STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

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  • @jasonparadis
    @jasonparadis 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1194

    You recognized Romulan Ale upon sight. You're a fan just like the rest of us. Don't listen to the haters. It doesn't matter when you begin your journey, or how you begin your journey, just that you begin it. Can't wait for TNG!

    • @Maya_Ruinz
      @Maya_Ruinz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

      That was pretty good, she also can identify that a Bird of Prey can cloak ... there are people that watch for years and never catch on.

    • @7thsealord888
      @7thsealord888 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

      "One of us. One of us. One of us ...." ;)

    • @nicks.5552
      @nicks.5552 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

      She even knew that a Bird of Prey can’t fire when cloaked. She’s a Trekkie.
      When I saw ST: Generations in the theater, I heard someone ask “what’s a tractor beam?” 🤦

    • @Maya_Ruinz
      @Maya_Ruinz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      @@nicks.5552 I have family members who have been watching for decades and still can’t tell the difference between a Vulcan and a Romulan, nor their ships.

    • @Anson_AKB
      @Anson_AKB 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nicks.5552 hard to believe that people go to the cinema and never heard of it, neither in star trek nor in star wars or any other movie. but besides those who are too young, there are also people who think that tractor beams are real or those that "research" on youtube that these movies are only made as "false propaganda" that planets are round and in space.

  • @Xehanort117
    @Xehanort117 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +633

    Cassie screaming “shields up!” is peak 2024 entertainment!🤓🤓🤓

    • @StayFractalesque
      @StayFractalesque 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      She's a good sport, and truly gives every movie a chance.. she must have a great imagination to suspend disbelief so well for every movie she sees.. not saying they're bad movies, I just appreciate how she buys in to so many varied stories and appreciates them for what they are, no matter how corny or dated..

    • @Ambaryerno
      @Ambaryerno 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I do hate that the final battle honestly makes Kirk kind of incompetent, and not the master starship tactician and strategist he's supposed to be.
      He went into the fight with no plan whatsoever for dealing with Chang, even though he knew he would have to get through him, and instead had to rely on a last-minute stroke of genius from Spock (which wasn't even the case in the original script; originally it was Excelsior - which was doing the gaseous anomaly survey in the opener - that came up with the seeker torpedo, but Shatner rightfully insisted Enterprise should be able to save herself in her final mission).
      It also forgets that Kirk knows how to fight cloaked ships, having done so in TOS. So instead of Kirk being allowed to use actual tactics, he's forced by the script to sit and take a beating until someone comes up with a Deus Ex Machina.

    • @Theomite
      @Theomite 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      I was so damn proud of her when she said that.🥲

    • @DavidTraynier
      @DavidTraynier 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​@@AmbaryernoKirk does use tactics. They're explained more in the novelisation, but hinted at in the film with Kirk ordering reverse after the first hit and Spock's line that Chang is trying to ascertain whether the Enterprise can detect them. Basically, Kirk is trying to deceive Chang - but it's elaborated on in the novel.

    • @Xehanort117
      @Xehanort117 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@Ambaryerno Really, the only thing this film suffers from is the fact that Nicholas Meyer continuously butted heads with Gene Roddenberry over the script and the direction Meyer wanted to take the film in. That's why some things tend to not add up which could've otherwise made more sense if Meyer had been allowed the same control he had in Wrath of Khan. It just proves that even in the face of staunch opposition from the show's creator, that Nicholas Meyer is a stellar director and writer who proved his mettle early on and deserved to do this film justice with his creativity and storycrafting.

  • @BinkyTheToaster
    @BinkyTheToaster 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    30:20 - This scene, where Spock interrogates Valeris, always gave me chills. The implications are clear; Valeris' screams as Spock tears through her mind put ice in my veins. Extremely powerful acting from both Leonard Nimoy and Kim Cattrall.

    • @davismccardle1
      @davismccardle1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Yep the way even Spock's voice broke was spine tingling.

    • @T.Florenz
      @T.Florenz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was reminded that Mirror!Spock did this to McCoy, and I'm glad we didn't have to see it 💔

    • @matthewnewton8812
      @matthewnewton8812 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah. I think Leonard Nimoy actually overtly stated that’s what they were going for, in some interview he did for the film when it was coming out. I remember reading it in a magazine years and years ago. It’s a deeply disturbing moment, but powerful on screen.

    • @f.herumusu8341
      @f.herumusu8341 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In Enterprise it is stated that unwanted mind melding is to vulcans something like a rape to humans, so that scene is much darker and contoversial for Spocks action as it might seem.

  • @namelesswalaby
    @namelesswalaby 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +282

    the President is Kurtwood Smith, he was the dad in That 70s show and the bad guy in Robocop.

    • @adamscott7354
      @adamscott7354 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Red Foreman is not above interstellar law... dumba$$!

    • @Drawkcabi
      @Drawkcabi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Cassie also saw him recently in Deep Impact where he was the guy in charge at ground control.

    • @MrFishing4u
      @MrFishing4u 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      He was also in two Voyager episodes dealing with time traveling.

    • @karlsmith2570
      @karlsmith2570 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      ​@@MrFishing4u
      "The Year Of Hell, Parts 1 & 2"

    • @R1ddic
      @R1ddic 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      A few future DS9 alumn as well: Brock Peters (Admiral Cartwright / Joseph Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Klingon assassin, Odo)

  • @wrench_in_the_works
    @wrench_in_the_works 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +381

    Don’t EVER let anyone tell you that you’re not a Treky! I literally cheered when they were talking about the ship firing from underneath of them and you said, but I thought they couldn’t fire when they’re cloaked
    You are one of us!!! 😂😂😂

    • @lennyvalentin6485
      @lennyvalentin6485 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Hear, hear! :D

    • @GeneralZodFDNY77
      @GeneralZodFDNY77 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      That she is.

    • @gardener68
      @gardener68 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      One of us! One of us!

    • @tru3sk1ll
      @tru3sk1ll 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      One of us! One of us!

    • @Taoscape
      @Taoscape 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Yeah it was great to watch. She actually is pretty on top of things in her toher videos. She asks questions in some movies which are answered in the second or third one in the series.

  • @dreadpenguinlord340
    @dreadpenguinlord340 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    Loved the beginning. "Is this like a meteor shower..?"
    Sulu seconds later: "Don't tell me that was any meteor shower!" 😛

  • @juvandy
    @juvandy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +191

    'FLY HER APART THEN' always gets me. Every single time.

    • @richardadams4928
      @richardadams4928 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Truly a FANTASTIC moment. Really shows off Sulu's astounding BAD-ASSERY. His calm, confident, "Target that explosion and FIRE!" is also MAGNIFICENT. The Cinemassacre crew took off multiple "sins" for that one.

    • @PianoDentist
      @PianoDentist 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@richardadams4928 I love both those moments too. Shows firstly how much Sulu cares about his friends then his calm ruthlessness!

    • @richardadams4928
      @richardadams4928 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@PianoDentist Yeah, I wound up watching it again last night. When you think about it, it has outer space battles, a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, an escape caper, and LOTS of espionage/intrigue. It's got everything one could ask for!

    • @AlanCanon2222
      @AlanCanon2222 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Alumni of the Enterprise crew don't mess around when it's Universe-saving time!

    • @joemasters2270
      @joemasters2270 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I love that line!!

  • @jacksonconley5117
    @jacksonconley5117 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +437

    Fun Fact: Kirk and McCoy’s lawyer was played by Michael Dorn, known for playing Worf in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

    • @sougetsukazama
      @sougetsukazama 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      That is very true, plus little unknown fun fact he is also a pilot.

    • @TheDougMan
      @TheDougMan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

      Michael Dorn’s character (Kirk’s lawyer) is Worf’s Grandfather.

    • @existenceisrelative
      @existenceisrelative 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      @@TheDougMan Funner Fact: Two hundred of the klingons in the audience of that scene were actually Worf action figures from TNG.

    • @Terminator484
      @Terminator484 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@TheDougMan And his name is also "Worf".

    • @susanalexander6721
      @susanalexander6721 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      That voice is unmistakable.

  • @geoff-d2c
    @geoff-d2c 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

    'And you've restored my son's..." God, what a line. RIP Merrit Buttrick.

  • @MagicBrownie420
    @MagicBrownie420 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +226

    19:12 It's so freakin cute that you can't remember the term cloaked but you do remember that a cloaked vessel can't fire its weapons 🤣🥰

    • @StayFractalesque
      @StayFractalesque 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Don't be so "Passy Aggressie" 😊

    • @stiimuli
      @stiimuli 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah I thought that was funny too XD

    • @charlize1253
      @charlize1253 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Uh oh spaghetts!

    • @Bnio
      @Bnio 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That "passy aggressie" line made me see that moment in a different light. All these years I read Gorkon's tone as him navigating the human rules of etiquette, but, yeah, he's totally masking a reluctance to say yes.

    • @MegaBearsFan
      @MegaBearsFan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      This is a great example of the importance of setting up consistent rules in a fictional story or world. Even though she didn't remember the term, she understood the important stuff, and it created tension and mystery for her.

  • @reesebn38
    @reesebn38 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +171

    Cassie The Undiscovered Country is a little piece of Canadian History. When William Shatner was a young actor starting out he was Christopher Plummers understudy at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford Ontario. One night Plummer was sick and Shatner got to go on. It was his big brake and the start. So when Plummer's quoting Shakespeare in the movie it is for sure paying homage to their roots.

    • @Emilysbrother1
      @Emilysbrother1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      My fave detail about that story is that Shatner did the opposite of everything Plummer did. If Plummer stood, Shatner would sit, if Plummer yelled, Shatner would whisper. Plummer heard that and went "he's going to be famous,"

    • @AlanCanon2222
      @AlanCanon2222 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thanks Canada for making us look bad again. Seriously, you guys are the best. Love from Kentucky.

  • @cubbiedog2814
    @cubbiedog2814 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    The in-universe explanation as to why General Chang recites so many Shakespeare quotes is that Chang took the time to study earth history and culture. A kind of "know your enemy" type of thing. He was especially fascinated by the works of William Shakespeare, citing that had things been different, Shakespeare himself would've made a great Klingon.
    The real life explanation however was actually because of an inside joke between Christopher Plummer and William Shatner. Many years prior, Plummer had acted with a Canadian Shakespeare stage company, and Shatner was his understudy at the time. One night, while suffering from illness, Plummer had to bow out, and Shatner had to step into his role, to which he received rave reviews the next day, which kind of needled Plummer a bit, but in the end he was happy that everything went well. So when he was cast in Star Trek VI, it was supposedly his idea to have Chang spout out so many lines of Shakespeare.

    • @timothypaskell6871
      @timothypaskell6871 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank you for that explanation I never knew that.

    • @MichaelSlate-g1r
      @MichaelSlate-g1r 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Also, in one of novels from long ago, A traveling troupe of actors performed a play by Shakespeare in front of an audience of Klingons, who roared with approval! This tradition carries on today with the Klingon Language Institute translating plays by Shakespeare into Klingon. You can Google it.

  • @TheAes86
    @TheAes86 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +263

    General Chang kept quoting Shakespeare. "To be or not to be" "Cry Havoc and let loose the dogs of war" "Once more unto the Breach" etc
    James Kirk quoted Peter Pan (second star on the right and on until tomorrow)
    It showed their differing character. Chang was about war and conquest of space and enemies. Kirk was at heart a child looking in wonder at the universe and what was left to explore.

    • @BogeyTheBear
      @BogeyTheBear 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      For anyone wondering what "Cry havoc..." means, 'havoc' is the command to take no prisoners. When you wreak havoc on an enemy, you are killing them all even if they try to surrender.
      It's a risky call, because any commander who orders it is automatically subject to the same fate in the future: The enemy has no obligation to accept his surrender.

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Christopher Plummer was a fantastic addition to this film. And the lines they borrowed from Shakespeare (and from "Peter Pan", yes) were awesome. Especially with the "Hitler faux-pas", heheheh. And you hit the nail on the head... Kirk WAS indeed "a child at heart". I often wonder if Gene had always intended that, or if Shatner simply gravitated the character in that direction via his own personality.

    • @ReelMeurik
      @ReelMeurik 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Also Chang quoting Hitler, Earth, 1938... "We need breathing room...!"

    • @cteal2018
      @cteal2018 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Kirk since the second movie was always dealing with his own mortality. Peter Pan is a story about a boy who never grew up...

    • @everettdepangher6131
      @everettdepangher6131 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Chang also quotes Adlai Stevenson II ("don't wait for the translation") and Neville Chamberlain ("peace in our time"). Also, Kirk's quote "the end of history" is a famous one that has bounced around in reference to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

  • @NateAZ
    @NateAZ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +259

    Christopher Plummer as General Chang was his best role ever in my opinion.
    He totally owned it, a true world class actor.

    • @GhostWatcher2024
      @GhostWatcher2024 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Not even CLOSE to his BEST role... but i do agree he killed thia role.

    • @cypher515
      @cypher515 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      See, he's had a lot of roles in his life... I don't know if the man has had too many bad roles, either.

    • @parallaxnick637
      @parallaxnick637 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@cypher515 I mean, come on, Captain von Trapp? Rudyard Kipling? Sherlock freaking Holmes? That said, he has had bad roles. Dragnet for one.

    • @Oxley016
      @Oxley016 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      He was obviously great in this role but certainly not his best. Von Trapp in Sound of Music and Wellington in Waterloo are far above in my and most others opinion I would say. And that’s just two options from a very long list of classic performances.

    • @hernanpisano7913
      @hernanpisano7913 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Great actor. Here, he is awesome

  • @sayhibobbi
    @sayhibobbi หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    "I have this sneaking suspicion that it might be Valeris."
    Oh, you're good.

  • @izzyryder4969
    @izzyryder4969 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +152

    The alien woman who helps Kirk and McCoy escape from the prison is played by Iman, famous actress/supermodel and wife of David Bowie.

    • @Stubbies2003
      @Stubbies2003 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      And totally worth the title of supermodel. What a beauty.

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      DON'T remind me!

    • @davidhutchinson5233
      @davidhutchinson5233 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Iman.

  • @NilMortifey
    @NilMortifey 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +154

    23:44 Christian Slater cameo. His mother was involved in the casting for smaller roles and when Slater discovered she was hiring for parts in the next Star Trek movie he begged her for a part.

    • @chipstercamarillo9373
      @chipstercamarillo9373 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      And he framed his check...

    • @RoadWarrior77
      @RoadWarrior77 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      ​@chipstercamarillo9373
      Well, he didn't really do it for the money. He was already a famous actor at that point (Pump up the Volume, Young Guns 2, Gleaming the Cube, The Legend of Billie Jean), he just wanted to be in a Star Trek movie. Just like some Star Wars movies after the original trilogy. Samuel Jackson wanted to be in a Star Wars movie so badly, he told Lucas he would even be a storm trooper, to which George Lucas said that he could find him doing something better than that, which inspired the creation of Mace Windu.

    • @ChrisBrown-or8ky
      @ChrisBrown-or8ky 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Pump up the volume was a brilliant movie. Watched that as a teen. Wonder how it stacks up now?

    • @MP197742
      @MP197742 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      It might be one of the most jarring cameos I’ve ever seen in a movie. Like at least when Sean Connery shows up at random for the final scene of Robin Hood, he’s at least playing the king. Slater just shows up in the middle as like Crewman #7 or whatever. You’re just like, “what is he doing there?”

    • @joehoy9242
      @joehoy9242 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@MP197742He does it again in the first Austin Powers movie, but only in the international cut.

  • @BOGO2020
    @BOGO2020 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Star Trek VI was the best send off of any Star Trek crew period! I’ve always liked the thought that they chose Sulu to become a captain not just because he was great for the job, but to subconsciously show the extension of the TOS crew in Starfleet. Captain Sulu’s adventures albeit not as rampant as Captain Kirk’s; Sulu would bring the same type of commitment to and from his crew that Captain Kirk did. This same type of influence would only spread and affect so many others in the course of their starfleet careers reinforcing the great character influence from Captain Kirk’s crew. I LOVE this movie and I’m glad you did too!

  • @CaesiusX
    @CaesiusX 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

    *Captain Spock:* _"Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end."_ My favorite line, showing Spock's character growth. It was such a pleasant surprise when I first heard it. 🖖😎

  • @mrsaipros338
    @mrsaipros338 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

    I saw this in the theater with 6 friends. At the end my friend Bob jumped out of his seat in shock & shouted "Holy Shit! Scotty shot someone!" The entire theater burst into laughter.
    30+ years later I still laugh every time I see that scene thinking about it.

    • @ortizmo
      @ortizmo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well damn.......it was about time a redshirt killed someone else for a change, yes??

    • @ninjabearpress2574
      @ninjabearpress2574 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      My favorite line is when Dr. McCoy asks, "What is it with you?"
      Kirk's in an alien gulag and STILL finds himself a date.

  • @MrStephenLast
    @MrStephenLast 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    The Federation President was played by Kurtwood Smith. He was the Dad in That 70s Show and in Robo Cop(1987) he played the leader of the gang that killed Alex Murphy.

    • @karter95
      @karter95 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Kurtwood Smith has a long Star Trek history on top of the movies. He played a Cardassian in DS9 the villain Anarax in a 2 part Voyager episode year of H... and he played the voice of a delegate im Lower Decks

    • @Tribble314
      @Tribble314 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      In the first scene with the president, it sounded like Cassie thought he was a Klingon. I paused it, and he *does* look incredibly Klingon-ish. He's even got the Fu Manchu mustache that so many Klingons have! It's a nice alien design, but an unfortunate time to use it.

    • @davequinlan3020
      @davequinlan3020 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      President Red Forman

    • @turbopokey
      @turbopokey 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He played the dad in Robocop? Heh-heh…cool.
      😂😂

    • @charleshays5407
      @charleshays5407 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The scenes featuring the two Kirks was inspired by TOS episode Whom Gods Destroy, featuring Captain Garth, a shape shifter.

  • @Rycel2001
    @Rycel2001 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +235

    It's easy to forget since Stare Trek has become such a pop culture phenomenon, but we should remember that the original TV series that started it all was produced against the background of the Cold War and a lot of the politics of the time were at the forefront of the stories they wanted to tell. This movie was made in 1991, 2 years after the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union dissolved. It was a monumental shift in global politics and many people on both sides of the old iron curtain were unsure of what would happen to their people.
    This movie is a perfect example of the core philosophy of science-fiction: trying to understand and explore the issues of our current world by using a strange or future one.

    • @jonathanmarshall5038
      @jonathanmarshall5038 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      whats crazy is the movie came out after the berlin wall fell but the story of star trek 6 was written before the fall of the soviet union. during production of star trek 6 well after the script was written and the movie was well under production Premier Gorbachev was kidnaped by rouge elements of the KGB to stop the dissolution of the soviet union and peace with the west.

    • @amateurastronomer9463
      @amateurastronomer9463 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      also when they were making the 3 seasons of TOS they were not even thinking franchise. all they were thinking was are we going to make it to season 2 or 3, or are we going to get cancelled.

    • @Anson_AKB
      @Anson_AKB 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      even when release was in 1991 "two years after the fall of the wall" which at first sounds to be "soon but not immediately", all the planning, production, and postproduction had to start earlier and thus was much closer to the then current realworld politics and events of 1989 and 1990, with only almost exactly 25 months between the fall of the wall and the release in cinemas.
      this movie is significant in more than one way.

    • @tremorsfan
      @tremorsfan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      The explosion of Praxis was meant to parallel the Chernobyl disaster.

    • @brucechmiel7964
      @brucechmiel7964 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      The Soviet Union collapsed 20 days after this movie released in theaters. Dec-26-1991

  • @DaveMiller2
    @DaveMiller2 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    Brock Peters, who played Admiral Cartwright here, also played Joseph Sisko, father of Captain Ben Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space 9.

    • @AgentScooterX
      @AgentScooterX 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      He was also in To Kill a Mockingbird as well as the voice of Dath Vader in the star wars trilogy radio drama.

    • @Manofsteel1701-f4r
      @Manofsteel1701-f4r 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      He absolutely crushed it in DS9. Avery and him had such good chemistry. That show is so lovely in how it portrays family relationships

    • @anonygent
      @anonygent 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I thought that was a nice redemption for the actor.

    • @CollideFan1
      @CollideFan1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@anonygent It was. If I remember correctly, he was very uncomfortable saying those racist comments about the Kilingons. He did a good job of playing a hardcore warrior who didn't want peace.

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      John Schuck aka 'The Painless Pole' as the Klingon ambassador.

  • @DiscoverMontréal
    @DiscoverMontréal 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    William Shatner and Christopher Plummer grew up together in Montreal in the 1930s. Shatner was even Plummer's understudy numerous times! When Plummer died in 2021, Shatner wrote an article in Variety about his friend: "We came together, finally, on Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country. Chris was so wonderful in it. I felt like I was inviting him to my home. I felt an obligation to him because I’d been his understudy years ago. He was a level above me for the longest time, and I would imagine you could see that in my face if we were being filmed. He was an extraordinary actor, and an extraordinary person."

  • @Bnio
    @Bnio 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

    "If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it."
    I'm really glad the editor kept that clip in this video. That quote runs through my head a lot as I grow older.

    • @hrayz
      @hrayz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      However I missed my favourite quote, "Target that explosion and fire!"

    • @Ya_Mosura
      @Ya_Mosura 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@hrayz And ''I'd give real money if he'd shut up.''

    • @b-mak
      @b-mak 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      "Fly her apart then!" Sulu to the rescue.

    • @noneya3635
      @noneya3635 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      this is why trek is timeless, that phrase is universally true of all changes in the world from the perspective of the older generation.

    • @StayFractalesque
      @StayFractalesque 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Have yall read Brave New World? ..I often feel like this script is just shout-outs to their favorite stories..

  • @Chou-seh-fu
    @Chou-seh-fu 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    "Yes we do, sexy alien."
    The actress was Iman, a supermodel back in the day who was married to David Bowie until he died.

  • @palmerlp
    @palmerlp 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I love that David Warner, Christopher Plummer, Kurtwood Smith and Iman are all in this crazy flick.

  • @fraziergavin
    @fraziergavin 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    I've always loved when Kirk says, "Second star on the right. Straight on till morning." Brings a tear to my eyes as it hits me that this is the last time they were all on screen together.

    • @brauliob
      @brauliob 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      A line from Peter Pan pointing the direction to Neverland, a place where no one grows old.

    • @Divamarja_CA
      @Divamarja_CA 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same

    • @StayFractalesque
      @StayFractalesque 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@brauliob ..bingo.. I'm surprised so few catch the reference!

    • @tru3sk1ll
      @tru3sk1ll 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Where people go to be a kid again, time passes slowly and you have nothing but time for limitless adventures......... so many people don't get that line or the reference - sad

  • @deke76
    @deke76 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    The signatures during the credits was the inspiration for the same thing during the credits of Avengers: Endgame

  • @bryanblackburn6928
    @bryanblackburn6928 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    One of my favorite movie lines ever; "What you want is irrelevant, what you've chosen is at hand."

    • @richardadams4928
      @richardadams4928 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Spock's intensity and shameless display of emotion REALLY got me on first viewing. And the cheering in the theater when Chang got his comeuppance was unrestrained....

    • @AlanCanon2222
      @AlanCanon2222 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It reminds me of my Dad dressing me down, every time. So stern.

    • @JamesBond-ke5tp
      @JamesBond-ke5tp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@richardadams4928makes sense. She was his prized pupil. She betrayed everything he stands for. A betrayal of that depth would certainly illicit strong emotion.

    • @richardadams4928
      @richardadams4928 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JamesBond-ke5tp 👍

  • @operative2136
    @operative2136 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    This one is honestly my favorite movie of the classic crew. Not only was it a solid script with an excellent cast, it was arguably a perfect send off for the classic crew. Now that most of the original crew are gone, this is how I choose to remember them all together.
    "Second star to the right, and straight on until morning."

    • @StayFractalesque
      @StayFractalesque 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That's Peter Pan, right? Neverland?

    • @BrickIntyre
      @BrickIntyre 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      What kills me about this one - and this is a rumor I've heard a few times, I don't know how true it is, but Valeris was originally written to be Saavik. And you can kind of see it in the way that Spoke reacts to her betrayal. Neither actor (Alley or Curtis) were available for the movie, and they didn't want to case a third Saavik, so they changed the character. Could you imagine the impact that would have had on the movie! Tying Saavik's motivation back to what happened on Genesis, her and Kirk sharing the experience of David's death. That would have been incredible.

    • @bonghunezhou5051
      @bonghunezhou5051 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This would have been a 'perfect sendoff' - except that three of them, notably Captain Kirk, returned in the next (#7; 1994) film, thus diluting the impact of this fine film at least a tad.

    • @SSPerfectChaosRCT
      @SSPerfectChaosRCT 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@bonghunezhou5051maybe a little bit, but the specific wording of the sendoff could also be a good lead into it. I think it would have been more fitting if TNG had kicked off from Generations instead of being the movie it was, kond of like Wrath of Khan was semi meant to kick off a new series. But who knows if that would have been for better or worse.

  • @mikerhodes8454
    @mikerhodes8454 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    Leonard Nimoy said the hardest scene he'd ever had to film was when he mind melded with Valeris to get the info out of her. He compared it to raping her, a sort of mind-rape, and it disturbed him. Others too as you can see the reactions on their faces and it wasn't acting.

    • @lancebakore497
      @lancebakore497 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      That quote from Nimoy always stuck with me when I rewatched this. Not only did it prove how far Captain Spock was willing to go when desperate, but the horrified looks of his long time friends explains very well how horrifying this is and that they had never seen this side of him (except Kirk when they went backwards in time to the frozen planet. He knows damn well what his best friend is capable of. He may have been uncomfortable bit not surprised).

    • @usedscar
      @usedscar 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah it is very uncomfortable, deeply so when you have followed the character awhile.

    • @Emper0rH0rde
      @Emper0rH0rde 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As deeply as Valeris' betrayal hurt Spock, it clearly *killed* him to have to do that to her.

    • @erikbjelke4411
      @erikbjelke4411 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The novelization adds a layer to it. It's depicted as pretty much a rape, but Spock is doing his best to be gentle, and Valeris recognizes this and mostly cooperates. They both hate that it's come to this, but their convictions won't allow them to totally surrender to the other.

    • @T.Florenz
      @T.Florenz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lancebakore497 the only time one of them has seen Spock do such a thing, it was his mirror version, dragging information out of McCoy. I can't imagine seeing that darkness manifest in our Spock was anything less than horrifying for him 💔

  • @jaydigshistory36
    @jaydigshistory36 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    “Is it possible the we two, you and I, have grown so old and so inflexible, we have outlived our usefulness?”
    After 30 years working an ambulance this statement resonates with me.

    • @BlargeMan
      @BlargeMan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Age and guile beat youth and enthusiasm any day. You've got wisdom and experience that you must pass on, you're not useless by a long shot.

  • @Vulcanerd
    @Vulcanerd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    Others have already mentioned this, but it tickles my heart to see Cassie immediately recognize Romulan Ale or immediately suspect General Chang, remembering that a cloaked Klingon ship couldn't fire cloaked.

    • @paulmichaelfreedman8334
      @paulmichaelfreedman8334 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      About that. My version of this movie:
      Chang: "Do you hear me Kirk?"
      Kirk: "Lock onto the source of that audio transmission and fire!"
      Roll credits

  • @Emilysbrother1
    @Emilysbrother1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    I LOVE that you know the rules! "They can't fire when cloaked!"
    If you haven't added "Relics" to your list of TNG episodes, add it. You'll love it.
    Actors:
    Gorkon, the Chancellor, was the Earth Ambassador in Star Trek V, and Dillinger/Sark in the original Tron, and he shows up in TNG.
    Kirk's attorney plays Worf on TNG.
    Cartwright was in Star Trek IV in the Federation HQ, it was a smart move to bring him back. He shows up on DS9 as Sisko's father.
    The officer who wakes up Captain Sulu is Christian Slater, he's a big Trek fan and his mom was the casting director for this movie. Couldn't tell from this cut if you recognized him or not.
    The one-eyed Klingon warden is a character actor named William Morgan Sheppard, his son played Badger on Friefly.

    • @adalwolf8328
      @adalwolf8328 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Makes you wonder how Klingons never figured out to replicate this "cloak-firing" technology. It was briefly mentioned somewhere that it was a flaw in their power generation, but that's a bit vague.

    • @geoffreyreuther5260
      @geoffreyreuther5260 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Add to the list:
      The President of the Federation - Kurtwood Smith, who also played Annorax in ST: Voyager a few years later, and was known for being Red Forman on That 70's Show and Clafrence Boddicker in Robocop.
      Also, W. Morgan Sheppard will show up again in Star Trek (2009) as one of the Ministers of the Vulcan Science Academy. He also played Gen. Isaac Trimble in Gettysburg, as well as being the narrator.

    • @Emilysbrother1
      @Emilysbrother1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@adalwolf8328 You could chalk it down to the Federation knowing how to look for it, and maybe the original plan being lost or destroyed since it was developed in secret.

    • @ObriensKayak
      @ObriensKayak 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Relics is a great call I also hope you watch it

    • @Desmond9100
      @Desmond9100 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@geoffreyreuther5260 Sheppard is also in one episode of Star Trek Voyager and in a few Medal of Honor games.

  • @timesthree5757
    @timesthree5757 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    One thing you need to remember is that in the other movies the Enterprise was a training vessel, under maned, or heavy battle damage. This is the only tos movie in which the Enterprise was repaired and ship shape, fully crewed and ready for duty. She took the hits, dished it out ten fold. Constitution class was feared in her prime.

  • @AndrewKendall71
    @AndrewKendall71 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    I love that Yeoman Rand from TOS became transporter chief on the updated Enterprise in the first movie, and is now Sulu's chief communications officer. She's got an obviously great career story. I love this film for its complexity and mystery and acting. And it's one of my favorite lines in a ST story - "If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it." Applicable. Oh, and Kirk quoting from Peter Pan, "Second star to the right...and straight on till morning."

    • @logicplague
      @logicplague 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I saw a fan edit on here a while back of the Spacedock escape scene from Star Trek III. The edit showed that as they were trying to get out, Scotty didn't actually get the door hacked in time, and it was in fact Rand who opened the doors for them. Since she had a brief cameo on the Spacedock, I thought it was a REALLY neat idea, and it is now canon in my mind.

    • @hyzenthlay7151
      @hyzenthlay7151 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      She was pushed out of TOS due to a scandle with an executive sexually assaulting her. Nimoy and Shatner saw what happened as totally unfair and had her appearance in TMP as a part of their conditions to do the movie. From there she cor a quick cameo in TSFS and TVH, here she got a larger role that later served to her appearing in a Voyager episode. Seeing Janice Rand appear in different places feels like seeing a lower decks crew member slowly rising through the ranks, and I love how the cast stood up for Grace Lee Whitney.

    • @charleshays5407
      @charleshays5407 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      George Takei and Grace Lee Whitney reprised their roles on an episode of Voyager.

  • @ArchibaldMisery
    @ArchibaldMisery 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    “Second Star to the right, and straight on till morning” is the directions to Neverland

    • @Drawkcabi
      @Drawkcabi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah and was it a coincidence when this movie came out during the same month that Hook did?

    • @logicplague
      @logicplague 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      he-hee..

  • @glamourweaver
    @glamourweaver 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Kirk changing it from “no man” to “no one” at the end is a nice touch as it marks the exact point of historic transition from the TOS, 23rd Century, Cold War with the Klingons era, to the TNG, 24th century, peace with the Klingons era - with the change between the wording of the two openings.

  • @maestro80smusic93
    @maestro80smusic93 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

    The Klingons were always the "Russians" in the Star Trek universe. In real life when this movie was made, the Cold War was ending, the Berlin Wall had just come down... The explosion of Praxis was the Klingon version of Chernobyl... Tiberius was established as Kirk's middle name in an episode of the Animated Series (unofficially Season 4) from 1974....

    • @TrekBeatTK
      @TrekBeatTK 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      And Uhura was scripted to say “would you want your daughter to marry one?” But Nichelle refused to say it.

    • @RabidTribble
      @RabidTribble 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      If the Klingons were the Russians, were the Romulans the Chinese? 😉

    • @brauliob
      @brauliob 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@TrekBeatTK They did get Chekov to say, "Guess who's coming to dinner." A 1967 movie about an interracial couple and the difficulties their families have with that.

    • @fakecubed
      @fakecubed 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@RabidTribble Yes. Although their aesthetics were based on Rome.

    • @jblitzen
      @jblitzen 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It's definitely about the end of the cold war and the idea of confronting new beginnings. Which should date it, but it doesn't. Every day we confront new beginnings. The movie successfully leverages its entire franchise to talk about something core to the human experience. It's magical. Hollywood hasn't made anything like this in 20 years.

  • @Ambaryerno
    @Ambaryerno 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

    This was the first Star Trek film I actually got to see in theaters. It was SUCH a huge deal at the time, as it was the last time the original cast would be together. It also marks the end of an era in the Star Trek Universe: The film sees the end of the Cold War between the Federation and Klingon Empire, laying the foundations for what will in time become an alliance, as a metaphor for the end of the real world Cold War (the Berlin Wall came down two years before this film released).
    Sulu gaining command is the end of a long character arc that was originally to be set up in Wrath of Khan; Dialogue cut from the film would have revealed Sulu was to receive command of Excelsior following the training mission. Takei has long blamed Shatner for delaying Sulu getting his command (Takei and Shatner...don't get along. Or rather, Takei doesn't get along and Shatner couldn't care less) however it honesty makes complete sense given the timeline and events of II - V (Khan, his part in Kirk's mutiny, his exile on Vulcan, and the Nimbus III situation all packed into at most about 6-9 months). However, approximately 7-8 years have passed between TFF and TUC, so there's finally enough of a gap for Sulu's promotion to fit.
    Excelsior's communications and executive officer is Janice Rand, played by a returning Grace Lee Whitney. Whitney reprised her role as Rand from the original series in TMP and The Voyage Home. She also cameoed in Search for Spock (she's the redheaded woman who shakes her head when Enterprise arrives in space dock. Her character wasn't named, even in the credits, but fans like to say it was Rand, especially because that familiar smirk she gives on seeing Enterprise's condition would be completely fitting to her character.
    Praxis is an allegory for the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, which occurred under similar circumstances (gross negligence, poor maintenance, etc.) and was a major contributing factor to the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.
    The entire reason Kirk was put forward for this assignment was precisely BECAUSE the Klingons didn't like him. The intended message is that if even someone like Kirk is behind peace, it would be symbolic of the Federation's earnestness. Shatner hated Kirk's "let them die," so threw in a sort of physical backtrack to show that he was ashamed of it. Most of it got cut, but there's still a bit of it in the hesitation while he gathered his thoughts.
    The character of Valeris was originally to be Saavik, and Meyer wanted Alley to reprise her role. Roddenberry was vehement in his insistence that Saavik would never betray the crew, and the resulting conflict between him and Meyer on the matter pretty much destroyed their working relationship until Roddenberry's death before the film released. It ended up being a non-issue because Alley had priced herself way out of their budget, and Meyer had no interest in bringing back Robin Curtis. So when Cattrall was cast, they ultimately decided to make a new character rather than have a THIRD actress play Saavik. There's a few elements of Saavik left, such as being Spock's protege, and while it WOULD have given the betrayal more impact, I frankly have to agree with Roddenberry: Saavik betraying Spock and the rest of the crew would have been completely out of character from what we saw of her in her previous appearances. Also, Saavik is an INCREDIBLY popular character, and her being the traitor wouldn't have been much different than if it had been Chekov or Scotty. Fans would have been LIVID.
    Merrit Buttrick (David) passed away in 1989 from AIDS-related complications, which adds a bit of extra poignancy to his photo.
    Chekov's comment "Guess who's coming to dinner" is a reference to the 1967 film of the same name. In the original script it was Uhura who had the line, but Nichelle Nichols objected, given the racial overtones of the film being referenced (in which Sidney Poirtier plays a black man dating a white woman, which in 1967 was a HUGE deal).
    This is the second of three appearances in Star Trek for David Warner. You previously saw him with a lot less makeup as Ambassador St. John Talbot in Star Trek V. His third role would come in an episode of TNG the following year. You probably would also recognize him as Dillinger/Sark/the MCP from Tron.
    Incidentally, Hamlet's soliloquy HAS been translated into Klingon (in fact, I believe the entire play has been). There's a video of it on TH-cam.
    Neutron radiation is an indication of weapons powering up (this is made clearer in the novelization).
    Kirk and McCoy's lawyer is played by Michael Dorn, and was created as a deliberate connection to the character he plays in TNG as part of the principle cast as Lt Worf, the first Klingon in Starfleet. Colonel Worf is Lt. Worf's grandfather. As another fun aside, the actor who played Klaa in Star Trek V plays the court translator here. It's popular fanon that after Klaa's attack on Enterprise, he got relieved of his command and dumped into this job.
    Apparently, Spock's ancestor is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. "If you eliminate the impossible..." is a direct quote of Sherlock Holmes (from The Sign Of Four, to be exact). Star Trek writers LOVED Holmes.
    I don't like the galley scene. Chekov is generally depicted as Enterprise's head of security, which means HE SHOULD KNOW about that alarm and wouldn't need to have it demonstrated by a Jay Gee straight out of the Academy.
    Christian Slater's cameo got a lot of cheers in the theater. He was one of the "Next Big Things" in the mid and late-80s, so having him appear even in that one scene garnered attention. He's a HUGE Star Trek fan, and his mother actually worked on the film as the casting director, so got him in.
    If you pay close attention, you can actually see Spock stick the patch Kirk mentions on his back before he leaves the bridge, and it's present in the courtroom scenes.
    The border crossing scene was another choice made for the film that Nichols disliked because it made Uhura (the head of the ship's communications department would be EXPECTED to be multilingual) look bad, but this time Meyer overrode her objections because he insisted on having a scene with real books. The border guard's response was basically a smuggler's code telling them not to be caught by the authorities.
    Kim Cattrall deliberately shaved her sideburns because it's such an unusual hairstyle it makes her look SLIGHTLY off, as a hint of Valeris's true nature. Also, Eris is the Greek goddess of strife and discord, so even her name was chosen to foreshadow her part in the conspiracy.
    The final battle is spectacular, but it also makes Kirk look INCREDIBLY incompetent. He knew he had to face Chang to reach the planet, but shows no indication of having planned for how to deal with him. Especially egregious because Kirk is a master starship tactition, and has fought cloaked ships before (in short: saturate space where Chang's torpedoes are coming from with phaser fire).
    The Federation President is played by Kurtwood Smith, AKA Red Forman. Smith was yet another actor who played multiple roles across the Star Trek franchise.
    In the original script, it was Excelsior that rigged the seeker torpedo. If you remember in the opening, Sulu's log states they were doing EXACTLY what Uhura said: Cataloguing gaseous anomalies. So it made sense for Excelsior to have that equipment. However Shatner insisted that Enterprise be able to save herself in her final mission. And even if it's a bit of a plothole (Enterprise had no reason to have the equipment aboard) Shatner IMO was RIGHT.
    Kirk's delivery of the order to fire is EPIC. Under the best of circumstances, a Bird of Prey of that class would be hopelessly outmatched by ONE Federation cruiser (Chang only did as well as he did because the script kept Kirk from using actual combat tactics). Against two she's well and truly @#$%ed.
    It's hinted at several times throughout the film, but the Federation President is actually blind. His glasses are a primitive form of a technology you'll see Geordi LaForge wear in TNG. This is why he's looking around wildly when Kirk's calling his name, because he can't locate who's calling him
    There's a deleted subplot restored in the Director's cut involving a Federation officer named West (played by DS9's late Rene Auberjonois) who's part of the conspiracy. The ending would reveal that the Klingon gunman who tried to assassinate the President was actually West in disguise, with Colonel Worf realizing the dead assassin wasn't bleeding Klingon blood before the reveal.
    The change "Where no man...where no ONE...has gone before" was the final bridge in this film between TOS and TNG. TNG first updated the opening narration to use "where no one has gone before."
    This was the last time the entire original cast appeared in a production. Although some of the cast would reprise their roles later in the franchise, you never got to see all of them together again.

    • @StayFractalesque
      @StayFractalesque 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Bruh.. no TLDR?

    • @anthonybranch4712
      @anthonybranch4712 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      I've been a Trek fan for the vast majority of my 63 years. And while I already knew a number of these facts, there were QUITE A FEW that I've never heard before.
      Thank you sincerely, for putting this out there.

    • @Pajalfonso
      @Pajalfonso 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Amazing read, thanks for taking the time to write this 😊

    • @1RedHyena
      @1RedHyena 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yo! What a great and informative comment. Sincerest thanks for real. Great stuff.

  • @simonelgie
    @simonelgie 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Spotting the name Tiberius.... No one knew what the 'T' stood for, until it was given in this send off. One of the last unanswered questions of the original crew.

  • @Chiller0871
    @Chiller0871 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    " ✌Space peace, everybody! ✌" 🤣
    You'd be the best movie night friend ever.

  • @edl653
    @edl653 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +142

    The Klingon lawyer defending Kirk is Michael Dorn. He will be very popular Klingon in the TNG.

    • @subspace666
      @subspace666 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      kinda wierd they didn't change his name for TNG though , he was named worf in the movie aswell.

    • @ortizmo
      @ortizmo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Dorn is every bit iconic in Trek as Shatner and Nimoy now.

    • @SengirIndustries
      @SengirIndustries 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      ​@@subspace666 Colonel Worf is TNG Worf's grandfather, he is named after him

    • @Drawkcabi
      @Drawkcabi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      He was playing the grandfather of his TNG character. Worf was named after him.
      Also, TNG had been on for 5 years when this movie came out.

    • @AgentScooterX
      @AgentScooterX 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Is Col Worf Mog's father?

  • @essexexile
    @essexexile 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I saw this in the cinema when I was 8 years old. I’ve been a Trekkie since I was 6 I’m now 41. This is still one of the best send offs.

  • @martinbraun1211
    @martinbraun1211 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +229

    A great farewell to the original STAR TREK cast! 🖖

    • @TheBlackB0X
      @TheBlackB0X 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Not yet...

    • @squirrelsinjacket1804
      @squirrelsinjacket1804 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@TheBlackB0X Yea Generations is next but... meh

    • @TheBlackB0X
      @TheBlackB0X 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@squirrelsinjacket1804 Yeah, but , I will take what I can get, besides, even that's not the end either, given the guest spots on TNG

    • @jbwade5676
      @jbwade5676 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Star trek generations ❤

    • @jjjones8609
      @jjjones8609 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As someone said don’t forget the original cast on the next generation series.

  • @michaelanderson7288
    @michaelanderson7288 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    "Sexy alien" is an understatement. The shape-shifter was played by Iman, a Somali-American supermodel who was married to David Bowie from 1992 until his death in 2016.

  • @Kesedrith
    @Kesedrith 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    One of my favorite lines ever: "Target that explosion and FIRE!"

    • @richardadams4928
      @richardadams4928 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Can't help it, even after so many watchings down through the years, I still fist pump and exclaim, "YES!!!" EVERY time....

  • @kevinpogue7294
    @kevinpogue7294 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    I worked on this movie, making props at Greg Jein's shop in Marina Del Rey. I have a lot of fond memories of those times.

    • @DiogoVincenzi
      @DiogoVincenzi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sir, I thank your for the work you've done. I'm currently working on the assets to redo that sequence of the Enterprise and the Excelsior destroying the Bird of Prey, as a homage. Hopefully in the next few months I'll have it ready. This is my favorite Trek movie by far.

    • @thealexanderllanos
      @thealexanderllanos 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Really? Nice. We could play 6 degrees of separation together. I've worked with Gary Hutzel and Ron Thornton on the vfx side of productions. All legends, sadly no longer here.

    • @jamesbeach7405
      @jamesbeach7405 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@thealexanderllanosGary Hutzel died?

  • @geraldnormandeau4144
    @geraldnormandeau4144 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    Fun fact. The speech by the prison commander when they get to the prison is lifted from the prison commander's speech in Bridge On The River Kwai.

    • @weldonwin
      @weldonwin 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Additional Fun Fact: The explosion of Praxis and the Klingons refusing aid, saying there was an "Incident" but everything was under control, is a direct reference to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, when the Soviet Union refused to tell anyone that one of the nuclear power plants had exploded and refused to admit anything had happened until a Swedish powerplant I think, detected the radioactive fallout spreading from the blast sight.

    • @seventhson2151
      @seventhson2151 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Additional Fun Fact: Obi-Wan Kenobi was the officer-prisoner in that scene

    • @purplepothos5794
      @purplepothos5794 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@seventhson2151 Additional fun fact: Chang's "don't wait for the translation" was a reference to, and directly lifted, from US Ambassador Stevenson's question put to the Soviet ambassador in a UN session as to whether they had put missiles in Cuba.

    • @les4767
      @les4767 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Also the penal colony of Rura Pente was the name of the penal colony Captain Nemo escaped from in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."

    • @Johnny_Socko
      @Johnny_Socko 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@purplepothos5794 That was my favorite, but I love how many political and diplomatic references there are in this movie. "Only Nixon can go to China."

  • @noirangel6416
    @noirangel6416 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    17:00
    Fun fact: The quote "Dont wait for the translation answer me now!" is taken from Adlai Stevenson II questioning Russian ambassador Valerian Zorin durring the Cuban Missle Crisis.

    • @Fushichou1978
      @Fushichou1978 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      TOS-era Trek had always used the Klingons as a metaphor for the Soviets, with the Federation as a stand-in for the US, in a Cold War in Space scenario. With the end of the Cold War around the time this movie was made, and writing an equivalent end to the Federation-Klingon Cold War seeming timely (especially since TNG had already established that decades ahead in the in-universe future said war would long be over) they deeply dived into Cold War quotes, references, and metaphors for this movie.
      Supposedly the destruction of Praxis was meant to be an analogy for the Chernobyl meltdown, and making the Klingon prison camp of Rura Penthe essentially a Siberian Gulag in space was no accident.

    • @BarryHart-xo1oy
      @BarryHart-xo1oy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Good to know.

    • @shawnkildal3151
      @shawnkildal3151 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It was used in the movie Thirteen Days

  • @namco003
    @namco003 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    Hi Cassie!! Not sure if you noticed, Kirk and McCoys LAWYER in the trial was played by Michael Dorn, who plays Commander Worf in TNG. I was told he is playing the grandfather, or great grandfather of Worf.

    • @N0-1_H3r3
      @N0-1_H3r3 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      This is true. And, as Klingons are big on family names, Michael Dorn's character here is also called Worf, suggesting that the Worf we see in TNG is named after his grandfather.

    • @sluglife9785
      @sluglife9785 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She's not seen TNG yet, has she?

    • @cypher515
      @cypher515 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No she has not, ​@@sluglife9785 . Mentally I'm thinking of what episodes she most needs to see other than s3e26, s4e1 and s4e2. Because she certainly needs to see all three in a row for Generations and First Contact.

    • @tru3sk1ll
      @tru3sk1ll 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She's not quite up to TNG yet, but it's a really slim reference, she may forget by the time she watches it

    • @gfox9295
      @gfox9295 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sluglife9785 She will soon!

  • @gardener68
    @gardener68 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    The Federation President was played by Kurtwood Smith, who also played Red Foreman on That 70s Show and, more famously for nerds, the deliciously villainous Clarence Boddicker in Robocop!

    • @bonghunezhou5051
      @bonghunezhou5051 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Annorax on Year of Hell, Parts 1 & 2 📺

    • @ahad2k11
      @ahad2k11 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh my God that's Clarence!!

    • @tru3sk1ll
      @tru3sk1ll 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Until this very reaction I never knew any of that

  • @Damen178
    @Damen178 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    "If there is to be a brave new world, our generation will have the hardest time living in it."
    One of the most pointed lines I've ever heard and the older I get, the more it starts to hit home.

  • @serwinzzalot9989
    @serwinzzalot9989 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    That Christain Slater cameo was a big moment back then. It was like having the cool kid heartthrob eat at lunch with the nerds.

    • @michaelanderson7288
      @michaelanderson7288 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Speaking of which, I hope she reacts to "Heathers" and "Pump Up the Volume" in the future.

    • @StayFractalesque
      @StayFractalesque 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Love that man.. yall seen Mr Robot?

    • @Ambaryerno
      @Ambaryerno 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Except that cool kid is "One of us." Slater wanted to be in it because he's a HUGE Trekkie.
      Kind of like how Vin Diesel and Joe Manganiello are massive DnD nerds (if they don't find a way to get them into the DnD movie sequel if it ever gets made I will be incredibly disappointed).

    • @Psilocybin77
      @Psilocybin77 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I love Christian Slater, Always have...always will.

    • @michaelmiller378
      @michaelmiller378 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wish they had chosen him to follow Charlie Sheen on 2.5 men@@Psilocybin77

  • @gypsylights9518
    @gypsylights9518 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    "Second star to the right and straight on till morning" was the directions to Neverland in
    'Peter Pan". The actor who played Admiral Cartwright {Brock Peters) played Tom Robinson in the classic movie "To Kill a Mockingbird"

    • @jamesalexander5623
      @jamesalexander5623 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      .... And Heston's Captain in :"Soylent Green"!

    • @grishnakh0305
      @grishnakh0305 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ...... And Joseph Sisko, father of Captain Benjamin Sisko in ST: DS9

    • @peteryang5056
      @peteryang5056 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@grishnakh0305It always feels a little weird to me coming back to this film and seeing Peters play the cynical Admiral Cartwright. I keep expecting him to soften and start cooking jambalaya while delivering a heartfelt monologue about the ideals we fight for. 😂

    • @StayFractalesque
      @StayFractalesque 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@peteryang5056..lmao.. good one

    • @Firespray421
      @Firespray421 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And he was also the voice of Darth Vader in the NPR radio dramatization of the original Star Wars trilogy. I highly recommend those. They are like extended versions of the OT

  • @OneAndOnlyMe
    @OneAndOnlyMe 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Sulu shouting, "Fly her apart then!" is one of the best moments in Star Trek history.

  • @whiskyandpoetry
    @whiskyandpoetry 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    It was a joy to see you experience that. You really get Star Trek the way it is meant to be. Us life long Trekkies are always overjoyed to welcome others into the fold.

  • @TheBS1000
    @TheBS1000 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    For some unknown reason, Undiscovered Country has always been my favorite from the original films. It feels like a Cold War thriller and I love it.

    • @orthochronicity6428
      @orthochronicity6428 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      It's been recognized as paralleling thawing relations between the USSR and USA, with Praxis being an analogue for Chernobyl. "The end of history" that Kirk rebukes at the end was commonly flung around in US politics around the dissolution of the USSR by many that saw that event as the ultimate victory of the cold war while not wanting peace to commence.

    • @christopherplummer1299
      @christopherplummer1299 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      When you consider the time this came out. With the collapse of the USSR and the end of the cold war happening it strongly mirrors cold war politics at that time. It's just too bad we didn't follow through on our promises and normalize our relations with Russia, as represented in this movie.

    • @furtherback6131
      @furtherback6131 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      For some unknown reason? Maybe because it's an incredibly well-made movie? lol

    • @ChristiansPlaymo-Ecke
      @ChristiansPlaymo-Ecke 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@orthochronicity6428 It as literally advertised as mirrorinig the political downfall of the USSR back then. Was the first Star Trek Movie I got to watch in cinema ...

    • @SinginRabbit
      @SinginRabbit 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That was the exact intent.

  • @ruatonim
    @ruatonim 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    These movies and TOS will always have a special place for me. I was born the year The Motion Picture came out, grew up to TOS on TV on one of our few stations and saw IV-VI in the theater when they released. Knowing this is their final voyage as a crew will always bring a tear. Cheers.

  • @SirHilaryManfat
    @SirHilaryManfat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    I don't know about anyone else, but for me this movie encapsulates what made the original Star Trek series, and Star Trek in general, so good. It may not be cinematically as impressive as the previous movies, but as a Star Trek story it's one of the greatest.

    • @Typhis19
      @Typhis19 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      As quick as the final shot of Enterprise and Excelsior blowing up the BoP is, let's not forget, it was the explosion so nice, they used it twice! lol.

  • @Jimmer93
    @Jimmer93 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Undiscovered Country is hands down one of my favourite Trek movies! I find it tends to be rather underrated.
    Beautiful send off for the OG cast.

    • @R1ddic
      @R1ddic 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same. II and VI reign supreme for me. I'm thinking the key may be well written villains.

  • @AlanCanon2222
    @AlanCanon2222 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    "Look at these silver foxes!" Look at Cassie, zero to hardened Trekkie in a matter of months. Enjoying these reactions so much.
    30:05 "I do not remember" is a sly reference to former US President Ronald Reagan's 1990 testimony in the Iran-Contra affair, in which the Reagan administration illegally sold weapons to Iran in order to fund terrorists in Nicaragua.

  • @thomasdoscher6555
    @thomasdoscher6555 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Valeris's whole arc makes more sense when you understand that, originally, she was supposed to be Saavik returning for a third movie. But since they didn't want to recast the character again, they went with a whole new Vulcan. Though it's not said in ST3 the movie, the novel and background reveal that Saavik and David Marcus were in a relationship while on USS Grissom. David's death was her motivation for joining the conspiracy. During the interrogation when Valeris says she doesn't remember, Spock asks "A lie?" And she says "A choice." This was a callback to ST2 when Saavik says to Spock, "You lied," and he replies, "I exaggerated." The betrayal and anguish you see in Spock and Kirk were supposed to be for a character who had, essentially, been part of the crew for a long time, and not a random newbie Kirk had just met. I wish they had just gone with her being Saavik as that would have had much more of an emotional punch.

    • @Daveyboy100880
      @Daveyboy100880 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And to be honest, Cattrall almost plays the character like she’s half-Vulcan, half-Romulan, as Saavik was originally supposed to be. And just imagine if they’d also kept the discarded storyline that Saavik had Spock’s child (after he Pon Farred her brains out on Genesis)!

    • @thealexanderllanos
      @thealexanderllanos 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Actually glad it didn't work out that way. Makes perfect sense from a storytelling point, but I like Saavik, it would ruin return views of Wrath of Khan (for me).

    • @thisspaceforrent5737
      @thisspaceforrent5737 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      There was also the fact that Saavik had become a popular character not only through the movies, but in related novels and comics that came out in the years between ST2 and this movie. Making her the traitor at this point would have upset a lot of fans.

    • @logicplague
      @logicplague 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      They were afraid of doing that to such a beloved character, but you're not wrong, the emotional impact would have been intense.

    • @jamesbeach7405
      @jamesbeach7405 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Also there's the idea Saavik and Spock had a child together

  • @Deukish
    @Deukish 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    A few things. Chancellor Gorkon was played by David Warner, you saw him in the last film as the Federation representative on Nimbus III, you also saw him in Tron as Dillinger/Sark/MCP. Kirk and Bones' Klingon defense attorney was played by Michael Dorn, who you'll see as one of the main characters, Worf, in The Next Generation, and was meant to be an ancestor of his. Admiral Cartwright was played by Brock Peters, who would have a later role in DS9 as Commander/Captain Sisko's father. And finally we have Colonel West, who was unfortunately removed from the theatrical cut. We first see him earlier in the film giving a briefing to the president (who is not a Klingon, he's an Efrosian, they just look similar), and at the end its revealed that he was actually the Klingon sniper (they cut his mask being pulled off). He was played by Rene Auberjonois, who would later become one of the main characters, Odo, on DS9.

    • @B.Norton
      @B.Norton 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Michael Dorn is playing his great grandfather who is a klingon attorney.

    • @JayM409
      @JayM409 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Rene Auberjonois also played Father John MulCahy in the movie M*A*S*H.

    • @LordNelsonkm
      @LordNelsonkm 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      David Warner also is the Evil Genius from Time Bandits which Cassie totally needs to watch.

    • @darrelllane796
      @darrelllane796 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      David Warner is Jack the Ripper in Time After Time and a reporter in the original Omen movie.

  • @txheadshots
    @txheadshots 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Fun trivia moment for "Second Star to the Right" at the end...
    Star Trek VI was originally slated to come out the same weekend as another holiday blockbuster: Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman in Hook and the line was added as a nod to that movie. (The studios shuffled dates around vying for top box office weekends and they ended up not being released at the same time after all... and Hook did not perform as well as expected)

    • @jeremyneilsen1263
      @jeremyneilsen1263 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      for me both awesome movies and was an incredible end to star trek VI, such a perfect line to end it... neverland, not wanting to grow up, not wanting to face reality... Kirk not wanting to let the adventure die. IMO perfect ending

  • @vinnynj78
    @vinnynj78 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    "Only Nixon could go to China". Even as a kid I thought that was hilarious. Watching this in an old duplex theater in Wrightstown, NJ was an experience that I will always remember. Kirk's "Fire!" is still the greatest single shot in all of Star Trek and when that torpedo [spoilers censored] I was ready to jump out of my seat.

    • @davidlarsen-tj4tn
      @davidlarsen-tj4tn 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Couldn’t agree more about the “fire” shot. When it comes on cable now I rewind it at least 5 times every time.

  • @HistoryNerd8765
    @HistoryNerd8765 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    A lot of people prefer Wrath of Khan, but The Undiscovered Country is absolutely classic American Science Fiction. It's my favorite Star Trek movie ever.

    • @Xardion55
      @Xardion55 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This one is the first one I watched in the movies as a kid. Always a blast.

    • @indiajohnson
      @indiajohnson 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Ditto

    • @HistoryNerd8765
      @HistoryNerd8765 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Xardion55 Me too. I love it.

  • @BillKrayer12thMan
    @BillKrayer12thMan หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Fun fact: Christian Slater is a HUGE Trekkie and *begged* to be in a movie so they gave him a cameo as the crewman that woke Sulu up with the message from Starfleet 😁 His favorite TNG episode is "Tapestry".

  • @Googerstein
    @Googerstein 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    Hand over heart here... I've GENUINELY been looking forward to you watching ST VI. I am delighted and relieved you enjoyed it so much! I'd be honored to be allowed to submit my TNG episode recommendations!

    • @ASKMEABOUTMYGARDEN
      @ASKMEABOUTMYGARDEN 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      She should watch the TV show before the generations movie.

    • @highstimulation2497
      @highstimulation2497 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      absolutely.

  • @jhilal2385
    @jhilal2385 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    The officer who woke up Captain Sulu was played by Christian Slater
    The Federation President was played by Kurtwood Smith, whom you saw as Clarence Boddicker in "Robocop"
    Klingon Defense Attorney Worf was played by Michael Dorn, who was playing Lt. Worf in "Star Trek The Next Generation" when ST:VI was made
    Sulu's communications officer was Janice Rand (Kirk's yeoman) in the original TV series

    • @MrDeathpilot
      @MrDeathpilot 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Kurtwood Smith is probably better known as Red Foreman, Eric's dad in "That 70's Show".

    • @jhilal2385
      @jhilal2385 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@MrDeathpilot It is a generations thing. Gen X knows him as Clarence Boddicker. It is similar to Alan Rickman: adults know him as Hans Gruber (or the Sheriff of Nottingham), while kids know him as Harry Potter's dom daddy.

    • @krashd
      @krashd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jhilal2385 It's also a distribution thing, US movies are popular all over the world but US TV shows are not since countries will usually just remake a TV show for their own audience. If you showed a picture of Kurtwood to anyone outside the US they would be far more likely to know him from Robocop than That 70's Show.

    • @seantlewis376
      @seantlewis376 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Kurtwood Smith! The makeup was so good that I didn't recognize him. I should have listened to the voice.

    • @karter95
      @karter95 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Christian Slaters mom was the casting director he asked if he could have a small role in the movie he had wanted to play in Star Trek. It's rumored he never cashed his paycheck and framed it

  • @byronclark7652
    @byronclark7652 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    My favorite old Vulcan proverb:
    "Only Nixon could go to China."
    Truly words to remember.

    • @nuanil
      @nuanil 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      But have you heard it in the original Klingon?

  • @Vulcanerd
    @Vulcanerd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Cassie:
    They need seatbelts!
    70 minutes later...
    They really do need seatbelts!!
    Don't ever change, Cassie 🤣❤

  • @4thDan
    @4thDan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    I met and acted on stage with W. Morgan Shepherd, the gentleman who played the one-eyed jailer on Rura-Pente. He was a delightful man, and I’m glad to have met him years before he passed!

    • @StayFractalesque
      @StayFractalesque 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That's nifty!

    • @nbartlett6538
      @nbartlett6538 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Cool! He was also on Babylon 5, playing a couple of different roles in alien costume.

    • @Theomite
      @Theomite 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You lucky bastard.

    • @seventhson2151
      @seventhson2151 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      He also played Data's "Grandpa"

    • @rowansjet
      @rowansjet 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      And is Mark Shepherd's dad

  • @kris6071
    @kris6071 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Theres an old Vulcan proverb.... only Nixon could go to China"
    I had the privilege of seeing this in theaters when it first came out. Granted I was only 12 at the time but I got the reference and made me giggle for Spock using it like that.
    Complete gold.

  • @jacksonconley5117
    @jacksonconley5117 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +89

    Fun Fact: The explosion of Praxis was based on the Chernobyl Incident and this movie is based on the collapse of the Soviet Union.

    • @iamgermane
      @iamgermane 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Clicks just because she is a chick.

  • @rneelymedia9152
    @rneelymedia9152 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Cliff Eidelman (composer) was a newbie to film scoring. He was only 27 when he was offered to scored the film- but he had done his senior thesis on Holst’s ‘The Planets’ which is the style of music the film director wanted (if you listen to the main title music, it has a musical structure very similar to ‘Mars: Bringer of War’)

    • @StayFractalesque
      @StayFractalesque 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      John Williams' greatest influence when it came to composing for Star Wars

    • @rneelymedia9152
      @rneelymedia9152 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yep

    • @Ambaryerno
      @Ambaryerno 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Nick Meyer didn't want the style of The Planets, he wanted to actually USE The Planets, but they couldn't afford the licensing.

    • @rneelymedia9152
      @rneelymedia9152 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      did not read that. Interesting.@@Ambaryerno

  • @SinginRabbit
    @SinginRabbit 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The good news is, you don't have to say goodbye. You can do like I do and rewatch them all the time.

  • @Stogie2112
    @Stogie2112 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Sulu: "Raise shields! Fasten seat belts!!"
    Bridge crew: "Huh?"

    • @francescathomas3502
      @francescathomas3502 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      LOL I love the way Cassie keeps going about Seatbelts!!

    • @Ambaryerno
      @Ambaryerno 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Seat belts and fuses.

  • @idea2go
    @idea2go 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +102

    ​Christopher Plummer had so much fun with this role!

    • @rockyroadproductions4016
      @rockyroadproductions4016 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Christopher Plummer’s daughter plays one of the villains in season three of Star Trek Picard

    • @davidknight2104
      @davidknight2104 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      "Cry havoc!! And let slip the dogs of War!"
      r.i.p Christopher Plummer what a legend 👏🏼

    • @isaaccienega1057
      @isaaccienega1057 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      " To be or not to be"

    • @ortizmo
      @ortizmo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      So much fun in fact he returned to play Chang for the video game Star Trek: Klingon Academy. The video segments of his performance are all available on TH-cam.

    • @woodyeblom9063
      @woodyeblom9063 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Who's going to tell Cassie that Plummer is Canadian; she hates those guys.😄

  • @RossWrock
    @RossWrock 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Cassie, the Federation President (dude with the white hair and mustache) is Kurtwood Smith, better known as Red Forman, from That 70's Show.

    • @devonbradford2897
      @devonbradford2897 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And before that, Clarence Boddicker in Robocop (a previous PiB feature)

  • @jguzman1326
    @jguzman1326 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    This one is so hard to watch knowing its the end. Even the credits where it does their signatures makes me emotional. ST TOS was something dad and I watched when I was a kid together. We watched all of the movies in theaters. This is a lifetime of memories having grown up with this crew. You missed out because you get to just burn through them in a few sittings versus ruminating on each episode or movie until however long I took for the next one. Something gets lost there.
    Also, your channel is fantastic. I am truly enjoying rewatching my childhood through your innocent heart. Thank you so very much.

  • @ryanweiss7560
    @ryanweiss7560 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Congrats Cassie, you've become an actual Trekkie! The first six Trek movies, especially 2,3,4 and 6 are peak Star Trek for me. The stories, characters, acting, costuming and set design are at their peak in this movie. Sure, there is a lot of Star Trek material still for you to take a look at, and there are some great moments along the way, but in the 30+ years since this movie was released, they've never made anything quite like it.
    This movie is also really a product of what the contemporary world looked like at the end of the 80s and beginning of the 90s. Look at Praxis and Chernobyl, the worries of a hardline coup in the USSR, Kirk even uses the phrase "the end of history" when talking to the female chancellor at the end, which was the title of an incredibly influential (in the early 1990s at least) philosophy book by Francis Fukuyama discussing post-USSR world politics. I was just a kid then, but looking back now, this movie is more emblematic of that era than just about any other.

  • @SuperGrandmother3
    @SuperGrandmother3 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I was able to watch this movie at our local theater & to be in a room full of trekkies was awesome & watching the signature at the end was so cool. We laughed, cried, hugged each other. It was amazing.😍😍😍😍😍

  • @dazs390
    @dazs390 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I saw this one in the cinemas in 1992- sooooo loved it and was a great return to form after a in parts lackluster ST 5- loved the signatures signing off at the end & also you see the original crew basically up on stage been applauded by everyone as this would be the very last time you see all of them together

  • @jrod112278
    @jrod112278 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    My 2nd favorite Star Trek film (#1 being Khan) and an excellent send off for the original cast. Has one of my favorite lines that rings more true as I get older:
    "If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it."
    Glad you enjoyed.

  • @henry_crossley
    @henry_crossley 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I like how Sulu became captain of the Excelsior. He was impressed by the Excelsior when it was built in part 3. He was hoping everyone would be reassigned to the Excelsior in part 4. And now he is in charge of it.

    • @thomasjoychild4962
      @thomasjoychild4962 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's a shame we have so little of his and Rand's adventures with the Excelsior.

    • @logicplague
      @logicplague 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you go back and watch STII, when they're in the pod approaching Enterprise, there is a cut where you can tell Sulu is cut off mid-sentence. The entire scene is on TH-cam, it plays out like this.
      Sulu: "Any chance to go aboard Enterprise, however briefly, is always an excuse for nostalgia."
      Kirk: "You know Spock is Captain, you don't think I'm gonna turn anything up do you? By the end of the month, you'll have your own command, the USS Excelsior."
      McCoy: "Congratulations, Commander!"
      Sulu: "Thank you, sir. I've been looking forward to that for a long time."
      *then the movie picks up as you've seen
      Kirk: "Well, I for one am glad to have you at the helm for three weeks, I don't think these kids can steer."

  • @Razl07
    @Razl07 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Saw this in the theater as a kid. One of the best moviegoing experiences ever.

    • @ortizmo
      @ortizmo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Saw it opening night when I was 21 in Orange, CA. What an amazing night at the movies.

    • @k1productions87
      @k1productions87 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Unfortunately for me... it was one of the worst moviegoing experiences ever.
      1) the theater was so packed, they had to assign seats to everyone in line
      2) the theater had no stadium seating, so our seat at second row all the way to the right was a LITERAL pain in the neck
      3) ... I was 10 years old at the time, and I got scared from odd things. In this case... the floating Klingon blood. It traumatized me for the entire movie
      4) throughout the entire final battle, I knew the next torpedo hit was gonna kill Enterprise's gravity, and Klingons would beam aboard and start shooting, making more scary floating blood
      So... even though the entire theater was cheering when the Bird of Prey blew up (first time I ever saw a theater cheer), I couldn't enjoy the moment
      I was so traumatized that I hid away all my Star Trek stuff in the closet for several weeks.

    • @serwinzzalot9989
      @serwinzzalot9989 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same...my dad won tickets from a radio trivia contest..got some star trek 6 swag too...unfortunately the shirt didn't last

  • @hoodoowilliams5187
    @hoodoowilliams5187 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This will always be my favorite Star Trek movie. This was one of the best sendoffs for any series. Couldn't be happier with this film.

  • @Korrd
    @Korrd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This is where Star Trek really shines. Khan and Voyage Home are great, but Undiscovered Country has to be my favorite of the classic Treks. Politics, intrigue, character development, chemistry. As you said, a great send off. This is the best of Trek and everything that's missing from the Abram's movies, though I'm interested in your reaction to those films as well. Absolutely loved your reactions to the series and looking forward to the TNG era content! So many great episodes to choose from, I hope Patreon voters pick some amazing ones!

  • @williambryan3346
    @williambryan3346 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    @18:58 Spock’s human ancestor was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

    • @scott4092
      @scott4092 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I never thought of that. I thought he was making a joke, like the Vulcan proverb "Only Nixon could go to China." Interesting!

    • @harveylee51
      @harveylee51 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @williambryan3346 So in addition to being half Vulcan he is the descendant of the creator of SHERLOCK HOLMES Good God man what a legacy !! 😃 🔍

    • @richardzinns5676
      @richardzinns5676 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth," is Sherlock Holmes' favorite maxim, so Spock is claiming descent on his human side from Holmes. Nicholas Meyer, who co-wrote and directed this movie (as well as Star Trek II, for which he received screen credit only as director), had at this time already written 2 Sherlock Holmes novels, and has written 3 more since then.

    • @user-gv4cx7vz8t
      @user-gv4cx7vz8t 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@scott4092Poasibly not a joke. An idea like that would appeal to ironic logic of Vulcans. It's recognizable today after fifty years.

    • @josephwhite4489
      @josephwhite4489 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In the Star Trek novel 'Ishmael' [1985], Spock is transported back in time to the setting of the 1968-1970 tv series 'Here Comes The Brides...He loses his memory and is taken care of by the character Aaron Stempel. Spocks' presence there sets in motion a romance between Stempel and one of the 'brides'...they subsequently marry and become Spocks' great-great-great grandparents [ie. the ancestors of Amanda Grayson]. The actor that played Stempel in Here Comes The Brides is the same one who played Spocks' father, Sarek [Mark Lenard]. I don't know if this is considered canon, but it is an interesting easter egg, since we are discussing Spocks' human ancestry. Considering that the main star of Here Comes The Brides [Robert Brown] guest starred in the Star Trek episode 'The Alternative Factor', as Lazarus, it would have been uniquely interesting had Spock considered him 'a familiar face'. That said, there is also a 1996 comic depicting a crossover between Kirk & his crew and The X Men..LOL...quite positive this is not canon!! [Should Kirk have recognized Charles Xavier in The Nexus???]

  • @wickamo
    @wickamo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Yep, 2, 4, and 5 were my favorites too. Saw this in the theater on its opening day with a theater full of fans. We cried together at the end. When the signatures appeared on the screen it was a true signing off and goodbye. I didn't think there would ever be another StarTrek as good, but then The Next Generation came along and I loved that crew just as much. So I can't wait till you start that journey.

  • @karlsmith2570
    @karlsmith2570 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    6:46
    Interesting Fact about this scene, Cassie:
    Merrick Buttrick, the actor who played David, had died from an HIV-related illness, and Kirk placing his photo on his desk was basically paying tribute to Merrick

  • @dougwoody332
    @dougwoody332 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    This is my favorite Star Trek movie. " 'They are dying.' 'Let them die!' " my favorite lines in the franchise, although "What want is irrelevant. What you have chosen is at hand..." is right there as well.

  • @pjimmbojimmbo1990
    @pjimmbojimmbo1990 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Sulu's "Fly Her to Apart then". Delivered so well, it is my Favorite Line from the entire ST Franchise

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Also, Sulu and Kirk now as peers and equals.

    • @nightowl2003
      @nightowl2003 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I wish the editor had left in the moment Excelsior peels off and McCoy says "My God, that's a big ship!", to which Scotty replies "Not so big as her captain, I think."

    • @bartellender6782
      @bartellender6782 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      One of my favorite lines also.

    • @tru3sk1ll
      @tru3sk1ll 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Logical

    • @thomasjoychild4962
      @thomasjoychild4962 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nightowl2003 George Takei also disagreed with the removal. He does a great comedy bit at convention panels about how The Undiscovered Country is in fact a captain Sulu movie, comedy but also partly serious. :P

  • @johnkirk864
    @johnkirk864 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love your Trek reactions! I was just watching "Castaway"- which has a special place in my heart as it was the first date with my wife in 2003. A lot of meaning within the movie for me with this one. It's time!

  • @DannyD714
    @DannyD714 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    kirk's final line "where no man...where no one has gone before" was passing the baton to the next generation cast as "where no one has gone before" is how captain picard says it in the opening of TNG series. i love how each cast member got a close up (not seen in this video) in the last scene, only sulu was missing. it's said it had something to do with the tension between shatner and takei that sulu wasn't on board the enterprise for this final film. so much for peace in the universe.

  • @PensacolaOboist
    @PensacolaOboist 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    So glad I caught your premiere of this. Yeah, Trek VI is the best IMHO.
    One extra nerdy fact: Christian Slater was the officer talking to Sulu in his bed and apparently he's a HUGE Trekkie. Rumor has it he never cashed the "small" paycheck he got from playing that officer but framed it and that, when he got his Monster Marooon uniform, he was like a kid in a candy store playing with the shoulder strap. I saw it at the premiere in my city and, when the light showed Christian's face (I'm not making this up), every single high school girl and 20-something woman in the theater all gasped or went, "OOOOOHHHH!!!!" There may have been some dudes who made some noise but it was overwhelmingly soprano and alto voices. The point being that It was a really surprising cameo (and that the ladies really liked him then). So, for my people, that moment was like, "Wow! Star Trek is actually cool!" (in 1991... before Big Bang Theory and History Channel's "The Universe" came out). Ah the Gen-X days...
    Also, I gotta tip my hat to your detective skills. You had the bad guys pegged right away. Cheers!
    I was gonna give a list of TNG episodes to check out but it's way too long for a TH-cam comment. I'm sure your knowledgable Patreon followers will guide you well through that series. (Don't miss Q-Who and the Best of Both Worlds for sure... and Spock (yes, Nimoy's Spock) shows up in Unification... but you should watch Yesterday's Enterprise and Redemption before you watch Unification :-) )

    • @clarkbarrett6274
      @clarkbarrett6274 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yesterday's Enterprise is excellent and my favorite. I'm a TOS fan and never fully enjoyed TNG but some of the episodes are pretty solid.
      The First Duty is another one that's pretty good. It was actually used at the United States Military Academy to reinforce the Honor Code instruction.

    • @PensacolaOboist
      @PensacolaOboist 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@clarkbarrett6274 The First Duty is a good episode. I'd heard at another convention BTS chat that the original script for that episode had a WAY different ending! Supposedly Wesley was actually going to get in Picard's face and say something like "No Sir, the first duty is to protect your ass" but they scrapped it and gave Wesley a conscience.

  • @mjf9576
    @mjf9576 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    As a fan of Star Trek when you said they can't fire while cloaked I was really impressed. Shows you're paying attention.

  • @DouglasJohnson.
    @DouglasJohnson. 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Your enthusiasm and love for this crew is self evident. Don't listen to anyone who says different. You are a true fan, and you get Star Trek. Your reactions to the death and rebirth of Spock, and to the destruction of the original Enterprise, and so many other moments, completely echoed the sentiments of fans, who watched Star Trek their entire lives. I've really enjoyed watching you become a Star Trek fan and hope you beam back aboard, soon. 🖖Live long and prosper!