Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Monday, January 16th, 2006You’re a great one for logic. I’m a great one for rushing in where angels fear to tread. We are both extremists.
After being tripped up by their own mistake of letting William Shatner direct a Star Trek feature, the powers-that-be at Paramount did the only wise thing: They brought back Nicholas Meyer, director of installment number two, The Wrath of Khan, still the gold standard among the ten Star Trek movies.
While this sixth movie doesn’t rise to the same level of Khan, it comfortably leaps into second place among the Trek feature films. The plot is a rather obvious allegory for the end of the Cold War but at least the story clicks along at a brisk pace and, like the second film, allows our characters some genuine human moments among the explosions. It’s nice to see our beloved crew go into action one more time in the service of a quality movie.
