon's murder, such as [[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home|his demotion]] from [[rear admiral|admiral]] to captain for insubordination. Kirk is maneuvered into stating that of course he is responsible for the actions of every member of his crew. The judge finds both guilty as charged, which carries a death penalty. Worf argues that the bulk of the evidence against his clients is circumstantial and begs the court to consider this upon sentencing. The judge agrees then commutes their death sentences to life without parole on the penal asteroid of [[Rura Penthe]], known throughout the galaxy as the aliens' [[graveyard]].
+On ''Excelsior'', where Sulu and his crew have also been watching the trial, the captain directs that a message be sent to ''Enterprise'', telling them that Sulu and the crew of ''Excelsior'' stand ready to assist them.
-Meanwhile, Spock has come to suspect that a [[cloaking device|cloaked]] ship, probably a [[Klingon Bird-of-Prey|Bird-of-Prey]], actually fired from underneath the ''Enterprise''. Scotty argues that and states:
-:"''A bird of prey cannot open fire when it's cloaked!''"
+With the trial concluded, Spock asks Valeris to replay the footage of the torpedo launch.  Scott insists that all the ''Enterprise'' torpedoes have been visually accounted for, and there is no way the ship could have fired.  Spock repeats a maxim of one of his ancestors: ''"[[Sherlock Holmes|once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.]]"'' If ''Enterprise'' could not have fired, it must have come from a [[cloak]]ed ship, probably a [[Klingon Bird-of-Prey|Bird-of-Prey]], hiding underneath ''Enterprise''. Scotty objects that a Bird-of-Prey cannot fire its weapons while cloaked, but Spock rejoins that apparently this one can.  Unfortunately, they have no evidence, only a theory which happens to fit the facts available.  Chekov argues that if there was a cloaked ship, the assassins must have beamed onto Gorkon's ship from there, not ''Enterprise'', but Spock reminds him that someone was responsible for firing the torpedoes or making the false entry in the ship's data banks; either way, the person or persons responsible are aboard ''Enterprise''.  Spock puts Valeris in charge of a search for two pairs of gravity boots.
-Spock puts Valeris in charge of a search for two pairs of gravity boots, which must be somewhere on board.
-[[File:Klingon_commandant,_William_Morgan_Sheppard.jpg|thumb|''"...only a magnetic shield prevents beaming."'']]
+[[File:Klingon commandant.jpg|thumb|"''&hellip; only a magnetic shield prevents beaming.''"]]
-Kirk and McCoy are taken from Qo'noS, along with a group of other prisoners, to the frozen wasteland of Rura Penthe, an appropriately harsh place protected only by a magnetic shield. Kirk almost immediately has an altercation with a large alien, but is rescued by an exotic looking woman, [[Martia]].
+Kirk and McCoy are taken from Qo'noS, along with a group of other prisoners, to the frozen wasteland of Rura Penthe, an appropriately harsh place protected only by a magnetic shield. On arrival at the prison, they are greeted by the warden, who warns them that escape is quite impossible, and that anyone who is disobedient or fails to work hard enough will be punished via exile from prison to the surface where nothing can survive; a fact which is graphically demonstrated when a naked prisoner is dragged out and thrown into the snowy wastes to rapidly freeze to death. Inside the prison, Kirk almost immediately has an altercation with a large alien, but is rescued by an exotic looking woman, [[Martia]].
+In the galley, Spock and Valeris observe the search going on. When Chekov asks Valeris why the assassins didn't simply vaporize the boots, she pulls a phaser out from a [[weapons locker]] and vaporizes a nearby pot. An alarm goes off and she deactivates it, explaining to Chekov that you cannot fire an unauthorized phaser set to vaporize aboard a starship. Scotty and Uhura come in wanting to know who triggered the alarm by firing the phaser. They continue to stall for time by claiming malfunctioning equipment. Uhura reminds Spock that they have lost all contact with Kirk and McCoy. Spock notes this but says that if he knows Kirk well, by this time he is deep into planning his escape.
-In the galley, Spock and Valeris observe the search going on. Scott and Uhura continue to stall for time by claiming malfunctioning equipment.
-[[File:Horned_alien,_Dennis_Ott.jpg|thumb|"''Not everyone keeps his genitals in the same place.''"]]
-Meanwhile, Kirk is engaged in hand-to-hand combat with another alien, and is surprised when he wins. Martia offers to help Kirk and McCoy escape. That night in their bunks, Kirk admits he'd gotten so used to hating Klingons that it never even occurred to him to take Gorkon at his word. Martia comes in, gives Kirk a big kiss and tells him where to meet her to plan an escape.
+[[File:Horned alien, Dennis Ott.jpg|left|thumb|"''Not everyone keeps their genitals in the same place.''"]]
-=== Act III - The Rescue and Revelation ===
+Meanwhile, Kirk is engaged in hand-to-hand combat with another alien, and is surprised when he wins. Kirk informs McCoy and Martia that he was lucky the brute had knees. Martia tells Kirk that that was ''not'' his knee, noting that not all species have their [[genitals]] in the same place. Martia offers to help Kirk and McCoy escape. That night in their bunks, Kirk admits he'd gotten so used to hating Klingons and that it never even occurred to him to take Gorkon at his word. Martia comes in, gives Kirk a big kiss and tells him where to meet her to plan an escape.
-Sulu's [[USS Excelsior personnel#Night-shift communications officer|officer]] tells him that Starfleet wants to know what happened to the ''Enterprise.'' Sulu states that he nor the ''Excelsior'' personnel know anything about the ''Enterprise'' and dismisses the officer. Now Sulu is getting really worried.
+=== Act III &ndash; The Rescue and Revelation ===
-In the transporter room, Chekov finds some dried remains and takes a sample of it to Spock, who discovers that it is Klingon blood, which must have been floating through the Klingon ship and got tracked back to ''Enterprise'' by the assassins walking through it. Spock notes this as the first piece of evidence to corroborate their theory and therefore expands the search to include all uniforms aboard ship. Valeris eventually finds the magnetic boots; however, they are in the locker of a [[Dax (crewman)|crewman]] whose feet are shaped differently from humans'; the boots couldn't possibly be his much to the surprise of Chekov.
+Aboard ''Excelsior'', Sulu's [[USS Excelsior communications 001|officer]] tells him that Starfleet wants to know what has happened to the ''Enterprise''. Sulu states that he nor the ''Excelsior'' personnel know anything about the ''Enterprise'' and dismisses the officer. Now Sulu is getting really worried.
-[[File:Brute tom morga STVI.jpg|thumb|"''They don't take girls.''"]]
+[[File: Dax's feet.jpg|thumb|"''If the shoe fits, wear it!''"]]
+In the transporter room, Chekov finds some small dried remains on the transporter platform and takes a sample of it to Spock, who discovers that it is Klingon blood, which must have been floating through the Klingon ship and got tracked back to ''Enterprise'' by the assassins walking through it. Spock notes this as the first piece of evidence to corroborate their theory and therefore expands the search to include ''all'' uniforms aboard ship. Valeris eventually finds the magnetic boots; however, they are in the locker of a {{dis|Dax|Crewman|crewman}} whose feet are shaped differently from Humans'; the boots couldn't possibly be his much to Chekov's surprise.
-Kirk and McCoy get into a lift for mining duty and discover that Martia is a shapeshifter. She changes bodies several times in the course of leading them out of the range of the magnetic shield. Uhura and Spock have noted Kirk's exit from the beaming shield as well. Spock orders the ship to Rura Penthe. It seems that what he put on Kirk's back was a [[viridium patch]] which enabled him to track the captain.
-[[File:Klingon translation books.jpg|thumb|"''We is condemning food... things and... supplies to Rura Penthe... over...''"]]
+[[File:Martia as the Brute.jpg|left|thumb|Martia as the Brute: "''They don't take girls.''"]]
+[[File:Martia as child.jpg|left|thumb|Martia, appearing as a small [[Human]] girl]]
-The ''Enterprise'' passes into Klingon space and gets the attention of a Klingon listening post. Strangely, not even Uhura knows enough Klingon to communicate intelligibly with the sentries. If they used the [[universal translator]], the sentries would pick it up. In badly broken [[Klingon language|Klingon]] Uhura identifies her ship as a freighter, [[Ursva|IKS ''Ursva'']], headed to Rura Penthe to deliver supplies. The Klingons at the listening post are fooled and end up making a Klingon joke, in which the Klingon and the ''Enterprise'' crew forcibly laugh.
+Kirk and McCoy get into a lift for mining duty and discover that Martia is a shapeshifter. She changes bodies several times in the course of leading them out of the range of the magnetic shield. Uhura and Spock have noted Kirk's exit from the beaming shield as well. Spock orders the ship to Rura Penthe. It seems that what he put on Kirk's back was a viridium patch which enabled him to track the captain.
+[[File:Klingon translation books.jpg|thumb|"''We is condemning food&hellip; things and&hellip; supplies to Rura Penthe&hellip; over&hellip;''"]]
+The ''Enterprise'' passes into Klingon space and gets the attention of a Klingon listening post. If they respond while using the [[universal translator]], the sentries would pick it up. In badly broken [[Klingon language|Klingon]], Uhura identifies her ship as a freighter, [[Ursva|IKS ''Ursva'']], headed to Rura Penthe to "condemn" food, supplies and "things." The Klingons at the listening post are fooled and end up making a Klingon joke, in which the Klingons and the ''Enterprise'' crew forcibly laugh at.
+[[File:Martia's death.jpg|left|thumb|"''Not me, you idiot,'' him!"]]
 As Martia produces warm clothes and other supplies and lights a flare for heat, Kirk realizes that Martia is setting him and McCoy up to be killed. She's spoken previously of a huge reward to the person who gets them, and the flare is a dead giveaway. Martia changes into a duplicate Kirk and they fight, rolling all over the snow before being stopped by a [[jackal mastiff]], Klingon guards, and the warden. Kirk and Martia (still appearing as Kirk) stand next to each other. Kirk convinces the warden to shoot Martia, since they don't want any witnesses. Kirk then asks who wanted them killed. Just before the warden can identify the culprit, Kirk and McCoy are beamed out of the cave &ndash; with Kirk swearing the whole way up.
-Appearing on the transporter pad, Kirk asks Spock if he couldn't have waited two more seconds, as the warden was about to explain the whole thing. When Chekov sheepishly asks if they want to go back, McCoy answers "''Absolutely not!''" Kirk adds, "''It's cold!''" Chang finds out about this and prepares to intercept the ''Enterprise.''
+Materializing on the transporter pad, Kirk asks Spock if he couldn't have waited just two more seconds, as the warden was about to explain the whole thing. When Chekov sheepishly asks if they want to go back, McCoy answers "''Absolutely not!''" Kirk adds, "''It's cold.''" Chang finds out about this from the commandant and prepares to intercept the ''Enterprise''.
-Scotty discovers two sets of uniforms with Klingon blood on them in the [[officer's mess]]. They subsequently find [[Yeoman|Yeomen]] [[Burke (Yeoman)|Burke]] and [[Samno]], both dead, killed by a phaser stun at close range. They were the ones on guard in the transporter room when Gorkon and party first beamed aboard the ''Enterprise''. To lure out the assassin, an announcement is made over the intercom that statements will be taken from Burke and Samno, as if they are merely injured. Someone walks into the darkened sickbay with phaser in hand; it's Valeris. Valeris is stunned to see Kirk and her mentor Spock in the hospital beds instead of the dead crewmen. Hurt and angry over her betrayal, Spock challenges Valeris to shoot him, and violently slaps the phaser from her hand. McCoy appears from the shadows and informs her that the operation is over.
+Sitting in the ''Enterprise''{{'}}s [[officers' mess]], Scott discovers two sets of uniforms with Klingon blood on them. Scott runs up to Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Chekov in a [[corridor]] and they subsequently find [[Yeoman|Yeomen]] {{dis|Burke|Yeoman}} and [[Samno]], both dead, killed by a phaser stun at close range. They were the ones on guard in the transporter room when Gorkon and party first beamed aboard the ''Enterprise''. To lure out the assassin, an announcement is made over the ship's intercom ordering the [[court reporter]] to sickbay and that statements will be taken from Burke and Samno, as if they are merely injured. Someone walks into the darkened sickbay with phaser in hand &ndash; it is revealed to be Valeris. Valeris is stunned to see Kirk and her mentor Spock in the bio-beds instead of the dead crewmen. Hurt and angry over her betrayal, Spock challenges Valeris to shoot him (while Kirk prefers she doesn't), and violently slaps the phaser out of her hand. McCoy emerges from the shadows and informs her that the operation is over.
-On the bridge, Valeris denies firing and says that Kirk has no proof. But Kirk does. He reminds her that his personal log was used as evidence against him at the trial; she must have recorded him talking on his personal log that night Valeris was standing outside his doorway. Valeris dodges the accusation by accusing Kirk and the entire ship of betraying Starfleet.  When McCoy calls her on it and asks her what she thinks she's been doing, she says she's been working to save Starfleet. She reveals that some Klingons conspired with Starfleet officers to kill their own Chancellor. McCoy ponders the concept of peace between the Klingons and Federation being so unacceptable to members of both sides that they worked together to prevent it.
+On the bridge, Valeris claims that as she did not fire the crew has no proof against her, but Kirk does. He reminds her that his personal log was used as evidence against him at the trial; she must have recorded him talking on his personal log that night when Valeris was standing outside his doorway. Valeris dodges the accusation by accusing Kirk and the entire ship of betraying Starfleet. When McCoy calls her on it and asks her what she thinks she's been doing, she says she's been working to save Starfleet. She doesn't believe Klingons can ever be trusted, and reminds Kirk that they killed his son and how he said to "''let them die''" rather than help, and Kirk can't help but feel ashamed that he made such a statement. She reveals that some Klingons conspired with Starfleet officers to kill their own Chancellor &ndash; how trustworthy can they be? McCoy ponders the concept of peace between the Klingons and Federation being so unacceptable to members of both sides that they worked together to prevent it (while implying the irony that the conspiracy actually proves that Humans and Klingons actually can coexist and work together). Kirk demands the names of her co-conspirators, and Valeris claims she does not remember. "''A lie?''", Spock asks. "''A choice,''" she replies.
-[[File:Mind Meld Spock Valeris.jpg|thumb|"''Names, lieutenant...''"]]
+[[File:Mind Meld Spock Valeris.jpg|thumb|"Names'', lieutenant!''"]]
-Spock forces her into a [[Vulcan mind meld|mind meld]], discovering that the conspirators include Admiral Cartwright, General Chang, and the [[Romulan]] [[Ambassador]], [[Nanclus]]. He looks further into her mind but Valeris does not know where the peace conference is. The ''Enterprise'' contacts the ''Excelsior'' and Sulu tells Kirk that the conference will be held at Camp [[Khitomer]], beginning later that day.
+Spock slowly walks up to Valeris near the [[viewscreen]] and forces her into a [[mind meld]], discovering that the conspirators include Admiral Cartwright, General Chang, and the Romulan Ambassador, Nanclus. Kirk asks where the peace conference will be held, so Spock looks further into her mind to the point it causes her physical pain, but Valeris ultimately does not know where the peace conference is. The ''Enterprise'' contacts the ''Excelsior'' and Sulu tells Kirk that the conference will be held at [[Camp Khitomer]], beginning later that day.
-=== Act IV - Realizations and Confrontations ===
+=== Act IV &ndash; Realizations and Confrontations ===
-In Spock's quarters, Kirk admits that he couldn't get past the death of his son and that it took Gorkon's death to get him to realize how prejudiced he was. Spock admits he was prejudiced by Valeris's accomplishments as a Vulcan and speculates that he and Kirk are getting so old that they're obsolete.
+Later, in Spock's quarters, Kirk admits that he couldn't get past the death of his son and that it took Gorkon's death to get him to realize how prejudiced he was. Spock admits he was prejudiced by Valeris's accomplishments as a Vulcan and speculates that he and Kirk &ndash; with their inflexible thinking &ndash; are obsolete.
-The Khitomer conference begins, as the ''Enterprise'' races into orbit about the planet. If Chang's ship is there, it's cloaked. Tension mounts on board the ship as they get ever closer to transport range. With just over 40 seconds to go, Chang contacts Kirk and begins quoting Shakespeare:
+The Khitomer conference begins, as ''Enterprise'' drops out of warp and races towards the planet at impulse.  If Chang's ship is there, it's cloaked, and the only means of detecting it would be the same surge of neutron radiation that occurred when Gorkon's ship was fired upon. Tension mounts on board the ship as they get ever closer to transporter range. With just over 40 seconds to go, Chang contacts Kirk over subspace and asks him, "''warrior to warrior''," to admit that Kirk prefers for the Federation and Klingons to remain enemies, and continue slaughtering each other in glorious combat: "''Once more unto the breach, dear friends&hellip;''"
-:''"Once more unto the breach, dear friends"''.
+Then, with another quote of ''"to be or not to be&hellip;"'' in Klingon, Chang signals his gunner, and the Bird-of-Prey opens fire with [[photon torpedo|photon torpedoe]]s.  With the cloak in place, ''Enterprise's'' shields take a pounding, but they cannot return fire. Although Chang continues to taunt Kirk, Uhura tries but fails to locate the source of his transmissions.
-again as the Bird-of-Prey begins firing on ''Enterprise''. ''Excelsior'' is racing to Khitomer at maximum warp.
+''Excelsior'' is hurtling to Khitomer at maximum warp.  Aboard the bridge, which is trembling with the force of acceleration, helmsman Lojur warns, "''She'll fly apart!''"  Sulu retorts, "''Fly her apart then!''"
-On Khitomer, Azetbur's speech has begun and a Klingon stands up and walks out carrying a briefcase. Admiral Cartwright nervously watches.
+On Khitomer, Azetbur's speech has begun and a Klingon stands up and walks out carrying a briefcase. Admiral Cartwright nervously watches, sweat dripping down his face.
-[[File:Chang's Bird-of-Prey.jpg|thumb|"''Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war!''"]]
-In space, the auxiliary circuits on ''Enterprise'' are destroyed, but during the battle Spock realizes that the Bird-of-Prey is still going to vent ionized gas, or [[plasma exhaust]]; Uhura suggests using the equipment they have onboard to catalog gaseous anomalies as a weapon since the bird of prey has to have a tailpipe on it. Spock asks McCoy to leave the bridge and to help him perform surgery on a photon torpedo to make the needed modifications to it. ''Enterprise'' suffers heavy damage, but before she can be crippled, Sulu arrives with ''Excelsior'', taking some of the pressure off of ''Enterprise'' as Chang has to divide his attacks between opponents. However, Chang has merely been slowed down: with his ability to fire while cloaked, Chang is still running circles around both ships.
+[[File:Chang's Bird-of-Prey.jpg|left|thumb|"''Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war!''"]]
+In space, ''Enterprise'' continues to take heavy damage, and Scott warns their shields are collapsing.  A minor explosion on the bridge prompts Kirk to order auxiliary power, but Spock reports that the auxiliary circuits have been destroyed.  Watching ''Enterprise'' attempting to evade, Chang quotes ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'':
+:''"Tickle us, do we not laugh? Prick us, do we not bleed? Wrong us... shall we not revenge?"''
+Spock realizes that even with her cloak in place, the Bird-of-Prey's impulse engines will still vent [[plasma exhaust]]; Uhura suggests using the equipment they have on-board to catalog gaseous anomalies as a guidance system. Spock asks McCoy to help him "perform surgery" on a photon torpedo to enable it to do so. "''Fascinating!''", the physician says. Kirk continues to order [[evasive maneuvers]] in an attempt to mitigate the torpedo impacts across the hull.
+''Enterprise'' continues to suffer heavy damage, but before she can be crippled, Sulu arrives with ''Excelsior'', taking some of the pressure off ''Enterprise'' as Chang chooses to divide his attacks between opponents. However, Chang has merely been slowed down: with his ability to fire while cloaked, Chang is still running circles around both ships.
 At Khitomer, the Klingon who left has found a vantage point on an upper level and is cutting a small hole in one of the glass panes to aim a weapon at the President.
 Chang relentlessly fires Shakespeare quotations such as:
-:''"I am constant as the northern star..."''
+:"''I am constant as the northern star&hellip;''"
-and continues firing torpedoes, weakening ''Enterprise's'' shields to the point that it takes a direct hit on the ventral-port side of the saucer section. Just after that, Spock and McCoy complete their modifications to the photon torpedo, and with a great deal of satisfaction, Kirk gives the order to fire. It "sniffs" out the cloaked Bird-of-Prey and lands a direct hit, but not before Chang gives his last Shakespeare quote:
+and continues firing torpedoes, weakening ''Enterprise''{{'}}s shields to the point that it takes a direct hit on the ventral-port side of the saucer section that ruptures the hull. Spock and McCoy complete their modifications to the photon torpedo, and with a great deal of satisfaction, Kirk gives the order to fire. It homes in on the cloaked Bird-of-Prey and lands a direct hit, but not before Chang gives his last Shakespeare quote from ''Hamlet'':
-:''"To be or Not to be"''.
+:"''To be or not to be.''"
-''Enterprise'' and ''Excelsior'' then target the location of the explosion, unleashing a barrage of torpedoes that destroy Chang's cloaked (and shield-less) ship.
+''Enterprise'' and ''Excelsior'' then target the location of the explosion, unleashing a barrage of torpedoes that destroy Chang's now decloaked (and shield-less) ship.
+[[File:West as klingon assassin.jpg|thumb|"''It's Colonel West!''"]]
-The ''Enterprise'' crew beam down just in time for Kirk to knock the president out of the way of the would-be assassin's phaser blast. He identifies himself to the dazed president. Cartwright orders them arrested and Spock retorts "Arrest yourself!" displaying a handcuffed Valeris. McCoy says that they have a full confession just as the Klingon assassin is about to shoot Valeris. [[File:West as klingon assassin.jpg|thumb|"''It's Colonel West!''"]] At that moment, Scotty kicks in the door to the room the assassin is in and shoots him just before he tries to shoot Valeris. He falls through the glass pane to the floor. The Commander In Chief and Colonel Worf rush to the body and find out that it's not a Klingon; it's Colonel West. Cartwright takes advantage of the ruckus and tries to flee but is thwarted when an armed Sulu, accompanied by security guards transports in front of him from ''Excelsior'' and hold him there.
+The ''Enterprise'' crew beams down just in time for Kirk to knock the president out of the way of the would-be assassin's phaser rifle blast. He identifies himself to the dazed president. Cartwright orders them arrested and Spock retorts "Arrest yourself!" displaying a [[handcuffs|handcuffed]] Valeris. McCoy says that they have a full confession just as the Klingon assassin is about to shoot Valeris. At that moment, Scott kicks in the door to the assassin's hiding place, and shoots him just before he can kill Valeris. He falls through the glass pane to the floor. The Commander In Chief and Colonel Worf rush to the body and find out that it's not a Klingon; it's Colonel West. Cartwright takes advantage of the ruckus and tries to flee but is thwarted when Sulu, armed and accompanied by two security guards, transports from ''Excelsior'' and holds him there.
+[[File: Khitomer Conference, 2293.jpg|left|thumb|The Khitomer Conference saved]]
 A confused and angry Azetbur demands to know what is going on. Kirk tells her this is all about the future and that history has not ended quite yet. Thinking of Gorkon's reference to the future as "the undiscovered country," Kirk notes that people can be very frightened of change. Azetbur tells Kirk he's restored her father's faith and Kirk tells her she's restored his son's. At that moment, the room breaks out into applause as the remaining ''Enterprise'' officers (including Sulu) walk up and join Kirk on the platform.
 === Epilogue ===
+As ''Enterprise'' and ''Excelsior'' rendezvous above [[Khitomer]], Kirk and crew reenter the bridge and exchange pleasantries with Captain Sulu. "''Nice to see you in action one more time, Captain Kirk. Take care,''" Sulu says as ''Excelsior'' moves away from the ''Enterprise'', departing Khitomer. "''By God, that's a big ship,''" McCoy says. "''Not so big as her captain, I think,''" Scott adds. Chekov muses, "''So&hellip; this is good-bye.''"
-Later, in space, Kirk and crew reenter the bridge and exchange pleasantries with Captain Sulu.
-[[File:Constitution class refit bridge, 2293.jpg|thumb|"''So... this is good-bye.''"]]
-Uhura tells Kirk that they've received direct orders from Starfleet Command to return to Spacedock and be decommissioned.
-Spock contemplates that for a moment and then remarks, "''If I were Human, I believe my response would be 'Go to [[Hell]].' If I were Human.''" When Chekov asks for a course heading, Kirk tells him "''Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning.''" (from "Peter Pan")
+[[File:Constitution II class bridge, 2293.jpg|thumb|The last flight of the ''Enterprise'']]
-Uhura steps over near Scotty and everyone watches as ''Enterprise'' heads off toward the stars.
+"''I think it's about time we got underway ourselves,''" Kirk mentions. Uhura then tells Kirk that they've received direct orders from Starfleet Command to return ''Enterprise'' to Spacedock for decommissioning. The crew looks around at each other, emotional that their time together as a crew is now coming to an end.
+Spock contemplates that for a moment and then remarks, "''If I were Human, I believe my response would be 'Go to [[Hell]].' If I were Human.''" When Chekov asks for a course heading, Kirk tells him "''Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning.''"
-:"''Captain's log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the starship ''Enterprise'' under my command. This ship and [[Enterprise history|her history]] will shortly become the care of [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) personnel|another crew]]. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where [[Star Trek: The Original Series|no man]], where [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|no ''one'']], has gone before.''"
+Uhura steps over near Scott and everyone watches as ''Enterprise'' heads off toward the stars on one final voyage.
 [[File:USS Enterprise-A leaves Khitomer.jpg|center|480px]]
+:"''Captain's log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the starship ''Enterprise'' under my command. This ship and [[Enterprise history|her history]] will shortly become the care of [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) personnel|another crew]]. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where [[Star Trek: The Original Series|no man]] &ndash; where no ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|one]]'' &ndash; has gone before.''"
+==Log entries==
+* Sulu: "''[[Stardate]] 9521.6, [[Captain's log, USS Excelsior|Captain's log, USS ''Excelsior'']], Hikaru Sulu commanding. After [[2290|three years]], I have concluded my first assignment as master of this vessel, cataloging gaseous planetary anomalies in [[Beta Quadrant]]. We're heading home under full impulse power. I'm pleased to report that ship and crew have functioned well.''"
+* Kirk: "''[[Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A)|Captain's log]], stardate 9522.6. I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my boy. It seems to me our mission to escort the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion, and I'd like to believe him, but how on Earth can history get past people like me?''"
+* Kirk: "''The ''Enterprise'' hosted Chancellor Gorkon and party to dinner last night; our manners weren't exactly Emily Post. Oh, note to the galley: Romulan ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions.''"
+* Kirk:" ''Captain's log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the starship ''Enterprise'' under my command. This ship and [[Enterprise history|her history]] will shortly become the care of [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) personnel|another crew]]; to them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man &ndash; where no ''one'' &ndash; has gone before.''"
-== Memorable Quotes ==
+== Memorable quotes ==
 === Shakespeare ===
 ==== Hamlet ====
@@ Line 223: / Line 229: @@
 : - '''Chang'''
-=== General Quotes ===
+=== General quotes ===
 "''Do we report this, sir?''"<br />
 "''Are you kidding?''"
@@ Line 233: / Line 239: @@
-"''I don't know whether to congratulate you or not, Jim."''<br />
+"''I don't know whether to congratulate you or not, Jim.''"<br />
 "''I wouldn't.''"
 : - '''Cartwright''' and '''McCoy''', to Kirk on his diplomatic mission with Gorkon
@@ Line 270: / Line 276: @@
-"''I offer a toast. The undiscovered country ... The future.''"
+"''I offer a toast. The undiscovered country &hellip; The future.''"
 : - '''Gorkon'''
@@ Line 292: / Line 298: @@
+"''Did you see the way they ate?!''"<br />
-"''Note to the galley. Romulan ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions.''"
+"''Terrible table manners!''"<br />
-: - '''Kirk''', personal log
+"''I doubt that our own behavior will distinguish us in the annals of diplomacy."<br />''
+: - '''Uhura''', '''Chekov''' and '''Spock'''
@@ Line 306: / Line 314: @@
 "''We come in peace and you BLATANTLY defile that peace! And for that, I shall blow you out of the stars!''"<br />
 "''We haven't fired!''"<br />
-"''Captain, according to our databanks we have.  Twice.''"
+"''Captain, according to our databanks we have. Twice.''"
-: - '''Chang''', to Kirk, Kirk's response and Spock's shocking revelation
+: - '''Chang''', to '''Kirk''', Kirk's response and '''Spock'''{{'}}s shocking revelation
@@ Line 322: / Line 330: @@
-"''Sir... Those men have literally saved this planet.''"<br />
+"''Sir&hellip; Those men have literally saved this planet.''"<br />
 "''Yes, Bill, I know that. And now they're going to save it again. By standing trial.''"
 : - '''Commander-in-Chief''' and '''Federation President''', on Kirk and McCoy
@@ Line 334: / Line 342: @@
 "''Aside from a touch of arthritis, I'd say pretty good!''"
 : - '''Chang''' and '''McCoy''', during the trial
+"''James Tiberius Kirk&hellip; What would your favorite author say, Captain? Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings. Tell us your sad story Kirk, Tell us how you planned to take revenge for the death of your son.''"<br />
+"''That's not true.''"<br />
+"''Objection! Captain Kirk has not been identified as the assassin!''"<br />
+"''Sustained.''"
+: - '''Chang''', '''Kirk''', '''Colonel Worf''', and '''Klingon Judge'''
@@ Line 346: / Line 361: @@
 "''An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.''"
-: - '''Spock'''
+: - '''Spock''' quotes [[Sherlock Holmes]]
-"''This is the gulag Rura Penthe. There is no stockade. No guard tower. No electronic frontier. Only a magnetic shield prevents beaming. Punishment means exile from prison to the surface. On the surface, nothing can survive.''"
-: - '''Rura Penthe Commandant'''
-"''Work well, and you will be treated well. Work badly, and you will die.''"
+"''This is the gulag Rura Penthe. There is no stockade. No guard tower. No electronic frontier. Only a magnetic shield prevents beaming. Punishment means exile from prison to the surface. On the surface, nothing can survive. Work well, and you will be treated well. Work badly, and you will die.''"
-: - '''Rura Penthe Commandant''', to the new prisoners
+: - '''Rura Penthe Commandant''', the welcome speech that Kirk, McCoy, and the other new prisoners receive upon arriving on Rura Penthe, an homage to the speech made by Colonel Saito to the British POWs from ''The Bridge on the River Kwai''
@@ Line 368: / Line 379: @@
 "''I was lucky that thing had knees.''"<br />
-"''That was not his knee. Not everybody keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain.''"<br />
+"''That was not his knee. Not everybody keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain.''"
 : - '''Kirk''' and '''Martia''', after he beats the horned alien prisoner in a fight
@@ Line 374: / Line 385: @@
 "''What is it with you, anyway?''"<br />
 "''Still think we're finished?''"<br />
-"''More than ever.''"<br />
+"''More than ever.''"
 : - '''McCoy''' and '''Kirk''', after Kirk kisses Martia
@@ Line 394: / Line 405: @@
 "''An accident wasn't good enough.''"<br />
-"''Good enough for one. Two would've looked suspicious. Killed while attempting escape ... now that's convincing for both.''"
+"''Good enough for one. Two would've looked suspicious. Killed while attempting escape &hellip; now that's convincing for both.''"
 : - '''Kirk''' and '''Martia''', as she transforms into Kirk
@@ Line 414: / Line 425: @@
 "''Who? Who wanted us killed?''"<br />
-"''Since you're all going to die, anyway, why not tell you? His name is...!''"
+"''Since you're all going to die, anyway, why not tell you? His name is&hellip;!''"
 : - '''Kirk''' and '''Rura Penthe Commandant''', as Kirk and McCoy are beamed aboard the ''Enterprise''
+"''Couldn't you have waited just two more seconds!?''"<br />
+"''Captain?''"<br />
+"''He was just about to explain the whole thing!''"<br />
+"''You want to go back!?''"<br />
+"''Absolutely not!!''"<br />
+"''It's cold!''"
+: - '''Kirk''', '''Spock''', '''Chekov''', and '''McCoy''', right after Kirk and McCoy are beamed to the ''Enterprise'' before learning who ordered their assassination
@@ Line 438: / Line 458: @@
-"''You were right. It was arrogant presumption on my part that got us into this... situation. You and the Doctor might have been killed.''"<br />
+"''You were right. It was arrogant presumption on my part that got us into this&hellip; situation. You and the Doctor might have been killed.''"<br />
 "''The night is young.''"
 : - '''Spock''' and '''Kirk'''
@@ Line 451: / Line 471: @@
-"''Do you want to know something? Everybody's human.''"<br />
+"''Do you want to know something? Everybody's Human.''"<br />
-"''I find that remark ... insulting.''"
+"''I find that remark&hellip; insulting.''"
 : - '''Kirk''' and '''Spock'''
@@ Line 463: / Line 483: @@
 "''Chang.''"<br />
 "''Can you see me? Oh, now be honest, Captain, warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way, don't you, as it was meant to be? No peace in our time. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends.''"
-: - '''Chang''' and Kirk over the intercoms at Khitomer.
+: - '''Chang''' and '''Kirk''', over the intercoms at Khitomer
@@ Line 484: / Line 504: @@
 : - '''McCoy''', as the torpedo is activated
+"''Where's that damn torpedo?''"<br>
+"''It's ready, Jim. Lock and load!''"
+: - '''Kirk''' and '''McCoy''', as the torpedo is loaded
 "''Some people think the future means the end of history. Well, we haven't run out of history quite yet.''"
@@ Line 496: / Line 519: @@
 "''Once again we've saved civilization as we know it.''"<br />
 "''And the good news is, they're not going to prosecute.''"
-: - '''Kirk''', on the bridge, and '''McCoy''''s response
+: - '''Kirk''', on the bridge, and '''McCoy'''{{'}}s response
@@ Line 503: / Line 526: @@
-"''So... this is goodbye.''"
+"''So&hellip; this is goodbye.''"
 : - '''Chekov'''
 "''Captain, I have orders from Starfleet Command. We're to be put back into Spacedock immediately. To be decommissioned.''"<br />
-"''If I were human, I believe my response would be: Go to hell! If I were human.''"
+"''If I were [[Human]], I believe my response would be: Go to hell! If I were Human.''"
 : - '''Uhura''' and '''Spock'''
@@ Line 516: / Line 539: @@
 : - '''Chekov''' and '''Kirk''', with Kirk quoting James Barrie's ''Peter Pan''
-== Appendices ==
+== Background information ==
+===Landmarks===
-=== Background Information ===
-{{Pna-cite}}
-====Landmarks====
 *This is the second of two ''Star Trek'' productions (the other being {{film|5}}) between 1986 and 2005 to be produced without any involvement from [[Rick Berman]].
 <!-- The following regards the last time the actors played the roles, NOT the last time the characters chronologically appeared. Do NOT edit this paragraph to reflect otherwise. "Encounter at Farpoint" was produced BEFORE this film was, so The Undiscovered Country is Kelley's final appearance.-->
-*Although this is the final ''Star Trek'' film to feature the entire ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' cast together, only [[Nichelle Nichols]] ([[Nyota Uhura|Uhura]]) makes her final official ''Star Trek'' appearance in this film.  [[James Doohan]] ([[Montgomery Scott|Scotty]]) would appear in {{TNG|Relics}}, and then with [[William Shatner]] ([[James T. Kirk]]), and [[Walter Koenig]] ([[Pavel Chekov]]) in {{film|7}}. [[George Takei]] ([[Hikaru Sulu]]) appeared in {{VOY|Flashback}} and [[Leonard Nimoy]] ([[Spock]]) appeared in {{TNG|Unification I}} and {{e|Unification II}}, and {{film|11}}. [[DeForest Kelley]] ([[Leonard McCoy]]) would make his final appearance in the Star Trek: The Next Generation pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint" walking through the corridors, assisted by Data.
+*Although this is the final ''Star Trek'' film to feature the entire {{s|TOS}} cast together, only [[Nichelle Nichols]] ([[Nyota Uhura|Uhura]]) and [[DeForest Kelley]] ([[Leonard McCoy|McCoy]]) make their final official ''Star Trek'' appearances in this film (Kelley's appearance as an admiral in TNG: "Encounter At Farpoint" the pilot episode of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' had occurred four years previously). [[James Doohan]] ([[Montgomery Scott|Scotty]]) would appear in {{TNG|Relics}}, and then with [[William Shatner]] ([[James T. Kirk]]), and [[Walter Koenig]] ([[Pavel Chekov]]) in {{film|7}}. [[George Takei]] ([[Hikaru Sulu]]) appeared in {{VOY|Flashback}} and [[Leonard Nimoy]] ([[Spock]]) appeared in {{TNG|Unification I}} , {{e|Unification II}}, {{film|11}}, and {{film|12}}.
-*Chronologically, McCoy, Spock and Scotty appeared in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' long after the events of this film.
+*Chronologically, McCoy, Spock and Scotty appeared in {{s|TNG}} long after the events of this film.
 *This movie is the first [[canon]] instance of Sulu's first name, Hikaru (Japanese for "shining"), being stated. Prior to the film, it was commonly used in the novels (and reportedly approved by Gene Roddenberry and George Takei {{incite|where was this reported?}}), but had never been made official.
 *This is currently the only ''Star Trek'' movie shot in {{w|Super 35}} format instead of {{w|Anamorphic format|anamorphic}}. {{incite}}
@@ Line 529: / Line 550: @@
 *[[Leonard Nimoy]] co-wrote the story for this final outing of the [[TOS]] cast. Likewise, the final outing of the [[TNG]] cast ({{film|10}}) was co-written by one of its cast members, [[Brent Spiner]].
 *The film confirms Kirk's middle name, which had previously been established in the animated series episode {{e|Bem}} as "Tiberius," for the first time in live action production.
+* Finally, just before the closing titles roll, the signatures of the seven main cast members from ''The Original Series'' are displayed one by one, writing themselves on the starfield.
+<gallery>
-====Cast====
+File:George Takei signature.jpg|[[George Takei]]
-*[[Rene Auberjonois]]' role as [[Colonel]] [[West]] was cut from the theatrical release, as [[Gene Roddenberry]] was uncomfortable with ideas that were presented in his scenes. {{incite|citation needed for GR bit}} The scenes were later restored for the home release. Auberjonois later played [[Constable]] [[Odo]] on ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''.
+File:Nichelle Nichols signature.jpg|[[Nichelle Nichols]]
-:''West wore an [[admiral]]'s rank insignia, which was incorrect. The naval equivalent of [[colonel]] is [[captain]].'' While the notion of a Starfleet Marine Corps had been discussed and seen in fan writings and some older role-playing games, West's rank of colonel was the first ever on-screen hint of Army/Marine-like ranks in Starfleet and would be the only one until the [[MACO]]s were introduced on ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''.
+File:Walter Koenig signature.jpg|[[Walter Koenig]]
-*[[Michael Dorn]] only found out he had a role in this film as Worf's grandfather when [[Nicholas Meyer]] and [[Herman Zimmerman]] were walking past the soundstages for ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' and informed him about it. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5HR2BFhX0]
+File:James Doohan signature.jpg|[[James Doohan]]
-*The only actors, aside from the original cast, to appear in both this film and in {{film|1}} are [[Grace Lee Whitney]] ([[Janice Rand]]) and [[Mark Lenard]]. In both films Whitney appeared as Janice Rand and Lenard appeared as [[Sarek]] in ''The Undiscovered Country'' and a Klingon Captain in ''The Motion Picture''.
+File:DeForest Kelley signature.jpg|[[DeForest Kelley]]
-*Rand was supposed to be the character that wakes up Sulu to inform him that [[Starfleet]] was looking for the ''Enterprise'' instead of [[Christian Slater]]. Slater was a huge fan of the show and his mother &ndash; [[Mary Jo Slater]], the movie's casting director &ndash; petitioned heavily to get him a part. {{incite}}
+File:Leonard Nimoy signature.jpg|[[Leonard Nimoy]]
+File:William Shatner signature.jpg|[[William Shatner]]
+</gallery>
+===Cast===
+[[File:Star Trek VI Cast.jpg|thumb|Members of the film's cast with Nick Meyer]]
+*[[Rene Auberjonois]]' role as [[Colonel]] [[West]] was cut from the theatrical release, as [[Gene Roddenberry]] was uncomfortable with ideas that were presented in his scenes. {{incite|citation needed for GR bit}} The scenes were later restored for the VHS, LaserDisc, and DVD release, but the BluRay release contains the theatrical cut. Auberjonois later played [[Constable]] [[Odo]] on {{s|DS9}}.
+:''West wore an [[admiral]]'s rank insignia, which was incorrect. The naval equivalent of [[colonel]] is [[captain]].'' While the notion of a Starfleet Marine Corps had been discussed and seen in fan writings and some older role-playing games, West's rank of colonel was the first ever on-screen hint of Army/Marine-like ranks in Starfleet and would be the only one until the [[MACO]]s were introduced on {{s|ENT}}.
+*[[Michael Dorn]] only found out he had a role in this film as Worf's grandfather when [[Nicholas Meyer]] and [[Herman Zimmerman]] were walking past the soundstages for {{s|TNG}} and informed him about it. {{YouTube|type=v|vl5HR2BFhX0}}
+*The only actors, aside from the original cast, to appear in both this film and in {{film|1}} are [[Grace Lee Whitney]] ([[Janice Rand]]) and [[Mark Lenard]]. In both films, Whitney appeared as Janice Rand, whereas Lenard appeared as [[Sarek]] in ''The Undiscovered Country'' and a Klingon captain in ''The Motion Picture''. This was the penultimate appearance of Rand, who went on to appear in the {{s|VOY}} episode {{e|Flashback}}. She is a [[Lieutenant junior grade|lieutenant jg]] in this film, although "Flashback" incorrectly depicts her as a [[lieutenant commander]] at the time of the film's setting. Some of the [[comics]] set around the time of Sulu taking command of ''Excelsior'' not only support her lieutenant commander rank, but imply that she was also the ''Excelsior''{{'}}s first officer.
+*Rand was supposed to be the character that wakes up Sulu to inform him that [[Starfleet]] was looking for the ''Enterprise'' instead of [[Christian Slater]]'s character. Slater was a huge fan of the show and his mother &ndash; [[Mary Jo Slater]], the movie's casting director &ndash; petitioned heavily to get him a part. {{incite}}
 *Rene Auberjonois, [[Michael Dorn]] and [[Kurtwood Smith]] would later star together in the ''Deep Space Nine'' [[DS9 Season 5|fifth season]] episode {{e|Things Past}}, where Auberjonois plays Odo, Dorn plays Worf and Smith plays [[Thrax]].
-*This is Rene Auberjonois and [[John Schuck]]'s fourth film together. The first was ''{{w|MASH (film)|M*A*S*H}}'', followed by ''{{w|Brewster McCloud}}'', and ''{{w|McCabe & Mrs. Miller}}''.
+*This is Rene Auberjonois and [[John Schuck]]'s fourth film together. The first was {{wt|MASH (film)|MASH}}, followed by {{wt|Brewster McCloud}}, and {{wt|McCabe & Mrs. Miller}}.
 *[[Merritt Butrick]] appears posthumously as [[David Marcus]], via a photo in Kirk's quarters.
-==== Story and production ====
+=== Story and production ===
-* ''The Undiscovered Country'' was almost never made as a Star Trek film, due to the dismal box office receipts of ''The Final Frontier''. However as seen on the ''Star Trek VI'' DVD set and also according to ''[[Star Trek Movie Memories|William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', Paramount also didn't really want to end the run of the original crew on ''The Final Frontier'' and wanted one more film. It was at this point that [[Harve Bennett]] proposed his [[Star Trek: The First Adventure|Starfleet Academy prequel]] and it was almost green lighted by Paramount until Gene Roddenberry vehemently objected and then the (at the time) head of Paramount found out about the Academy concept and demanded that it be scrapped and a movie with the entire original cast be made. Because he wanted to do the prequel, and Paramount did not want one, Harve Bennett left ''Star Trek'' after a decade with the franchise.
+* ''The Undiscovered Country'' was almost never made as a ''Star Trek'' film, not only due to the dismal box office receipts of {{film|5}}, but also for an unbroken string of, for [[Paramount Pictures]], disappointing yet very expensive film releases as well, leaving the studio deeply in the red, only aggravated by a {{w|Early 1990s recession|worldwide recession}}. However as seen on the ''Star Trek VI'' DVD set and also according to [[William Shatner]]'s ''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', Paramount, specifically its president [[Frank Mancuso, Sr.]] &ndash; who had been intimately involved with ''[[Star Trek]]'' ever since {{film|2}} &ndash; , did not really want to end the ''Original Crew'' run on ''The Final Frontier'' low note, especially with the [[25th anniversary]] of the {{Star Trek franchise}} coming up, and wanted one more film, but found himself seriously hampered by the strictest of budget limitation: under '''''NO''''' conceivable circumstance was a potential new film to exceed the budget of ''The Final Frontier'', not even by one dollar. It was at this point that [[Harve Bennett]] proposed his [[Star Trek: The First Adventure|''Starfleet Academy'' prequel]], featuring a brand new, and thus far cheaper, cast, and was green lighted by Mancuso to go into pre-production, and proceeded as such, until Gene Roddenberry vehemently objected, and with him the fanbase and the secondary cast. But it was only when the (at the time) head of [[Gulf+Western|Paramount Communications]] (formerly Gulf+Western, owner of Paramount Pictures), [[Martin Davis]], found out about the Academy concept and furiously demanding an ''Original Crew'' film be made, that Bennett's project was scrapped on the spot. Because nobody had thought of informing the highest boss, nearly eighteen months of valuable pre-production time had been lost. Because he wanted to do the prequel, and Mancuso no longer dared to continue, Harve Bennett left ''Star Trek'' after a decade with the franchise. (''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', 1995, pp. 347-348; ''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 22 #5, pp. 24-30)
+* Earlier, a revised draft of Bennett's script featured a scene in which Kirk flashed back to his days at [[Starfleet Academy]], allowing [[William Shatner]] and others to reprise their ''Original Crew'' roles as cameos &ndash; Bennett's effort to appease Roddenberry's (''et al.'') criticisms, before his project was scrapped altogether. (''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', 1995, pp. 343-345)
-* When the Klingons return to their ship after the dinner on the Enterprise, Chang speaks a Klingon phrase into his communicator (without English subtitles). Chang says "daHmacheH" which, in English, means "Ready to return now." During the dinner, [[Azetbur]] says a unsubtitled Klingon phrase that, when translated to English, means "Daddy" or "Father."
+* Thoroughly chastized by his boss Davis, Mancuso subsequently turned to [[Leonard Nimoy]] in May 1990 to get a completely new film, featuring the entire ''Original Crew'', started. It was during this meeting that Nimoy suggested the contemporary real world {{w|Mikhail Gorbachev|Gorbachev}}/{{w|Perestroika}}/{{w|Glasnost}} events as an allegory for the [[Federation]] and the [[Klingon Empire]] as basic story line, which was enthusiastically embraced by Mancuso. Informed that Bennett had gone, Nimoy requested to return [[Nicholas Meyer]] into the fold as co-writer and director, which was also embraced by Mancuso. In the early summer Nimoy and Meyer had an extended meeting at his holiday address in Cape Cod where they essentially hammered out the details as eventually featured in the film, though they became seriously hampered by studio politics through trying to burden the pair with the woefully inadequate dilettante [[Lawrence Konner|Konner]]/[[Mark Rosenthal|Rosenthal]] "writing" duo. (''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', 1995, pp. 349-363) As the upper studio echelons were at the time, for the aforementioned reasons, embroiled in a tumultuous and very messy power struggle, derisively called the "The Studio Shuffle" in the contemporary press, the executive sponsors, [[Sid Ganis]] and [[Teddy Zee]], of the Konner/Rosenthal duo were a short time later kicked out, and so were they, without having made a single noteworthy contribution whatsoever &ndash; according to both Nimoy and Meyer, what little they did turn in, immediately and literally trashed by (other) executives upon reading, was blatant plagiarism of their own story outlines. Yet Nimoy and Meyer (their relationship having actually become strained '''''because''''' of executives playing the one against the other in this matter, as it only became later apparent to both men) were too premature in their relief of being rid of the interloping duo, as the latter, near the end of the production, started legal procedures against both men for writing credits, partially succeeding, and nearly stripping Nimoy of any and all creative credit. (''see below'') Incidentally, Paramount veteran of 31 years Mancuso was also gone less than a month after he had approached Nimoy, unceremoniously fired over the telephone by Davis. {{bl|articles.latimes.com/1994-12-18/entertainment/ca-10295_1_frank-mancuso}}
-* Original plans for the movie had Kirk married (possibly to [[Carol Marcus]]) and all members of the main cast scattered around to different jobs. Uhura was a radio show hostess, Scotty a teacher and Sulu a taxi driver on some backwater [[alien]] [[colony]]. Budget limitations forced to leave all this out from the movie, and the scene at [[Starfleet Command]] was used instead. (''[[Charting the Undiscovered Country: The Making of Trek VI]]'')
+* When Nimoy was reaching out to Meyer, the latter was working in London, UK, working as writer/director on the [[MGM]] film ''Company Business'' (featuring [[Kurtwood Smith]], he to subsequently play the [[President of the United Federation of Planets]] in ''The Undiscovered Country''), which ironically, had a similar glasnost theme. However, Meyer felt that the producers had "butchered" the film, and being vocal about it, it had at the time led in the industry grapevine to the rumor that it was this that led him to recycling the theme in ''The Undiscovered Country''. For the remainder of the year Nimoy and Meyer, now reinforced by scriptwriter [[Denny Martin Flinn]] (he actually wanted, as it was Meyer who brought him in), communicated with each other by phone, fax and the early email, which however, made them susceptible to the studio politics as played by Ganis and Zee. (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 22 #5, pp. 28, 30; {{imdb|title/tt0101606/trivia?ref_{{=}}tt_trv_trv}}) Incidentally, before Nimoy even contacted Meyer at his holiday address, Meyer had already been informed by Davis and Mancuso, when the latter two were in London, that a "thirty million dollars" sixth ''Star Trek'' film was green-lighted. (''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', 1995, pp. 354-358, )
+* When the Klingons return to their ship after the dinner on the ''Enterprise'', Chang speaks a Klingon phrase into his communicator (without English subtitles). Chang says "daHmacheH" which, in English, means "Ready to return now." During the dinner, [[Azetbur]] says a unsubtitled Klingon phrase that, when translated to English, means "Daddy" or "Father."
+* Originally, a prologue was planned for the film, in which it was established that, before they all got the call to reassemble: Kirk was in a revitalized relationship with [[Carol Marcus]]; McCoy was making a nuisance of himself by showing up drunk at medical celebrity events (as he despises the hypocrisy of it all); Spock's status was "classified;" Uhura had become a radio show hostess; Scotty was working as an engineering professor; Chekov was competing as a not altogether successful chess grandmaster (losing to [[Betazoid]]s &ndash; which was another attempt to tie in the ''Original Crew'' franchise with that of {{s|TNG}}); and Sulu was working as a taxi driver on some backwater [[alien]] [[colony]]. A fully worked-out prologue sequence, approved for shooting, had already been scripted by Co-Script Writer Flinn. Last-minute mandatory budget limitations, however, forced the creative production team, much against their grain, to scrap the entire prologue sequence, leaving only the introductory ''Original Crew'' scene at [[Starfleet Command]] instead. (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 22 #5, p. 26; ''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', 1995, pp. 376-378)
 [[File:HMS Bounty, Star Trek VI.jpg|thumb|Element from a proposed scene from storyboard]]
-* An early storyboard draft featured {{HMS|Bounty}} in spacedock being disassembled by Starfleet engineers.
+* An early storyboard draft featured {{HMS|Bounty}} in spacedock being disassembled by Starfleet engineers, under the supervision of Professor of Engineering Scott, before he got the call to meet up with his fellow former crew-members. This actually was part of the above-mentioned planned prologue of the film.
+* It was originally intended for the Vulcan traitor to be Lt. [[Saavik]], but the role was instead assigned to Lt. Valeris as a new character. According to ''William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories'', this change was vehemently resisted by [[Gene Roddenberry]], who felt that Saavik was too popular a character to be handled this way. Meyer (thoroughly fed up with the disruptive and incessant interlopings of Roddenberry, ever since he came aboard ''Star Trek'', a decade earlier), could not care less what Roddenberry's thoughts on the matter were, rightfully claiming that the character was his creation, not Roddenberry's, and proceeded as planned. Yet, Meyer wanted only [[Kirstie Alley]] to reprise the role, but as she was at the peak of her popularity with ''Cheers'' at the time and her asking price was far too high. Only when Alley turned out to be unavailable, was it then decided to change the character, instead of casting yet another actress for the same part. [[Kim Cattrall]] initially refused the role as she was under the false impression that she had to portray Saavik, but jumped at the opportunity when she learned that that was not to be the case, as she considered Saavik "just a girl", whereas Valeris was a woman. Ironically, Cattrall had auditioned for the role of Saavik for {{film|2}}. To her big disappointment, [[Robin Curtis]] had never been considered to reprise the role of Saavik for this film. (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 22 #5, p. 31; ''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', 1995, pp. 374-375) Other stories say that Kirstie Alley refused Nicholas Meyer's requests that she reprise the role, as she was uncomfortable about her weight, and that she did not want to look overweight onscreen in the form-fitting uniforms. {{incite}}
-* An early draft of the script featured a flashback to Kirk's days at [[Starfleet Academy]]. {{incite}}
+* Many of General Chang's quotes and the subtitle, "The Undiscovered Country," come from Hamlet's "[[Shakespearean works|To be or not to be]]" soliloquy, by [[William Shakespeare]]. Chang also quotes or paraphrases ''[[Richard II]]'', ''{{dis|Julius Caesar|play}}'', ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', ''[[Henry IV, Part II]]'', ''[[Henry V]]'', and ''[[The Tempest]]''.
-* Lt. Valeris was originally intended to be Lt. [[Saavik]], but the scriptwriters decided later that it was out of character for Saavik to be a traitor. According to ''William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories'', this was brought about initially by [[Gene Roddenberry]] who felt that Saavik was too popular a character to ever be exposed as a traitor. Additionally, Meyer wanted [[Kirstie Alley]] to reprise the role, but as she was at the peak of her popularity with "Cheers" at the time and her asking price was far too high. [[Kim Cattrall]] initially refused the role until it was renamed as she didn't want to be the third actress to portray Saavik. Ironically, Cattrall had auditioned for the role of Saavik for {{film|2}}. To her dismay, [[Robin Curtis]] was never asked to reprise the role of Saavik for this film. Other stories say that Kirstie Alley refused Nicholas Meyer's requests that she reprise the role, as she was uncomfortable about her weight, and that she did not want to look overweight onscreen in the form-fitting uniforms. {{incite}}
+* Chang's demand, "''Don't wait for the translation! Answer me now!''" is a reference to {{w|Adlai Stevenson}}'s similar demand of [[Soviet Union]] representative {{w|Valerian Zorin}} at the [[United Nations]] during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. ({{ste}})
-* Many of General Chang's quotes and the subtitle, "The Undiscovered Country," come from Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy, by [[William Shakespeare]]. Chang also quotes or paraphrases "[[Richard II]]", "[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]", "[[The Merchant of Venice]]", "[[Henry IV, Part II]]", "[[Henry V]]", and "[[The Tempest (play)|The Tempest]]".
+* [[Nichelle Nichols]] objected to the scene in which the crew desperately searches through old printed Klingonese translation dictionaries in order to speak the language without the standard [[universal translator]] being used. It seemed more logical to her that Uhura, being the ship's chief communications officer, would know the language of the Federation's main enemy, or at least have the appropriate information in the computer. However, director Meyer bluntly overruled her. Chekov can be heard explaining at the beginning of the scene that "''a universal translator would be recognized''". (''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Special Edition)]]'' [[DVD]]-special feature, "[[text commentary]]") In the alternate reality of ''Star Trek Into Darkness,'' Uhura &mdash; who may have had a different education from that of the Prime Uhura &mdash; does speak Klingonese (or as she and Captain Kirk refer to it, "Klingon").
-* Chang's demand, "''Don't wait for the translation! Answer me now!''" is a reference to {{w|Adlai Stevenson}}'s similar demand of [[Soviet Union]] representative {{w|Valerian Zorin}} at the [[United Nations]] during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. (''[[Star Trek Encyclopedia]]'')
+* Uhura originally had a line "''Would you let your daughter marry one?''" (that is, a Klingon), but the line had to be cut because Nichols absolutely refused to say it. Chekov's line "''Guess who's coming to dinner?''" was also originally Uhura's, but Nichols considered it also to be racist and declined to say it. The line was moved to Chekov. It was a reference to ''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner'', the first major film to deal with interracial marriage, in which Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and Sidney Poitier starred. (''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', 1995, pp. 365-366; [[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Special Edition)]] DVD-special feature, "text commentary")
-* [[Nichelle Nichols]] objected to the scene in which the crew desperately searches through old printed Klingonese translation dictionaries in order to speak the language without the standard [[universal translator]] being used. It seemed more logical to her that Uhura, being the ship's chief communications officer, would know the language of the Federation's main enemy, or at least have the appropriate information in the computer. However, director [[Nicholas Meyer]] bluntly overruled her. Chekov can be heard explaining at the beginning of the scene that "''a universal translator would be recognized''". {{incite}}
+* On the Special Edition release of ''Star Trek VI'', it was revealed that [[Brock Peters]]' scene in the council chamber had to be shot in numerous takes, as he was very uncomfortable with the racial undertones in his lines that the Federation take the opportunity to "bring them to their knees", which was itself, a reference to another film in which that line was said about African Americans.
-* Uhura originally had a very racist line "''Would you let your daughter marry one?''" (that is, a Klingon), but the line had to be cut because Nichols absolutely refused to say it. Chekov's line "''Guess who's coming to dinner?''" was also originally Uhura's, but Nichols considered it also to be racist and declined to say it. The line was moved to Chekov. It was a reference to ''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner'', the first major film to deal with interracial marriage, in which Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and Sidney Poitier starred. {{incite}}
+* The perceived racism toward the Klingons was of great concern to Roddenberry as well, as he felt there was no place for it in his ''Star Trek'' universe, but his considerations were entirely ignored by both Meyer and Nimoy. Aghast, he then summoned a meeting, even though Roddenberry had no formal say in the film whatsoever. Complete with heavy legal representation, a very charged meeting followed between the two sides, which quickly turned into a shouting match as Meyer finally unleashed his years of pent up frustration with Roddenberry in full. In later years Meyer came to regret his behavior. "''He was not well, and maybe there were more tactful ways of dealing with it, because at the end of the day, I was going to go out and make the movie. I didn't have to take him on. Not my finest hour.''", a rueful Meyer recounted in 2011. Roddenberry died a few months later. ({{bl|herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/star-trek-nicholas-meyers-explains-his-roddenberry-regret}}; ''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', 1995, pp. 366-367) Meyer remained regretful of his behavior as he reiterated the incident as recent as 2016 when he retold the story in [[Roger Lay, Jr.]]'s [[50th anniversary]] documentary [[Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen#Chapter 5: "End of an Era: Charting the Undiscovered Country"|''Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen'' (Chapter 5: "End of an Era: Charting the Undiscovered Country")]].
-* On the Special Edition release of ''Star Trek VI'', it was revealed that [[Brock Peters]]' scene in the council chamber had to be shot in numerous takes, as he was very uncomfortable with the racial undertones in his lines that the Federation take the opportunity to "bring them to their knees", which was itself, a reference to another film in which that line was said about African Americans.
+* In December 1990 a finalized script draft was turned in to the studio, and this version was approved to go into production. Meyer, finished in London, relocates to Los Angels later that month. (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 22 #5, p. 30)
-* Also on the DVD, William Shatner stated that he was unhappy with the final cut of his interchange with Spock in the Council Chamber, as he felt that it made Kirk seem too cynical and bitter. He originally had done the scene in one take, adding a dismissive wave after his comment to "''Let them die!''" which was subsequently edited out of the final movie despite Meyer promising Shatner that he wouldn't do that, according to Shatner.
+* However, less than a month later in early January 1991, the original, immovable studio budget restriction decree reared its ugly head in full force, as [[David Kirkpatrick]], who had replaced Teddy Zee as the Paramount Motion Picture Group President in another round of "The Studio Shuffle", demanded a detailed budget breakdown for the script as submitted. Somewhat falsely reassured by the remarks Davis and Mancuso made to him in London the previous spring, Meyer came back with a total figure of US$40 million dollar. Kirkpatrick's reply was short and to the point; It would not do. (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 22 #5, pp. 33-35)
-* The dinner scene in the officer's mess as scripted was originally longer, and filled with a bit more build up and escalating comments between the Federation and Klingon crews. The scene was originally to build almost to blows, when Gorkon says the line "''It seems we have a long way to go''." [http://www.geocities.com/ussmunchkin7/Star_Trek_VI.htm]
+* A desperate scramble among the creative staff ensued to trim as much as possible of the budget as possible; the entire prologue was (albeit painfully) scrapped, scenes were trimmed, all planned set construction for new [[starship]] interiors was abandoned (though a new ''[[Kronos One]]'' [[corridor]] set did get build ultimately), the planned live-action shoots in Alaska for the [[Rura Penthe]] scenes were scrapped as were plans for new [[studio model]]s and other visual effects elements. Starship sets were to be entirely recycled from {{s|TNG}}, which was concurrently in production, but was slated for its summer hiatus, when filming of ''The Undiscovered Country'' was planned to start, and only existing studio models were to be used. Major cast and crew even agreed to deferred payment of (part of) their wages. (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 22 #5, pp. 35-36)
-* The first scene at the Rura Penthe was heavily influenced by ''The Bridge On the River Kwai'', where the commandant of the POW camp gives a similar speech to the new British prisoners.
+* Co-Producer [[Steven-Charles Jaffe]], a former [[Trekkie]], was so desperate to see the film come to fruition that he even went as far to suggest dropping [[Industrial Light & Magic]] (ILM) as the visual effects vendor for the film, instead going for a cheaper company. However the [[Associates & Ferren]] visual effects debacle for the previous film was still very much fresh on the minds of his colleagues, and no one was willing to go that far. However, the planned 110 visual effects cuts were whittled down to just 51. (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 22 #5, p. 35)
-* Martia's alien language exclamation "''Fendo pompsky''" became a popular gag among the crew. Used in place of certain expletives, the line was even embroidered on the inside of the production crew jackets. {{incite}}
+* With an absolute, rock-bottom downward revised budget of US$30 million dollar Meyer returned to Kirkpatrick & co. and vigorously ''and'' emotionally made a case for it. Kirkpatrick strictly adhered to the US$25 million dollar the previous film had originally been budgeted at, but was willing to up the budget with US$2.5 million to the total that film had actually cost, but not a penny more. Moved to tears, Meyer knew that the film could not be made for that amount and continued to make a passionate plea for it. After Kirkpatrick had deliberated with his colleagues, the verdict came back: The film was canceled. (''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', 1995, pp. 368-371)
+* Yet, a few weeks later, with all activity on the film halted and production crews sent home, Meyer received a call from interim Paramount Pictures President [[Stanley R. Jaffe]] (not related to producer Jaffe), standing in for the released Mancuso, who had heard that the production was in trouble. Informed by Meyer that he could not make the film as he was shy of US$2.5 million dollars, Jaffe succinctly retorted, "''Okay, you've got it,''" effectively canceling Kirkpatrick's cancellation decision. Instead, it became Kirkpatrick who got "canceled" in April as a result of yet another round in "The Studio Shuffle". (''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', 1995, pp. 371, 393)
+* One of the major reasons Meyer could not budge from his budget was that there was one of the most expensive sets that absolutely '''had''' to be built, and that there was no way around it: the [[Constitution class sets#Refit-configuration bridge|refit-''Enterprise'' bridge set]]. The original set had a few months earlier been temporarily stored on the outside studio parking lot, in order to make room for other sets. A freak weather event completely wrecked the set beyond salvation, save for some parts such as the two [[turbolift]]s. (''[[Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Special Edition)]]'' DVD-special feature, "text commentary") However, once rebuilt, the set had to do double duty as the {{USS|Excelsior|NCC-2000}} bridge as well by means of reshuffling the variable wall panels, as the original, more cavernous ''Excelsior'' bridge set had already been struck years earlier, shortly after its use in {{film|3}}. Ironically, the ''Excelsior'' bridge scenes were shot first, before it became the ''Enterprise'' bridge. (''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Special Edition)]]'' DVD-special feature, "text commentary") Aside from his intimate familiarity with ''The Next Generation'' sets (which he had helped design and built), it was one of the most overriding reasons why Production Designer [[Herman Zimmerman]] was brought in, as he was the one who had been responsible for the bridge redesign as featured in ''The Final Frontier''. In the process, it has also explained why ''The Next Generation''{{'}}s {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-D|-D}} received a new [[battle bridge]], as it had been the (heavily re-dressed) original refit-bridge that had stood in for it in the early seasons of the series. (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 22 #5, p. 35)
+* Trimming down the visual effects cuts to 51 turned out to be too ambitious, as 30 of the originally jettisoned effects sequences had to be produced by ILM and inserted after all, in order to make the film "cut" well. (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 22 #5, p. 35)
+* While the studio had no budget from new studio models, one was actually constructed as something of a labor of love by ILM staffers [[John Goodson]] and [[Bill George]], the [[Film studio models#SD-103|SD-103-type]]. The script had a scene featured which both men felt needed embellishment, and so, of their own volition, they constructed the model. (''[[Cinefex]]'', issue 49, p. 48) The model went on to later become the {{Class|Sydney}}. It has made ''The Undiscovered Country'' the feature in which the fewest new ''Star Trek'' starship designs were featured. George incidentally turned out to be a stickler for detail; As he was aware that the ''Excelsior'' now a new and smaller bridge, he made the effort to replace the originally larger bridge module on the [[Excelsior class model|''Excelsior''-class filming model]] with a smaller one, in order to reflect the change. (''[[American Cinematographer]]'', January 1992, pp. 58-59)
+* Reportedly, William Shatner was champing at the bit to assume the director's role for the film in order to redeem himself for ''The Final Frontier'', but as writer Flinn had dryly noted, "''It's amazing what three million dollars will accomplish.''" As Shatner had, already since {{s|TOS}} days, entered into a mutual "favored-nation clause" covenant with Nimoy which stipulated that, simply put, what the one got so did the other, this meant that Nimoy was to receive the same remuneration for his portrayal of Spock alone &ndash; and thereby discounting his writer's fee. However, it was also the reason why Nimoy, already being two for one in director's chores, declined the original offer by Mancuso to direct the film himself, instead opting for Meyer. It is not only for ''Star Trek'' that star cast salaries had habitually inflated exponentially with each sequel, and it had been one of the overriding reasons why Bennett's "Academy"-project was green-lighted originally, but also one of the reasons why Meyer could not give in any further to the budget demands of Kirkpatrick. (''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', 1995, pp. 244, 350; ''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 22 #5, p. 30)
+* Also on the DVD (and in his memoir ''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]''), William Shatner stated that he was unhappy with the final cut of his interchange with Spock in the Council Chamber, as he felt that it made Kirk seem too cynical and bitter. He originally had done the scene in one take, adding a dismissive wave after his comment to "''Let them die!''" which was subsequently edited out of the final film despite Meyer promising Shatner that he wouldn't do that, according to Shatner.
+* The dinner scene in the officers' mess as scripted was originally longer, and filled with a bit more build up and escalating comments between the Federation and Klingon crews. The scene was originally to build almost to blows, when Gorkon says the line "''It seems we have a long way to go.''" {{bl|geocities.com/ussmunchkin7/Star_Trek_VI.htm}}
+* The first scene at Rura Penthe was heavily influenced by ''The Bridge On the River Kwai'', where the commandant of the POW camp gives a similar speech to the new British prisoners.
+* According to Denny Martin Flinn in a {{y|2003}} [[audio commentary]] for ''The Undiscovered Country'', Martia's alien language exclamation "''Fendo pompsky''" became a popular gag among the crew. Used in place of certain expletives, the line was even embroidered on the inside of the production crew jackets.
+* The romantic comedy {{wt|Frankie and Johnny (1991 film)|Frankie and Johnny}} was filming at nearby soundstages on the [[Paramount Pictures]] lot during production. Director {{w|Garry Marshall}} arranged for [[William Shatner]], [[Leonard Nimoy]], and [[DeForest Kelley]] to appear in full ''Star Trek'' costume and makeup, out of camera shot, behind a door in one scene, to elicit genuine surprise from star {{w|Al Pacino}} when he opened it. {{el|nytimes.com/1991/10/06/movies/film-al-pacino-regular-guy-among-ordinary-joes.html?pagewanted{{=}}all}}
 * The poster artwork for the film was designed by [[John Alvin]], who took over from previous ''Trek'' poster artist [[Bob Peak]]. Alvin was asked to design the poster in the style of Peak's.
+* Co-producer [[Ralph Winter]] provided the film with a remarkable coda. Though understandably proud of what he and the creative team had achieved, he had second thoughts on Bennett's abandoned "Academy"-project, reasoning in hindsight that it would have instituted a long-term studio strategy for a sustainable ''Star Trek'' live-action production line, as opposed to the somewhat chaotic, spur-of-the-moment planning as hitherto employed. "''With a long term plan you could milk this forever,''" Winter mused. (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 22 #5, p. 35) As it so happened, Winter got his wish sooner than even he could have foreseen, as David Kirkpatrick's immediate studio successor turned out to be [[Brandon Tartikoff]]. Brought in at the tail-end of the production of ''The Undiscovered Country'', Brandikoff was yet to leave his mark on ''Star Trek'' by exactly doing that, what Winter had imagined.
-==== Sets, props, and costumes ====
+=== Sets, props, and costumes ===
 * General Chang's eyepatch had the Klingon crest painted on the heads of each rivet. The makeup artist painted them on for fun and they were never intended to be seen. {{incite}}
-* Filming took place during the break between the [[TNG Season 4|fourth]] and [[TNG Season 5|fifth]] seasons of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''.  Most of the ''Enterprise''-A sets were redresses of {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-D|-D}} sets:
+* Filming took place during the break between the [[TNG Season 4|fourth]] and [[TNG Season 5|fifth]] seasons of ''The Next Generation''. Most of the ''Enterprise''-A sets were redresses of {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-D|-D}} sets:
 ** [[James T. Kirk|Kirk]] and [[Spock]]'s [[quarters]] (Data's quarters, which were originally Kirk's quarters from ''Star Trek: The Motion Picture'')
-** [[Transporter room]] (''Enterprise''-D transporter room; the black borderlines for each pad that were added to the transporter platform for this film stayed on for the rest of ''The Next Generation''{{'}}s run)
+** [[Transporter room]] (''Enterprise''-D transporter room)
 ** [[Sickbay]] (''Enterprise''-D sickbay)
 ** [[Laboratory]] ([[Beverly Crusher]]'s office)
-** Officer's [[mess hall]] (the dining room, redress of ''Enterprise''-D [[observation lounge]])
+** Officers' [[mess hall]] (the dining room, redress of ''Enterprise''-D [[observation lounge]])
 ** [[Engineering]] (clear redress of the ''Enterprise''-D engineering; they simply replaced the display graphics and repainted some surfaces)
 ** [[Corridor]]s (retouched with more metallic appearance)
+** [[Galley]] (redress of Counsellor Troi's Office, later the {{USS|Sutherland|NCC-72015}} bridge)
 ::These sets had been in turn recycled by TNG from the first three movies. The TNG [[warp core]] was a complete redress of the first movie's [[warp plasma conduit]]s, Data's quarters a redress of Kirk's and [[Ilia]]'s quarters. Even the sickbay from TNG was recycled from the movies' sickbay.
 * Captain Kirk's quarters featured two different maps of the Milky Way galaxy created for early TNG episodes ({{TNG|Conspiracy|The Emissary}})
 * Captain Sulu's coffee table was a bit more than a cute addition to the ''Excelsior'' bridge. Beneath it was the support for an apparatus used to shake the whole bridge set during the [[Praxis]] explosion. As a side note, you may also notice the coffee cup that broke had no markings on it like the one Sulu was drinking from moments earlier. It was such a nice cup, the prop department didn't want it damaged. A similar table, likely for the same reason, can also be seen on the ''Enterprise'' bridge as well, between the captain's chair and the helm/nav console. {{incite|For entire paragraph}}
-* Pfaltzgraff made the china used in the film, and sold 3,000 sets of reproductions. [http://starland.com/auction/ST_ChinaSet.html]
+* Pfaltzgraff made the china used in the film, and sold 3,000 sets of reproductions. The company logo can be seen at the bottom of the aforementioned broken cup. {{el|starland.com/auction/ST_ChinaSet.html}}
-[[File:Presidents-office-paris.jpg|thumb|Federation President's office in Paris]]
+[[File:Federation president's office.jpg|thumb|Federation President's office in Paris]]
-* The office of the Federation President is a redress of [[Ten Forward]]. A viewscreen is located in place of the art ornament behind the bar counter, and the walls are painted with some shade of brown. (''[[Star Trek Encyclopedia]]'' 2nd ed., p. 502)
+* The office of the Federation President is a redress of [[Ten Forward]]. A viewscreen is located in place of the art ornament behind the bar counter, and the walls are painted with some shade of brown. ({{ste|2|502}}) The doors for the set accidentally retained the TNG style insignia during filming, and this can clearly be seen in the film.
-* One of the models of the aircraft carrier ''[[USS Enterprise (CVN-65)|Enterprise]]'' in Kirk's quarters was built by writer [[Ronald D. Moore]] when he was eleven. {{incite}}
+* One of the models of the original {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}} in Kirk's quarters was built by writer [[Ronald D. Moore]] when he was eleven.
 * The book used by Uhura while frantically searching for a linguistic reference of the [[Klingon language]] while entering Klingon territory is actually the 1951 catalog for the "Alloy Steel Products Company, Inc.". {{incite}} Interestingly, the title of the modified book states ''[[Introduction to Klingon Grammer]]'', in which "grammer" should be spelled as "grammar".
 * Several props and costumes from this movie were sold off on the [[It's A Wrap! sale and auction]] on eBay, including a Rura Penthe miner's mask {{stala|8735}}, a Vulcan Khitomer attendee's costume {{stala|35506}}, a Klingon court attendee lot {{stala|9422}}, a Klingon [[canteen]] {{stala|9661}}, and a Klingon uniform lot, partially worn by [[Scott Leva]]. {{stala|9425}} Also sold off was a desk lamp, which was featured during the Starfleet staff meeting. It was designed by [[F.A. Porsche]] and labeled as model "Jazz". {{stala|9663}}
-==== Miscellaneous ====
+=== Miscellaneous ===
-*Gene Roddenberry saw the movie [[October 1991|three days before he died]]. According to [[William Shatner]]'s ''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', Roddenberry, after seeing the film, gave thumbs up all around, and then went back and phoned his lawyer, angrily demanding a full quarter-hour of the film's more militaristic moments be removed from the film, but Gene died before his lawyer could present his demands to the studio.
+* Gene Roddenberry saw the movie [[October 1991|two days before he died]]. According to [[William Shatner]]'s ''[[Star Trek Movie Memories]]'' (1995, p. 394), Roddenberry, after seeing the film, gave thumbs up all around, and then went back and phoned his lawyer, [[Leonard Maizlish]], angrily demanding a full quarter-hour of the film's more militaristic moments be removed from the film, but Gene died before his lawyer could present his demands to the studio.
-*Originally, director [[Nicholas Meyer]] wanted to bring back composer [[James Horner]], whom he worked with on {{film|2}} to score ''The Undiscovered Country''. However, Horner turned the offer down, saying his "career had moved past ''Star Trek''." Meyer then offered the film to composer [[Jerry Goldsmith]], but he turned it down, citing the poor results of {{film|5}}, which he had also worked on. The film eventually went to composer [[Cliff Eidelman]]. According to the liner notes for the soundtrack album, Meyer's original concept for the score was to adapt Gustav Holst's ''The Planets'', but getting the rights to the music proved too expensive. (Eidelman's score therefore pays homage to Holst, most notably in the opening credits where the score bears a close resemblance to "Mars," the first movement from ''The Planets''.) An excerpt from ''The Planets'' was used a few years later in the trailer for {{film|7}}.  Eidelman was picked because of his extensive knowledge of Holst's "The Planets", having written his master's thesis on the complete suite.
+* Originally, director [[Nicholas Meyer]] wanted to bring back composer [[James Horner]], whom he worked with on {{film|2}} to score ''The Undiscovered Country''. However, Horner turned the offer down, saying his "career had moved past ''Star Trek''." Meyer then offered the film to composer [[Jerry Goldsmith]], but he turned it down, citing the poor results of {{film|5}}, which he had also worked on. The film eventually went to composer [[Cliff Eidelman]]. According to the liner notes for the soundtrack album, Meyer's original concept for the score was to adapt Gustav Holst's ''The Planets'', but getting the rights to the music proved too expensive. (Eidelman's score therefore pays homage to Holst, most notably in the opening credits where the score bears a close resemblance to "Mars," the first movement from ''The Planets''.) An excerpt from ''The Planets'' was used a few years later in the trailer for {{film|7}}. Eidelman was picked because of his extensive knowledge of Holst's "The Planets", having written his master's thesis on the complete suite.
-*This movie, {{film|1}} and {{film|11}} are the only three ''Star Trek'' films not to use the opening fanfare from the [[Theme from Star Trek]] in the main title music.
+* This movie and {{film|1}} are the only ''Star Trek'' films released before the [[Star Trek films#Alternate reality films|alternate reality films]] not to use the opening fanfare from the "[[Theme from Star Trek]]" in the main title music.
-*According to ''[[Star Trek Movie Memories|William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', the original story credits for the film were to be ''"Story by Leonard Nimoy and Nicholas Meyer, Screenplay by Denny Martin Flynn"'' as nothing from the original submission by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal were used in the final film. According to Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, Konner and Rosenthal went to the {{w|Writers Guild of America}} for arbitration as they felt they should deserve story credit. The WGA spoke to Nimoy and he showed them his notes where he had initially come up with the story idea for the film and they initially sided with Nimoy. However Konner and Rosenthal appealed again and eventually the WGA changed the credits to ''"Story by [[Lawrence Konner]] & [[Mark Rosenthal]], screenplay by Nicholas Meyer and Denny Martin Flynn,"'' leaving Nimoy out of the credits. An incensed Nimoy contacted his lawyer and said if this weren't resolved by the end of the upcoming weekend, he would immediately sue Paramount and the WGA over the matter. Nimoy's lawyer reportedly worked non-stop over the weekend, working with Meyer's attorney, with Konner and Rosenthal's attorney, until finally coming up with a credit which was acceptable to all: ''"Story by Leonard Nimoy and Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal, Screenplay by Nicholas Meyer & Denny Martin Flynn."''
+* According to ''[[Star Trek Movie Memories|William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories]]'', the original story credits for the film were to be "''Story by Leonard Nimoy and Nicholas Meyer, Screenplay by Denny Martin Flynn''" as nothing from the original submission by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal were used in the final film. According to Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, Konner and Rosenthal went to the {{w|Writers Guild of America}} for arbitration as they felt they should deserve story credit. The WGA spoke to Nimoy and he showed them his notes where he had initially come up with the story idea for the film and they initially sided with Nimoy. However Konner and Rosenthal appealed again and eventually the WGA changed the credits to "''Story by [[Lawrence Konner]] & [[Mark Rosenthal]], screenplay by Nicholas Meyer and Denny Martin Flynn,''" leaving Nimoy out of the credits. An incensed Nimoy contacted his lawyer and said if this weren't resolved by the end of the upcoming weekend, he would immediately sue Paramount and the WGA over the matter. Nimoy's lawyer reportedly worked non-stop over the weekend, working with Meyer's attorney, with Konner and Rosenthal's attorney, until finally coming up with a credit which was acceptable to all: "''Story by Leonard Nimoy and Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal, Screenplay by Nicholas Meyer & Denny Martin Flynn.''"
-*The galley scene was quickly written into the movie just to demonstrate that you can't fire a [[phaser]] (set to kill) on board the ship without triggering an alarm. (This raises the question as to ''why'' a phaser locker is in the galley. The answer could be found as early as {{e|The Corbomite Maneuver}}. While the ''Enterprise'' is being towed by [[Balok]]'s ship, [[Yeoman]] [[Janice Rand]] brings hot coffee to the bridge. Dr. McCoy asks her how she made coffee when the "power was out" in the galley. Her pragmatic answer was, "''I used a hand phaser and ''zap'' &ndash; hot coffee.''")
+* The galley scene was quickly written into the movie just to demonstrate that you can't fire a [[phaser]] (set to kill) on board the ship without triggering an alarm. (This raises the question as to ''why'' a phaser locker is in the galley. The answer could be found as early as {{e|The Corbomite Maneuver}}. While the ''Enterprise'' is being towed by [[Balok]]'s ship, [[Yeoman]] [[Janice Rand]] brings hot coffee to the bridge. Dr. McCoy asks her how she made coffee when the "power was out" in the galley. Her pragmatic answer was, "''I used a hand phaser and ''zap'' &ndash; hot coffee.''")
 [[File:Blue food.jpg|thumb|Is this worth $240?]]
-*The blue [[food]] at the dinner scene was so disgusting that actors had to be bribed to eat it. Each actor was offered twenty dollars for every bite. Shatner did it, and won $240, before throwing up. (According to Leonard Nimoy, it was chunks of squid treated with blue food coloring.) Reportedly, Shatner was the only member of the cast able to swallow any of it, and the first time Shatner ate the colored squid, he turned and looked right at Nick Meyer and said, "''Where's my twenty?''" Meyer called "''cut!''" and pulled out the twenty and gave it to Shatner. (''William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories'')
+* The blue [[food]] at the dinner scene was so disgusting that actors had to be bribed to eat it. Each actor was offered twenty dollars for every bite. Shatner did it, and won $240, before throwing up. (According to Leonard Nimoy, it was chunks of squid treated with blue food coloring.) Reportedly, Shatner was the only member of the cast able to swallow any of it, and the first time Shatner ate the colored squid, he turned and looked right at Nick Meyer and said, "''Where's my twenty?''" Meyer called "''cut!''" and pulled out the twenty and gave it to Shatner. (''William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories'')
-*Spock attributes the quote "''If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth''" to an ancestor. This quote (and numerous variations) derives from the [[Sherlock Holmes]] novels and short stories by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]. Fans, noting the similarities between the characters of Spock and Holmes, have long speculated that Spock might be a descendant (on the side of his Human mother, [[Amanda Grayson]]) either of the fictional Holmes or the historical Doyle; the first such speculation is found in a Ruth Berman article in ''Spockanalia'' in 1966.{{incite}} Writer/director Nicholas Meyer, a Holmes fan, wrote the well-received Sherlock Holmes novel ''The Seven-Per-Cent Solution'' and adapted it into an Academy Award-nominated screenplay.
+* Spock attributes the quote "''If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth''" to an ancestor. This quote (and numerous variations) derives from the [[Sherlock Holmes]] novels and short stories by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]. Fans, noting the similarities between the characters of Spock and Holmes, have long speculated that Spock might be a descendant (on the side of his Human mother, [[Amanda Grayson]]) either of the fictional Holmes or the historical Doyle; the first such speculation is found in a Ruth Berman article in ''Spockanalia'' in 1966.{{incite}} Writer/director Nicholas Meyer, a Holmes fan, wrote the well-received Sherlock Holmes novel ''The Seven-Per-Cent Solution'' and adapted it into an Academy Award-nominated screenplay.
-*During the search of all uniforms on board the ''Enterprise'', a crewman takes off the cover of a power conduit. When he moves to put the cover down, you can see production markings on the back.
+* During the search of all uniforms on board the ''Enterprise'', a crewman takes off the cover of a power conduit. When he moves to put the cover down, you can see production markings on the back.
-*At the dining room, you can see paintings of many dignitaries, including Surak, founder of Vulcan philosophy and [[American]] President [[Abraham Lincoln]]. The ''Enterprise'' crew met recreations of both of them in {{TOS|The Savage Curtain}}. Another painting is of an unnamed [[Andorian]] dignitary.
+* At the dining room, you can see paintings of many dignitaries, including Surak, founder of Vulcan philosophy and [[American]] President [[Abraham Lincoln]]. The ''Enterprise'' crew met recreations of both of them in {{TOS|The Savage Curtain}}. Another painting is of an unnamed [[Andorian]] dignitary.
-*After the first day of shooting, someone noticed that [[Valeris]]'s jacket was trimmed in gray, not red, to match her red turtleneck undergarment. Since re-filming would have been too expensive, it was quickly decided to just let it pass. {{incite}}
+* After the first day of shooting, someone noticed that [[Valeris]]'s jacket was trimmed in [[Sciences division]] gray, not [[Starfleet cadets|cadet and trainee]] red, to match her cadet red turtleneck undergarment. Since re-filming would have been too expensive, it was quickly decided to just let it pass. {{incite}}
-:''As was her incorrect rank insignia of [[lieutenant commander]]. Valeris was only a [[lieutenant]].''
+* Valeris also wears the incorrect rank insignia of [[lieutenant commander]], although exclusively being referred to in both dialogue and credits as a [[lieutenant]].
-*During the Battle at Khitomer, Uhura mentions that the ''Enterprise'' is carrying equipment to study gaseous anomalies. In the beginning of the film, Sulu states that the ''Excelsior'' is also on a mission to study gaseous anomalies. It is not clear whether this is done intentionally, as the ''Enterprise''{{'}}s mission is strictly escort duty for the Chancellor's ship.
+* During the Battle at Khitomer, Uhura mentions that the ''Enterprise'' is carrying equipment to study gaseous anomalies. In the beginning of the film, Sulu states that the ''Excelsior'' is also on a mission to study gaseous anomalies. It is not clear whether this is done intentionally, as the ''Enterprise''{{'}}s mission is strictly escort duty for the Chancellor's ship.
-:''According to George Takei's autobiography '''To the Stars''', early drafts did feature the '''Excelsior''' discovering the Bird-of-Prey's weakness and using their gaseous anomaly equipment to find it. According to Takei, William Shatner asked that the scene be re-written, arguing that Captain Kirk would never need anyone to come charging to his rescue.
+:''According to George Takei's autobiography ''To the Stars'', early drafts did feature the ''Excelsior'' discovering the Bird-of-Prey's weakness and using their gaseous anomaly equipment to find it. According to Takei, William Shatner asked that the scene be re-written, arguing that Captain Kirk would never need anyone to come charging to his rescue. The second edition of the ''Star Trek Chronology'' states that the study was a long-term one and that ''Enterprise'', as well as several other Federation ships, had been outfitted with such equipment.''
-*The sets for the ''Excelsior'' and ''Enterprise-A'' bridges were redresses of the same set, which were made up of modules to be rearranged, as needed.
+* The sets for the ''Excelsior'' and ''Enterprise-''A bridges were redresses of the same set, which were made up of modules to be rearranged, as needed.
-*In the final shot of the ''Enterprise'' bridge crew, the helmsman's chair is left empty, symbolizing that Sulu is not present.
+* In the final shot of the ''Enterprise'' bridge crew, the helmsman's chair is left empty, symbolizing that Sulu is not present.
-*In the credits at the end of the movie, Uhura is misspelled "Uhuru."
+* In the credits at the end of the movie, Uhura is misspelled "[[Uhuru]]."
-*The final scene also has the characters standing in a staged lineup. The producers wanted it known that it was the last movie.
+* The final scene also has the characters standing in a staged lineup. The producers wanted it known that it was the last movie.
-*The final captain's log was actually shot on the bridge of the ''Enterprise''. This, however, was the last scene shot. Instead of using a dubbed log, they recorded it live. {{incite}}
+* The final captain's log was actually shot on the bridge of the ''Enterprise''. This, however, was the last scene shot. Instead of using a dubbed log, they recorded it live. {{incite}}
-*The Khitomer hall was represented by the [[Brandeis-Bardin Institute]], located in southern California.
+* The Khitomer hall was represented by the [[Brandeis-Bardin Institute]], located in southern California.
-*This is the first ''Trek'' movie since {{film|1}} to feature no footage from previous films, although a portion of the ''Enterprise''-A leaving the spacedock derives from a scene seen in the previous two movies. The Bird-of-Prey explosion from this film was later used in ''Star Trek The Next Generation'', ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' and {{film|7}}.
+* The footage of the ''Enterprise''-A in spacedock is actually modified footage from ''Star Trek IV'' (budgetary constraints, as well as the disappearance of the spacedock interior miniature from ILM's archives, dictated its use). This marks the second time that footage shot for a previous film was re-used for a second time (the other being the Genesis sequence from ''Star Trek II'', which also appeared in ''Star Trek III'' and ''Star Trek IV'').
+* The Bird-of-Prey explosion from this film was later used in {{film|7}}.
-*For some unknown reason, the art on the label for the special features, disc 2 of the ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Special Edition)|Special Collector's Edition]]'' features an upside-down close-up image of the [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B)|''Enterprise''-B]] while still in [[drydock]] from the film {{film|7}}, [[Paramount Home Entertainment]] would later correct this problem by reissuing it as a silver labeled DVD.
+* For some unknown reason, the art on the label for the special features disc of some editions of the ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Special Edition)|Special Collector's Edition]]'' features an upside-down close-up image of the [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B)|''Enterprise''-B]] while still in [[drydock]] from the film {{film|7}}; [[Paramount Home Entertainment]] later corrected this problem by reissuing it as a silver labeled DVD. A similar error occurs on the HD and Blu-ray editions of the film, with the ''Enterprise''-B on the back cover.
-*During the dinner scene, Kirk says that having [[Romulan ale]] is "''One of the advantages of being a thousand [[light year]]s from [[Starfleet Headquarters|Federation Headquarters]].''" Given that 78 years later, a faster and more advanced {{USS|Voyager}} would expect to take 70 years to travel 70,000 light years, one may infer that it would take far longer than a year for the ''Enterprise'' to reach the rendezvous point with ''Kronos One''. However, he could be exaggerating: since the Klingons are enemies of the Federation, it could seem as if they're one thousand light years from home.
+* During the dinner scene, Kirk says that having [[Romulan ale]] is "''One of the advantages of being a thousand [[light year]]s from [[Starfleet Headquarters|Federation Headquarters]].''" Given that 78 years later, a faster and more advanced {{USS|Voyager}} would expect to take seventy years to travel seventy thousand light years, one may infer that it would take far longer than a year for the ''Enterprise'' to reach the rendezvous point with ''Kronos One''. It is more likely that Kirk was speaking metaphorically and not quoting an exact figure.
-*A scene in the script and novelization took place on ''Excelsior'' just after Sulu's conversation with Kirk, where Valtane was to have told Sulu, "''Do you realize you've just committed treason, sir?''" Sulu was supposed to reply something along the lines of "''I always hoped that if I ever had to choose between betraying my country or betraying my friend, I'd have the courage to betray my country.''" This exchange remained in the novelization.
+* A scene in the script and novelization took place on ''Excelsior'' just after Sulu's conversation with Kirk, where Valtane was to have told Sulu, "''Do you realize you've just committed treason, sir?''" Sulu was supposed to reply something along the lines of "''I always hoped that if I ever had to choose between betraying my country or betraying my friend, I'd have the courage to betray my country.''" This exchange remained in the novelization.
-*The events of this film were later revisited in {{VOY|Flashback}}, in which it is established that [[Tuvok]] served as an ensign aboard the ''Excelsior''. External footage of the ''Excelsior'' and the Praxis explosion wave were reused directly from the film, but all other scenes were specially re-shot, partly to include Kate Mulgrew and Tim Russ, who had not appeared in the film originally, but also because the movie's actors had aged significantly since the film was shot, meaning new footage of the actors filmed for the episode would not have matched any of the reused movie footage.
+* The events of this film were later revisited in {{VOY|Flashback}}, in which it is established that [[Tuvok]] served as an ensign aboard the ''Excelsior''. External footage of the ''Excelsior'' and the Praxis explosion wave were reused directly from the film, but all other scenes were specially re-shot, partly to include Kate Mulgrew and Tim Russ, who had not appeared in the film originally, but also because the movie's actors had aged significantly since the film was shot, meaning new footage of the actors filmed for the episode would not have matched any of the reused movie footage.
-*As with {{film|2}}, this film shows Spock having full command of the ''Enterprise''. In fact, this is the only film in which Spock actually gives Kirk orders.
+* As with {{film|2}}, this film shows Spock having full command of the ''Enterprise''. In fact, this is the only film in which Spock actually gives Kirk orders.
-*[[Spock]] references the events of this film during {{TNG|Unification II}}, citing his guilt over ordering [[James T. Kirk|Kirk]] to be a negotiator in the Klingon peace talks and the consequences that followed.
+* [[Spock]] references the events of this film during {{TNG|Unification II}}, citing his guilt over committing [[James T. Kirk|Kirk]] to be a negotiator in the Klingon peace talks and the consequences that followed.
-*After {{TOS|Whom Gods Destroy}} and {{TAS|The Survivor}}, this marks the third time that a [[shapeshifter]] has assumed the form of Captain Kirk.
+* After {{TOS|Whom Gods Destroy}} and {{TAS|The Survivor}}, this marks the third time that a [[shapeshifter]] has assumed the form of Captain Kirk.
+* A similarly extended, establishing prologue was later envisioned for the subsequent movie, {{film|7}}, but it too, though partially filmed, was scrapped for budgetary reasons, as well as for running-time considerations.
+* NBC, ''Star Trek'''s former network, fittingly premiered ''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country'' on November 6, 1994, a good 12 days in advance of {{film|7}}'s nationwide release. It was the first time any kind of ''Star Trek'' was seen on The Peacock Network since {{s|TAS}} in 1973.
+===Dating===
+In ''Star Trek VI'', during his trial, Bones says that he has been the ship's surgeon for 27 years. He took the post from [[Mark Piper]] at some point in [[2265]], after {{e|Where No Man Has Gone Before}}, or in early [[2266]], before {{e|The Corbomite Maneuver}}. This statement establishes a time frame for the film from [[2292]] to [[2293]].
+The film ends with the last voyage of the ship and crew. The prologue of {{film|7}} is set more precisely in 2293, or 78 years before [[2371]]. In the prologue, a news reporter and Scotty talk with Kirk about how he has settled down into his retirement, suggesting that the retirement from the previous film is still a very recent thing for him.
+[[StarTrek.com]], {{ste|c}}, and {{ste|3|691}} use the year 2293. Memory Alpha uses this year as well.
+=== Behind the scenes ===
+==== Concept art ====
+<gallery>
+File: HMS Bounty, Star Trek VI.jpg
+File: Chang concept.jpg
+File: Gavel sketch.jpg
+File: Martia (storyboard).jpg
+</gallery>
+==== Production gallery ====
+<gallery>
+File: Star Trek VI Cast.jpg
+File:Excelsior stunt crew.jpg
+File: Lena Banks, Star Trek VI.jpg
+File: Roma Lee Tracy, Star Trek VI.jpg
+File: Robert Easton.jpg
+File: Mark Gonzaga as Vulcan Noble Delegate.jpg
+File:Mark Gonzaga and Gerry Robyn as Vulcans.jpg
+File: Mark Leonard and two Vulcan delegates.jpg
+File: James Mapes and DeForest Kelley.jpg
+File: Khitomer aliens production photo.jpg
+File:Douglas Price, TUC special features.jpg
+File: Purple Federation members TUC.jpg
+File: Khitomer Tellarite production photo.jpg
+File: Rura Penthe (Bronson Canyon).jpg
+</gallery>
-==== Merchandise gallery ====
+=== Merchandise gallery ===
 <gallery>
 File:Star Trek VI Soundtrack.jpg|[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (soundtrack)|soundtrack]]
-File:Star Trek VI novel book cover.jpg|[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (novel)|novelization]]
+File:The Undiscovered Country (cover).jpg|[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (novel)|novelization]]
-File:Star Trek VI Official Movie Magazine cover.jpg|[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - The Official Movie Magazine|magazine]]
+File:Star Trek VI Official Movie Magazine cover.jpg|1991 [[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - The Official Movie Magazine|official movie magazine]]
+File:Cinefantastique cover 088.jpg|1992 ''[[Cinefantastique]]'' theme issue
 File:St6 comic.jpg|[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (comic)|comic book adaptation]]
-File:Charting the Undiscovered Country.jpg|[[Charting the Undiscovered Country: The Making of Trek VI|making of]]
+File:Charting the Undiscovered Country.jpg|1992 unlicensed [[Charting the Undiscovered Country: The Making of Trek VI|"making of"]] [[reference book]]
-File:Undiscovered Country UK VHS original cover.jpg|[[Movies UK VHS|Original UK VHS release]]<br />(VHR 2760)
+File:The Undiscovered Country US VHS cover.jpg|{{dis|Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country|VHS|1993 US VHS release}}
+File:The Undiscovered Country US widescreen VHS cover.jpg|1993 US widescreen VHS release
+File:Undiscovered Country UK VHS original cover.jpg|[[Star Trek films (UK VHS)|1993 Original UK VHS release]]<br />(VHR 2760)
+File:Star Trek VI Video 8 cover.jpg|1993 US [[Video 8]] release
 File:Undiscovered Country 1998 UK VHS cover.jpg|1998 UK VHS rerelease
 File:Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country DVD cover.jpg|[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (DVD)|DVD]]
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 </gallery>
-==== Production history ====
+=== Production history ===
 * 5th draft script: {{d|28|December|1990}}
-* Start of filming: {{d|16|April|1991}}
+* Start of principal photography: {{d|11|April|1991}}
-* End of filming: {{d|2|July|1991}}
+* End of principal photography: {{d|2|July|1991}}
-* Screening for Gene Roddenberry (3 days before his death): {{d|21|October|1991}}
+* Screening for Gene Roddenberry (2 days before his death): {{d|22|October|1991}}
 * Hollywood, California premiere: {{d|3|December|1991}}
 * US theatrical premiere: {{d|6|December|1991}}
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 * Japan LaserDisc: {{d|10|February|1993}}
 * VHS: {{d|25|August|1993}}
+* UK network television premiere: {{d|7|January|1995}} on BBC1
 * UK LaserDisc: {{y|1996}}
 * France LaserDisc: {{y|1996}}
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 * Blu-Ray: September 2009
-==== Different versions ====
+=== Different versions ===
-* Aspect ratios. The film was originally filmed and edited in Super35 (4-perf) with a negative aspect ratio of 1.66:1. It was composed for multiple aspect ratios (meaning that all the important action had to be centered in a fairly small part of the frame). Every release is a reduction (croppings) from the original, never-released full frame using so-called "soft mattes". For theatrical release, the master was reduced to the usual 2.39:1 aspect ratio used for anamorphic 35mm projection (all the other ''Trek'' movies were filmed in this ratio, using anamorphic lenses instead of Super35). A 2.21:1 version was also prepared for 70mm release (the same was done with all the previous ''Trek'' films). The film has never been commercially available in either theatrical aspect ratio, until the recent Blue-ray release. The non-widescreen television broadcasts and VHS releases were reduced to the 1.33:1 aspect ratio traditional for television, using the original 1.66:1 print, thus easing up the matte on the top and bottom, but cropping the sides. Early widescreen VHS and laserdisc transfers and the first DVD release were reduced to yet another ratio, 1.95:1, and then centered high on the screen with space at the bottom for subtitles, letterboxed within a 1.33:1 raster. The Special Edition DVD release was reduced to 1.95:1 letterboxed within a 1.85:1 raster. Which portion of the full frame is used varies from shot to shot, rather than being a purely mechanical reduction &ndash; and the choices are made differently in each release, including the two 1.95:1 releases. Apparently the 1.95:1 is the director's preferred aspect ratio. However, for the May 2009 Blu-ray release, the film was made available in its original theatrical ratio of 2.39:1 for the first time, with the director's approval.
+* Aspect ratios. The film was originally filmed and edited in Super 35 (4-perf). It was composed for multiple aspect ratios (meaning that all the important action had to be centered in a fairly small part of the frame). Every release is a reduction (croppings) from the original, never-released full frame using so-called "soft mattes". For theatrical release, the master was reduced to the usual 2.39:1 aspect ratio used for anamorphic 35mm projection (all the other ''Trek'' movies were filmed in this ratio, using anamorphic lenses instead of Super 35). A 2.20:1 version was also prepared for 70mm release (the same was done with all the previous ''Trek'' films). The film has never been commercially available in either theatrical aspect ratio, until the Blu-ray release. The non-widescreen television broadcasts and VHS releases were reduced to the 1.33:1 aspect ratio, thus easing up the matte on the top and bottom, but cropping some of the sides. Early widescreen VHS and laserdisc transfers and the first DVD release were opened up to yet another ratio, 2.00:1, and then centered high on the screen with space at the bottom for subtitles, but was non-anamorphic. The Special Edition DVD release was opened up to the same 2.00:1 ratio, but was anamorphicly enhanced for widescreen TVs. Which portion of the full frame is used varies from shot to shot, rather than being a purely mechanical reduction &ndash; and the choices are made differently in each release, including the two 2.00:1 releases. Apparently the 2.00:1 is the director's preferred aspect ratio. However, for the May 2009 Blu-ray release, the film was made available in its original theatrical ratio of 2.39:1 for the first time.
-* Extra scenes and edits. Until {{y|2009}}, the theatrical cut had never been released commercially in English. The original {{y|1992}} home video release added back in the "Operation Retrieve" scenes (originally, the scene in the president's office ended with the line "''This president is not above the law''"), the scene between Spock, Scotty and Valeris directly before the trial, and the unmasking of Colonel West on Khitomer (just a few shots are added: Colonel Worf touching West's blood and saying "''This is not Klingon blood''" between Cartwright trying to escape and Sulu stopping him, the actual unmasking and the C-in-C and Worf looking at each other directly after). These scenes remained in all subsequent commercial releases until {{y|2009}}. The {{y|2003}} Special Edition DVD release added in glimpses of Cartwright, Chang and Nanclus during Spock and Valeris' mind meld and slight alternate takes during her interrogation on the bridge. The original cut, albeit with the 1.95:1 aspect ratio, was present on the {{y|1993}} dubbed German VHS release. It was also released on iTunes, cut at 1.95:1 and stretched slightly to 2.00:1 (640x320). The various releases of the movie on [[Blu-ray Disc]] and [[DVD]] in {{y|2009}} featured the original theatrical cut in its original aspect ratio.
+* Extra scenes and edits. Until {{y|2009}}, the theatrical cut had never been released commercially in English (however has aired on TV a few times before then). The original {{y|1992}} home video release added back in the "Operation Retrieve" scenes (originally, the scene in the president's office ended with the line "''This president is not above the law''"), the scene between Spock, Scotty and Valeris directly before the trial, and the unmasking of Colonel West on Khitomer (just a few shots are added: Colonel Worf touching West's blood and saying "''This is not Klingon blood''" between Cartwright trying to escape and Sulu stopping him, the actual unmasking and the C-in-C and Worf looking at each other directly after). These scenes remained in all subsequent commercial releases until {{y|2009}}. The {{y|2003}} Special Edition DVD release re-edited the scene when Scotty is drinking coffee from a mug and drawing on a blueprint (using alternate shots) and added in flash frames of Cartwright, Chang, and Nanclus during Spock and Valeris' mind meld and slight alternate takes during her interrogation on the bridge. The original cut, albeit with the 2.00:1 aspect ratio, was present on the {{y|1993}} dubbed German VHS release. It was also released on iTunes, cut at 2.00:1 (640x320). The various releases of the movie on [[Blu-ray Disc]] and [[DVD]] in {{y|2009}} featured the original theatrical cut in its original aspect ratio.
 * The end credits had a different format for the theatrical version. It featured the Starfleet Insignia at the top and the screen split between a white background and dark lettering and the other side with a dark background with white lettering.
-==== Apocrypha ====
+=== Apocrypha ===
 * ''Star Trek VI'' was [[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (novel)|adapted]] into [[novelization]] by [[Jeanne M. Dillard]].
 * A [[comics]] [[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (comic)|adaptation]] was written by [[Peter David]] and drawn by [[Gordon Purcell]] and [[Arne Starr]].
-* A novel and comic sequel to the events of this film, ''[[The Ashes of Eden]]'', written by [[William Shatner]] and [[Judith Reeves-Stevens|Judith]] and [[Garfield Reeves-Stevens]], depicts a plot created by a Klingon-Romulan alliance, staged in Chal, a homeworld populated by a race of genetically-engineered Klingon-Romulans. Kirk is called there by a native of the planet, Teilani, to help her people with this crisis.
+* A novel and comic sequel to the events of this film, ''{{dis|The Ashes of Eden|novel}}'', written by [[William Shatner]] and [[Judith Reeves-Stevens|Judith]] and [[Garfield Reeves-Stevens]], depicts a plot created by a Klingon-Romulan alliance, staged in Chal, a homeworld populated by a race of genetically-engineered Klingon-Romulans. Kirk is called there by a native of the planet, Teilani, to help her people with this crisis.
 * The conference at Khitomer was explored again in the non-canon ''Star Trek'' novel ''[[Assignment: Eternity]]''.
-* While it was mentioned in the film that the crew was standing down, it wasn't directly stated that the entire ''Enterprise'' senior staff was retiring so it's been generally believed that most of the crew were simply stepping down and retiring from active ship duty. To that end, several novels have postulated that only Kirk, Spock and Scotty actually fully retired and then Spock became part of the diplomatic corps and became an ambassador. The novel ''[[Provenance of Shadows]]'' established that McCoy started doing research at Starfleet Medical and other novels have had McCoy as Chief of Starfleet Medical as well. {{e|Encounter at Farpoint}} clearly establishes that McCoy is an Admiral at that [[2364|point in time]]. According to the novel ''[[The Star to Every Wandering]]'', at the time of {{film|7}}, Chekov was working a ground assignment on Earth waiting for an executive officer position to open up. It's likely he was assigned to ''Excelsior'' as executive officer shortly thereafter, eventually commanding two starships on his own before becoming an admiral. In the movie, Uhura said she was supposed to be chairing a seminar at the Academy, and ''[[The Lost Era]]'' novels established that she was going to do that very thing when she was recruited for [[Starfleet Intelligence]] and eventually rising to become an Admiral and head of Intelligence by [[2360]] at the latest. The [[Starfleet Corps of Engineers]] novels have established that Scotty eventually became the head of the Corps of Engineers and other books established Scotty as having helped to design and work on building the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-E|-E}}. In fact, the novel ''[[Ship of the Line]]'', which dealt with the actual launch of the ''Enterprise''-E, established that Scotty was acting chief engineer for the ship's shakedown cruise with [[Geordi La Forge]] as his first assistant chief.
+* While it was mentioned in the film that the crew was standing down, it wasn't directly stated that the entire ''Enterprise'' senior staff was retiring so it's been generally believed that most of the crew were simply stepping down and retiring from active ship duty. To that end, several novels have postulated that only Kirk, Spock, and Scott actually fully retired and then Spock became part of the diplomatic corps and became an ambassador.
+** The novel ''[[Provenance of Shadows]]'' established that McCoy started doing research at Starfleet Medical and other novels have had McCoy as Chief of Starfleet Medical as well. {{e|Encounter at Farpoint}} clearly establishes that McCoy was an admiral at that [[2364|point in time]].
+** According to the novel ''[[The Star to Every Wandering]]'', at the time of {{film|7}}, Chekov was working a ground assignment on Earth waiting for an executive officer position to open up. It's likely he was assigned to ''Excelsior'' as executive officer shortly thereafter (according to the non-canon novel ''[[The Sundered]]'', he took the post of executive officer on the ''Excelsior''), eventually commanding two starships on his own before becoming an admiral.
+** In the movie, Uhura said she was supposed to be chairing a seminar at the Academy, and ''[[The Lost Era]]'' novels established that she was going to do that very thing when she was recruited for [[Starfleet Intelligence]] and eventually rising to become an admiral and head of Intelligence by [[2360]] at the latest.
+** The [[Starfleet Corps of Engineers]] novels have established that Montgomery Scott eventually became the head of the Corps of Engineers and other books established Scott as having helped to design and work on building the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-E|-E}}. In fact, the novel ''[[Ship of the Line]]'', which dealt with the actual launch of the ''Enterprise''-E, established that Scott was acting chief engineer for the ship's shakedown cruise with [[Geordi La Forge]] as his first assistant chief.
+== Awards and honors ==
+''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country'' received the following awards and honors.
+{| style="text-align:left;" class="grey"
+|-
+!Year
+!Group
+!Award
+!Nominee(s)
+!Result
+|-
+| rowspan="3" |{{y|1992}}
+| rowspan="2" |[[Academy Award]]s
+|Makeup
+|[[Michael M. Mills]], [[Edward French]], [[Richard Snell]]
+| rowspan="7" |Nominated
+|-
+|Sound Effects Editing
+|[[George Watters II]], [[F. Hudson Miller]]
+|-
+|[[Hugo Award]]s
+|Best Dramatic Presentation
+|Screenplay by [[Nicholas Meyer]] and [[Denny Martin Flinn]], Story by [[Leonard Nimoy]] and [[Lawrence Konner]] and [[Mark Rosenthal]], Directed by [[Nicholas Meyer]]
+|-
+| rowspan="5" |{{y|1993}}
+| rowspan="5" |[[Saturn Award]]s
+|Best Make-Up
+|[[Michael M. Mills]], [[Edward French]]
+|-
+|Best Costumes
+|[[Dodie Shepard]]
+|-
+|Best Writing
+|[[Nicholas Meyer]], [[Denny Martin Flinn]]
+|-
+|Best Supporting Actress
+|[[Kim Cattrall]]
+|-
+|Best Science Fiction Film
+| -
+|Won
+|}
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-;Uncredited Co-Stars
+;Uncredited co-stars
-* [[David Keith Anderson]] as an [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) personnel#Bridge crewmembers|''Enterprise''-A crewmember]]
+* [[David Keith Anderson]] as [[USS Enterprise-A bridge crewmembers 2293|''Enterprise''-A crewmember]]
-* [[Rene Auberjonois]] as [[Colonel]] [[West]]
+* [[Rene Auberjonois]] as Colonel [[West]]
-* [[Lena Banks]] as the [[Unnamed humanoids (23rd century)#Silver tube amazette alien|Federation president's assistant]]
+* [[Lena Banks]] as [[Silvertube Amazette alien 001|Federation president's assistant]]
-* [[Robert Bruce]] as a [[Unnamed Kronos One personnel#Crewmembers in corridor|Klingon officer]]
+* [[Terrence Beasor]] as [[Klingon 23rd trial spectators|Klingon voices]]
-* [[Barron Christian]] as a [[Klingon]]
+* [[Robert Bruce]] as [[Klingon 23rd Kronos One officers 001|Klingon officer]]
+* [[Faith Burton]] as [[Starfleet Headquarters 23rd flag officers 002|Starfleet flag officer]]
-* [[Andre Dukes]] as a Klingon Rura Penthe guard
-* [[Douglas Dunning]] as a Klingon
+* [[Eddie Caldwell]] as Romulan
+* [[Max Cervantes]] as [[Daz]]
-* [[Joe Durrenberger]] as a [[Unnamed Kronos One personnel#Kerla's soldiers|Klingon officer]]
+* [[Barron Christian]] as [[Rura Penthe inhabitants|Klingon assistant to Commandant]]
-* [[Farrel]] as a [[Unnamed Kronos One personnel#General at dinner|Klingon General]]
-* [[Mark Gonzalez]] as a [[Unnamed Romulans (23rd century)#Delegates|Romulan delegate]]
+* [[Dragon Dronet]] as [[Klingon 23rd trial spectators|Klingon spectator]]
+* [[Andre Dukes]] as [[Rura Penthe inhabitants|Klingon Rura Penthe guard]]
-* [[Clay Hodges]] as a [[Unnamed Klingon military personnel (23rd century)#Listening Post officers|Klingon officer]]
+* [[Douglas Dunning]] as [[Alien delegates with darkened periorbital 001|Alien delegate]]
-* [[Ampy Koran]] as a [[Unnamed Kronos One personnel#Kerla's soldiers|Klingon officer]]
-* [[Beau Lotterman]] as [[Unnamed Romulans (23rd century)#Delegates|Romulan delegate]]
+* [[Joe Durrenberger]] as [[Klingon 23rd Kronos One Kerla's guard 001|Klingon officer]]
+* [[Farrel]] as [[Klingon 23rd Kronos One general 003|Klingon General]]
-* [[Daryl F. Mallett]] as [[Rura Penthe inhabitants#Humanoid prisoners|Rura Penthe prisoner]]
-* [[James Mapes]] as a [[Unnamed Zelonites#Conference officials|Zelonite]]
+* [[Mark Gonzaga]] as [[Vulcan 23rd delegate 001|Vulcan delegate]]
+* [[Trent Christopher Ganino]] as [[Klingon 23rd judges|Klingon judge]]
-* [[Patrick Michael]] as an [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) personnel#Security crewman|''Enterprise''-A crewman]]
-* [[Claude Nemeth]] as a Klingon Rura Penthe guard
+* [[Clay Hodges]] as [[Klingon 23rd officer 002|Klingon officer]]
+* [[Ampy Koran]] as
-* [[Dennis Ott]] as the [[Unnamed humanoids (23rd century)#Horned Alien|horned alien]]
+** [[Klingon 23rd Kronos One Kerla's guard 002|Klingon officer]]
-* [[Denise Lynne Roberts]] as an [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) personnel#Bridge crewmembers|''Enterprise''-A crewmember]]
+** [[Chang's helmsman 001|Klingon helmsman]]
-* [[Richard Sarstedt]] as a [[Unnamed Romulans (23rd century)#Romulan Delegate 1|Romulan delegate]]
+* [[Bruce Koski]] as [[Alien delegates with darkened periorbital 001|Alien delegate]]
-* [[Eric A. Stillwell]] as a Klingon
+* [[Tony Lawson]] as [[Klingon 23rd unnamed 001|Klingon]]
-* [[Roma Lee Tracy]] as a [[Unnamed humanoids (23rd century)#Silver tube amazette alien|silver tube amazette alien dignitary]]
-* [[Guy Vardaman]] as a [[Unnamed Klingon military personnel (23rd century)#Klingon Officer|Klingon officer]]
+* [[Susan Lewis]] as [[USS Enterprise-A crewmembers 2293|''Enterprise''-A officer]]
+* [[Beau Lotterman]] as [[Vulcan 23rd delegate 5|Romulan delegate]]
-* [[J.D. Walters]] as a Klingon
-* [[Clint Zehner]] as [[Rura Penthe inhabitants#Humanoid prisoners|Rura Penthe prisoner]]
+* [[Daryl F. Mallett]] as [[Humanoid Rura Penthe prisoner 011|Rura Penthe prisoner]]
+* [[James Mapes]] as [[Zelonite official 001|Zelonite official]]
-* [[Unknown performers]] as
+* [[Marin]] as [[USS Enterprise-A crewmembers 2293|''Enterprise''-A crewman]]
-** [[Unnamed Kronos One personnel#Crewmembers in corridor|Five Klingon ''Kronos One'' crewmen]]
+* [[Patrick Michael]] as [[USS Enterprise-A security crewman 1|''Enterprise''-A crewman]]
-** [[Unnamed Zelonites#Conference officials|Zelonite]]
+* [[Claude Nemeth]] as [[Klingon 23rd Rura Penthe guard 7|Klingon Rura Penthe guard]]
-**[[Bekka]]
+* [[Dennis Ott]] as [[Alien Rura Penthe horned 001|Knee Jerk Alien]]
-**[[Fambi]]
+* [[Jim Portnoy]] as [[Starfleet Headquarters 23rd flag officers 002|Starfleet flag officer]]
-**[[Jarkra]]
-**[[Raz]]
+* [[Douglas Price]] as
+** [[Federation flagbearer 001|Khitomer flag bearer]]
-**[[Sanarek]]
+** [[Klingon 23rd trial spectators|Klingon spectator]]
-**[[Sangrom]]
+* [[Evans Ricciardi]] as [[Starfleet Headquarters 23rd flag officers 002|Starfleet flag officer]]
-**[[Straeth]]
+* [[Denise Lynne Roberts]] as [[USS Enterprise-A bridge crewmembers 2293|''Enterprise''-A crewmember]]
-**[[Strath]]
+* [[Richard Sarstedt]] as [[Vulcan 23rd delegate 1|Romulan delegate]]
-**[[Taral]]
+* [[Eric A. Stillwell]] as [[Klingon 23rd trial spectators|Klingon spectator]]
-:(''Uniforms for each of these officers, each including a nametag, were sold off at the [[It's A Wrap! sale and auction]] on eBay'')
+* [[Geraldine Sylvester-Bush]] as [[Vulcan 23rd delegate 2|Vulcan delegate]]
+* [[Kevin G. Tracey]] as [[Efrosian president's advisers 001|presidential adviser]]
+* [[Roma Lee Tracy]] as [[Silvertube Amazette alien 001|silver tube amazette alien dignitary]]
+* [[Guy Vardaman]] as [[Chang's weapons officer 001|Klingon officer]]
+* [[J.D. Walters]] as [[Klingon 23rd unnamed 001|Klingon]]
+* [[Clint Zehner]] as [[Humanoid Rura Penthe prisoner 004|Rura Penthe prisoner]]
+* [[Unknown actor]]s as
+** [[Klingon 23rd Kronos One officers 001|Five Klingon ''Kronos One'' crewmen]]
+** [[Efrosian president's advisers 001|Four presidential advisers]]
+** [[Klingon 23rd Rura Penthe guards 1|Three Klingon Rura Penthe guards]]
+** [[Klingon 23rd judges|Klingon judge]]
+** [[Vulcan 23rd delegate 2|Romulan delegate]]
+** [[Vulcan 23rd delegate 3|Romulan delegate]]
+** [[Vulcan 23rd delegate 4|Romulan delegate]]
+** [[Tellarite 23rd Khitomer delegates 001|Tellarite delegate]]
+** [[Tellarite 23rd Khitomer delegates 001|Tellarite delegate]]
+** [[Tellarite 23rd Khitomer delegates 001|Tellarite delegate]]
+** [[Zelonite ambassador 001|Zelonite ambassador]]
+** [[Zelonite official 002|Zelonite official]]
+** [[USS Excelsior security 003|Female USS ''Excelsior'' security officer]]
+** [[USS Excelsior security 004|Male USS ''Excelsior'' security officer]]
+** [[Bekka]]
+** [[Branz]]
+** {{dis|Carson|Crewman}}
+** {{dis|Carter|Crewman}}
+** [[Chanak]]
+** [[Danz]]
+** [[Donas]]
+** [[Fambi]]
+** {{dis|Gavin|Crewman}}
+** [[Isang]]
+** [[Jarkra]]
+** [[Marva]]
+** [[Moonsafi]]
+** [[Pashtor]]
+** [[Raz]]
+** {{dis|Rho|Crewman}}
+** [[Rogg]]
+** [[Sanarek]]
+** [[Sangrom]]
+** [[Sheeza]]
+** [[Smalla]]
+** [[Stoyra]]
+** [[Straeth]]
+** [[Strath]]
+** {{dis|Strom|Crewman}}
+** [[Suryan]]
+** [[Tamaron]]
+** [[Taral]]
+** [[Tashmom]]
+** [[Trag]]
+** [[Trax]]
+** [[Vell]]
+** [[Zan]]
+** [[Zanatos]]
+** [[Zorath]]
+{{bginfo|Uniforms for each of these named officers, each including a name tag, were sold off at the [[It's A Wrap! sale and auction]] on eBay.}}
 ;Uncredited stunt performers
 * [[Greg Gault]] as [[stunt double]] for [[David Warner]]
-* [[Dennis Madalone]] as a [[Unnamed Kronos One personnel#Crewmembers in corridor|Klingon officer]]
+* [[Dennis Madalone]] as a [[Klingon 23rd Kronos One officer 002|Klingon officer]]
 * [[Charlie Skeen]] as
-** [[Unnamed Kronos One personnel#Crewmembers in corridor|Klingon officer]]
+** [[Klingon 23rd Kronos One officer 001|Klingon officer]]
 ** Stunt double for [[Christopher Plummer]]
 ;Stand-ins
 *[[Patrick Michael]] as stand-in for [[Leonard Nimoy]]
-*[[Joyce Robinson]] as [[stand-in]] for [[Iman]]
+*[[Joycelyn Robinson]] as [[stand-in]] for [[Iman]]
 *[[Lita Stevens]]
 *[[Kenny Studer]]
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 ;Uncredited production staff
-* [[David Abbott]] - Special Makeup Effects Artist
+* [[David Abbott]] &ndash; Special Makeup Effects Artist
-* [[Aaron Albucher]] - Assistant Production Accountant
+* [[Aaron Albucher]] &ndash; Assistant Production Accountant
+* [[Dave Archer]] &ndash; Artwork Provider: Paintings
-* [[Barney Burman]] - Special Makeup Effects Artist
+* [[Margaret Bessara]] &ndash; Prosthetic Makeup Artist: [[David Warner]], [[Kurtwood Smith]], and [[Robert Easton]]
-* [[Rob Burman]] - Special Makeup Effects Artist
+* [[Tom Boyd]] &ndash; Musician: Oboe
-* [[Cogswell Video Services, Inc.]] - Visual Effects Unit Video Assist Company
+* [[Barney Burman]] &ndash; Special Makeup Effects Artist
-* [[Robert Fletcher]] - Costumes Design
+* [[Rob Burman]] &ndash; Special Makeup Effects Artist
-* [[Christopher Gilman]] and [[Dilligent Dwarves Effects Lab]] - Prop and Wardrobe Creator and Provider
+* [[Mary Burton]] &ndash; Makeup Artist: [[Iman]]
-* [[Kristin R. Glover]] - Camera Operator
+* [[Cogswell Video Services, Inc.]] &ndash; Visual Effects Unit Video Assist Company
-* [[Jeff Kleeman]] - Development and Production Executive for Paramount Pictures
+* [[Danna Edwards]] &ndash; Costumer
-* [[Iain McCaig]] - [[ILM]] Storyboard Artist
+* [[Robert Fletcher]] &ndash; Costumes Design
-* [[Mike McCarty]] (for [[Dilligent Dwarves Effects Lab]]) - FX artist: Ran parts for Klingon costumes
+* [[Christopher Gilman]] and [[Dilligent Dwarves Effects Lab]] &ndash; Prop and Wardrobe Creator and Provider
-* [[Steve Neill]] - Special Makeup Effects Artist
-* [[Scott Schneider]] - Model Maker
+* [[Kristin R. Glover]] &ndash; Camera Operator
-* [[Marlene Stoller]] - Hair Artist
+* [[Nancy J. Hvasta Leonardi]] &ndash; Assistant Makeup Artist
+* [[Jeff Kleeman]] &ndash; Development and Production Executive for Paramount Pictures
-* [[Rick Stratton]] - Makeup Artist
+* [[Norman Ludwin]] &ndash; Musician: Bass
-* [[Todd Tucker]] - Special Make-Up Effects Artist
+* [[Iain McCaig]] &ndash; [[ILM]] Storyboard Artist
-* [[Philip Weyland]] - Dialogue Coach
+* [[Mike McCarty]] (for [[Dilligent Dwarves Effects Lab]]) &ndash; FX artist: Ran parts for Klingon costumes
+* [[Steve Neill]] &ndash; Special Makeup Effects Artist
+* [[Scott Schneider]] &ndash; Model Maker
+* [[Marlene Stoller]] &ndash; Hair Artist
+* [[Rick Stratton]] &ndash; Makeup Artist
+* [[Todd Tucker]] &ndash; Special Make-Up Effects Artist
+* [[Danny Valencia]] &ndash; Hair Stylist
+* [[Karen Westerfield]] &ndash; Prosthetic Makeup Artist
+* [[Philip Weyland]] &ndash; Dialogue Coach
 ==== References ====
-''[[Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise]]''; [[advocate]]; [[Alpha Quadrant]]; [[arthritis]]; [[artificial gravity]]; [[Beta Quadrant]]; [[boat]]; [[boatswain's whistle]]; [[bridge]]; [[Julius Caesar|Caesar, Julius]]; [[Camp Khitomer]]; [[chameloid]]; [[chancellor]]; [[China]]; [[Jesus Christ|Christ, Jesus]]; [[cloaking device|cloaking device, Klingon]]; [[coffee]]; [[colonel]]; [[commander in chief]]; [[commandant]]; [[communications station]]; ''[[A Concise History of the Klingon Empire|Concise History of the Klingon Empire, A]]''; [[court reporter]]; [[crew quarters]]; [[Davis (Crewman)]]; [[deflector shield]]; [[dilithium]]; [[Earth]]; [[Earth Cold War]]; [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A)|''Enterprise''-A, USS]]; {{ShipClass|Excelsior}}; [[USS Excelsior|''Excelsior'', USS]]; [[USS Excelsior personnel|''Excelsior'', USS personnel]]; [[Federation President]]; [[Federation-Klingon Cold War]]; [[France]]; [[galley]]; [[Garden of Eden]]; [[gavel]]; [[gravitational field]]; [[gravity boot]]; [[gulag]]; [[Hamlet]]; [[handcuffs]]; [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler, Adolf]]; [[interstellar law]]; ''[[Introduction to Klingon Grammar]]''; [[jackal mastiff]]; {{ShipClass|K't'inga}}; [[Khitomer]]; [[Khitomer Accords]]; [[Khitomer Conference]]; [[Khitomer conspiracy]]; [[kill setting]]; [[Klingon Bird-of-Prey]]; [[Klingon Empire]]; [[Klingon]]s; [[Klingon history]]; [[Klingon Neutral Zone]]; [[Klingon Defense Force uniform]]s; [[Kobayashi Maru scenario]]; ''[[Kronos One]]''; [[Abraham Lincoln|Lincoln, Abraham]]; [[listening post]]; [[magnetic boot]]; [[magnetic gravity boot]]s; [[David Marcus|Marcus, David]]; [[medical tricorder]]; [[Morska]]; [[neck]]; [[neutral zone]]; [[neutron radiation]]; [[news]]; [[Richard M. Nixon|Nixon, Richard M.]]; ''[[Okrand's Unabridged Klingon Dictionary]]''; [[Operation Retrieve]]; [[Paris]]; [[penal colony]]; [[phaser]]; [[photon torpedo]]; [[plasma]]; [[plasma exhaust]]; [[Emily Post|Post, Emily]]; [[Praxis]]; [[Qo'noS]]; [[Romulan ale]]; [[Romulan Star Empire]]; [[Rura Penthe]]; [[sabot]]; [[sabotage]]; [[San Francisco]]; [[SD-103]]; [[SD-103 type]]; [[science station]]; [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare, William]]; [[ship's bell]]; [[sickbay]]; [[smoking]]; ''[[Spoken Languages of the Klingon Empire]]''; [[Starbase 24]]; [[Starfleet]]; [[Starfleet Academy]]; [[stun setting]]; [[subspace]]; [[subspace shock wave]]; [[targ]]; [[Tiberian bat]]; [[torpedo bay]]; [[torpedo launcher]]; [[United Federation of Planets]]; ''[[Ursva]]''; [[viridium patch]]; [[Vulcan]]; [[Vulcan mind meld]]; [[warp drive]]; [[D. Wise|Wise, D.]]; [[weapons locker]]; [[Zelonite]]
+[[19th century]]; [[1938]]; [[2223]]; [[2266]]; [[2290]]; [[2343]]; [[24-hour clock]]; [[Aamaarazan]]; [[abduction]]; [[accident]]; [[act]]; [[act of war]]; ''[[Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise]]''; {{dis|address|style}}; [[admiral]]; [[admiration]]; [[advocate]]; [[aft]]; [[agenda]]; [[aide-de-camp]]; [[alarm]]; [[alien]]; [[Alpha Quadrant]]; [[ambassador]]; [[ambition]]; [[amount]]; [[anatomy]]; [[ancestor]]; [[annals]]; [[answer]]; [[architect]]; [[arrest]]; [[arthritis]]; {{dis|article|law}}; [[artificial gravity]]; [[ash]]; [[assassin]]; [[assassination]]; [[automation]]; [[attack]]; [[author]]; [[auxiliary circuit]]; [[auxiliary gravity]]; [[auxiliary power]]; [[back]]; [[back-up system]]; {{revname|Klingon|battle cruiser}}; [[battle stations]]; [[beaming]]; [[beaming shield]]; [[bearing]]; [[behavior]]; [[Beta Quadrant]]; [[Unnamed Alpha and Beta Quadrant sectors#Beta Quadrant sector|Beta Quadrant sector]]; [[black]]; [[blood]]; "[[bloody]]"; [[boat]]; [[boatswain's whistle]]; "[[Bones]]"; {{dis|bow|ship}}; [[bridge]]; [[brigadier]]; [[Brotherhood of Aliens]]; {{dis|bug|invertebrate}}; {{dis|Burke|Yeoman}}; [[Camp Khitomer]]; [[capital]]; [[cardiac arrest]]; [[career]]; [[chairing]]; [[chameloid]]; [[chain of command]]; [[Chancellor of the Klingon High Council]]; [[Chang's Bird-of-Prey]]; {{dis|charge|law}}; [[chief of staff]]; [[chimes]]; [[China]]; [[choice]]; {{revname|Jesus|Christ}}; [[chronometer]]; [[Cinderella]]; [[circuit A]]; [[circumstantial evidence]]; [[citizen]]; [[citizenship]]; [[civilization]]; [[client]]; [[cloaking device|cloaking device, Klingon]]; [[close range]]; {{dis|club|organization}}; [[coat]]; [[Code blue]]; [[coffee]]; [[cold warrior]]; [[colleague]]; [[colonel]]; [[commander in chief]]; [[commandant]]; [[communications station]]; [[commutation]]; [[computer]]; [[comrade]]; ''{{revname|A|Concise History of the Klingon Empire}}''; [[condolences]]; [[conference]]; [[confession]]; [[confiscation]]; [[conspiracy]]; {{class|Constitution}}; {{class|Constitution II}}; [[control tower]]; [[conversation]]; {{revname|G.L.|Coon}}; [[coordinates]]; [[course]]; [[court]]; [[court reporter]]; [[creature]]; [[crew quarters]]; [[crewman]]; [[cruise]]; [[crime]]; [[damage report]]; {{dis|data|unit}}; [[data bank]]s; [[daughter]]; {{dis|Davis|Crewman}}; [[day]]; [[death]]; [[death sentence]]; [[decommissioning]]; [[deflector shield]]; {{dis|degree|angle}}; [[demotion]]; [[departure stations]]; [[depiction]]; [[dialogue]]; [[dilithium]]; [[dinner]]; [[diplomacy]]; [[diplomat]]; [[diplomatic corps]]; [[diplomatic function]]; [[dockmaster]]; {{doctor}}; [[Earth]]; [[Earth Cold War]]; [[Earth year]]; [[echo bar]]; [[economy]]; [[Efrosian]]; [[electronic frontier]]; [[energy production facility]]; [[engine room]]; {{USSr|Enterprise|NCC-1701-A|-A}}; [[epic]]; {{dis|error|concept}}; [[evening]]; [[evidence]]; {{class|Excelsior}}; {{USSr|Excelsior|NCC-2000}}; [[excerpt]]; [[exile]]; [[existence]]; [[exoneration]]; [[exploration]]; [[exploration program]]; [[explosion]]; [[extradition]]; [[extremist]]; [[eyepatch]]; [[fact]]; [[faith]]; [[father]]; [[Federation]]; [[Federation headquarters]]; [[Federation members]]; [[Federation President]]; [[Federation-Klingon Cold War]]; [[Federation space]]; [[feeling]]; [[foot|feet]]; [[first officer]]; [[flag of truce]]; [[flare]]; [[flatbed shuttle]]; [[forgery]]; "[[for king and country]]"; [[France]]; [[free will]]; [[freighter]]; [[friend]]; [[fuel]]; [[full ambassador]]; [[future]]; [[galley]]; [[gang]]; [[Garden of Eden]]; [[gas]]; [[gavel]]; [[general]]; [[generation]]; [[genitals]]; "[[Economic parlance#Give real money|give real money]]"; [[graveyard]]; [[gravitational field]]; [[gravity]]; [[gravity boot]]; [[ground]]; [[guard tower]]; [[guest]]; {{dis|guilt|law}}; [[gulag]]; [[hailing frequency]]; ''[[Hamlet]]''; [[hand]]; [[handcuffs]]; [[head]]; {{dis|hearing|sense}}; [[heart]]; [[heartbeat]]; [[helm]]; [[helmsman]]; ''[[Henry IV, Part I]]''; ''[[Henry IV, Part II]]''; {{revname|Adolf|Hitler}}; {{revname|Sherlock|Holmes}}; [[hostage]]; [[hostility]]; [[hour]]; [[Human]] ([[homo sapiens]]); [[Human rights]]; [[idea]]; [[idealism]]/[[idealist]]; [[idiot]]; [[process of elimination|"If you eliminate the impossible..."]]; [[ignorance]]; [[impulse power]]; [[information]]; [[insubordination]]; [[intercept course]]; [[interstellar law]]; ''[[Introduction to Klingon Grammer]]''; [[jackal mastiff]]; [[joke]]; {{dis|judgment|law}}; ''{{dis|Julius Caesar|play}}''; {{class|K't'inga}}; [[key]]; [[kiss]]; [[Khitomer]]; [[Khitomer Accords]]; [[Khitomer Conference]]; [[Khitomer conspiracy]]; [[kill setting]]; [[king]]; [[Klingon Bird-of-Prey]]; [[Klingon Empire]]; [[Klingon]]s; [[Klingon High Command]]; [[Klingon frontier]]; [[Klingon history]]; [[Klingon Neutral Zone]]; [[Klingon Defense Force uniform]]s; [[Klingon space]]; [[Klingonese]]; [[knee]]; {{Kobayashi Maru scenario}}; ''[[Kronos One]]''; [[laughter]]; {{dis|level|mining}}; {{revname|Abraham|Lincoln}}; "[[linguistic]] [[legerdemain]]"; [[light]]; [[light year]]; [[listening post]]; [[listing]]; [[livelihood]]; [[location]]; [[logic]]; [[lunatic]]; [[lying]] ([[lie]]); [[machine]]; [[madam]]; [[magnetic boot]]s ([[gravity boot]]s); {{revname|David|Marcus}}; [[master]]; [[medical status]]; [[medical tricorder]]; [[meeting]]; [[Megazoid]]; ''{{revname|The|Merchant of Venice}}''; [[meteor shower]]; [[midnight]]; [[Milky Way Galaxy]]; [[military advisor]]; [[military budget]] ([[budget]]); [[military operation]]; [[mine]]; [[mission]]; [[mission of peace]]; [[model]]; [[money]]; [[month]]; [[moon]]; [[mooring]]; [[morning]]; [[Morska]]; [[mothball]]ing; [[motive]]; [[Multiple-choice exam|multiple choice]]; [[murderer]]; [[mythology]]; [[name]]; [[NAR]]; [[neck]]; [[negotiation]]; [[neutral zone]]; [[neutron radiation]]; [[news]]; [[night]]; {{revname|Richard M.|Nixon}}; [[Polaris|Northern Star]]; [[obedience]]; {{dis|objection|law}}; [[officers' mess]]; [[Okrand]]; ''[[Okrand's Unabridged Klingon Dictionary]]''; [[olive branch]]; [[Operation Retrieve]]; [[opportunist]]; [[order]]; [[oxygen]]; [[ozone]]; [[pair]]; [[pardon]]; [[Paris]]; [[parole]]; [[patricide]]; [[peace]]; [[peace conference]]; [[peace summit]]; [[peace talks]]; [[peace treaty]]; [[penal asteroid]]; [[penal colony]]; [[permission]]; [[personal log]]; [[Pfaltzgraff]]; [[phaser]]; [[photon torpedo]]; [[physics]]; [[piano]]; [[place]]; [[plasma]] ([[ionized gas]]); [[plasma exhaust]]; {{dis|plate|component}}; [[pollution]]; {{dis|port|facility}} (facility); [[port]] (side of ship); [[port gate]]; {{revname|Emily|Post}}; [[pot]]; [[Praxis]]; [[prejudice]]; [[president]]; [[prison]]; [[prisoner]]; [[progress]]; [[problem]]; [[prototype]]; [[proverb]]; [[pulse]]; [[punishment]]; [[Qo'noS]]; [[question]]; [[quarters]]; [[rank]]; [[reality]]; [[refuse]]; [[rendezvous]]; [[report]]; [[reprieve]]; {{dis|resource|economy}}; [[result]]; [[retirement]]; [[revenge]]; [[reward]]; [[risk]]; [[Romulan]]; [[Romulan ale]]; [[Romulan government]]; [[Romulan-Klingon border|Romulan border]]; [[rose]]; [[rudder]]; [[Rura Penthe]]; [[Russian]]; [[sabot]]; [[sabotage]]; [[Human 19th century saboteurs 001|Saboteurs]]; [[safe haven]]; [[safety precaution]]; [[Salak]]; [[Samno]]; [[San Francisco]]; {{dis|saucer|culinary tool}}; [[scene]]; [[science station]]; [[scientific program]]; [[Scots language]]; [[screaming]]; [[SD-103]]; [[SD-103 type]]; [[second]]; [[secret]]; [[sector]]; [[Sector 70]]; [[seminar]]; [[sensor]]; [[sentence]]; [[service record]]; {{revname|William|Shakespeare}}; [[ship's bell]]; [[ship's surgeon]]; [[shoe]]; [[shouting]]; [[show trial]]; [[sickbay]]; [[silent running]]; [[size]]; [[slave]]; [[smell]]; [[smoking]]; [[sniper rifle]]; [[son]]; [[sorrow]]; [[space station]]; [[Spacedock One]]; [[special envoy]]; [[species]]; [[speculation]]; ''[[Spoken Languages of the Klingon Empire]]''; [[sponsor]]; [[starbase]]; [[starboard]]; [[Starfleet]]; [[Starfleet Academy]]; [[Starfleet Command]]; [[Starfleet Command Intelligence Database]]; [[Starfleet Headquarters]]; [[Starfleet regulations]]; [[state dinner]]; [[statement]]; [[stern]]; [[stockade]]; [[story]]; [[stun setting]]; [[subspace]]; [[subspace channel]]; [[subspace message]]; [[subspace transmission]]; [[subspace shock wave]]; [[suicide]]; [[surface]]; [[surgeon]]; [[surgery]]; [[surrender]]; [[table]]; [[table manners]]; [[tail pipe]]; [[targ]]; [[tear]]; [[tear duct]]; ''{{revname|The|Tempest}}''; [[terrorism]]; [[territory]]; [[theory]]; [[thing]]; [[thousand]]; [[three-year mission]]; [[thruster]]; [[Tiberian bat]]; [[ticklishness|tickling]]; [[toast]]; [[torpedo bay]]; [[torpedo launcher]]; [[torpedo room]]; {{dis|touch|unit}}; [[tour]]; [[translation]]; [[transporter pad]]; [[transporter range]]; [[transporter room]]; [[trash]]; [[trial]]; [[truth]]; [[universal translator]]; [[universe]]; ''[[Ursva]]''; [[value]]; [[vessel]]; [[viridium patch]]; [[volunteer]]; [[Vulcan]]; [[mind meld]]; [[walking]]; [[warp drive]]; [[warrior]]; [[weapons locker]]; [[web]]; [[week]]; [[wisdom]]; {{revname|D.|Wise}}; [[witness]]; [[wood]]; [[word]]; [[worker]]; [[wound]]; [[year]]; [[Z-axis]]; [[Zelonite]]
+===== Library computer references =====
+*'''Starship Mission Assignments''': {{USSr|Ahwahnee|NCC-2048}}; {{USSr|Challenger|NCC-2032}}; {{USSr|Constellation|NX-1974}}; {{USSr|Eagle}}; {{USSr|Emden}}; {{USSr|Endeavour|NCC-1895}}; {{USSr|Helin}}; {{USSr|John Muir}}; {{USSr|Kongo}}; {{USSr|Korolev}}; {{USSr|Lantree}}; {{USSr|Oberth}}; {{USSr|Potemkin|NCC-1657}}; {{USSr|Republic}}; {{USSr|Scovill}}; [[Sector 21185]]; [[Sector 21186]]; [[Sector 21290]]; [[Sector 21399]]; [[Sector 21803]]; [[Sector 21835]]; [[Sector 21836]]; [[Sector 21837]]; [[Sector 22849]]; [[Sector 22858]]; [[Sector 22956]]; [[Sector 22958]]; [[Sector 23094]]; {{USSr|Springfield}}; [[Starbase 24]]; [[Starship Mission Assignments]]; {{USSr|Whorfin}}
+*'''Operation Retrieve star chart''': [[Alpha Bayard]]; [[Alpha Beaird]]; [[Alpha Cooper]]; [[Alpha Crum]]; [[Alpha Glover]]; [[Alpha Johnson]]; [[Alpha McCusker]]; [[Alpha Meyers]]; [[Alpha Saunders]]; [[Alpha Suhr]]; [[Apperson's Asteroid]]; [[Arnold's Planet]]; [[Baber Nebula]]; [[Barnes Nebula]]; [[Barnett's Star]]; [[Bergman's Planet]]; [[Beta Christenberry]]; [[Beta Cook]]; [[Beta Flinn]]; [[Beta Friedlich]]; [[Beta Garretson]]; [[Beta Gonzales]]; [[Beta Lingard]]; [[Beta Michaels]]; [[Beta Penthe]]; [[Beta Penthe I]]; [[Beta Penthe II]]; [[Beta Penthe III]]; [[Beta Penthe IV]]; [[Beta Penthe V]]; [[Beta Penthe VII]]; [[Beta Penthe system]]; [[Beta Schwartz]]; [[Beta Sternbach]]; [[Breton's Planet]]; [[Brookshire's Planet]]; [[Buckley's Planet]]; [[Cantamessa's Star]]; [[Cole's Star]]; ''Constitution II''-class; [[Cybulski's Planet]]; [[Delta Hart]]; [[Downer's Star]]; {{Class|Excelsior}}; [[Farrar's World]]; [[Foster Nebula]]; [[Frazee's Nova]]; [[Friedlich Nebula]]; [[Gamma Fitzgerald]]; [[Gauger Star]]; [[Gullory Nebula]]; [[Harstedt's Planet]]; [[Hershman's Star]]; [[Hodges Nebula]]; [[Jaffeworld]]; [[Latonaworld]]; [[Meyer's Star]]; [[Molly's Star]]; [[Moreyworld]]; [[Narita's Planet]]; [[Nimoy's Star]]; [[Nollman's Planet]]; [[Nuzzo Station]]; [[Operation Retrieve star chart locations]]; [[Okrand Colony]]; [[Rao-Beyers]]; [[Rooseworld]]; [[Sasgen's Star]]; [[Sector 21166]]; [[Sigma Trotti]]; [[Stevens Nebula]]; [[Theta Gentle]]; [[Theta Hulett]]; [[Wenselworld]]; [[Winter's Nova]]; [[Wise Nebula]]; [[Zimmerman's Star]]
+*'''Federation star chart ("The Explored Galaxy")''': [[Aldebaran]]; [[Alfa 177]]; [[Alpha Carinae]]; [[Alpha Centauri]]; [[Alpha Majoris]]; [[Altair VI]]; [[Andor]]; [[Ariannus]]; [[Arret]]; [[Babel]]; [[Benecia]]; [[Berengaria VII]]; [[Beta Aurigae]]; [[Beta Geminorum]]; [[Beta Lyrae]]; [[Beta Niobe]]; [[Beta Portolan]]; [[Camus II]]; [[Canopus III]]; [[Capella]]; [[Daran V]]; [[Delta Vega]]; [[Deneb]]; [[Eminiar]]; [[Fabrini]]; [[First Federation]]; [[Gamma Canaris N]]; [[Gamma Trianguli]]; [[Holberg 917G]]; [[Ingraham B]]; [[Janus VI]]; [[Kling]]; [[Kzin]]; [[Lactra VII]]; [[Makus III]]; [[Marcos XII]]; [[Manark IV]]; [[Memory Alpha]]; [[Mudd]]; [[Omega IV]]; [[Omega Cygni]]; [[Organia]]; {{dis|Orion|planet}}; [[Pallas 14]]; [[Phylos]]; [[Pollux IV]]; [[Psi 2000]]; [[Pyris VII]]; [[Regulus]]; [[Remus]]; [[Rigel]]; [[Romulan Neutral Zone]]; [[Romulus]]; [[Sarpeid]]; [[Sirius]]; [[Talos]]; [[Tau Ceti]]; [[Theta III]]; [[Tholian Assembly]]; {{dis|Vulcan|planet}}
+===== Unused Material =====
+[[democracy]]; [[economics]]; [[employment]]; [[gunboat diplomacy]]; [[prerogative]]
-===== Library Computer References =====
+===== Unreferenced material =====
+[[Arc]]; {{revname|D.|Bayard}}; {{revname|R.|Brookshire}}; {{revname|G.|Cantemessa}}; {{revname|J.|Downer}}; {{revname|D.M.|Flinn}}; {{revname|K.|Garretson}}; {{revname|K.|Glover}}; {{revname|D.|Hulett}}; {{revname|S.C.|Jaffe}}; {{revname|M.|Michaels}}; {{revname|R.|Morey}}; {{revname|H.|Narita}}; {{revname|N.|Rodis}}; [[Sector 21185]]; [[Sector 21290]]; [[Sector 21399]]; [[Sector 21803]]; [[Sector 21835]]; [[Sector 21837]]; [[Sector 22849]]; [[Sector 22956]]; [[Sector 23006]]; {{revname|D.|Tathwell}}; {{revname|C.|Thomas}}; {{revname|D.|Wise|Captain}}; {{revname|H.|Zimmerman|23rd century}}
-[[USS Ahwahnee (NCC-2048)|''Ahwahnee'', USS]]; [[Beta Penthe system|Beta Penthe]]; [[USS Challenger (NCC-2032)|''Challenger'', USS]]; [[USS Constellation (NCC-1974)|''Constellation'', USS]]; {{ShipClass|Constitution}}; [[USS Eagle|''Eagle'', USS]]; [[Efrosian]]; [[USS Emden|''Emden'', USS]]; [[USS Endeavour (NCC-1895)|''Endeavour'', USS]]; [[USS Helin|''Helin'', USS]]; [[USS John Muir|''John Muir'', USS]]; [[USS Kongo|''Kongo'', USS]]; [[USS Korolev|''Korolev'', USS]]; {{ShipClass|Oberth}}; [[USS Oberth|''Oberth'', USS]]; [[USS Potemkin (NCC-1657)|''Potemkin'', USS]];  [[USS Scovil|''Scovil'', USS]]; [[Sector 21290]]; [[Spacedock (Earth)]]; [[USS Springfield|''Springfield'', USS]]; [[Starbase 24]]; [[USS Whorfin|''Whorfin'', USS]]
-*'''Operation Retrieve star chart''': [[Alpha Bayard]]; [[Alpha Beaird]]; [[Alpha Cooper]]; [[Alpha Crum]]; [[Alpha Glover]]; [[Alpha Johnson]]; [[Alpha McCusker]]; [[Alpha Myers]]; [[Apperson's Asteroid]]; [[Arnold's Planet]]; [[Baber Nebula]]; [[Barnes Nebula]]; [[Barnett's Star]]; [[Bergman's Planet]]; [[Beta Christenberry]]; [[Beta Cook]]; [[Beta Flinn]]; [[Beta Friedlich]]; [[Beta Garretson]]; [[Beta Lingard]]; [[Beta Michaels]]; [[Beta Schwartz]]; [[Beta Sternbach]]; [[Breton's Planet]]; [[Brookshire's Planet]]; [[Buckley's Planet]]; [[Cantamessa's Star]]; [[Cole's Star]]; [[Cybulski's Planet]]; [[Delta Hart]]; [[Downer's Star]]; [[Farrar's World]]; [[Foster Nebula]]; [[Frazee's Nova]]; [[Friedlich Nebula]]; [[Gamma Fitzgerald]]; [[Gauger Star]]; [[Gravesworld (Klingon)|Gravesworld]]; [[Gullory Nebula]]; [[Harstedt's Planet]]; [[Hershman's Planet]]; [[Hershman's Star]]; [[Hodges Nebula]]; [[Latonaworld]]; [[Meyer's Star]]; [[Molly's Star]]; [[Moreyworld]]; [[Narita's Planet]]; [[Nimoy's Star]]; [[Nollman's Planet]]; [[Nuzzo Station]]; [[Okrand Colony]]; [[Rao-Beyers]]; [[Sasgen's Star]]; [[Sigma Trotti]]; [[Stevens Nebula]]; [[Theta Gentle]]; [[Theta Hulett]]; [[Wenselworld]]; [[Winter's Nova]]; [[Wise Nebula]]; [[Zimmerman's Star]]
-*'''Federation Star Chart ("The Explored Galaxy")''': [[Aldebaran]]; [[Alfa 177]]; [[Alpha Carinae]]; [[Alpha Centauri]]; [[Alpha Majoris]]; [[Altair VI]]; [[Andor]]; [[Ariannus]]; [[Arret]]; [[Babel]]; [[Benecia]]; [[Berengaria VII]]; [[Beta Aurigae]]; [[Beta Geminorum]]; [[Beta Lyrae]]; [[Beta Niobe]]; [[Beta Portolan]]; [[Camus II]]; [[Canopus III]]; [[Capella]]; [[Daran V]]; [[Delta Vega]]; [[Deneb]]; [[Eminiar]]; [[Fabrini]]; [[First Federation]]; [[Gamma Canaris N]]; [[Gamma Trianguli]]; [[Holberg 917G]]; [[Ingraham B]]; [[Janus VI]]; [[Kling]]; [[Kzin]]; [[Lactra VII]]; [[Makus III]]; [[Marcos XII]]; [[Manark IV]]; [[Memory Alpha]]; [[Mudd]]; [[Omega IV]]; [[Omega Cygni]]; [[Organia]]; [[Orion (planet)|Orion]]; [[Pallas 14]]; [[Phylos]]; [[Pollux IV]]; [[Psi 2000]]; [[Pyris VII]]; [[Regulus]]; [[Remus]]; [[Rigel]]; [[Romulus]]; [[Sarpeid]]; [[Sirius]]; [[Talosian system|Talos]]; [[Tau Ceti]]; [[Theta III]]; [[Tholian Assembly]]; [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]]
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