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Star Trek 6 The Undiscovered Country is the selesai movie with the original cast of the original Star Trek series. I am a trekker that means that I enjoy the mythology of Star trek a lot but am not one of those overenthusiastic nerds that elevates the show to religious status, but the idea of having one selesai journey with the old gang does get me very exited.

The movie starts with a newly appointed Sulu as captain of the Excelsior, while heading back after their first successful mission they encounter a huge energy wave that they deduce came from one of the Klingon moons where they drill for their primary energy source. Later a council is gathered to discuss what this means, it seams with their power source gone and their boarder on patrol the Klingon empire has only fifty years of life left in it before it dies.

Spock devises a plan to make peace with the Klingon empire to avoid a massive war to the bitter end, this would involve dismantling the federations military force. This naturally does not settle with Captain Kirk who after all the years of fighting the Klingon's and especially after the murder of his son does not see anything wrong with just letting them die.

Kirk however obeys his orders and goes to meet and greet the Klingon ambassadors and the diner is awkward but we do meet the Klingon General Chang played by the prestigious Christopher Plummer. Christopher Plummer is one of those golden actors and here he is a Shakespearean quoting war loving Klingon, on of the best Star Trek villains in my opinion.

The main theme of the movie is the fear that comes with the unknown, dealing with the unknown and what could come from something new.

In the last Star Trek movie we had Shatner as director, the two before that we had Lenard Nimoy, this time we are in the hands of Nicholas Meyers who also is the co-writer, wrote Star Trek 4 and he bring the best of two worlds in Star Trek movies. There are usually two ways a Star Trek movie can go a big adventure with special effects or a more grounded one that relies on characters here it is split evenly very nicely, the plot allows for the big space battles as well as talking time to look at the characters, The Undiscovered Country is a script well written

When you say Star Trek everyone has an image that comes into their mind, for some its the enterprise, for others its the Klingon's or the Vulcan hand sign, for me its the original crew behind the helm of the enterprise, Shatner, Nimoy, DeForest etc. Now that crew is getting old and having to move on, given over to another new crew, goodbyes are always hard.

Rating 3 1/2 stars out of 4