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Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)

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Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
Starring: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , James Doohan , and Walter Koenig
Director: Nicholas Meyer
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ASIN: B0000UJL96
Release Date: 2004-01-27

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Star Trek V left us nowhere to go but up, and with the return of Star Trek II director Nicholas Meyer, Star Trek VI restored the movie series to its classic blend of space opera, intelligent plotting, and engaging interaction of stalwart heroes and menacing villains. Borrowing its subtitle (and several lines of dialogue) from Shakespeare, the movie finds Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and his fellow Enterprise crew members on a diplomatic mission to negotiate peace with the revered Klingon Chancellor Gorkon (David Warner). When the high-ranking Klingon and several officers are ruthlessly murdered, blame is placed on Kirk, whose subsequent investigation uncovers an assassination plot masterminded by the nefarious Klingon General Chang (Christopher Plummer) in an effort to disrupt a historic peace summit. As this political plot unfolds, Star Trek VI takes on a sharp-edged tone, with Kirk and Spock confronting their opposing views of diplomacy, and testing their bonds of loyalty when a Vulcan officer is revealed to be a traitor. With a dramatic depth befitting what was to be the final movie mission of the original Star Trek crew, this film took the veteran cast out in respectably high style. With the torch being passed to the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation, only Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov would return, however briefly, in Star Trek: Generations. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Great w/Rifftrax.......2007-05-07

The folks from MST 3k are running a great new service where they provide audio tracks to go along with... quesionable... movies. This is one of them, and the commentary is funny, and the movie is actually watchable (unlike, say, Firewall).

As far as the movie itself - I remember going to see it on the opening weekend, and probably the most memorable and entertaining part of the experience was the local chapter of Serious Trekkies had their own section of the theater roped off, and the place was just swarming with people in spandex and velcro shoes. As far as the movie itself, its probably one of the worst Star Trek films, though it is just about cheesy enough to be entertaining in its own right.

I think that a one-eyed shakespeare-spouting klingon dude should just be a staple of every sci fi movie from now on.

Promising premise gives way to cliches and blendering.......2007-04-03

In my opinion, the film gets off to a strong start with a Cold War allegory. This 6th feature film in the series controversially continues to alter Spock's character to become increasingly emotional and human, but it seems to work pretty well along with the portrayal of Kirk's famous heroism being similarly reinterpreted as being possibly too militaristic and even bigoted. This is a great theme to explore, and I'm pleased that the filmmakers thought of it and put it on-screen.

HOWEVER:

The film's second half veers abruptly away from this strong start, instead devoting almost all of the remaining screen time to standard genre material instead of building upon the premise it introduced. In short order, we are treated to the heroes' imprisonment and escape (complete with, of all cliches! a villainous quip about "Well, since you're going to die anyway, I might as well tell you..."), a stock mystery scenario (including a totally misplayed Vulcan character, Valeris, who seems to be brimming with emotion and who engages in a bizarre and reckless act of vaporizing a kitchen pot with a phaser in what has to be one of the most ridiculous scenes in any of the Trek films, apparently thrown in merely because it's more cinematic to demonstrate something in rather than simply explain it), and the old stock plot element of racing to prevent an assassination in the nick of time.
Director/co-writer Nicholas Meyer tries to claim that he saved the film franchise with his brilliance... Puh-leez!! Here he adds liberal doses of gore, easily topping the amount that he had already displayed in spicing up Trek II. While that may appeal to younger, action-oriented viewers who are unfamiliar with the series, it is totally irrelevant to what Roddenberry's Star Trek is all about. In addition, Meyer turns far too many of the dialogue scenes into a shameless collection of anachronistic and absurd quotations - again even more than he had done in Trek II. Meyer prides himself on his cleverness at putting Shakespearian dialogue, and in fact a total hodgepodge of diverse present-day pop-culture quotes into the mouths of Klingons, Vulcans, Russian, well, pretty much every character in the film, totally oblivious to how ridiculous and out-of-place it all sounds. Ostensibly, it was done purely for humorous purposes, but it seriously sabotages the credibility of the characters who are meant to be the means for delivering worthy commentary about militarism, prejudice, the Cold War, and social/personal change. Those themes were good but are mainly in the first half of the film, the second half being primarily devoted to stock action sequences and mostly quite formulaic plot resolutions. In the commentary, the director takes pride in the laughs obtained by two of these inappropriate quotations (Spock saying there's an old Vulcan proverb that "Only Nixon could go to China," and Chekov saying "Guess who's coming to dinner.") Tellingly, in the commentary Meyers admits that he's still clueless as to why Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) felt uncomfortable with the bigoted connotations of the latter quotation (the title of a 1967 film about what was then known as miscegenation), and if I may be so bold as to say so, when director Nick tells how he always hears people laughing at the Nixon line, may I suggest that the laughter it generated was because of its total absurdity rather than because of any cleverness or wit? The film had a strong start despite many of the ridiculous aspects of a dialogue dominated by whatever quotations they thought would fit (much in the same way that teenage film enthusiasts have fun liberally quoting from their favorite films) but over time these flaws prevent the film's complete success. It entertains, but in the second half such entertainment is at the expensive of its dramatic effectiveness. It takes chances and develops the characters, but without enough respect for their original conception and what made them enduring in the first place. The portrayal of Valeris was totally misguided as a Vulcan character - I kept waiting for McCoy to pull out his tricorder to reveal: "Jim, she's a Romulan!" There's a bit too much that is absurd in the dialogue and "Nick"-of-time plot resolutions to allow the film to be taken very seriously as drama, and yet drama would have been its strongest offering, given the genuinely good premise that had been offered. In this way, the film is as disappointing as Trek V, although it delivered far more of substance than Trek V and at least (finally!) gave better characterizations to the old "snarling villain" and "militaristic alien" themes. As entertainment it is a generally pleasing film, but as drama it's ultimately not really doing justice to its theme. A pretty good entry in the film series, but certainly not the best of Trek. Director Meyers' claims that he and Harve Bennett somehow rescued Trek from itself deserves a scoff or two - especially presumptious given that Bennett was not involved in Trek VI. I give Harve Bennett a lot more credit than Nick Meyers. Bennett is a brilliant person who actually watched all 79 series episodes before he took on the task of contributing to the feature films, whereas Nick Meyer kept trying to change the films (even against Roddenberry's protests) to make the Trek enterprise conform to old genre cliches (such as Meyers' preferred stories of sailing ships, Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare, and, apparently, gory action). While many people including Roddenberry are fond of Shakespeare and Sherlock Holmes, after a certain point, references to such become counterproductive, replacing the traditions and virtues of the Trek scenario with ones that aren't always compatible and don't need to be retold or combined since both are quite capable of standing on their own. This film is generally enjoyable to view, but also contains a great number of serious missteps that will have to be overlooked by viewers generous enough to cut it some slack. A pretty strong entry in the film series - mostly for its first half - but also somewhat disappointing in its inconsistencies (and some of the liberties it takes with the characters and traditions of Trek, as also can be heard in parts of the commentary as Nick Meyers expresses various criticisms of Roddenberry's original conception of Trek; Meyers also offers the delusional interpretation that his two films, along with IV, were the most successful - this is factually wrong; Box Office returns show that the most successful films were Trek IV, I, and VIII. Nick's films, II and VI, are after those three and roughly on a par with III, VII, and IX; this leaves only V and X as the clear low spots in the franchise, and anyway the film series is arguably appealing to an entirely different audience and generation than the tv series that established it; Meyers accuses the tv series of having simplistic characterizations, but he could learn some lessons from watching some of those original episodes...the tv characterization of Khan was far more rich than Meyer's film, in which Khan was rendered almost totally one-dimensional. Quoting Shakespeare and Melville doesn't add character depth so much as make us aware of the lack of it by the need to resort to invocations of classic literature to apologetically fill in the dialogue gaps where original, newly written dialogue should be doing its work. Quotations are no substitute for fresh dialogue, and despite the use of such quotes, villains are still flat one-dimensional characters if their only clear character element is as simplistic as "revenge!" or "make war!" Meyer could use a bit of the self-analysis that Kirk and Spock engage in during the films. I give him credit for adding good elements, but am not going to overlook the numerous negative elements that he also added - including the increasing militarization of Trek - an aspect he criticizes Roddenberry for not agreeing to. Fortunately, Roddenberry's vision holds a lot more weight in cultural history, although that vision is sometimes diluted to a mere seven-percent solution in the hands of Meyer).

Nice send off to our old time favorite crew!.......2007-03-13

One last adventure with the beloved crew members of the Star Ship Enterprise. And what a way to go out. This is a great way to end a saga, and a very enjoyable film. Sometimes by the time you get to a part 6 of any movie series it has gotten to the point where its dull and not half of what it used to be. This movie though is anything but those things.

This movie is all about bringing the hatred between the Earth run Starfleet and the Klingon Empire to a long over due end. Mostly due to the fact that one of the Klingon moons was destroyed in a freak explosion. Now desperate for help to restore the balance, the Klingons reach out to the human run Federation for peace and Captain Kirk and his loyal crew are voulenteered by Mr. Spock to be peace officials to welcome in the soon to be Klingon friends.

What both sides don't count on is the hatred that each still have for each other and how some will stop and nothing to make sure that peace doesn't happen. When the Enterprise fires on the Klingon ship after a peaceful meeting the Klingons take it as an act of war, even though the Enterprise didn't fire on them. Kirk and McCoy go over to try and help the injured leader of the Klingons and are arrested for the murder of him and sentenced to life on a prison camp. Now its up to Spock and Sulu who is now Captain of his own ship to figure out who was really behind this, rescue Kirk and McCoy and save the fragile peace conference that is still in danger from the would be killers before all out war breaks out. It is a true thought provoking and typical Star Trek type adventure that we have come to expect from the series and this movie doesn't disapoint on delivering that and more.

After the very disapointing Part V, it was refreshing to see the crew back to their old ways of fun and adventure and giving the proper send off the original Enterprise gang deserved. We have classic moments of Kirk fighting some huge alien while he is in the prison camp and a mystery that Spock has to solve while running out of precious time. It is almost part adventure and part mystery and all fun with barely a dull moment to be found within. The characters are as fresh and lively as ever, even as the actors themselves seem to age, the characters only seem to get better. Everyone seemed to have a vital part this go around and show that they aren't ready for the scrap heap just yet.

This is epic in that it is not only the last time all the original Star Trek actors will be together but that it bridges a lot of things together in the Star Trek universe as it shows the point that Earth and the Klingons finally reached towards peace. And opens up the path for the Next Generation that was ongoing at the same time of this movie's release. The only real drawbacks to the film were that Sulu's absence from the Enterprise did seem a bit out of place and some of the story moments seemed a bit rushed and far fetched at point ie) how easily they escaped prison and how quickly they were able to wrap things up at the end.

This movie is highly recomended to anyone into the Star Trek series and even those who aren't should be able to follow the fun story easy enough. Part VI is easily up there with one of the better movies in the long going series of films and for good reason. It has a lot of hidden messages in it as well as most Star Trek situations seem to have under lying meanings that one can relate to a real world situation. So the cold war type of political feeling that this movie had along with the racism aspects that were felt did hit home to a real life situation that I'm sure most could relate to. It was a pretty deep story while at the same time a fun adventure.

One last trip around the solar system with Kirk and crew and it was the perfect send off for each and every one of them. All good things must come to an end and thankfuly this was a most fitting end and one that I think you will all enjoy watching many a time and get something differnet from it each time you do.

May the Enterprise-A live on forever.

The Undiscovered Country - The fitting end, and the fitting DVD for it.......2007-02-23

The Star Trek movies have had a roller coaster trend. There was the first movie which was like the "2001" of the series (which is adequately acceptable - I still like it). Then came the classic Wrath of Khan, and its pristine follow-ups of Search for Spock, and Voyage Home. Star Trek the Final Frontier wasn't great at all, let's leave it at that. So came this movie to redeem Kirk and crew.

The movie literally begins with a BANG. Sulu is off as captain of the Excelsior (a ship he's always craved), and along the way his ship gets in a tangle with a shockwave of an exploded Klingon moon - which is essentially the most vital resource the Klingons have. Months later at a briefing, Capt. Kirk finds himself vouched and volunteered by Spock to escort the Klingon chancellor to Earth for a peace conference. Keep in mind Kirk is not too fond with the Klingons, especially since they killed his son some time ago. The two meet up for a dinner aboard the Enterprise , which doesn't go too well exactly. Then later on after it's over, the Klingon ship is fired on, leaving it with no gravity, then two figures beam on the ship and kill the Chancellor. Kirk and Enterprise are left with the blame and Kirk and Dr. McCoy are arrested, held trial, and sentenced to life on a tundra mining outpost. While there, Spock and crew look over the Enterprise to find all the bread crumbs that would lead to those responsible for the attack. It seems all around there are those, from Starfleet, to Klingon that don't exactly go well with the idea of peace moving forward, and they'll do what it takes to prevent it - even if it involves a deadlier Bird of Prey, and another assassination attempt.

Yeah, a sci-fi movie not only being true to being sci-fi, but getting even more serious. All of the performers of the Enterprise crew, as well as Sulu (who is now a captain as mentioned), play their revered characters as they are known to be. Plus, add the robust performance by Christopher Plummer as the rogue Klingon Chang, which easily rivals Patrick Stewarts Picard in different dimensions.

The picture transfer is really a marvel, and most interesting on the widescreen frame being different - but that's because the movie was shot in 70MM. About every scene looks amazing. Same goes for the 5.1 sound, it has an aural depth to it. Everything in the scene is directionally placed. Special note goes out to the Cliff Eidelman, whose score is not only different in all regards in the movies, but truly a gem to hear on how it sets the mood just right.

I'm not going to go deep into the extras, there's plenty to go around and ask for seconds.

That said, I put my endorsement on this kickass DVD. It's one of those special editions that is treated very special.

An Excellent Final Film With The Original Cast.......2007-01-22

This movie is the last of the movies with the original Star Trek cast (unless you count "Generations"), and can arguably be the best (though a case can be made for "Wrath Of Kahn" and "The Voyage Home" as well). It sets things up for the time of the Next Generation, with the preludes of peace between the Klingons and the Federation. It is interesting that there is a conspiracy to keep it from happening with Klingons, humans, and Vulcans involved.

I won't say anything more; you know I hate spoiling surprises, and I might say that I've spoiled some already.

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Great w/Rifftrax
Promising premise gives way to cliches and blendering
Nice send off to our old time favorite crew!
The Undiscovered Country - The fitting end, and the fitting DVD for it
An Excellent Final Film With The Original Cast

Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country
Starring: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , James Doohan , and Walter Koenig
Director: Nicholas Meyer
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Customer Reviews:

Great w/Rifftrax.......2007-05-07

Promising premise gives way to cliches and blendering.......2007-04-03

Nice send off to our old time favorite crew!.......2007-03-13

The Undiscovered Country - The fitting end, and the fitting DVD for it.......2007-02-23

An Excellent Final Film With The Original Cast.......2007-01-22

Star Trek - The Original Crew Movie Collection

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Turn Off Your Mind, Relax...And Go Where No Man, etc.
Even numbered Star Trek movies don't suck
Star Trek
A Must Have for every fan of Star Trek
Can't beat the Originals

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Star Trek - Nemesis (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)

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Release Date: 2002-10-22

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Devoted Star Trek fans will surely cite the "even number" rule in evaluating the Original Crew Movie Collection, but all six of these films qualify as rousing entertainment. Undeniably, the even-numbered films in Paramount's lucrative Trek franchise tended to be the best, as demonstrated by the superiority of The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home, and The Undiscovered Country. And yet each film has something to offer die-hard Trekkers, beginning with the epic-scale wonders of the first Motion Picture (presented here as a two-disc special edition). Evolving from Gene Roddenberry's aborted attempt at a second Star Trek TV series, the effects-laden Motion Picture divided fans while proving that Star Trek had a promising big-screen future. Nicholas Meyer's The Wrath of Khan made good on that promise, reviving the Star Trek spirit and proving, in the case of Mr. Spock, that beloved characters "never really die." It's widely regarded as the best of these half-dozen features.

With its deadly Klingon confrontation, the Leonard Nimoy-directed Search for Spock was a thrilling (albeit contrived) excuse for Spock's inevitable resurrection, and its somber tone was readily countered by the Earth-based humor of Nimoy's The Voyage Home, combining a planetary crisis with a lively--and phenomenally popular--time-travel plot line. Unfortunately, William Shatner then lobbied for the director's chair, and The Final Frontier--an uneasy mixture of cheesy humor and grandiose themes--was the regrettable outcome. Paramount rallied by inviting Nicholas Meyer to repeat his Khan success, and Meyer rose to the occasion with the sharply scripted thrills of The Undiscovered Country. By ending the film with an official signature send-off from the "classic Trek" cast, the original crew brought their big-screen legacy to a graceful and upbeat conclusion, setting the stage for a transitional adventure in Star Trek: Generations. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Turn Off Your Mind, Relax...And Go Where No Man, etc........2007-06-16

This was an inpulse purchase. Short version of a long story, while wiki-ing the night away, one link led to another which led to Ebert's review of "The Voyage Home" (you know, the one with the whales). He liked it. Since it was 3:00 AM, logic was not a factor so I found this box-set on Amazon, and one-click later...

I have to say that although I was never much of a Star Trek fan, I ended up watching all 3 of the "arc" movies: Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock, and Free Willy, I mean, Voyage Home. I enjoyed them all. They had the same old corny, humanistic, vaguely-mystical, always-swashbuckling appeal that made the original "Star Trek" series pleasant, albeit mindless, TV-viewing. And it is fun to see Montalban's plastic pecs (I don't buy his coy demurral that "everyone was in great shape".)

Unlike other space movies, like Stars Wars, let's say, these movies do not take themselves at all seriously, and therein lies their charm.

Caveat emptor: If you have seen these movies before, they do NOT improve with age. They are timeless...sort of like memories of childhood. The science is questionable...like "slinging" around the Sun to time-travel. Just don't think about it.

Even numbered Star Trek movies don't suck.......2007-05-20

A lot of Star Trek was about dealing with Aliens;
communicating with people who are different in fundamental ways.
Today we get the feeling that the human race can't even communicate
with itself when it comes to science.
Science has clearly warned about extreme climate change
dangers ( very like those of the genesis planet in StartTrek III),
yet politicians,leaders of industry and those who are generally
getting rich from the rape of the planet Earth refuse
to substantially change their damaging behavior.
We keep contributing to the future's "plastic Layer"!
I think in Star Trek II with the genetically engineered
ego maniac shows us that humanity has a lot to learn
about itself!Star Trek IV is one of my all time favorites.

Star Trek.......2007-02-02

The Star Trek movies are really great movies. I am very glad that I bought them.

A Must Have for every fan of Star Trek.......2007-02-02

All 6 of the Original Crew movies all in one package. And the conversion to DVD...it's like watching completely new and better movies. Even Star Trek V is a better movie, and that's saying something. I especially liked the recut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. All the added and improved scenes makes it an entirely new movie. Now it's more about the story, than showing off the new cool special effects of that time. Every fan of Trek needs to check these movies out and experience them all over again!

Can't beat the Originals.......2007-01-27

The Original Crew Movie Collection is for all of you who grew up watching Star Trek: The Original Series. You know who your favorite characters are, and you don't need 4 extra movies from Rick Berman who has run the series into the ground. Don't believe me, believe the box office, Starting with 7, the Next Gen movies have steadily decreased in overall box office sales. Culminating with Nemesis that completely bombed at the theaters.

You know who the best crew is, and you don't mess with the best.

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Spanning two decades and countless light years of interstellar adventure, Star Trek: The Motion Pictures Collection is a testament to the enduring goodwill of Gene Roddenberry's optimistic sci-fi concept. Long before Star Wars sparked an explosion of big-screen science fiction, Roddenberry had planned a second Star Trek TV series; the project fizzled, but its pilot script evolved into the first film in Paramount's most lucrative movie franchise. Despite its sluggish pace and bland "pajama" costuming, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) offered a welcomed reunion of the "classic Trek" cast, packed with Douglas Trumbull's still-dazzling special effects. Trekkers were even more ecstatic when The Wrath of Khan (1982) revived the spirit of the original series, even though director Nicholas Meyer was a Trek neophyte. With Leonard Nimoy directing, The Search for Spock (1984) began where Khan left off, with a thrilling (albeit contrived) obligation to resurrect the formerly ill-fated Mr. Spock.

A box-office smash, Nimoy's The Voyage Home (1986) is the franchise's most accessible adventure--a high point offset by William Shatner's comparatively dreadful Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989). Meyer (and his penchant for quoting Shakespeare) returned for The Undiscovered Country (1991), a conspiracy thriller that put the series back on track, inspiring fans to invoke the "even number" rule in rating their franchise favorites. Generations (1994) gracefully passed the torch to TV's The Next Generation, bidding farewell to Captain Kirk with honor and integrity intact. Highlighted by the evolving humanity of Brent Spiner's android Lt. Comdr. Data, First Contact (1996) explored Star Trek history with a logical (hint) surprise encounter, and Insurrection (1998) provided an adequate expansion of the successful TNG series. Taken as a whole, these nine films demonstrate the consistent vitality of Roddenberry's original vision, stoking any Trekker's appetite for "ongoing missions" in Nemesis and beyond. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Do Not Buy This -- Be Patient!.......2004-12-26

There is no point in purchasing this set when it only includes a few of the special edition DVDs. Despite the attractiveness of the box itself, it is best to wait until all of special/director's edition movies come out.

Hold out.......2004-02-25

The special editions are coming! They're done with the first six already, making this collection out of date. Another blow to the set is Nemesis' DVD release. The two together tell me about how old this set is.

(Eric, Montalban's chest is real. Meyer says so on one of the featurettes. It's his trainer's fault if it looks cheesy.)

The First 9 -- some extras, but not a lot........2004-01-03

This Box set was one of the first DVD sets I got, almost a year ago. It includes all of the Star Trek movies up to and including Insurrection. This set does not have Nemesis.

A NEW BOX SET with that 10th Movie is out now.

Heads Up -- this 9 movie set (which I own and watched) and the other 10 movie collection do not include all of the Special Editions. So you get a little less bonus material, and it is pricey. But hey, it is Star Trek.

The First 3 films in this set have two discs with lots of extras, interviews, trekkie stuff. The other six are single discs only, and honestly they are pretty light on anything "bonus". Like nil.

The Films are old, and it shows. Just look at the trailers on STTMP, and you'll know what I mean. The effects really do look corny by today's standards, but the stories are solid and the acting is decent -- more or less throughout the whole series.

I will skip the review of each film, and sum it up -- this is a solid buy for the first 9 movies, but additional special edition discs will be coming out soon. You might be better off picking and choosing. But I got this and started my DVD collection with a decent beginning.

Captains Log 6/11/03 Star Trek just got better.......2003-06-11

This is the date i wrote my review and got this box set. It is so kool + 9 awesome flicks. I have watched 1,2,3,& 4 so far and let me tell you they are nothing like i imagined. I thought they would be like the star trek TV show. But there not they have the same characters and all but so much more. I would really buy this before it goes out of stock again.

Sci-fi adventure, with mixed results........2003-01-29

(Opinions of The Motion Picture and The Undiscovered Country are based on years old memory)
The original Star Trek crew worked solely on the basis of its lead trio. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForest Kelley made for arguably the most charismatic and enjoyable trio to watch in cinematic history. As for the rest of the crew, I didn't much care for anyone else, though George Takei probably came across the best as Sulu, mostly because he never succumbs to the silliness that pervades the other three (Scotty's prat falls, Chekov's accents and mispronunciations, and Uhura's horrific dance number in Star Trek V).

It's been years since I've seen The Motion Picture, and memory serves that it was an engrossing adventure that was so far off from the camp I'd been used to while watching the original TV series. Basically, I liked it, and this is without having seen the director's cut, which I hope to catch some day. The Motion Picture is decidedly an attempt at the kind of cerebral science fiction that 2001 attempted, and while I'm quite certain it's not in the same league as that film, it holds its own.

Ooh, boy, it's with The Wrath of Khan that I'm sure people will shouting blasphemy when I state that I actually didn't much enjoy the film. Sure, the effects were good and the trio was as entertaining to watch as usual, but Nicholas Meyers' direction is stale, Ricardo Montalban is a cheesy-looking villain (that fake chest can't help, either) who talks tough without actually proving his dangerousness, and the space battles prove to be little different than two submarines stalking each other. The idea of two starships battling each other has never appealed to me, and the case is no different here. I will admit, however, that Spock's death scene is poignant.

Star Trek III is even worse than II. Cheap-looking sets, meaningless blather, and the overall snail pace make this easily the most boring film of the entire franchise. The only highlight is Christopher Lloyd as a Klingon commander.

Star Trek IV is a marked improvement, an enjoyable and funny fish-out-of-water tale. There's little else going on here than seeing our beloved crew interact in the 20th century, but that alone is enough to inspire a barrage of belly laughs, particularly Spock's use of colorful metaphors. Catherine Hicks' rather neurotic performance as a whale specialist is pretty annoying, and a downspot in an otherwise entertaining outing.

Star Trek V is easily the silliest of the lot, but it's also kind of fun and the premise is the most ambitious of them all: it's an all-out quest for God, who is believed to live in the center of the galaxy. The trio is given more screentime together here than in any other film, Jerry Goldsmith's score is marvelous (the best of the series), and there's actually a genuine sense of awe when they reach their destination. Oh, this isn't a good movie, but it's an undeniable watchable and often entertaining one, and I personally liked it more than Star Trek III.

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Great w/Rifftrax.......2007-05-07

Promising premise gives way to cliches and blendering.......2007-04-03

Nice send off to our old time favorite crew!.......2007-03-13

The Undiscovered Country - The fitting end, and the fitting DVD for it.......2007-02-23

An Excellent Final Film With The Original Cast.......2007-01-22

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country [Region 2]

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Great w/Rifftrax
Promising premise gives way to cliches and blendering
Nice send off to our old time favorite crew!
The Undiscovered Country - The fitting end, and the fitting DVD for it
An Excellent Final Film With The Original Cast

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country [Region 2]
Starring: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , James Doohan , and Walter Koenig
Director: Nicholas Meyer
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Great w/Rifftrax.......2007-05-07

Promising premise gives way to cliches and blendering.......2007-04-03

Nice send off to our old time favorite crew!.......2007-03-13