Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country isn't the best movie in the lineup of Star Trek: The Original Series movies
Is this engagement bait? TUC is almost always ranked first or second among ALL Trek films.
That struck me as strange too... I really like Star Trek VI
The movie wasn't that well-liked and wasn't the perfect send-off for the original crew of Star Trek
According to nobody, lmao
He was better in Babylon 5 anyway. He just felt like a Russian caricature in trek.
It was really refreshing to see him in a role that was villainous. It showed the depth he could pull off as an actor.
And he knows it, and he's grateful to have been able to give depth to Bester. He has said as much in interviews. As B5 fan, this makes me very happy.
I can see why Koenig wasn't really happy about his role. I can see why a lot of them weren't.
For Chekov, this isn't a good posting for him. He is still a commander, and worse is that he is only second officer. It makes sense why Kirk is on the Enterprise still, but not Chekov. Worse, Chekov doesn't really do that much. Functionally, Valeris seems to fill more of the role of second officer than Chekov does. Chekov's most remembered line was only said by him because Nichols refused to say it.
Both McCoy and Uhura display gross incompetence at their posts. McCoy has served as a doctor on the front line with Klingons around for decades; he should have been educated about their physiology. Uhura is even worse in not being able to speak Klingon; it is good that later versions of her character highlight her linguistic skills.
Unless Starfleet is testing out new technology, it really doesn't make sense that Scotty is the chief engineer of the Enterprise unless Starfleet is still pissed off about the Excelsior.
Even though the movie was partially written by Nimoy, it really doesn't make sense why Spock is still in Starfleet at this point at the rank of Captain. Either Spock should outrank Kirk since he is making Admiralty level decisions or already be in the diplomatic service as he is by the time of TNG.
Only Kirk makes sense. He is a washed up Captain; never able to make it to bad admiral status. He gets to keep his ship, but Starfleet seems to use him as a pawn in diplomatic missions due to his noteriety with other powers.
Uhura not speaking Klingon at this point in the story bothers me so much.
