10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

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The original Star Trek crew's final adventure redeemed the franchise but still suffers from dumb.
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  • @Walexander3243
    @Walexander32434 ай бұрын

    It is my head canon that Spock's custom uniform pants has a pocket for a "where the hell did kirk go" tracker and you can't change my mind with another fantastic video

  • @atzuras

    @atzuras

    4 ай бұрын

    It is logical.

  • @BeeWhistler

    @BeeWhistler

    4 ай бұрын

    It’s also hilarious. I’m with you on this.

  • @jeffbeitinger6565

    @jeffbeitinger6565

    4 ай бұрын

    That's what I always thought too. They been together long enough for him to know. It's like experienced dog owners that keep treats in their pockets for their dogs who have a tendency to try and take off.

  • @dakariszulu

    @dakariszulu

    4 ай бұрын

    It's like when you lose your house keys, you need one of those whistling fobs, they get a little more advanced in the future.

  • @KatsuRyu

    @KatsuRyu

    4 ай бұрын

    He got tired of having to track Kirk down, so got a tracker for him. Like those trackers we have for dogs now.

  • @lordofthereels6790
    @lordofthereels67904 ай бұрын

    Romulan weed would have probably made the meeting with the Klingons go way more smoothly

  • @nevermindmyname9153

    @nevermindmyname9153

    4 ай бұрын

    Romulans are "Suspicious, Paranoid and Aggressive" - their Ale brings out these exact qualities of a Romulan in each of the People at the Dinner 🤣🤣🤣

  • @archmage_of_the_aether

    @archmage_of_the_aether

    4 ай бұрын

    I think weed comes from one of the less-sexual Pleasure Planets. But maybe Risa has a flower that both gets you stoned and rock-hard. Romulus is all about meth-like uppers. "I won't miss a trick I WON'T MISS A TRICK DAMN YOU"

  • @DMSProduktions

    @DMSProduktions

    4 ай бұрын

    @@archmage_of_the_aether INDEED!

  • @seantlewis376

    @seantlewis376

    4 ай бұрын

    OK, now I want to try some Romulan weed. I'm sure it's blue and requires only one hit.

  • @DMSProduktions

    @DMSProduktions

    4 ай бұрын

    @@seantlewis376 Jo lan tru!

  • @jamesbrown4092
    @jamesbrown40924 ай бұрын

    As to #4, the intercom: There is nothing to say that Chang's voice was heard all over the ship. It was being heard on the bridge and Kirk had an open comm line to the torpedo room. So, when Chang was heard on the bridge, his voice could have been piped down to the torpedo room over that same line.

  • @thomaswashington5888
    @thomaswashington58884 ай бұрын

    When the bird of prey pulls up next to the Enterprise, Kirk says " I've never been this close", when in fact, he was on board a Klingon vessel in the previous movie! That line always bugged me!

  • @Raja1938

    @Raja1938

    4 ай бұрын

    The BOP wasn't there at that point, or at least it was cloaked. Kirk was referring to the D-7 cruiser, a ship he'd never been aboard previously (aside from the Romulan stormbird version from "The Enterprise Incident").

  • @Boxyno1

    @Boxyno1

    4 ай бұрын

    Think it was metaphorical

  • @morrisfoston2
    @morrisfoston24 ай бұрын

    For number one, the crew is not being decommissioned, the ship is.

  • @jacebales2951

    @jacebales2951

    4 ай бұрын

    Yeah, number 1 doesn't any sense. I'm not sure they understand what 'decommissioned' means.

  • @simcosports2584

    @simcosports2584

    4 ай бұрын

    I think it implying they won’t be together anymore. Maybe not an end to their careers, but the norm.

  • @k1productions87

    @k1productions87

    4 ай бұрын

    McCoy mentions retirement, Scotty also hints at it, all indications point to their respective space careers coming to an end. Even if Spock and Chekov remain in the service (the only two that seem to beyond the film anyway), its still retirement for the majority of them

  • @greenrangerx

    @greenrangerx

    4 ай бұрын

    Right, some members of the crew went on to do other things. Kirk, Scotty and Chekov were still serving 6 month later when the Enterprise B was commissioned. It was only after this that Scotty retired and headed to the Norpin Colony. Spock served a few more years before retiring and eventually becoming an Ambassador. Not much on the others in canon but it safe to assume the Chekov and Uhura served in other positions for some time

  • @LarryLeeMoniz

    @LarryLeeMoniz

    4 ай бұрын

    @@k1productions87 In the next Movie, Star Trek Generations, At least Kirk, Scotty and Chekov are still in active duty.

  • @TheFinancialAdvocacyPodcast
    @TheFinancialAdvocacyPodcast4 ай бұрын

    "I'd give real money if he'd shut up."

  • @shanedenmark5536

    @shanedenmark5536

    4 ай бұрын

    It always sounds like he says “if SHE’d shut up”… And Bones’s one liners in that sequence are just awful. “I bet you wish you’d stood in bed.” Sure. Because we were all sleeping soundly this morning.

  • @siblingrivalries3734

    @siblingrivalries3734

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@shanedenmark5536 i remember reading somewhere that was southern slang that slipped in there

  • @Psichlo1
    @Psichlo14 ай бұрын

    On the last point, Kirk says, we are due to stand down and the ship is to be decommissioned. Standing down, I always took it as from the current mission they were on. Due to the Enterprise being decommissioned, it would make sense that they would either be reassigned or retire. I was never under the impression that they were all retiring at the same time.

  • @OnTheNerdySide

    @OnTheNerdySide

    4 ай бұрын

    And my personal theory is that decommissioning the Enterprise-A was part of the terms of the peace treaty, and they were mothballing all of the Constitution class ships, which the Klingons might have seen as particularly aggressive toward the Empire.

  • @Beohun

    @Beohun

    4 ай бұрын

    If anything, Starfleet was probably going to assign a crew as experienced as the Enterprise's to the Academy to help train new officers. Like in Wrath of Khan.

  • @SuperLuigiSixty4

    @SuperLuigiSixty4

    4 ай бұрын

    Uhura mentions that she was supposed to be chairing a seminar at the Academy during the briefing, so she definitely had other irons in the fire. Along with Scotty having "just bought a boat", presumably for his upcoming retirement as seen in TNG Relics.

  • @atzuras

    @atzuras

    4 ай бұрын

    I always understood the Enterprise A is over and the crew thus most likely separated to more modern ships - as foreshadowed with Sulu. The Excelsior class was probably to take over the long missions.

  • @MG6960

    @MG6960

    4 ай бұрын

    Well we know that Spock became an ambassador. Kirk was lost in the Nexus. Sulu Captain of the Excelsior. Scotty got trapped in a transporter buffer on the Dyson Sphere. McCoy I believe taught medical stuff at Starfleet. Not sure what became of Uhura or Chekov

  • @chris56269
    @chris562694 ай бұрын

    So many of these are potentially really easy to explain or justify. It does sort of feel that whoever wrote this list was really struggling to get a list of 10 things together.

  • @BeeWhistler

    @BeeWhistler

    4 ай бұрын

    And had it narrated by the girl with the weird tonal shifts in her voice. I’ve heard AI sound more human.

  • @folginator

    @folginator

    4 ай бұрын

    @@BeeWhistler Haha exactly, I had to stop listening!

  • @k1productions87

    @k1productions87

    4 ай бұрын

    The funny thing is,... the ones listed here aren't even the worst ones. 1) if Praxis' explosion devastated the atmosphere of Qo'noS,... then why not simply move the Klingon Empire's seat of power to another planet within the Empire? 2) if Praxis was the key energy production facility (i.e. the main Dilithium mine), then why not beef up mining operations elsewhere,... like Rura Penthe? 3) If the Neutral Zone is still a thing,... why the hell is there a Romulan AMBASSADOR? 4) And that is not the only Neutral Zone. They openly state there is one between the Federation and Klingons (which is stupid),... so why is there also a KLINGON ambasador? Its almost as if Nick Meyer not only forgot which empire the Neutral Zone separated from the Federation (even using a star system name near ROMULAN space, not Klingon, in the beginning of Wrath of Khan... oops), but also forgot what a Neutral Zone even WAS. 5) If Praxis was so near to Qo'noS to devastate its atmosphere,... then how did its shockwave reach OUTSIDE of Klingon territory and all the way out to the Excelsior? ... and exactly how long did that take? AND, if it was able to reach that far, that quickly,... then they would have felt it on Earth ffs 6) ... Why is everyone traveling at Impulse Power? First the Excelsior "heading home under Full Impulse Power", and later the Enterprise escorting Kronos One from the Klingon border to Earth... at Impulse speeds? Exactly how many decades away is the conference? 7) the torpedo that struck Kronos One was shot from underneath the Enterprise, right? ... did the Enterprise not have any sensors? It was able to track a radiation surge... but not able to track the path of a torpedo, even with visual records of it? Was it a stealth torpedo or something? 7a) and after the first hit, were the Klingons not WATCHING the Enterprise to see that the second shot didn't come from the torpedo launcher, but from underneath the ship? 7b) where exactly WAS the actual CREW of Kronos One? Did it not have its own bridge with a command and operations staff? Did General Chang just tell them all to take a break while he manned the bridge by himself or something? 8) why the hell is NO ONE trained how to function in zero gravity, while serving on a SPACE SHIP? Especially if you're supposed to be a deadly Klingon warrior? Uhura heard the weapons fire over the comms, so surely the moment a Klingon heard it, their first instinct would and should be to arm themselves. And you can't tell me there aren't disruptors and bat'leths in handy storage lockers throughout the ship. I could go on

  • @l3zl13

    @l3zl13

    4 ай бұрын

    @@k1productions87 1) How easy could it be to evacuate the main world of one of the largest interstellar empires in the beta quadrant? I don't know the population size but it should be in the order of tens of billions. Also I guess there are a lot of important infrastructure within the system which could take decades to rebuild somewhere else, like shipyards and such. 2) I always assumed it provided energy for the Qo'noS system somehow. Beefing up the energy production somewhere else would not help the system an the people living there or the important infrastructure. Unless it was really something so simple as dilithium mining. 3) I'm not sure why can't there be a Romulan ambassador. I know the romulans went totally silent after the Treaty of Algeron but before that there was some level of diplomatic communication. 4) Similarly for Klingon Ambassador. 5) The video also mentioned the explanation how the destruction of Praxis damaged Qo'noS was stupid. This is just another side of it. Faster than light effects of certain events is an established trope in the universe. There are episodes with similar things (destructive waves etc.) affecting ships many ly away from the source virtually instantly after the event. 7) Enterprise sensor logs could have been manipulated. If I remember correctly some of them actually WERE manipulated according to the story. 8) Was there any episode where the artificial gravity malfunctioned before this? I know this is just to keep the production costs down, but in universe you could say that the technology was so reliable that most people didn't need zero-g training. And even if had training, that doesn't make you effective in combat against people who can safely stand on their feat. Was the reaction of the klingon crew underwhelming looking back now? Yes. But remember that Star Trek was never an action packed franchise before this so I think this is as much as one can expect for a close quarters combat scene at that time.

  • @user-mf4rm4fj6l

    @user-mf4rm4fj6l

    4 ай бұрын

    Agreeing! Can't believe, that they were willing to find any bad things in a genius film with nearly no real logical flaws...

  • @kennyminecrafting
    @kennyminecrafting4 ай бұрын

    I was going to write a lengthy retort to most of these points, but I'll simply say this: There's a point where nitpicking no longer feels like it's good natured or objective criticism, but meant to genuinely damage a work and people's enjoyment/perception of that work. This list, and how it's presented, feels like it's solidly in the latter category. Either that, or a class of trolling intended to stir the ire of fans and get clicks.

  • @BeeWhistler

    @BeeWhistler

    4 ай бұрын

    Her voice genuinely damaged my ears.

  • @charlescole645

    @charlescole645

    4 ай бұрын

    Trolling indeed.

  • @hallnall1667

    @hallnall1667

    4 ай бұрын

    Star Trek fans do this exact thing all the time about other Star Trek shows. Why not TrekCulture?

  • @JamesFuentes526

    @JamesFuentes526

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you for stating so well what I am feeling!

  • @brachiator1
    @brachiator14 ай бұрын

    Yeah, a number of these points are valid, and yet none of this prevents Star Trek 6 from being a satisfying adventure. I admit that I am not crazy about the characters being stuck in the same assignments, but many fans want to see the crew as a family who always stick together. But I am certain that Sulu getting a ship had been mentioned before.

  • @TrekkieBrie

    @TrekkieBrie

    4 ай бұрын

    Absolutely not! It's still a fun time all around 😊

  • @atzuras

    @atzuras

    4 ай бұрын

    Well it is introduced at the beginning of the movie, so it is not that he appears from nowhere when he"s needed the most.

  • @joermnyc
    @joermnyc4 ай бұрын

    10. Martia probably hid her ability to mimic voices up to that point, and maybe the fight with Kirk made it difficult to change back (“it takes a lot of effort”) 4. I took McCoy and Spock hearing Chang in the torpedo bay as them leaving a channel to the bridge open, so they could quickly let them know the torpedo was ready. 1. I took the amount of damage Entprise-A received in the battle as the reason for the decommissioning (in III the original Enterprise being so badly damaged by Khan seemed to be an excuse to write off the hull, or as the Admiral told Kirk, “there will be no refit.”)

  • @jasonbelkengren1855
    @jasonbelkengren18554 ай бұрын

    While this undoubtfully my favorite of the movies, my biggest problem is Kirk having to be reminded that "Not everyone keeps their genitals in the same place." If anyone in the galaxy would already know this it'd be Captain Kirk. That's to me the dumbest thing in Undiscovered Country

  • @tyranusfan

    @tyranusfan

    4 ай бұрын

    In fairness, the brute in the prison camp wasn't his type.

  • @Hawkeye26
    @Hawkeye264 ай бұрын

    Since you choose to be so nitpicky with that final entry, Uhura also had a different assignment in Star Trek III, which is the in-story explanation for why she is not with the crew for much of the film.

  • @user-xv1gj3kx5m
    @user-xv1gj3kx5m4 ай бұрын

    Another one for the list. Why was Bones on the Bridge during the battle, shouldn't he have been in sickbay treating the casualties that would have come flooding in? This has always bothered me.

  • @difficulttolookatpictures

    @difficulttolookatpictures

    4 ай бұрын

    In TMP he comes and goes off the bridge sometimes without reason. Shows up, displays awe, and leaves again.

  • @atzuras

    @atzuras

    4 ай бұрын

    He has to be there, so Kirk and Spock do not do something silly when unsupervised.

  • @k1productions87

    @k1productions87

    4 ай бұрын

    My goodness, I had a long-ass list of complains she didn't mention, and even I forgot about this little nugget. Seriously, Sickbay should have been even more flooded than it was after Khan's sneak attack FFS. Do your JOB, Bones!

  • @Shuttlebay4
    @Shuttlebay44 ай бұрын

    This is such a great film that I forgot about some of the less amazing aspects of it. Some great points raised here. It's testament to the great bits of the film that this remains a superb title despite the janky moments!

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke4 ай бұрын

    The narrative on the "We're to be decommissioned" part is they were to stand down from their posts on the ship having "done our bit for king and country" and the Enterprise-A herself to be decommissioned and placed either into training ship duty, such as how the 1701 dash nothing ended up, or parked up in the mothball fleet, and latterly placed into the fleet museum, with the crew moving on to new things, whether it was retirement (E.G. Scotty in TNG's "Relics"), ambassadorial roles (Spock bothering the romulans & Bones seeing the Enterprise-D off as a very old man), or moving onto new, faster and better-equipped ships, just as Rand & Sulu had done prior to the movie knowing the Enterprise-A was on her last legs as an active duty ship, so, not the people decommissioned, just the vessel that held them...

  • @BrennaUrbangirl

    @BrennaUrbangirl

    4 ай бұрын

    Well we do know that the Enterprise-A does wind up at the fleet museum as it is seen at the fleet museum in Star Trek: Picard Season 3.

  • @twocvbloke

    @twocvbloke

    4 ай бұрын

    @@BrennaUrbangirl But that was only seen about a century later, in the interim there's not really any known canon history of what happened to the -A after decommissioning in TUC, which is why I made educated assumptions that the -A was put on cadet training duty as per its' predecessor (the so-called "boat-load of children" in TWOK) before being fully retired, mothballed and eventually shipped off to the museum... :)

  • @matthewsass9037
    @matthewsass90374 ай бұрын

    How could Bones be unaware of Klingon anatomy when they have been at war for many years?

  • @difficulttolookatpictures

    @difficulttolookatpictures

    4 ай бұрын

    no kidding. He scanned a Klingon with a tricorder at close range in "Trouble With Tribbles"

  • @Raja1938

    @Raja1938

    4 ай бұрын

    @@difficulttolookatpictures That was an augment Klingon.

  • @atzuras

    @atzuras

    4 ай бұрын

    I guess some real practice is required to perform cirurgy, not only basic anatomy . Or would you allow a Klingon to remove you a tooth just reading the procedure from a book.

  • @difficulttolookatpictures

    @difficulttolookatpictures

    4 ай бұрын

    @@atzuras If I was 30 seconds from death I would allow the book

  • @andrewmurray1550

    @andrewmurray1550

    4 ай бұрын

    @@Raja1938 Yeah, this is McCoy who gives a 20th-century hospital patient a pill and she grows a new kidney, this is the doctor who complains about the barbarism of 20th Century medicine "drilling holes in one's head" for brain surgery - and can't stop massive bleeding in a Klingon "because he doesn't know their anatomy"?

  • @HolySilverStrike
    @HolySilverStrike4 ай бұрын

    I love Star Trek V because as far as I remember that was my first exposure to TOS when I was like 7 or 8 years old in 96. Come on, I know it’s corny but we’ve been caught in a blizzard still makes me crack up!

  • @matthewpatrick7263

    @matthewpatrick7263

    3 ай бұрын

    I love all the shore leave stuff in that movie!

  • @silversonic1
    @silversonic14 ай бұрын

    #6: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Gravity has a constant pull, compressing your body. When the gravity stops, so does the compression. You're sort of like a very inefficient spring at this point, so you will leave your chair... slowly.

  • @radaro.9682

    @radaro.9682

    4 ай бұрын

    The body's mass makes inertia decently hard to overcome. But regardless of how slow they should have been trained how to respond to sudden loss of gravity.

  • @silversonic1

    @silversonic1

    4 ай бұрын

    @@radaro.9682 No debate about the training. Still, we should also mention the torpedoes should have caused their own jolts to help them out of their seats, as could decompression due to any hull breaches the ship may have sustained.

  • @arbjbornk

    @arbjbornk

    4 ай бұрын

    I can understand them "drifting" out their chairs. Kronos One was tumbling in space. It was not so much they floated up, as much as the table and chairs, fixed to the deck of the moving ship, had moved away from them. The disruptor floating out of the holster, on the other hand, is just dumb.

  • @adamkuch9377

    @adamkuch9377

    4 ай бұрын

    I just thought a small secondary explosion could have accelerated the ship's drift, and caused them to leave their seats. Or, more accurately, caused the seats to leave them.

  • @HermanVonPetri

    @HermanVonPetri

    4 ай бұрын

    @@adamkuch9377 Certainly possible. Also, there's no reason to assume that _all_ of the ship's maneuvering thrusters were offline. If only just a couple were still operating (with other's malfunctioning) then the ship could have been nudged around very chaotically.

  • @MegaToronto1
    @MegaToronto14 ай бұрын

    In Star Trek: Picard, there was a plaque stating that (after the events of ST VI), Uhura became Captain of The Star-Gazer which decades later became Picard's first Command.

  • @tomkerruish2982
    @tomkerruish29824 ай бұрын

    Floating out of the chairs makes sense. Normally, the cushions/springs/whatever are compressed so as to balance the weight of the occupant, exerting what is referred to as the normal force. With the artificial gravity turned off, the compressed elements would relax, propelling the occupants upward.

  • @murph3744
    @murph37444 ай бұрын

    Well this was one of my favorite Star Trek movies and now I feel dumb. Nicely done trek culture nicely done.

  • @BeeWhistler

    @BeeWhistler

    4 ай бұрын

    Don’t let them ruin it for you. A lot of these were unnecessarily picky.

  • @murph3744

    @murph3744

    4 ай бұрын

    @@BeeWhistler they didn’t I’ll still rewatch it and enjoy it! Maybe a little picky, but I enjoyed the video.

  • @siblingrivalries3734

    @siblingrivalries3734

    4 ай бұрын

    Still my favorite. Some of them were intentionally obtuse. Martia obviously became kirk bc she knew she was a witness and would be killed.

  • @majestyc0359
    @majestyc03594 ай бұрын

    Number 10: the chains on the feet give it away.

  • @peterthx
    @peterthx4 ай бұрын

    Sulu's opening log entry: "We're headed home under full impulse power". Great, now how long would that be from near the Klingon Neutral Zone to Earth at sublight? How many thousands of years?

  • @amymjennings
    @amymjennings4 ай бұрын

    Nothing dumb, just this review. 🎉

  • @weaponeer8582

    @weaponeer8582

    4 ай бұрын

    Agreed 💯.

  • @Mr.Glidehook

    @Mr.Glidehook

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @Starbase-Sci-fi-One

    @Starbase-Sci-fi-One

    3 ай бұрын

    I conker never heard them say gravity boobs lol 5:59

  • @Starbase-Sci-fi-One

    @Starbase-Sci-fi-One

    3 ай бұрын

    But i would agree

  • @amymjennings

    @amymjennings

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Starbase-Sci-fi-One you got it 😂

  • @Nexus9_KD6-4.8
    @Nexus9_KD6-4.84 ай бұрын

    I had heard that it was supposed to be captain Sulu and crew that came up with the homing torpedo idea, but Shatner stepped in and said it should be Kirk and crew that saves the Enterprise.

  • @amymjennings

    @amymjennings

    4 ай бұрын

    Nonsense.

  • @tyranusfan

    @tyranusfan

    4 ай бұрын

    I've heard this too, but it always sounded like something George Takei cooked up to grind his axe. Nick Meyer and his friend Flynn wrote this script, and Meyer isn't one that is easily talked into things. He even made Nimoy mad when he didn't do everything he (Nimoy) wanted in the story. Nimoy even quipped in his book "Nick Meyer carefully listened to all our suggestions, then ignored them."

  • @amymjennings

    @amymjennings

    4 ай бұрын

    @@tyranusfan Nick Myer (I worked @ Paramount Studio's, under Sherry Lansing tutelage, it was she who used to run thi gs quite fine!) was correct, also and I have boxes of old memo's from 1990 and 91 on this) that back up Nicolas Myers directives and George is not being truthful in his claims now all these years later years, and It seems he still was upset his LINES CUT from TWOKhan in 1982 nearly ten years earlier and will do anything to harp on William Shatner,, forgetting it was HIS show and Movie franchise and he George, as a supporting member of the team, and each person in that process of production has his or her job to do. 👀 He has endlessly whined and complained like a sppilt child so many times against Shatner just in my life since his autobiographical book, To The Stars! in 1993. I have no answers here myself, maybe... but..only questions, from Mr. Spock! Dude, do we leave a crazed Commodores in charge of the ship again or something? LOL 😂 💥 PASS THE Bongo daddies! 💃🏾😎🍭💞🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @marysheeran519

    @marysheeran519

    4 ай бұрын

    @nnings And he only started his noise when the conventions began - and he got paid to appear. Koenig has often pointed out that they never complained at the time. (Actually, Nichols did complain about her part - to Roddenberry when she quit once and publicly to TV Guide, and her part got a little stronger after. ) One other thing: so far as I know, Mr. Shatner has not said one nasty word about Takei, unless in jest perhaps. Also, I should add, George owes me five dollars.

  • @fredfinger7092

    @fredfinger7092

    4 ай бұрын

    Sulu's log, before Praxis explodes, states that they are "mapping gaseous anomalies". This is the setup for the torpedo to use that technology later. It makes sense that it was intended that Excelsior fire the torpedo that reveals the Bird of Prey. Later, on the bridge of the Enterprise, while being fired upon, there is a throwaway line to the effect of "aren't we carrying all that equipment to map gaseous anomalies?". No, Enterprise. You're not. Excelsior is.

  • @archmage_of_the_aether
    @archmage_of_the_aether4 ай бұрын

    In an environment where zero-G was 1. Once a thing and 2. Could be a thing, there 100% eould be a wee little magnet in that holster, keeping a phaser from flipping away but not impeding a quick-draw.

  • @Beohun
    @Beohun4 ай бұрын

    The uniform point can be explained by the psychological impact it would have on the UFP seeing two long serving and decorated officers on trail and then in the prisoners in Rua P'Nthea. EDIT: spelling

  • @haweater1555
    @haweater15554 ай бұрын

    The universal translator sequence was the most dumb. If they didn't want the use of it exposed, and Uhura didn't know that language, she could have asked the computer to translate her response into klingon, then display it on screen in the form of phonetic English sounds for her to read back aloud.

  • @sside8

    @sside8

    4 ай бұрын

    Absolutely! I guess the writers wanted to insert comedy relief so they had everybody grab books (where'd they come from? Does the ship have a museum on board?) and figure out Klingonese.

  • @dw7704

    @dw7704

    4 ай бұрын

    Apparently Nichelle Nicholls pointed that out, and she suggested other options, but she was overridden

  • @DannyPhantomBeast

    @DannyPhantomBeast

    4 ай бұрын

    The Nomad probe zapped out her language experience. Sad!

  • @HighSierra1500

    @HighSierra1500

    4 ай бұрын

    @@dw7704 Blu-ey :)

  • @HighSierra1500

    @HighSierra1500

    4 ай бұрын

    @@sside8 It probably did. It was big enough.

  • @ReticentDuet
    @ReticentDuet4 ай бұрын

    On the topic of who beamed Burke and Samno to and from the ship, I think it was pretty clear that those two and Valeris weren't the only two conspirators on the Enterprise. The moment that springs to mind is when the announcement is made to take a statement in sickbay, and two... waiters, I guess? look at each other in shock when they hear the names of Burke and Samno. I took that to mean that they were among the people in on it and thus thought those two were dead. Thus, it's not a stretch to think that a transporter tech was also part of the team.

  • @kenwynn3871

    @kenwynn3871

    4 ай бұрын

    I always assumed they were beamed by the bird of prey

  • @ReticentDuet

    @ReticentDuet

    4 ай бұрын

    @@kenwynn3871 That's possible. I've always been a little fuzzy on the protocols for ship-to-ship beaming. Like, when the Klingons beamed to and from the Enterprise, it was the Enterprise that initiated it. It seems logical that it can work either way, the two ships would just need to coordinate. And in this case I'm sure who did what was very meticulously planned.

  • @kenwynn3871

    @kenwynn3871

    4 ай бұрын

    @ReticentDuet they used the klingon transporter effect for their beaming, so I assumed the BoP was the initiator. Beam them from Enterprise pad, to BoP, to Klingon pad, and then the reverse aftwrward

  • @ReticentDuet

    @ReticentDuet

    4 ай бұрын

    @@kenwynn3871 Ah, nice, I didn't notice that! Great catch!

  • @rjb1216
    @rjb12164 ай бұрын

    List was lame but 2 made sense, there should have been a fleet of security around a conference like that not only in orbit but alerting the people there. How did Kirk and crew just beam in unannounced like that? Especially when there had already been an assassination!

  • @k1productions87

    @k1productions87

    4 ай бұрын

    Oh there are even more that weren't even mentioned here 1) if Praxis' explosion devastated the atmosphere of Qo'noS,... then why not simply move the Klingon Empire's seat of power to another planet within the Empire? 2) if Praxis was the key energy production facility (i.e. the main Dilithium mine), then why not beef up mining operations elsewhere,... like Rura Penthe? 3) If the Neutral Zone is still a thing,... why the hell is there a Romulan AMBASSADOR? 4) And that is not the only Neutral Zone. They openly state there is one between the Federation and Klingons (which is stupid),... so why is there also a KLINGON ambasador? Its almost as if Nick Meyer not only forgot which empire the Neutral Zone separated from the Federation (even using a star system name near ROMULAN space, not Klingon, in the beginning of Wrath of Khan... oops), but also forgot what a Neutral Zone even WAS. 5) If Praxis was so near to Qo'noS to devastate its atmosphere,... then how did its shockwave reach OUTSIDE of Klingon territory and all the way out to the Excelsior? ... and exactly how long did that take? AND, if it was able to reach that far, that quickly,... then they would have felt it on Earth ffs 6) ... Why is everyone traveling at Impulse Power? First the Excelsior "heading home under Full Impulse Power", and later the Enterprise escorting Kronos One from the Klingon border to Earth... at Impulse speeds? Exactly how many decades away is the conference? 7) the torpedo that struck Kronos One was shot from underneath the Enterprise, right? ... did the Enterprise not have any sensors? It was able to track a radiation surge... but not able to track the path of a torpedo, even with visual records of it? Was it a stealth torpedo or something? 7a) and after the first hit, were the Klingons not WATCHING the Enterprise to see that the second shot didn't come from the torpedo launcher, but from underneath the ship? 7b) where exactly WAS the actual CREW of Kronos One? Did it not have its own bridge with a command and operations staff? Did General Chang just tell them all to take a break while he manned the bridge by himself or something? 8) why the hell is NO ONE trained how to function in zero gravity, while serving on a SPACE SHIP? Especially if you're supposed to be a deadly Klingon warrior? Uhura heard the weapons fire over the comms, so surely the moment a Klingon heard it, their first instinct would and should be to arm themselves. And you can't tell me there aren't disruptors and bat'leths in handy storage lockers throughout the ship. I could go on

  • @ElectricEvan
    @ElectricEvan4 ай бұрын

    Does anyone else want to hear Bre talk more about environmental science?

  • @robsenzig5720
    @robsenzig57204 ай бұрын

    Interesting. I had thought that the reason why Martia didn't shift out of Kirk's form when they were captured was that she had probably thought that she could have had persuaded them in to possibly shooting Kirk during their confusion as to who was the accurate person that they were after.

  • @difficulttolookatpictures

    @difficulttolookatpictures

    4 ай бұрын

    I also thought she was trying to replace him, that she knew there'd be no witnesses.

  • @AmisAngelstreams

    @AmisAngelstreams

    4 ай бұрын

    She said earlier that it takes a lot of effort. That was the in canon script reason they provided for us as to why she shouldn't change back. She'd already changed just not that long ago so it was more effort than she could manage to change back suddenly.

  • @julianaylor4351
    @julianaylor43514 ай бұрын

    Scotty never wanted to leave the Enterprise, but had to.

  • @paulleckner8235

    @paulleckner8235

    4 ай бұрын

    He was an engineer through and through. He got into a fistfight brawl with the Klingons when the Klingon said the Enterprise should be hauled away as garbage! Trouble with Tribbles.

  • @thecraftsmn
    @thecraftsmn4 ай бұрын

    Books, where did all these books come from.

  • @jdbjicase

    @jdbjicase

    4 ай бұрын

    Maybe Kirk took Samuel T. Cogley's advice to heart.

  • @DuffCon
    @DuffCon4 ай бұрын

    This movie isn't perfect, but I would quibble with #6: It was established during the mind meld that there was a conspiracy between Chang and Cartwright, thus probably a Klingon agent acting on board the ship to help the assassins. Also #2, I could be wrong, but the "constant as the northern star" quote is actually the Federation president, not Chang.

  • @patricktilton5377

    @patricktilton5377

    4 ай бұрын

    As to #2, no, it's Chang who says it, quoting Shakespeare like he did earlier in the film, at the dinner scene.

  • @mikelkane
    @mikelkane4 ай бұрын

    Two more ridiculous points: The Enterprise (a) has NO kitchen! No Starfleet Ship has a KITCHEN! And no MASS Quarters! Only rooms for one or two.

  • @dylanogg347
    @dylanogg3474 ай бұрын

    "I can't believe I kissed you!" "Must've been your lifelong ambition!"

  • @grumpy2.0
    @grumpy2.04 ай бұрын

    I've seen that Klingon Bird of Prey explosion, somewhere else before.

  • @MishraArtificer

    @MishraArtificer

    4 ай бұрын

    They reused it in Generations, and other bits from the scene in the finale of Deep Space Nine.

  • @atzuras

    @atzuras

    4 ай бұрын

    Reused from The Search for Spock with some CGI added on top.

  • @toddmiller2855

    @toddmiller2855

    4 ай бұрын

    @@atzuras The Klingon ship from Search for Spock was never destroyed. It went back in time, went into San Francisco Bay, and eventually to the fleet museum.

  • @atzuras

    @atzuras

    4 ай бұрын

    @toddmiller2855 My bad. I know there was a lot of reuse with that bird of prey but obviously not the blowup part

  • @andrewmurray1550

    @andrewmurray1550

    4 ай бұрын

    @@atzuraswell you see one Bird of Prey blow up you've seen them all.

  • @PatrickMcGowan-ch4ho
    @PatrickMcGowan-ch4ho4 ай бұрын

    I always liked that sad face Spock pulls when Kirk is unhappy with his new chair 😀

  • @thomascampbell789
    @thomascampbell7894 ай бұрын

    I think it’s been said enough that the thought wasn’t that they were all retiring however I can understand the confusion if just how it “sounds” but Uhura CLEARLY said she was chairing a seminar meaning she was still working - we can’t take everything at face value - we have to believe some stuff has happened off screen that may not get mentioned in the movie.

  • @Concreteowl
    @Concreteowl4 ай бұрын

    The think you forgot to mention is the whole Valaris (who has graduated top of her class) creating the same sense of anxiety navigating out of space dock as the trainee Saavik. Indeed if you look at the guy in engineering to the right of Scottie during this scene you would think it's the strangest thing ever to have happened.

  • @backpacker3421
    @backpacker34214 ай бұрын

    The real question is: after several decades of facing cloaked opponents, why had NOBODY in Starfleet ever thought of tracking their exhaust before? You know they must have had teams dedicated to figuring out how to deal with combat against cloaked ships.

  • @virginiaconnor8350
    @virginiaconnor83504 ай бұрын

    Thank you for showing a scene with the late David McCallum in "Great Escape". Before his role as Dr. Ducky Mallard, he was my favourite in "Man From U.N.C.L.E." and other tv programmes and movies,etc. He was also a musician and conducted 4 albums during those years. Too bad he didn't get to play on "Star Trek".

  • @kevinwestrom4775
    @kevinwestrom47754 ай бұрын

    Star Trek VI has the only time a phaser is able to do a slicing type action vs. a stun-or-disintegration type action everywhere else in canon.

  • @wearwolf2500
    @wearwolf25004 ай бұрын

    I always thought it was a bit silly that there were three captains on the Enterprise.

  • @Nomad77ca

    @Nomad77ca

    4 ай бұрын

    Captain is just a rank, being Captain of a ship is a position. A ship's Captain can actually be any rank.

  • @wearwolf2500

    @wearwolf2500

    4 ай бұрын

    @@Nomad77ca I always thought it was a bit silly that there were three people with the rank of captain on the Enterprise.

  • @Nomad77ca

    @Nomad77ca

    4 ай бұрын

    @@wearwolf2500 I'm not sure of the actual number but I know there is more than 1 person with the rank of Captain on an American aircraft carrier, but only 1 "Captain" of the ship. Synonyms can be confusing in the military lol.

  • @thomascampbell789

    @thomascampbell789

    4 ай бұрын

    I thought this was wild too - Captain Kirk, Captain Spock and Scotty was promoted to Captain as well - of course I understand that you can have more than one rank of Captain on a ship it’s just weird that way though….something we hadn’t seen in Star Trek at that time.

  • @zqxzqxzqx1
    @zqxzqxzqx14 ай бұрын

    Kirk in WoK; "Klingons don't take prisoners." Kirk in UC; Imprisoned by Klingons.

  • @BeeWhistler

    @BeeWhistler

    4 ай бұрын

    Well, Kirk was dealing with some lingering racism.

  • @plasmaburndeath
    @plasmaburndeath4 ай бұрын

    They were punished with having to "Stand Down", since they sucked at "STAND BACK" in the previous movie.

  • @steveschmaling8217
    @steveschmaling82174 ай бұрын

    #11 would be what the Romulans had to gain from all this. We learn the Romulan ambassador is involved in the conspiracy but no explanation is ever given as to why. Did the Romulans know and just kept quiet and secretly have the ambassador help so they could sit back, watch the fireworks and then swoop in and conquer what's left? Did the ambassador stumble on the plot and agreed to help however he can in exchange for a piece of the action? It's a pretty big plot hole you can fly an prototype bird of prey through

  • @darthplagueis4626
    @darthplagueis46264 ай бұрын

    8. I think Spock's line about ozone pollution is referring to Praxis' destruction affecting the Qo'noS atmosphere with a catastrophic chemical reaction converting O2 into ozone, thus eventually depriving the Klingons of their oxygen supply.

  • @oddsolostrike
    @oddsolostrike4 ай бұрын

    Unpopular opinion, but the last few times I've watched Star Trek 5, I've honestly really enjoyed it.

  • @user-be7tc2bd6e

    @user-be7tc2bd6e

    4 ай бұрын

    You HAVE ??? Sorry,if you enjoyed this film,I'm happy for you. At the end of the day that's what counts-YOUR JOY of a film. Live Long and Prosper

  • @atzuras

    @atzuras

    4 ай бұрын

    The plot works for me. Give me old fashioned space adventures and not popular franchises

  • @k1productions87

    @k1productions87

    4 ай бұрын

    Not unpopular at all. I've never hated Star Trek 5. By the time I realized most of its problems, I'd already enjoyed it since I was a kid. It was, in fact, the first Star Trek film I saw in the theater :P

  • @user-be7tc2bd6e

    @user-be7tc2bd6e

    4 ай бұрын

    @@k1productions87 All that counts is that YOU enjoy this film,not others,just your self.

  • @k1productions87

    @k1productions87

    4 ай бұрын

    @@user-be7tc2bd6e I wish all the people who bitch about JJ Abrams, Discovery and Picard felt that way too.

  • @chrisdavis3055
    @chrisdavis30554 ай бұрын

    About Martia: it makes sense if she knew they wanted to take Kirk alive. She wanted to look and sound exactly like Kirk, so they wouldn't kill her as she probably suspected they'd want to eliminate witnesses.

  • @deltalima5649
    @deltalima56494 ай бұрын

    I love the movie. That being said, the dumbest thing is actually the torpedo hits on Gorkon’s ship. If the cloaked bird-of-prey is under the Enterprise, it shouldn’t be that hard to figure out from the torpedo trajectories that they couldn’t have originated from the Enterprise’s launchers. The ships are pretty close together, so it should be a noticeable angle. If forensics experts today can figure out bullet trajectories why can’t they do it in the future?

  • @Raja1938

    @Raja1938

    4 ай бұрын

    The conspirators were able to alter Enterprise's computers to show that they had fired the torpedoes. I'd guess they could alter the sensor records of their trajectories as well(?)

  • @georgsdorf
    @georgsdorf3 ай бұрын

    The cooking pot. Normally, the cooking pot would have to dissolve the food in it after the phaser shot. But the food, after being shot on the cooking pot, is distributed on the stovetop.

  • @PhantomObserver
    @PhantomObserver4 ай бұрын

    Here’s the thing: when a ship is decommissioned, that doesn’t mean it’s headed for the scrapyard, it just means it’s no longer on active duty. The original Enterprise would have been decommissioned in order to do the 18-month refit, then the plan would be to recommission it with Decker as CO.

  • @Raja1938

    @Raja1938

    4 ай бұрын

    Seems nonsensical to decommission a relatively new ship, though, even if the purpose was to refit it.

  • @DrakeAurum
    @DrakeAurum4 ай бұрын

    You missed the non-disposable gravity boots and uniforms, like a starship doesn't have numerous ways of getting rid of or destroying such things.

  • @BeeWhistler

    @BeeWhistler

    4 ай бұрын

    I thought they were trying to pin it on someone else. They chose poorly but I still thought that was the goal.

  • @jacklow9611

    @jacklow9611

    4 ай бұрын

    Where do you think the replicators get their raw materials? Replicators can't create their items from nothing. They need raw materials from what is fed into them to make whatever is asked of them to replicate. Any waste on the ship goes into their raw material storage where it is broken down and then reconstituted by a type of transporter technology into whatever is needed.

  • @TylerGajewski
    @TylerGajewski4 ай бұрын

    I always viewed the universal translator sequence as being played more for laughs than anything else.

  • @hyrinshratu
    @hyrinshratu3 ай бұрын

    For #6, I think it was because of the ship going into a spin. With the gravity disabled, it's likely that the inertial dampeners would be damaged as well, meaning there would be nothing holding them in place as the ship moved around them.

  • @anthonyx916
    @anthonyx9164 ай бұрын

    It always seemed to me that the script was written in a hurry to satisfy a marketing goal, with elements tossed in to satisfy one perceived audience expectation or another, without regard for either continuity or character consistency. I think the movie works if you allow yourself to be entertained by it without actually questioning anything (which I think is what the producers expected), but otherwise falls apart. As an example, the manual translation scene seems like it was intended to inject "comedic tension", doing so in a rather clumsy way. Similarly, keeping the "old gang" together was a forced attempt to revive the chemistry of the original series - as was similarly attempted in all of the previous movies. In as much as we all want to see all the old gang, that time had obviously already passed as of the first movie. Wrath of Khan sort-of acknowledged that, which I think is one of the reasons it was the best of the bunch.

  • @k1productions87

    @k1productions87

    4 ай бұрын

    That was Nick Meyer's MO, pretty much

  • @tcwolf42
    @tcwolf424 ай бұрын

    I think the dumbest thing was during the briefing, "Bill, are we considering mothballing the Stat Fleet". She must have forgotten the Romulans and many other groups are still out there. Flag officers, you gotta love them.

  • @beowulfathay6097
    @beowulfathay60974 ай бұрын

    as to Spock having a viridium patch on hand? This is Kirk we're talking about he's probably had to do this before

  • @fredfinger7092

    @fredfinger7092

    4 ай бұрын

    They did something similar with, I think, what they called "rubindium" crystals under the skin, in the original show.

  • @The_Lost_Subrosian
    @The_Lost_Subrosian4 ай бұрын

    If shoe fits, wear it..

  • @robt4390

    @robt4390

    4 ай бұрын

    🖖🏻 She had one job. 🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @colinmontgomery1956
    @colinmontgomery19564 ай бұрын

    "Star Trek VI" is probably the greatest Star Trek movie, but I alwayd thought the digital clock on the Enterprise bridge was pretty dumb.

  • @Stay_at_home_Astronaut81
    @Stay_at_home_Astronaut814 ай бұрын

    At the time of her decommissioning, Enterprise's command staff consisted of three Captains, and three Commanders. Pretty heavily front loaded. 😆

  • @TheWarAtHome
    @TheWarAtHome4 ай бұрын

    I never understood why the Klingons treated Shakespeare like it was their own?

  • @difficulttolookatpictures

    @difficulttolookatpictures

    4 ай бұрын

    It was an idea borrowed from history. There were some Nazis who once tried to appropriate Shakespeare as German. Since he was the greatest playwright in history, he must have been German. Kirk compares them to Hitler in the same scene.

  • @TheWarAtHome

    @TheWarAtHome

    4 ай бұрын

    @@difficulttolookatpictures "we need breathing room!"

  • @archmage_of_the_aether

    @archmage_of_the_aether

    4 ай бұрын

    Also, there were constant cold war counterfactuals about things like "who invented helicopters".

  • @witchdoctor1394

    @witchdoctor1394

    4 ай бұрын

    Oh man... Let me introduce you to the idea of Cultural Appropriation, freind-o. Must seem kinda weird when it happens to folks unused to it happening to them.

  • @TheWarAtHome

    @TheWarAtHome

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@witchdoctor1394 lol watever dude.

  • @jeffbeitinger6565
    @jeffbeitinger65654 ай бұрын

    The real reason behind the convenience of the gaseous anomaly equipment used to destroy Chang's ship was due to a scene re-write. The setup at the start of the movie of the Excelsior cataloguing gaseous anomalies was because the early drafts of the script had SULU coming to the conclusion that was ultimately given to Spock, and it was the EXCELSIOR that installed its equipment in a torpedo that found the BoP. But certain people (cough, SHATNER, cough cough) didn't like the idea of the Excelsior being the hero ship. So for the sake of expediency, and not having to reshoot other scenes, the lines were given to the Enterprise crew instead. Thus feeding the Takei-Shatner feud (be it one-way or not), which must have made Sulu's final line to Kirk a particularly bitter pill to swallow....

  • @joerider3769

    @joerider3769

    4 ай бұрын

    In this case, Shatner was right. Better to have the Enterprise do it for their last movie. The mistake was not greenlighting a series with Sulu as captain...

  • @joshcarrico1210
    @joshcarrico12104 ай бұрын

    I think, and I have absolutely nothing to bank this up, that if gravity were suddenly set to zero, your natural interaction with your environment (the way your butt interacts with your seat, your feet interacting with the floor, etc.) would quickly cause you to "float", and the more that you tried to stop "floating" the more you would actually separate from your environment.

  • @tec5x5
    @tec5x54 ай бұрын

    On the last point about the crew there all have enough experience and power to all be captains/commanders but they always cashed that in to help helm the Enterprise in times of crisis

  • @Psyk60

    @Psyk60

    4 ай бұрын

    Also maybe some people aren't interested in being promoted into a different role, given that there isn't a financial incentive. For example I can imagine Scotty wanting to stay on as the Enterprise's chief engineer.

  • @QBCPerdition

    @QBCPerdition

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@Psyk60 Exactly. We've seen these officers move on before. In TMP, Bones had retired and was forced back by Kirk. Why would he want to go anywhere else? Either he stays with Kirk or he retires. Chekov, as was stated, moved on, becoming a FO and getting into security/tactical. Uhura was manning a communications relay at the beginning of ST:III. Spock was captain of the Enterprise in ST:II. Scotty was on the Excelsior in ST:III. Basically, they had all moved on until Spock's death and Kirk's mission to rescue him brought them back together, at which point they decided they liked being together. Plus,who knows, maybe after ST:III, they were largely pariahs who weren't wanted and seen as too old for another assignment.

  • @nicholaspossuch9516
    @nicholaspossuch95164 ай бұрын

    As prior military I find it completely believable that a group of people that Served together that long all Want to end the same time

  • @user-bl3zv7lr5h
    @user-bl3zv7lr5h3 ай бұрын

    The last one #1 is the most plausible. I'm nearing retirement age. I've done a lot of things before I went into IT Support. Since being in IT Support, I've been every level, L1, L2, L3, L4 and various random other positions in IT. Currently I've been back to L2 support the past 5 years. I can contribute the most doing what I'm currently doing. Plus I enjoy the work. Moral of the story, maybe they can all do many things outside of what they are currently doing but because they enjoy their jobs and their coworkers, they want to do what they've been doing all these years. Point #2 Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski. For those of you who may not know. They played together for 11 seasons. Then they retired together.

  • @6XGate
    @6XGate4 ай бұрын

    As much as I loved this movie, the thing that bugged me about it is one simple aspect absent from all other Star Trek. Internal Security! How is it that only at this point in time aboard Starfleet ships do we see weapons outputting more energy than stun as setting off alarms. As far the who transported the assassins. Easy. Starfleet ships have all those consoles, which are like mainframe terminals to the main core, networked together such that anyone can command any system on the ship. This is actually stated in tech manuals like the TNG one. I suspect S/COMS (the SNW/DISCO/TOS/Movie computer OS) can do that same things as LCARS and allow configurable terminals that can command any system.

  • @ViroVV
    @ViroVV4 ай бұрын

    Always found that Colonel Worfs head ridges were so unlike Worfs. Should have had more similarity. It looks like they just added spackle to the TNG worf extra head peice and added a smooth layer of putty to the top.

  • @BrennaUrbangirl
    @BrennaUrbangirl4 ай бұрын

    Sulu's promotion to Captain is not inexplicable. In a line, that made it into the novelization for the Wrath of Khan but was omitted from the movie, it's mentioned that Sulu was to become Captain of the Excelsior way back then and that he had been recommended for the post by Kirk when he was still an Admiral.

  • @tyranusfan
    @tyranusfan4 ай бұрын

    I have one: Chekov got shoehorned into the "audience surrogate" role in this film. It was his job to ask the obvious questions, such as "why not simply Waporize them?" to have Valeris dramatically shoot the pot in the galley. Trouble is, he was mentioned to be the tactical officer/security chief in The Motion Picture...he should know about weapons fire aboard a starship. It makes him look dumb. (For my money, this would have been an excellent excuse to have someone like Dr. Chapel along for the ride, so that she--a non-bridge officer--could be tasked with asking the questions so that the exposition can flow. Granted, this would have given Walter Koenig even less to do.)

  • @jacebales2951
    @jacebales29514 ай бұрын

    The Christian Slater cameo makes up for any and all negatives about this film.

  • @dw7704
    @dw77044 ай бұрын

    Just goes to show that no matter how good a movie is, there are some things that make you scratch your head. Fun to look at and discuss, but they don’t ruin the movie

  • @ranchodelreyband167
    @ranchodelreyband1674 ай бұрын

    People give this film a generous amount of leeway due to it 1:Following and being a course-correction for ST:V, 2:Nicholas Meyer gets residual love for Kahn, and 3: It's the the cast farewell. However, everything pointed out here and more is correct. The flaws in this film, not just Trek cannon or lore, but as a film in general are huge. Some qualify as "unbelievably dumb".

  • @blanketfortressofsolitude5270
    @blanketfortressofsolitude52704 ай бұрын

    This just makes me want to watch Undiscovered Country.

  • @maximilianlipp7246
    @maximilianlipp72464 ай бұрын

    You doesn't have to take a promotion. The best example for that is Riker who had dozen chances of taking his own command but doesn't want to. The same maybe goes for the crew of the Enterprise. When you're happy where you are, then don't change it. "Promotion at ally costs" is useless and worthless.

  • @mattrodgers4878
    @mattrodgers48784 ай бұрын

    Regarding the universal translator scene: I recall reading in the novelization of this movie that all information on the Klingon language had been erased from the computers by the assassination conspirators. Which explains why they would have to consult books. However, seems that the events of Star Trek 4 and the stolen Klingon ship would make that hard to forget.

  • @jayd2517
    @jayd25174 ай бұрын

    There's an awful lot of overthinking here but I definitely agree with some of these. The decommissioning was the Enterprise, not the whole crew.

  • @maximilianlipp7246
    @maximilianlipp72464 ай бұрын

    Btw, Romulan Ale was I think already Illegal at the time, so she knowing that a supply is on board and suggesting to use it is breaking the law and she offers the ale to her captain/ superior officer for an official diplomatic dinner. That's definetly NOT officer thinking. She shold destroy it rather than suggesting to use it...

  • @TatoAthority
    @TatoAthority4 ай бұрын

    I would argue that #1 is a bit dumb, but the beauty of the sentiment outweighs it. As a sendoff for the vast majority of the original crew (with Generations stretching it a bit), it's very moving.

  • @NathanWeeks
    @NathanWeeks4 ай бұрын

    I never took the "due to stand down" comment as meaning they were all retiring. Real world navy ships have deployments where they are actively at sea or foreign ports or standing by for missions for a period of time, followed by long cycles where they are in port for maintenance and crew rotation. A crisis can cause a ship that was near the end of its deployment to remain at sea, which doubtless upsets the crew that was looking forward to being at home. I took it as meaning the Enterprise was near the end of a deployment and just meant to be available for a crisis, but otherwise already effectively out of service.

  • @Echostation3T8
    @Echostation3T84 ай бұрын

    Knocking a fantastic film entry holds zero validity when more current Trek offerings are questionable minute to minute throughout their entire seasons. TUC’s biggest flaws are pure dilithium next to the overflowing tribble litterbox offered over the last several years.

  • @shauncraigparkinson8165

    @shauncraigparkinson8165

    4 ай бұрын

    100% CORRECT!

  • @rokitprops
    @rokitprops4 ай бұрын

    The Klingon commandant on Rura Penthe wasn't confused at all. He would have known Martia could mighty morphin herself out of her irons, he simply shot the Kirk who wasn't wearing chains at the feet. No witnesses...

  • @tombolenbaugh4030
    @tombolenbaugh40304 ай бұрын

    A few more that have always bugged me; The Enterprise has a kitchen. Okay, I can rationalize it as real cooked food is better than replicator food so they keep a galley on board, but why is there a locker full of Phaser II weapons in the kitchen? What are they cooking in there? The other is that the Romulans have the most to gain from war between the Klingons and the Federation. The Romulans are the ones who invented cloaking technology. Yet they immediately assumed that the Klingons were behind the cloaked ship without even considering the Romulans? But, I still love the film :)

  • @k1productions87

    @k1productions87

    4 ай бұрын

    And why on Earth was there a Romulan ambassador, when the Neutral Zone between the Federation and Romulan Star Empire was even MORE strict than the one with the Klingons (which only existed in the first place because Nick Meyer apparently couldn't tell the two species apart in Star Trek II, LOL).

  • @jpwphoenix1701
    @jpwphoenix17014 ай бұрын

    With the space battle one, it’s always irked me that the Enterprise never fires back. Even as Scotty’s repeatedly yelling about the shields collapsing, they never fire a shot with the phasers. While the whole conceit is that they can’t tell where the cloaked bird of prey is, you’d think the “expert tactician” that is Kirk would’ve at least tried firing wildly on the off-chance they actually hit something (like they did in “Balance of Terror”). In contrast, Picard actually has the right idea in “Star Trek Nemesis” when the Scimitar knocks them out of warp. He INSTANTLY tells Worf to fire the phasers in a “zero elevation” pattern, knowing that the Scimitar’s just fired at them from right behind them. They then continue this idea of trying to fire either at wherever the Scimitar’s just fired from or where they’ve hit something. Simple! Also, with regards the TOS crew being stuck together all those years, there was a deleted bit of dialogue in the shuttle pod scene early in “The Wrath of Khan”. When Sulu’s saying “Any chance to go aboard the Enterprise…”, it’s clear George Takei’s about to continue speaking. What he’s originally said was that he was that he was soon due to take command of the nearly-completed Excelsior. So, had the events of TWOK and TSFS not occurred, he would’ve replaced Captain Styles and been on the Excelsior a lot sooner.

  • @MrMann0123
    @MrMann01234 ай бұрын

    Go more smoothly for him. Its pretty damn clear. He is pissed off. He is getting drunk. His Lieutenant helped him out, in his mind.

  • @PauperJ
    @PauperJ3 ай бұрын

    You missed Worf's grandfather loosing a game of poker.

  • @InJeffable
    @InJeffable4 ай бұрын

    This was an excellent list, but I'm surprised that the pink Klingon blood wasn't on it. It sticks out like a sore thumb every time I watch Star Trek VI. It might have worked if they had kept Klingon blood pink in all subsequent Star Trek media featuring Klingons, but it was right back to being red in Star Trek: Generations. I've only recently seen it go back to being pink on Star Trek: Lower Decks. That's a long time to wait for some continuity.

  • @jdbjicase

    @jdbjicase

    4 ай бұрын

    I believe they had to make it pink to prevent getting an R rating on the film, since there's so much of it.

  • @InJeffable

    @InJeffable

    4 ай бұрын

    @@jdbjicase I've heard the same thing. Still stupid though, especially since I would think that something like a phaser would instantly cauterize a wound, not leave it open and gushing blood.

  • @jdbjicase

    @jdbjicase

    4 ай бұрын

    @@InJeffable I agree. It's like they just really wanted to do the CGI blood, but then almost ruined everything by doing too much of it.

  • @k1productions87

    @k1productions87

    4 ай бұрын

    Making the blood pink/purple wasn't a problem for this film. The fact it didn't remain that way in subsequent films and shows are the problem of those films and shows

  • @jdbjicase

    @jdbjicase

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@k1productions87I'll have to double check production dates, but I believe by the release date for Undiscovered Country we'd already seen Klingon blood on the small screen. So it would have been established already that Klingons do not bleed Pepto Bismol.

  • @FirstDan2000
    @FirstDan20004 ай бұрын

    I laughed at a lot of these. Great list, very entertaining. No1 deserved that spot.

  • @davidfrederick6003
    @davidfrederick60034 ай бұрын

    Also "dumb". The Klingon court (despite it being a kangaroo court) HAD to know and accept Dr. McCoy acknowledging he did NOT know Klingon anatomy tp help the chancellor. Instead Chang says he was incompetent.

  • @odysseusrex5908
    @odysseusrex59084 ай бұрын

    I would add some additional things. An explosion of the magnitude we saw on Praxis, which physically threated the Excelsior at who knows how many light years distance, would simply have destroyed Q'onos. Oh, and given that the Excelsior was who knows how many light years away when it happened, it could not possibly have been instantaneously affected. Any effects would have taken years, if not millennia, to have traveled that far. And also, the peace talks with the Klingons. Given that Q'onos was only gradually going to become uninhabitable, why couldn't the Klingons just gradually evacuate its population and industrial assets to other worlds in their own territory? Why did they have to stand down militarily, why did they need any help dealing with the crisis, and why did the Federation have to give them territory to settle in? None of it makes any sense. Imagine an accidental nuclear explosion irradiating Moscow and forcing its evacuation around 1970. America might have offered to help and that might have led to a lessening of tensions, but I don't think we would have had to let the Muscovites settle in Idaho.

  • @cyphi474
    @cyphi4742 ай бұрын

    No alcohol makes you instantly drunk. There is metabolism that has to process fluids first. But strong alcohol for diplomatic dinner party isnt great idea.

  • @ciscoduncan1490
    @ciscoduncan14904 ай бұрын

    Yeah. I think you’re overthinking it. You kind find fault with anything if you look hard enough. This is my favorite TOS movie along with wrath of Khan. And I’m sure there are a lot errors in that movie too. Oh well.

  • @nevermindmyname9153
    @nevermindmyname91534 ай бұрын

    "Star Trek VI" and "Tom Clancy's Without Remorse" are practically Event-Driven the same Script all the way through -- "Falsely Accused" - "Prison/Prison Escape" - "Hunt for the Truth" to an "Invisible Sniper shootout/Cloaked Bird of Prey Fight" --

  • @DegeneragentX
    @DegeneragentX4 ай бұрын

    Here's one: Throughout the entire ship, there was only TWO pairs of Gravity Boots?!

  • @k1productions87

    @k1productions87

    4 ай бұрын

    Seriously. It should be standard emergency equipment in nearly every locker in every corridor on the ship

  • @samuraiartguy
    @samuraiartguy4 ай бұрын

    I think that last referred to the Enterprise being de-commissioned, not the crew collectively retiring. But pretty spot on for all the rest. While a ripping yarn, and very much superior to "Final Frontier" - there was a LOT of Phlobotium forged - which I lay at the feet of the screenwriters.

  • @rudyramirezjr2309
    @rudyramirezjr23094 ай бұрын

    Well done! Loved this!

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