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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
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The One With… the Cold War IN SPACE!Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is the sixth movie in the Star Trek film series, released in 1991.It is a grand finale for the classic Trek crew (as played by the original actors, at least) which resolves the previously ongoing conflict between the Federation and the Klingons with a Tom Clancy ''IN SPACE!'' storyline. In part because of its more political themes and real-world connections, The Undiscovered Country is Darker and Edgier than its predecessors.After an environmental calamity, the Klingons' infrastructure collapses and their leader sues for peace. Does this remind you of the end of the Cold War? It should. The Iron Curtain was coming down at the time of production and the Klingons had always been stand-ins for the Soviets. Kirk, ever the cynical cowboy, still doesn't trust the Klingons but is volunteered by Spock to escort their leader to the peace talks without asking him first. But Kirk is not the only one who never wanted peace — a mysterious conspiracy with accomplices from both sides of the conflict means to drive the Federation and Empire into a full-scale war, framing Kirk and McCoy for murder in the process.Nicholas Meyer, the director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, returned to the helm for this one. As evidenced by the page quote, the film lacks anything resembling subtlety, but its tongue-in-cheek satire and heavy-handed morality tale are just as good if not better that way. If nothing else, it's considered much better than The Final Frontier. In any case, most fans consider it a worthy send-off for the original cast.While this is the finale for the majority of the TOS cast, Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov appear in the next film to "pass the torch" of the film franchise to The Next Generation. | |
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Snowy Screen of Death | |
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Snowy Screen of Death: From what's left of Praxis, followed by a transmission from Brigadier Kerla saying that everything's under control. | |
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Elderly Ailment Rambling | |
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Elderly Ailment Rambling: Invoked by McCoy when he and Kirk are on trial for murdering Chancellor Gorkon, and he's asked about his medical standing. He replies, "Aside from a touch of arthritis, I'd say pretty good." His effort at levity actually does get one Klingon to laugh. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: The fact that there is a Bird-of-Prey involved, and that Chang is commanding it. | |
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Assassins Are Always Betrayed | |
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Assassins Are Always Betrayed: Burke and Samno are killed by Valeris after the attempt to hide the evidence backfires. Lampshaded in the same scene. Similarly, the commandant of Rura Penthe offs Martia the shapeshifter as soon as their role in Kirk and McCoy's "attempted escape" is fulfilled. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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That Ominous Klingon Chanting is actually Hamlet's To be, or not to be? in its original Klingon. | |
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Make Sure He's Dead | |
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Make Sure He's Dead: Part of Kirk's effort in Bluffing the Murderer. Valeris is forced to enter sick bay in order to "finish" the job of "killing" Burke and Samno, who are actually already dead. | |
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Cool Old Guy: Pretty much the main cast. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The bizarre joke the Klingon border guard makes is smuggler's code; he knows they aren't who they say they are but thinks they're just illegal traders and just can't be bothered to bust them. | |
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Kirk Summation | |
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Kirk Summation: Happens one last time. Kirk and Spock set a trap for The Mole on the Enterprise sabotaging peace talks between the Klingon Empire and the Federation. Spock sees it's Valeris. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Subtitle Drop. In the ill-fated dinner scene, Gorkon proposes a toast to "the undiscovered country," earning bemused stares from the audience as well as the main cast before he explains he meant "the future." The cause of the confusion is that within the context of Hamlet's speech, "the undiscovered country" is death. Which Spock himself points out in the novelization. Gorkon's counter-argument has a good point. And, considering what happens to Gorkon in his next scene, actually makes quite a bit of sense. | |
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Eiffel Tower Effect: The Office of President of the Federation is in Paris. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: Trailers for the movie showcased a scene of Kirk getting phasered and vaporizing. Turns out it was just a shape-shifter. Also, the shot used in the trailer lasts a lot longer than the near-instant fate of the character involved. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Christian Slater as the Excelsior communications officer who wakes Sulu, which made him a Promoted Fanboy. Probably not coincidentally, his mother, Mary Jo Slater, was the casting director.note IMDB once did a poll of Worst Cameo in a Film — Slater ran away with it in voting. | |
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The Heavy | |
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The Heavy: General Chang is the most prominent antagonist for the Enterprise, but he is really only the enforcer of an interstellar conspiracy, not its leader. It's not even clear if he is the most highly-ranked Klingon who is party to it, or which side initiated the conspiracy in the first place. | |
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End of an Age | |
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End of an Age: In two ways. In-Universe, this is the end of the cold war between the Federation and Klingon Empire, which has defined Alpha Quadrant politics for decades. Going forward, the Federation and Klingons will be occasionally frosty, but ultimately solid friends and allies. Out of universe, this movie marks the end of the TOS era. Going forward, the TOS characters are largely relagated to cameos and guest roles on future Star Trek productions, at least until the reboot (which is an Alternate Universe created by time travel anyways). | |
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Wicked Cultured | |
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Wicked Cultured: General Chang might be willing to plunge the quadrant into war, but damn if he can't quote Shakespeare with the best of them! | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Just after the diplomatic dinner on the Enterprise, McCoy leaves the transporter room proclaiming, "I'm going to go find a pot of black coffee." Ironically, he's already drunk at the time, making this "I need to sober up". | |
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Tricked into Escaping | |
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Tricked into Escaping: The villains want Kirk and McCoy dead, not just imprisoned, but don't want to be too obvious about it. They arrange for the pair to meet someone with whom they can team up in an "escape attempt", which the commandant can then violently quash. Kirk eventually realises that the situation didn't add up. (Kirk, of course, would certainly have attempted escape on his own, but it would have taken time to learn the layout and find his best option.) | |
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Ominous Latin Chanting | |
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Ominous Latin Chanting: That Ominous Klingon Chanting is actually Hamlet's To be, or not to be? in its original Klingon. KIRK! KIRK! KIRK! KIRK! KIRK! KIRK! | |
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See the Invisible: Once the plasma-homing torpedo hits Chang's Bird-of-Prey, the Excelsior and the Enterprise are able to target the resulting explosion. Their continued fire soon knocks out the cloaking shield, rendering the Bird-of-Prey visible just before it comes apart. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Kirk still thinks he can do what he did constantly in the original series, and seduce someone to help get out of a bad situation. Not so much, as she's a shapeshifter setting him up, and even calls him out for his narcissism. | |
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Screen Shake: Present as usual for Trek — and also enforced, as the bridge sets were built on gimbals to allow them to actually shake. | |
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Chekhov's Boomerang | |
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Chekhov's Boomerang: Kirk's personal log. It is initially used to incriminate Kirk at his trial, but comes back later when Kirk realizes that Valeris, who was outside of his quarters at the time of his recording, must have given it to the Klingons. The pink Klingon blood. Some of it floats into the path of one of the transporting assassins; later, it is discovered on the transporter pad by Chekov and Scotty. In the extended cut, when the "Klingon" sniper is shot at the peace conference, Worf quips that the (red) blood does not belong to a Klingon. It turns out that it is actually human blood, that of Colonel West. | |
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Invisibility Flicker | |
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Invisibility Flicker: Klingon warships have to decloak before they can fire. Except Chang's. Even then, the exception is briefly lit up by its own torpedoes every time it fires one. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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A Chekhov's Gun example is left hanging on the wall when Kirk pulls out a concealed pistol of identical make: in a Captain's Log, Sulu mentions the Excelsior is cataloging gaseous anomalies. Apparently, the Enterprise had been doing the same, since they have the equipment on board and use it to track the cloaked Bird-of-Prey.note Legend has it that Excelsior was supposed to fire the modified torpedo but Shatner demanded that the Enterprise do it, hence the discontinuity. | |
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Laser Cutter: The prisoners on Rura Penthe are shown using laser guns to burn away the rock around dilithium crystals. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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In a more minor example, Kirk has this reaction after he bites out "LET them die!", especially when the words are later thrown back in his face by Valeris. | |
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Only Sane Man: Chancellor Gorkon. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Worf's Identical Grandfather. Bones' exasperated, "What is it with you?!'' after Kirk kisses Martia. This exchange: | |
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Literary Allusion Title | |
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Literary Allusion Title: To William Shakespeare. Allusions to Shakespeare were a regular occurrence in episode titles in The Original Series. The Undiscovered Country was likely intended to be a nod to tradition. Gorkon's Title Drop during the dinner on board the Enterprise directly references this allusion. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Burke and Samno are killed by Valeris after the attempt to hide the evidence backfires. Lampshaded in the same scene. | |
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Peace Conference | |
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Peace Conference: The First Khitomer Accord, ending decades of hostility between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. | |
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Beam Spam | |
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Beam Spam: Zigzagged. There are plenty of hand phaser shots, but when it comes to spaceborne combat, only torpedoes are used in the filmnote This is justified, at least for Chang; leaving his phasers on long enough to do damage would allow the Enterprise to target the beam's source. With torpedoes, he can fire and immediately change course to a new location, giving his enemy no time to react and target him. | |
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Deathly Unmasking | |
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Deathly Unmasking: In a now-restored Deleted Scene, the Klingon assassin sent to kill the Federation President is unmasked after being shot dead by Scotty, revealing that he's actually the all too human Starfleet operative Colonel West. | |
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False Flag Operation | |
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False Flag Operation: The two assassination attempts. General Chang's special Bird-of-Prey makes it look like the Enteprise fired on Kronos One. Towards the end, Colonel West disguises himself as a Klingon and attempts to shoot the Federation President. | |
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Glass Cannon | |
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Glass Cannon: Chang's Bird-of-Prey may be able to use its weapons while cloaked, but it still can't use shields at the same time. Although it's able to do quite a lot of damage to both the Enterprise-A and Excelsior while they're unable to effectively fight back, once they do pinpoint its location, they make short work of it. | |
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I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine | |
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I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: William Shatner was once Christopher Plummer's understudy. Here they play enemies. | |
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Borrowed Catchphrase | |
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Borrowed Catchphrase: When Spock invites Doctor McCoy to help him rig up a plasma-seeking torpedo to take down Chang's cloaked Bird of Prey. | |
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In the Original Klingon | |
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In the Original Klingon: Gorkon's claim that William Shakespeare was Klingon and the English versions of his plays are inferior is the Trope Namer. In context, though, he's clearly being sarcastic. Though it has been pointed out that the Germans made the same claim in the 1930s and that in conjunction with Chang's echoing of Nazi talking points was an intentional choice to by the production staff to lead into Kirk's retort. Likewise, Spock's deadpan humor is on display when he says that "Only Nixon could go to China" is an "old Vulcan proverb." Spock gets in another one when he quotes Sherlock Holmes as something an ancestor of his said. Either he's saying a Vulcan had the same thought, or he's related to Arthur Conan Doyle on his mother's side. Chekov gets one more "invented in Russia" gag in this, the final TOS movie. | |
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Hangover Sensitivity | |
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Kirk and his officers are visibly hung over at their bridge shift after drinking too much Romulan ale — until a photon torpedo suddenly hits Kronos One. Then again, nothing suddenly causes you to gain focus like the prospect of interstellar war starting on your watch... | |
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Hold Your Hippogriffs | |
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Hold Your Hippogriffs: | |
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Evil Is One Big, Happy Family | |
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Evil Is One Big, Happy Family: An ironic version. Despite their motives, the members of the Human–Klingon conspiracy to destroy the peace process are pretty unified in their goals. Though the vitriol is not far away, given the comments from Valeris about the others. This is lampshaded by McCoy, who ponders the thought of it out loud. The Romulans are also involved, likely just to destabilize the other two major powers of the Alpha Quadrant. | |
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Engineered Public Confession | |
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Engineered Public Confession: During the trial, Kirk's log entry in which he says, "I have never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I've never been able to forgive them for the death of my boy," is presented as proof of his motive for assassinating Gorkon. This fact is later used to incriminate Valeris as a conspirator, since it was she who was outside his quarters' open door unnoticed at that moment. | |
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End-of-Series Awareness | |
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End-of-Series Awareness: While the films that continued in the original timeline after this would focus on the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast and there's later be Kelvin timeline's Continuity Reboot, this film was the last adventure that the entire original crew would have together and, as seen by Kirk's final lines, it wasn't subtle about it, either. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Sulu's strategy to draw fire from the Enterprise. His ship is no better equipped to detect the Klingon warship than Kirk's is, but he is able to buy enough time for Spock and McCoy to rig a cloak-seeking torpedo. Had Chang not taken the bait, he could have continued to dismantle the Enterprise, leaving himself with only one ship to fight instead of two. The strategy works because Chang doesn't have any choice but to fire on Excelsior too. Chang's goal isn't to destroy Enterprise, though he'd be happy to do so, he just needs to keep reinforcements away from Khitomer until the Federation President is dead. To accomplish this he has to keep both ships under fire to prevent them from lowering their shields and beaming security forces to the planet to stop the assassination. Kirk's plan to draw out the mole (Valeris) by having a "court reporter" summoned to Sick Bay urgently to take statements from the (actually already dead) assassins Burke and Samno. A failed Batman Gambit exists in the conspirators' original plan. They were banking on Kirk getting gun-happy after Chang got Kronos One back in fighting shape, shooting back, and destroying Kronos One. What happens instead? Kirk surrenders in a hasty attempt to de-escalate the situation. Chang then has to engage in Xanatos Speed Chess to compensate. The assassins specifically kill Kronos One's chief surgeon, which leaves Gorkon's fate in the hands of a physician who doesn't know much about Klingon physiology, Dr. McCoy. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Chang has a brief moment when Enterprise fires the torpedo that can home in on his ship...but rather than freak out about it, he decides to Face Death with Dignity. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: In a subtle moment, Spock refuses to explain how Enterprise will be able to track Kirk and McCoy, only that they can, no doubt holding his cards close to the vest since he knows Enterprise has a mole on board. As it turns out, he's standing in front of the mole without even realizing it, making any such paranoia even more justified. | |
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Character Development | |
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The film really runs with this, which even caused some behind the scenes problems for most of the cast. In the film, it provides Character Development for some, especially Kirk. He goes from "Let them die" and "I never could forgive them for the death of my boy," to "I was used to hating Klingons" and "Gorkon had to die before I realized how prejudiced I was." By the end Kirk realizes that while he didn't kill Gorkon, he had an indirect involvement in his murder due to his reputation. Gorkon's sincere wish for peace and imploring of Kirk to see it through with his last breath moves Kirk to re-evaluate the Klingons as a whole, as well as himself. | |
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Boldly Coming | |
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Bones' exasperated, "What is it with you?!'' after Kirk kisses Martia. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: Given the Federation and Klingons are allies by the time of TNG, the Gorkon initiative will ultimately prevail. The tension thus lies in how it comes about (and, as the TOS cast's last outing, whether or not any of the classic characters will die to make that peace a reality). Likewise — or at least during the original release in late 1991 — it was a foregone conclusion that Bones and Spock will at least both survive the events of the film given their crossover appearances decades later in TNG's Pilot episode and "Unification". | |
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"Bringer of War" Music | |
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"Bringer of War" Music: The main theme uses Holst-inspired music to set the mood, where the Federation and Klingons will determine if they can have peace, or if those who desire war will win out. | |
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TheBookOfTheFilm | |
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The Klingon miner on Praxis shouting for help just before the moon's explosion. In the novelization, Sulu reflects that he's never seen abject terror on a Klingon's face before and never thought he would. | |
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Explosive Overclocking | |
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Explosive Overclocking: The Excelsior is really bookin' it to Khitomer in the climactic scene, with galactic peace hanging in the balance. | |
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Make It Look Like an Accident | |
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Make It Look Like an Accident: Subverted. Once outside the Rura Penthe shield, Kirk notes that they couldn't just have himself and McCoy killed in an "accident". Martia clarifies that an accident would have only been reasonable for one, so the conspirators required a more "convincing" alternative. | |
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Credits Pushback | |
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Credits Pushback: The signatures at the end generally get clipped thanks to this practice. | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex Machina: The Enterprise is getting owned by the cloaked Bird-of-Prey, and then suddenly the crew realizes the ship just happens to have some never-before-mentioned equipment to catalog gaseous anomalies that can be used to totally obliterate the enemy ship. What makes this particularly bad is that Sulu and the Excelsior are the ones performing this task at the beginning of the film. The true explanation is a combination of executive and cast meddling (Shatner insisted that the Enterprise save itself). This is also explained in the novelization as being Starfleet's current ongoing giant research project of the past few years, so most ships other than Excelsior are carrying equipment for gaseous anomalies. The Star Trek Timeline also establishes this as well, with Enterprise and Excelsior specifically being mentioned so as to explain how Enterprise also had the equipment. Admittedly this could have been somewhat fixed by modifying Sulu's opening narration to something like "for the past three years we have been leading the fleet in cataloguing gaseous anomalies in planetary atmospheres", but alas, l'esprit de l'escalier... | |
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Morton's Fork | |
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Morton's Fork: Chang gets Kirk to admit that he's disobeyed orders in the past, then asks him if he was either obeying or disobeying orders when he arranged the assassination of the Chancellor. Such a blatant trap is easily avoided by Kirk (he cannot speak to actions he did not witness), but in turn allows Chang to lead him into admitting that he would be responsible if his men were involved (which they were). | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Quite prevalent. Brigadier Kerla responds to Excelsior's message after the explosion of Praxis. Starfleet orders the Enterprise to report back after the assassination, but they are still trying to root out the assassins. The Enterprise wasn't the only one pulling this. | |
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Ask a Stupid Question... | |
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Ask a Stupid Question...: When Janice Rand asks if they're going to report the destruction of Praxis to the Federation, Sulu whirls on her incredulously and asks, "Are you kidding?!" | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess: The conspirators of the plot manage to avert Kirk's attempts to stop it until the very end. They are expecting Kirk to fight it out after the Chancellor is killed, but when he surrenders they put him in a show trial and schedule a new assassination attempt at the peace conference. They send Kirk to an inescapable Penal Colony but know he would probably find a way to escape, so they use a stooge to "help" him and betray him later. They believe Kirk would never find the location of the conference, but have a ship ready to deal with him if he does. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: General Chang hailing Captain Kirk before attacking counts as this as well, as he risked sacrificing the element of surprise to do so even considering his ship's advanced cloaking device. Then again, he considers Kirk a Worthy Opponent and presumably saw it fitting to formally challenge him before engaging him. | |
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The Guards Must Be Crazy | |
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The Guards Must Be Crazy: The Klingon border guards are shown to be quite amused at the crew's stumbling Klingon, but then make a weird joke about it and send them on their way anyway. The explanation didn't make its way into the movie, but basically they're just lazy (and drunk) and think the crew is part of a smuggling ring that's bribing them. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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Worthy Opponent: In the novelization, Chang spends his last seconds reflecting on his own mortality, and that being beaten by the likes of Kirk is no disgrace. Even in the film, the mere fact that Chang considers Kirk a "warrior" is a testament to his respect for him as an adversary. | |
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In-Universe | |
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In-Universe, this is the end of the cold war between the Federation and Klingon Empire, which has defined Alpha Quadrant politics for decades. Going forward, the Federation and Klingons will be occasionally frosty, but ultimately solid friends and allies. | |
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Bad Vibrations | |
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Bad Vibrations: Captain Sulu's vibrating teacup heralds the shockwave from the exploding Praxis at the beginning of the film. | |
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Latex Perfection | |
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Latex Perfection: The Klingon assassin is Starfleet's Colonel West with some rubber on his forehead. | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Characterization Marches On: Sulu has adopted a more authoritarian, strict (but fair) personality as a captain, contrasting his easygoing, affable one in prior movies and the TV series. | |
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Stock Footage | |
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Stock Footage: The scene where the Enterprise glides towards the spacedock doors is a reuse of the "zoom in on Enterprise" shot from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, just with the Excelsior removed and the background tint changed to blue. The second trailer has a minor scene from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, of the Enterprise getting shot by a torpedo. The Excelsior racing at top speed and the Klingon Bird-of-Prey exploding are re-used as stock footage in the next movie, Star Trek: Generations. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: The aerial shot of Kirk, McCoy and Martia trudging across the wastes of Rura Penthe (in actuality the Knik Glacier in Alaska) is stunning. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The TOS cast was aware that this would be their last story together, and it shows in the film. | |
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Homing Projectile | |
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Chang and his crew slowly gets this look all over their faces during the finale when the Enterprise fires out the Homing Projectile that gradually works its way toward them... | |
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Dedication | |
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Dedication: To Gene Roddenberry, who passed away weeks before the film's release. | |
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Swivel-Chair Antics | |
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Swivel-Chair Antics: Chang is so hammy that he spins his chair in ecstacy during the battle. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Signal our surrender." Derails the firefight between Enterprise and Qo'noS One that the scene appeared to be leading to. It even shocks the bridge crew: During the last scene: | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: The torpedo hitting Kronos One. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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Crazy-Prepared: Gorkon, according to the novelization. He expected something to happen to him on his way to Earth, so he used his influence among his allies to ensure that Azetbur would succeed him as Chancellor. He also suspected Chang to have a part in a betrayal, hence why he tells someone to find him when Kronos One loses artificial gravity. | |
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Faking Engine Trouble | |
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Faking Engine Trouble: Starfleet orders the Enterprise to return to Spacedock, but since Chancellor Gorkon's assassins are on board, to keep them from escaping the crew keep coming up with reasons not to return, at one point telling Starfleet Command the warp drive is malfunctioning. | |
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Lensman Arms Race | |
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Lensman Arms Race: The Fire-While-Cloaking device is a game-changer, allowing klingon ships to not even need to decloak to engage a target. A klingon warship so equipped could simply fire just one torpedo and move to another position to become untouchable, as the Enterprise and Excelsior experienced. Unfortunately, it was doomed before the end of its first real engagement: Not only did peace breaking out make it unneeded, but Starfleet ingenuity developed a hard counter on the fly with off-the-shelf parts in the first engagement by adapting gaseous anomaly cataloguing sensors to a photon torpedo guidance system, homing in on the impulse exhaust trail that not even cloaked ships can avoid emitting. | |
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CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable | |
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CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Bones, miracle doctor that he is, can revive someone with no pulse by straddling them and beating on their chest. But only after trying several more sophisticated techniques, including inserting some sort of medical device into the open chest wound. The Klingons who witness this are absolutely horrified. The patient dies after delivering his last words despite the doctor's best efforts. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: Valeris repeats as truth the story that the word "sabotage" comes from Luddites throwing their wooden sabot shoes into the machinery during the Industrial Revolution. This is a popular folk etymology, but it is not true. "Sabotage" is derived from the noise and clumsiness wearing the shoes had, which would have a possibility of fouling equipment, but by accident, not deliberately. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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After Gorkon and his staff leave the transporter room on the Enterprise, the two Starfleet security officers left behind begin talking to each other about how disgusting the Klingons are, only to be brought up short by a disapproving Valeris who tells them to get on with their work. Watching it with the knowledge that these two, Burke and Samno, would be the assassins of Gorkon and Valeris is their superior in the conspiracy means that what Valeris actually means is "Stop clowning around making yourselves look suspicious and get ready to carry out your mission". | |
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Deadly Environment Prison | |
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Deadly Environment Prison: The underground Klingon labor camp Rura Penthe where Kirk and McCoy are imprisoned has nothing preventing prisoners from escaping — except the extreme cold and storms of the surface, where death by exposure would be a certainty (technically, there's also a magnetic field to prevent escape by transporter, but it only extends so far and it would be possible to walk out of it if not for the deadly climate). In fact, prisoners are threatened with expulsion to the surface if they don't work. | |
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It's All My Fault | |
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It's All My Fault: "Dining on ashes?" Kirk believes this, for not taking Gorkon at his word, and also for his prejudice as a whole against Klingons. Spock blames himself for being too idealistic and putting Kirk in a nearly untenable position, and for being blinded by pride for his protege, who turned out to be a traitor. | |
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You Cannot Kill an Idea | |
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You Cannot Kill An Idea: Gorkon's fight for peace continues on despite his assassination. His daughter Azetbur, who becomes chancellor, continues his efforts, and Gorkon's sacrifice challenges Captain Kirk's prejudice against Klingons. | |
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Eyepatch of Power | |
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Eyepatch of Power: Chang. Bolted directly to his face, no less. For extra cool factor, each of those three bolts has the Klingon emblem on them, thrown in by the costumer despite him knowing nobody would ever see them (unless in HD...)◊ | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: Spock joins Kirk in feeling his age and disappointment in time passing them by, and Gene Coon’s Soldier vs Diplomat conflict comes back from the series, Chang taunting Kirk on how they’re both warriors, and Kirk trying to be a diplomat (and surrender instead of fight) proves a Spanner in the Works for the bad guy plan. | |
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Kangaroo Court | |
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Unfortunately subverted in the case of Dr. McCoy trying to revive Gorkon. In combination wtih his lack of working medical knowledge of Klingons, his hands are unsteady and slightly clumsy, still affected by the Romulan Ale he drank during the state dinner. No matter how shaken awake by the whole diplomatic catastrophe unfolding he may be, his mental acuity and motor skills are still impaired by intoxication. Chang is quite ready to bring that up during the show trial. | |
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State Visit | |
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State Visit: In the aftermath of the Praxis explosion, the Federation extends an invitation to the chancellor of the Klingon Empire to come to Earth to initiate negotiations that would result in the end of the Space Cold War. | |
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Creative Closing Credits | |
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Creative Closing Credits: The cast's signatures are written out on screen before the credits. | |
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Spanner in the Works | |
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Spanner in the Works: Perhaps the one thing that most sabotages the conspirators' plan, the one thing they didn't plan for, is the possibility that after the Enterprise "fires" on Kronos One and Chang brings it around to fight back, Captain James T. Kirk would surrender instead of fighting. They did not count on Kirk's sense of duty to the Federation and understanding the need for peace to override his scornful hatred of Klingons. Azetbur's ascension to the Klingon Chancellery also ends up being a major wrench in the conspiracy. She continues the Gorkon initative rather than abandon it out of vengeance or wrath against the Federation for her father's murder. This, combined with Colonel Worf's defense, results in the Klingon Judge commuting Kirk and McCoy's death sentences to life imprisonment during the Trial in the interest of the peace process. Look closely at Chang's reaction after the Judge's commutation; he's not happy, and knows this has just made things more complicated for the conspirators. | |
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Riding into the Sunset | |
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Riding into the Sunset: In this case, going to warp toward a nearby star. Or Neverland, as Kirk alludes. | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The main difference between Valeris and Saavik is that Valeris has a tendency to defy regulations. For example, she fires a phaser on the kill setting, which triggers every alarm on the Enterprise, in order to demonstrate why the conspirators didn't just disintegrate the magnetic boots and uniforms used in the assassination. She is also the one who suggests breaking out the very illegal Romulan Ale for dinner with the Klingons. It also counts as Foreshadowing, showing that Valeris is reckless and doesn't seem to care much for rules... or for the safety of her shipmates. Someone like that shouldn't be trusted. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: As Kirk declares that he needs to board Kronos One after the torpedo hits, watch Spock's right hand as he slips a viridium patch on Kirk's shoulder. It's easy to miss as you are likely to pay more attention to Kirk ordering Uhura to tell Kronos One that he is coming aboard to assist. | |
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Planar Shockwave | |
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The second is Spock opening a briefing at Starfleet Command with "Two months ago, a Federation starship monitored an explosion of the Klingon moon Praxis." By "monitored," he means that the Excelsior was knocked off course and nearly shaken to pieces by the Planar Shockwave. | |
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Armor Is Useless | |
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Armor Is Useless: The shields of the Enterprise don't appear to do very much. Every (single, leisurely-paced) torpedo hit results in massive hull burns; bridge consoles blow out; and "auxiliary circuits are destroyed"... a significant time before Scotty calls out, "Shields weakening!" A cynic might very well ask, "What shields?" Then again, after the Enterprise's shields collapse, a torpedo shot from below bursts through the saucer and does an impressive amount of damage, so ultimately this is a Downplayed Trope. For her part, when Excelsior takes a hit on the chin, we see the shields dissipate the impact with no visible damage to the hull, although an interior shot demonstrates that her crew has gone into Damage Control mode.note And when you consider what happened when this movie was revisited in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Flashback", where the Excelsior took a lot of damage, this is also a Downplayed Trope as well. Scotty does note "She's packing quite a wallop," indicating the Bird-Of-Prey's weapons are more powerful than Klingon standard. Though also note, this design of starship could No-Sell V'Ger's One-Hit Kill plasma bolts. | |
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Dramatic Shattering | |
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Dramatic Shattering: Sulu's tea cup rattles off the captain's coffee table and falls to the deck when the Excelsior gets buffeted by the shockwave. Not a moment after it's in pieces on the deck, alarms and klaxons start blaring. Notably, it is not the same teacup which Sulu drinks from — the decoration was seen by the prop team as too nice to ruin. | |
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He Knows Too Much | |
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He Knows Too Much: The assassins are killed before they can be discovered and interrogated. Valeris is nearly killed herself at the end, when she's presented as evidence against the conspiracy, but Scotty shoots the would-be assassin first. | |
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Lethal Harmless Powers | |
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Lethal Harmless Powers: Even when set on "stun", a phaser can be deadly at extreme close range. Yeomen Burke and Samno find this out the hard way. | |
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The Girl Who Fits This Slipper | |
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The Girl Who Fits This Slipper: Subverted. The boots of the conspirators are found in the locker of Crewman Dax (no relation)... who has large webbed feet that don't fit. | |
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Why We Are Bummed: Communism Fell | |
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Why We Are Bummed: Communism Fell: The whole film is a metaphor for the fall of communism, and even seemed to predict the failed coup that preceded the final collapse of the USSR. | |
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Human Outside, Alien Inside | |
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Human Outside, Alien Inside: As Bones points out while trying to treat Gorkon, Klingon anatomy is not the same as Human anatomy, and Bones has no medical training in helping Klingons. Gorkon ends up dying of his wounds. | |
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Chewing the Scenery | |
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Chewing the Scenery: Chang in the final showdown; especially " Cry havoc!!! ... and let slip the dogs of war!" where it's not so much that he's shouting it at the top of his lungs, but that he's shouting it at the top of his lungs while spinning in his self-rotating captain's chair. | |
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Eye-Dentity Giveaway | |
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Eye-Dentity Giveaway: No matter which form she takes, Martia the shapeshifter keeps her eye color. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: The Klingon ambassador is an ass, but even Sarek has to admit that he's correct in his legal interpretation that the Klingons have every right to try Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy for Gorkon's assassination. Of course, that was General Chang's plan all along. | |
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Make the Bear Angry Again | |
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Make the Bear Angry Again: A Recycled In Space variant. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: "Praxis" is an accepted custom or practice. When the Klingon moon Praxis is obliterated, it makes the Klingon Empire reconsider their longtime hostilities with the Federation, making them do the same towards them. | |
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Magic A Is Magic A | |
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Magic A Is Magic A: It's once again emphasized that a bird-of-prey must decloak before it can attack. The existence of a bird-of-prey that isn't so limited is a major game-changer and a dire threat that our heroes are scrambling to overcome. | |
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Tactful Translation | |
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Tactful Translation: The subtitles compensate for the Klingon listening post operator's lazy apathy by translating his simple utterance of just the post's name (Morskika) into, "This is Listening Post Morskika." | |
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Touch Telepathy | |
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Touch Telepathy: After Spock realizes that Valeris is a traitor and murderer, he grabs her by the head and performs a forced Mind Meld on her to learn the details of the conspiracy. | |
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Casting Gag | |
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Casting Gag: This was at least partially a coincidence, as Brock had already played Admiral Cartwright earlier in the film series, Brock Peters plays an anti-Klingon racist. Brock actually had problems doing Cartwright's anti-Klingon rant during the classified meeting because it was morally unpleasant for him personally. Multiple takes had to be done and pieced together. (That is, he had problems getting the lines out. According to the DVD, he was supportive of the message itself.) A bit of one with Christopher Plummer, a respected Shakespearian actor as the Shakespeare-quoting Chang. William Shatner also got his start as a Shakespearian actor, and at one point was actually Christopher Plummer's understudy. | |
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Shapeshifting Squick | |
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Shapeshifting Squick: Kirk is a little weirded out when the female alien he made out with shows up as a furry male alien. | |
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Understatement | |
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Understatement: Two related to the destruction of Praxis: The first is Brigadier Kerla admitting that "there has been an incident on Praxis." Yeah, an entire moon exploding goes well beyond just "an incident." The second is Spock opening a briefing at Starfleet Command with "Two months ago, a Federation starship monitored an explosion of the Klingon moon Praxis." By "monitored," he means that the Excelsior was knocked off course and nearly shaken to pieces by the Planar Shockwave. | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Kirk and Spock's chat before the final battle. Kirk is regretting that his distrust towards Klingons made him the perfect patsy for the assassination and made refuse to see Gorkon as earnest, while Spock is beating himself up about being too biased towards Valeris and her achievements to notice her hidden agenda.. | |
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And the Adventure Continues | |
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And the Adventure Continues: The end narration: | |
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Villain Has a Point | |
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Villain Has a Point: Both sides of the conspiracy to assassinate Chancellor Gorkon and the Federation President are partially proven to be correct in their paranoia, when Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine later show their fears coming true. The Federation does corrupt Klingon society to the point that a Starfleet officer later becomes the one to decide who would become the next Klingon chancellor, while the Klingons later betray the Federation and launch a war against them after abandoning the Khitomer Accords (albeit, largely due to the influence of a Changeling mole). | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: The main poster has the Enterprise battling a Klingon K'Tinga cruiser and Bird-of-Prey at the same time. It only fights a Bird-of-Prey in the movie, although the K'Tinga cruiser attempts to engage earlier in the film. | |
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Suicide by Cop | |
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Suicide by Cop: The book has Kirk briefly consider suicide by fighting with Klingons, as it’s preferable to retiring and dying an old man in bed, before deciding he can’t drag his crew down with him. | |
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Noble Bigot | |
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Noble Bigot: Despite their grievances against the Klingons, the Enterprise crew, including Kirk, who initially was unable to forgive the Klingons for his son's death, still pursue their crusade for interstellar peace between Starfleet and the Klingons. | |
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Creator's Culture Carryover | |
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Creator's Culture Carryover: As unlikely as it may seem, the Klingon court of the 23rd century is shown to be very similar to American courts of the 20th century, with the accused being questioned publically by the prosecutor, defense attorney Worf throwing in an "objection!" every now and then, the judge overruling them, etc. | |
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Our Presidents Are Different | |
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Our Presidents Are Different: President Target of the United Federation of Planets and Chancellor Target of the Klingon Empire. | |
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Unwinnable Training Simulation | |
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A floor panel explodes in Spock's face, reminiscent of how he "died" in the Kobayashi Maru simulation. | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
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From Bad to Worse: Disaster steadily builds throughout the film, with Kirk and Spock arguing over saving the Klingons, a drunken dinner that goes very badly, the Enterprise firing on the Klingon ship, a Kangaroo Court for Kirk and McCoy's trial, them only getting out thanks to a Bed Trick played on Kirk, and Spock having to Mind Rape Valeris, looking like he’d rather die than have to do it. | |
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2-D Space | |
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The shot where Spock speculates on the Bird-of-Prey's weakness is from the exact same angle as the one where he speculates on Khan's "two-dimensional thinking". | |
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Instant Emergency Response | |
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Instant Emergency Response: Valeris firing a phaser set to disinergrate not only sets off an alarm, but summons security along with half the ship. | |
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ShoutOutToShakespeare | |
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Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Just about every other line, especially if it's said by General Chang. Its very title is from Hamlet: "[D]eath — the undiscovered country, from whose bourne/No traveler returns". (III.i) Hamlet Martia: I thought I would assume a pleasing shape. Gorkon: A toast. To the undiscovered country — the future! Chang: To be... or not... to be... Henry IV, Part II Chang: Have we not heard the chimes at midnight? note A slight misquote converting the original play's statement, "We have heard the chimes at midnight..." into a question. Henry V Chang: Once more unto the breach, dear friends. Chang: The game's afoot. Julius Caesar Chang: Cry havoc! And let slip the dogs of war! Chang: I am constant as the northern star.note Bones: I'd give real money if he'd shut up. The Merchant of Venice Chang: Tickle us, do we not laugh? Prick us, do we not bleed? Wrong us, shall we not revenge?note He abbreviates the delivery a bit and leaves out "Kill us, do we not die?". Richard II Chang: Let us sit upon the grass and tell sad stories of the death of kings. Romeo and Juliet Chang: Parting is such sweet sorrow. The Tempest Chang: Our revels now are ended. | |
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Only One Plausible Suspect | |
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Only One Plausible Suspect: Towards the end of the movie we discover there's a traitor aboard the Enterprise. Since the movie has only one major character among the Enterprise crew who's not a series regular, it's not very hard to guess who the traitor could be. If they'd gone with the original plan for Valeris to be Saavik instead it might have been harder to predict, not to mention considerably more shocking. | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation: By DC Comics. | |
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom | |
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom: The explosion of Praxis that kicks off the events of the movie. Excelsior's visual enhancement shows that more than half the moon has been vaporized. The real-world analogue is the Chernobyl plant disaster that weakened the Soviet Union just enough to get the ball rolling. | |
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Space Is an Ocean | |
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Space Is an Ocean: Nothing new to Trek, but this movie subtly does a lot to give the feeling that the Enterprise is a naval vessel in space, right down to the computerized ship's bell dinging in a few scenes. Even moreso for this movie's Bird-of-Prey, which is the only one in the entire franchise to use a large ship's wheel at the helm. The explosion of Praxis sends out the space equivalent of a tsunami, which happens to be at the exact height in space to hit the Excelsior. The climactic battle gives the impression of two surface warships attempting to hunt down an enemy submarine. It does have 3D aspects, as enemy fire comes from all directions and heights. No one ever saw, for instance, the saucer section of the Enterprise being struck from below. The torpedo tearing through the saucer is inspired by cannonballs tearing through wooden ships. If ships having to uncloak to attack are like a diesel submarine needing to surface for air and to run the engines, then a ship that can fire while cloaked is like a nuclear submarine, with no need to surface at all. Thus, the gas-seeking photon torpedo is like an acoustically-guided anti-sub torpedo. | |
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Orbital Shot | |
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Orbital Shot: The forced Mind Meld. | |
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Actually Pretty Funny | |
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Actually Pretty Funny: During the trial, Chang asks McCoy for his "medical status." McCoy replies "Aside from a touch of arthritis, pretty good." One Klingon in the audience laughs uproariously, everyone else is dead silent. . . but Chang grins in response and congratulates McCoy on his "singular wit", a Stealth Insult that McCoy has used up all of his. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Christopher Plummer as Chang, rivaling even Khan. Lampshaded when McCoy exclaims, "I'd give real money if he'd shut up." | |
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Too Good for Exploiters | |
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Too Good for Exploiters: The Klingons sue for peace, because their hostility toward the Federation is unsustainable in light of the accident on Praxis, their moon and previously-key-energy-production facility. Unfortunately, there are those on all sides, Humans, Klingons, and even the Romulans, that want the hostilities to continue, because they exploit the benefits, jobs, and even the control, that come with their current political position. | |
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Disposable Woman | |
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Disposable Woman: The book version has Carol’s settlement attacked by Klingons just as she and Kirk were getting closer (and she’s been avoiding him for three books), just to give him apparently more excuses to hate them. | |
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Public Domain Canon Welding | |
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Public Domain Canon Welding: Hinted at when Spock states that, "An ancestor of mine maintained that when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." This is, of course, a Sherlock Holmes quote. Since Holmes is established as fictional in other Star Trek media, fans usually interpret this as Spock declaring himself to be a descendant of Arthur Conan Doyle via his mother. | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
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Broken Pedestal: Valeris to Spock, and vice versa. | |
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No Gravity for You | |
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No Gravity for You: One Klingon tactic involves doing this to an entire boarded ship. | |
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So Once Again, the Day Is Saved | |
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So Once Again, the Day Is Saved: Having saved the Federation so many times, the TOS crew can joke about it: | |
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Mind Rape | |
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Spock seems to be giving himself one after he publicly Mind Rapes Valeris for information on the conspiracy. | |
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Space Cold War | |
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Space Cold War: One of the more blatant allegories to come out of this period. | |
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Suddenly Sober | |
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Suddenly Sober: Kirk and his officers are visibly hung over at their bridge shift after drinking too much Romulan ale — until a photon torpedo suddenly hits Kronos One. Then again, nothing suddenly causes you to gain focus like the prospect of interstellar war starting on your watch... Unfortunately subverted in the case of Dr. McCoy trying to revive Gorkon. In combination wtih his lack of working medical knowledge of Klingons, his hands are unsteady and slightly clumsy, still affected by the Romulan Ale he drank during the state dinner. No matter how shaken awake by the whole diplomatic catastrophe unfolding he may be, his mental acuity and motor skills are still impaired by intoxication. Chang is quite ready to bring that up during the show trial. | |
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Deconstruction | |
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Deconstruction: Of Kirk again. This time, his Fantastic Racism makes him an easy Fall Guy for Gorkon's assassination. The Klingons in the original series were based on racist stereotypes and it wavered on whether Kirk and others were right to distrust them (with episodes like "Errand of Mercy" and "Day of the Dove" coming down on the side that Kirk isn't all that different from them), so they were the right candidates for a full-blown racism plot. | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill: After the modified photon torpedo hits and disables the cloaked Bird of Prey, it is dead in the water but still intact. Sulu's response with the Excelsior, and then Kirk's with the Enterprise-A, is to then pound it with torpedo after torpedo until it is completely obliterated. Slightly justified though because while the torpedo crippled the Bird of Prey and, presumably, killed Chang, it was still cloaked — just briefly exposed by the explosion — and so could still potentially be a threat. | |
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Macross Missile Massacre | |
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Macross Missile Massacre: Once Chang's Bird-of-Prey is revealed, the Enterprise and the Excelsior torpedo the hell out of her until she explodes. Downplayed, as it's something like a total of seven torpedoes. | |
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Out-of-Character Moment | |
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Out-of-Character Moment: Kirk surrendering the fight when the Klingon ship recovers and prepares to return fire. The Enterprise almost certainly would have won, but in doing so would have kicked off a war between the two powers (undoubtedly the conspirators' plan). He is doing everything possible to keep the chance for peace alive after what happened. Uhura's response says it all. Spock is legitimately hurt and angry over Valeris' betrayal, and makes no attempts to hide it. Even throwing logic in her face by outright daring her to shoot him. You can see the scorn on his face as he slaps the phaser out of her hand. | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass: Admiral Cartwright. He was previously shown in a more heroic light in Star Trek IV. However, here he comes off as a racist jerk during the briefing, and this is even before we find out he is a part of the conspiracy. | |
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Identical Grandson | |
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Identical Grandson: Michael Dorn portrays Colonel Worf, the grandfather and namesake of his TNG-era character. There was going to be a scene showing Colonel Worf talking with his young son, Mogh, but it was unfortunately cut. Downplayed in that the make-up for Dorn was significantly different than the TNG Worf note TNG Klingon make-up generally enlarged the size of their head with large crests, whereas Klingons in this film were more subdued which in turn makes it more of a family resemblance than actually being identical. | |
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Inhumanable Alien Rights | |
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Azetbur accuses the Federation of this in her Inhumanable Alien Rights rant, saying they profess a dedication to equality but are really a "Homo sapiens only" club. Another Klingon immediately acknowledges the presence of Spock, who is half-Vulcan (and identifies as Vulcan rather than human). But then again, getting into the reasons why Spock serves with a human crew and not a Vulcan crew wouldn't help the Federation's case either. | |
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IKEA Weaponry | |
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IKEA Weaponry: The sniper rifle used at the conference. | |
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Wasn't That Fun? | |
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Wasn't That Fun?: After General Chang's Bird-of-Prey first opens fire on Enterprise at Khitomer: | |
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Recycled IN SPACE! | |
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Recycled In Space: Although the theme of the movie is an allegory for the end of the Cold War, the plot is basically the trope Make the Bear Angry Again (a popular plot in contemporary thrillers) applied to the Klingon empire. | |
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Apocalypse How | |
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Apocalypse How: One destroyed mining planet and the near-irrevocable atmospheric desolation of the Klingon homeworld (which, thanks to the Federation, would ultimately be saved). | |
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Jabba Table Manners | |
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Jabba Table Manners: The Klingons disgust the Federation's delegation with their eating habits. General Chang was actually confused over his silverware napkin roll until he watched the Federation delegation use theirs. | |
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Questionable Consent | |
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Questionable Consent: The book makes it more explicit that Martia pushes themself on Kirk, kissing and “spooning�, and he doesn’t resist due to wanting to get out of there, but still feels sick whenever they touch him or leer after. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: Kirk realizing his intolerance of the Klingons made him the perfect patsy for Chancellor Gorkon's assassination. During his prison stay, Gorkon's last words haunt him as well. | |
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Wild Hair | |
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Wild Hair: The Federation President's mustache almost earned its own acting credit. | |
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene | |
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Before the climactic battle, Kirk and Spock wonder if they've both gotten too old to still be useful in a changing galaxy. | |
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Big "OMG!" | |
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Big "OMG!": Sulu's reaction to the incoming Planar Shockwave. | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate: Though Chang acts as the main villain for most of the movie, he's part of a larger conspiracy which includes Lieutenant Valeris, Admiral Cartwright, Colonel West, and the Romulan Ambassador. | |
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Rewatch Bonus | |
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Rewatch Bonus: After Gorkon and his staff leave the transporter room on the Enterprise, the two Starfleet security officers left behind begin talking to each other about how disgusting the Klingons are, only to be brought up short by a disapproving Valeris who tells them to get on with their work. Watching it with the knowledge that these two, Burke and Samno, would be the assassins of Gorkon and Valeris is their superior in the conspiracy means that what Valeris actually means is "Stop clowning around making yourselves look suspicious and get ready to carry out your mission". After it's shown that Crewman Dax, whose locker the magnetic boot was found in, couldn't possibly have been the one who wore it, we cut to Valeris, who has a look of obvious dismay on her face. Knowing the above point about her role in the conspiracy, it's likely she was thinking "Those idiots!" | |
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Revenge Before Reason | |
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Revenge Before Reason: Kirk certainly walks the line at first. | |
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Mass "Oh, Crap!" | |
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Mass "Oh, Crap!": Sulu and everyone else on the Excelsior bridge at the beginning, when they see the Praxis Shockwave hurtling towards the ship: The entire senior staff of the Enterprise has one at around midnight, all severely hung over (Except perhaps Spock). Spock talks about a peculiar sensor signature, they all commiserate about their hangovers... and then a torpedo comes seemingly out of the Enterprise and slams into Kronos One. When Kirk's log entry, in which he says "I have never trusted Klingons, and I never will..." is played in the trial, everybody in the Federation realizes how screwed Kirk and McCoy are now. (Not to mention revealing that The Mole is aboard the Enterprise.) Chang and his crew slowly gets this look all over their faces during the finale when the Enterprise fires out the Homing Projectile that gradually works its way toward them... | |
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Slow Clap | |
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Slow Clap: After Kirk saves the peace summit, the participants all start up. Including the "Ass" in Ambassador who hates him. | |
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Spot the Imposter | |
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Spot the Imposter: The reason Martia is able to escape is the same reason the Warden is able to figure out she isn't Kirk when he kills her: she took off her leg cuffs. Of course, given the Warden's plans for Kirk and McCoy, it wouldn't matter if he chose wrong anyways. There are a couple other giveaways as well: Martia always has gold eyes, and she points above Kirk instead of at him, since she is used to being shorter than him. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: While Kirk and Spock are arguing about the mission after the briefing, notice the figure standing in the shadows behind Kirk? It's Valeris, setting up her role in the movie. After the Klingon party leaves the transporter room, crewmen Burke and Samno make vaguely racist comments about the Klingons until Valeris starts bossing them around. All three are conspirators. Gorkon has a pretty good idea as to who betrayed him once the shooting starts. Spock and Scotty discuss the possibility that someone has hacked the Enterprise's computers. Then Valeris slides down into the room. Kirk's Captain's Log entry about how much he hates Klingons is used against him at his trial. Who heard him recording that log? Valeris. One of the missing magnetic boots is found in Dax's locker, seemingly implicating him in the assassination...except his bizarre feet prove that he couldn't have worn it. Guess whose visibly dismayed look the camera focuses on. It's...well, you get it by now... | |
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Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat | |
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Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat: During the climax as the conspirators are preparing to kill the Federation president, one of them, Admiral Cartright, is shown with sweat soaking his face. One of the engineers in the Enterprise's engine room is dripping nervously as well, as an invisible foe is probably lurking around Khitomer, waiting to tear the Enterprise apart. | |
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Official Presidential Transport | |
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Official Presidential Transport: The Klingon battlecruiser that carries Chancellor Gorkon to the rendezvous with the Enterprise is Kronos One (Qo'noS Wa'), Kronos (also rendered as Qo'noS) being the name of the Klingon homeworld. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: Sulu mentions at the end of The Voyage Home that he hopes the ship they're being sent to is the Excelsior. In this film he turns up as a starship captain... commanding the Excelsior. Even earlier than that, when the ship is first shown in the beginning of The Search for Spock, Sulu is gawking in amazement at it. Scotty also continues his nonplussed attitude about the ship, preferring to tip his hat to her Captain instead. During Kirk and McCoy's trial, General Chang brings up Kirk's demotion in Star Trek IV, simultaneously referring to the events of Star Trek III that precipitated it. The Enterprise-A tracks the cloaked Klingon vessel using its emissions, in the same way, the Enterprise-D does in "The Emissary", set over 70 years later. It's stated in the TNG episode that this is possible due to the age of the Klingon ship, suggesting that this incident might have quietly led Klingon R&D to figure out how to fix that little design flaw. Kirk takes his own advice from “Balance Of Terror� and keeps his bigotry to his own quarters. Unfortunately for him, Valeris is listening and gives the statement that he’s never forgiven Klingons to the other side. When Spock is being tested on Vulcan in The Voyage Home, one of the questions has to do with a starship being followed so closely that sensors show it occupying the same space as its pursuer. Here, the first sign anything is amiss comes when sensors pick up a surge in neutron radiation that seems to be coming from the Enterprise, when it's really from the cloaked Bird-of-Prey following her. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
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This Is Gonna Suck: When The Excelsior finally gets on the scene at Khitomer in the climax, Captain Sulu knows that all he and his ship and crew can do at that time is be another target for the invisible foe and take pressure off the battered Enterprise. True enough, moments later, Chang orders a torpedo strike that uppercuts right into Excelsior's saucer section, sending damage control teams scrambling and emergency bulkheads dropping. Non-Verbal example — as Chang speaks his "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner while a torpedo streaks towards them, two of his men can be seen behind him bracing themselves for the impact of the torpedo and the subsequent barrage to follow. | |
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Dramatically Missing the Point | |
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Dramatically Missing the Point: Spock initially doesn't get Valeris's concern over this upcoming peace. Nicholas Meyer described the scene in Spock's quarters as Valeris having a mental breakdown, which, being a Vulcan, happens so subtly that even Spock fails to notice. | |
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Production Foreshadowing | |
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In TNG's "Unification: Part II", which was made to promote this film, Spock tells Picard that because of how badly negotiating peace with Klingons almost went during this film, he opted to take matters into his own hands trying to negotiate unification between the Vulcans and Romulans. With Gorkon's assassination and Kirk and McCoy almost getting executed, Spock was unwilling to risk anybody's life but his own. | |
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Teleportation Rescue | |
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Teleportation Rescue: Kirk and McCoy are saved from their impending murder "for attempting escape" at the hands of the Rura Penthe warden by the transporters. Shame about the timing, though. | |
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High-Tech Hexagons | |
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High-Tech Hexagons: Sulu's tea table on the Excelsior's bridge is an illuminated oblique hexagonal prism.note Behind-the-scenes, this helped mask one of the gimbals used to shake the bridge set. | |
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Final Speech | |
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Final Speech: Gorkon begs Kirk with his dying breath to save the peace process, leaving Kirk shocked by cognitive dissonance. It also serves as emphasis to the foreshadowing above. He knows Kirk didn't pull this stunt. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: The speech that the warden gives Kirk and McCoy upon their entry to Rura Penthe is a paraphrase of Colonel Saito's speech to captured British P.O.W.s in The Bridge on the River Kwai. For comparison: | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Spock has this aura to him after he Mind Rapes Valeris to get the information to spot the Presidential assassination. In a more minor example, Kirk has this reaction after he bites out "LET them die!", especially when the words are later thrown back in his face by Valeris. | |
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"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner | |
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Non-Verbal example — as Chang speaks his "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner while a torpedo streaks towards them, two of his men can be seen behind him bracing themselves for the impact of the torpedo and the subsequent barrage to follow. | |
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Drinking on Duty | |
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Drinking on Duty: After the disastrous dinner, several still-drunk senior officers immediately return to duty. Chekov, in particular, is noticeably struggling to make it through his watch. Later, Chang uses this as evidence against Kirk and Bones during their trial. The watchman at the Klingon observation post is clearly hammered, which makes Uhura's task easier when she has to bluff her way past him in Klingon without the aid of the universal translator. | |
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Sticky Shoes | |
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Sticky Shoes: The assassins boarding Kronos One after the artificial gravity is disabled wear magnetic boots, allowing them to calmly stomp around shooting everyone in their path as they flail about helplessly. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Kirk and his officers are on the bridge, struggling to make it through their shift while in the grip of a Romulan ale hangover, when a photon torpedo suddenly hits Qo'noS One. | |
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Gender Is No Object | |
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Gender Is No Object: Scenes of the crew quarters aboard both Enterprise and Excelsior reveal that enlisted crew share bunk space regardless of gender, rather than having segregated male and female berths. | |
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General Ripper | |
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General Ripper: Chang. And Admiral Cartwright too, it seems. | |
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame | |
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: A downplayed example, but Kirk is obviously not thrilled to be greeted by Chang "from one warrior to another". | |
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Not So Stoic | |
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Not So Stoic: Spock is legitimately angry when Valeris is revealed to be The Mole and it shows when he slaps the phaser out of her hand with a clear look of anger on his face. | |
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Rousing Speech | |
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Rousing Speech: Kirk, in the aftermath of averting the assassination, though it's rather more poignant than rousing. | |
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No-Sell | |
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Scotty does note "She's packing quite a wallop," indicating the Bird-Of-Prey's weapons are more powerful than Klingon standard. Though also note, this design of starship could No-Sell V'Ger's One-Hit Kill plasma bolts. | |
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Near-Villain Victory | |
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Near-Villain Victory: The Big Bad nearly destroys the Enterprise and the conspirators nearly succeed in assassinating the Federation President, but the Excelsior helps buy the Enterprise time to complete its Plasma-Seeking Torpedo to find and kill Chang so they can get to the planet in time to save the day. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Kirk and McCoy wouldn't have been able to escape Rura Penthe if not for the villains' plot to engineer an escape attempt to have an excuse to kill them. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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When Crewman Dax is questioned about the assassination after the gravity boots were found on his locker, the crew realize his webbed feet cannot possibly fit into those boots. Cut to Valeris having a dismayed reaction on her face. We later find out that she too was in the plot, and her face was actually a very subdued Oh, Crap! when she realizes Burke and Samno clumsily disposed of evidence that can now be used against (potentially) all three of them. This sets her off to kill both Burke and Samno in an effort to hide her role in the assassination. She gets another one of these moments when she is exposed as The Mole in Sick Bay. | |
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Older and Wiser | |
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Older and Wiser: The TOS crew by this time. Spock shows this in his private conversation with Valeris: | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Many characters get a few lines, but McCoy gets the most. When meeting Valeris and hearing of her academy accomplishments. During Kirk and McCoy's incarceration on Rura Penthe. During the battle with Chang, as the general's hammy snippets of Shakespeare are broadcast throughout the Enterprise. During the start of that same battle after the first torpedo hit. | |
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Artificial Gravity | |
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Artificial Gravity: A rare example where artificial gravity actually fails. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: Being sent to Rura Penthe. | |
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I Did What I Had to Do | |
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I Did What I Had to Do: Spock's reaction to the forced mindmeld with Valeris is made entirely of this trope. | |
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Tracking Device | |
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Tracking Device: The viridium patch that Spock slaps on Kirk's back just before he and McCoy beam onto Kronos One. | |
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Just Between You and Me | |
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Just Between You and Me: Subverted; Kirk and McCoy are beamed out before the warden can give them a name. | |
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Like a Surgeon | |
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Like a Surgeon: The modification of a torpedo to target a cloaked ship is treated like a surgery, mainly to justify McCoy assisting Spock with it and to toss in some jokes. | |
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Sixth Ranger Traitor | |
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Sixth Ranger Traitor: Valeris. | |
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No OSHA Compliance | |
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No OSHA Compliance: This is cited as one of the reasons for Praxis exploding. Overmining and under-regulation turned it into a disaster waiting to happen, just like its real-life inspiration. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: For all the Jerkass tendencies that Kirk has about "letting the Klingons die", he turns a complete 180 when Gorkon's ship is attacked, and not of his own doing either. While Shatner's recoil was cut, Spock's aghast reaction makes Kirk look down, still ashamed of himself. Valeris falls for a trap that exposes her as the mole. Spock is part of the trap. He tells her that logically she must shoot him to have a chance of getting away. She cannot bring herself to do it. The conspirators need to get rid of the magnetic boots, but can't throw them out or destroy them. Rather than let a random innocent be accused, they hide the boots in the locker of a crewman whose species' feet are so large and abnormally shaped (compared to humans) that it is flatly impossible that he could have worn them. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: It's quite nicely worked in, but Kirk's remark in the end speech that "some people think change means the end of history" is likely a jab at neo-conservative Francis Fukuyama's proclamation (and epynonymous book) that the collapse of Soviet communism meant that liberal bourgeois democracy was the only option for developing countries and was, thus, "the end of history". Starfleet Colonel West is inspired by USMC Col. Oliver North, who was implicated in the Iran/Contra scandal. | |
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Ironic Echo Cut | |
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Ironic Echo Cut: Spock: "If I know the Captain, by this time, he is deep into planning his escape." Cut to Kirk getting the crap kicked out of him in a prison brawl. | |
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Dramatic Downstage Turn: Occurs when Kirk and McCoy are lying in their prison beds. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Though remarkably tame, it is certainly one for Spock after hearing the Enterprise is to be decommissioned: | |
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Clear My Name | |
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Clear My Name: Kirk and McCoy. | |
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Realpolitik | |
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Realpolitik: Kirk is among the more skeptical officers when it came to the Klingon peace treaty, but is volunteered by Spock to lead the first diplomatic envoy. The fact Kirk was anti-Klingon was being used to give legitimacy to the peace talks, a more compliant officer would have made the Klingons question their commitment and the Federation would worry about being too submissive. When Kirk objects, Spock quotes an Old Vulcan Proverb "Only Nixon could go to China," making it absolutely clear what the movie was trying to reference. | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: When the prison warden finds Kirk and McCoy outside, he shoots the shape-shifter who was helping him immediately, but inexplicably agrees to explain who is behind the conspiracy before shooting Kirk and McCoy. This gives them enough time to escape. | |
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Slasher Smile | |
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Slasher Smile: William Shatner gives a great one as Martia!Kirk, when saying, "killed while trying to escape." | |
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His Name Is... | |
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His Name Is...: The warden of Rura Penthe engages in a little Just Between You and Me with Kirk and McCoy, but an inopportune rescue by Spock ruins the reveal. | |
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Unwanted Rescue | |
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Unwanted Rescue: At least not for a few more minutes after Kirk's captor explains the plans. | |
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Murder by Inaction | |
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Murder by Inaction: Kirk refuses to help the Klingon by proclaiming they can just die for all he cares. | |
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Alien Blood | |
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Alien Blood: The Klingons have Pepto-Bismol pink blood in this film (and only this film until Lower Decks used it as well), in order to keep a PG rating. Becomes a minor Chekhov's Gun in the final act when an assassin is identified as not being Klingon because he has red blood, but only in the extended cut. The Star Trek staff (particularly Mike Okuda) Hand Waved this by claiming the pigment change to be a side-effect of microgravity. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: The conspiracy to prevent Klingon/Federation cooperation proves Klingon/Federation cooperation is possible. | |
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No, You | |
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No, You: When Admiral Cartwright demands the crew of the Enterprise arrested for crashing the Khitomer Conference, Spock responds by saying, "Arrest yourself!" while holding up Valeris, revealing to him that they know everything. | |
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Gunship Rescue | |
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Gunship Rescue: Downplayed, as the Excelsior arriving on the scene in the climax doesn't do much more than give Chang another target (although it does take some heat off the battered Enterprise). Once they find a way around the cloak, however, their combined firepower makes short work of the Bird-of-Prey. | |
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Inconvenient Summons | |
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Inconvenient Summons: Kirk and McCoy are caught by the warden of Rura Penthe trying to escape, and are about to be executed, so Kirk figures he might as well ask who's behind the conspiracy. The warden decides to oblige. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The last line before the final voice over is a reference to the 1953 Disney film Peter Pan (the directions to Neverland). To Sherlock Holmes, when Spock says, "One of my ancestors once said, 'When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'" Gene Roddenberry had established as part of Spock's Backstory that Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was one of Spock's ancestors on his mother's side. Chang's demand that Kirk not wait for the translation of a question, but answer it immediately, is straight from an earlier (pre-TOS, in fact) US-Soviet confrontation, the Cuban Missile Crisis. In that case, it was Adlai Stevenson insisting that the Soviet delegate to the UN answer simply yes or no as to whether they were putting missiles in Cuba. The Warden's speech is almost a word-for-word paraphrasing of Saito's "There is no escape" speech from The Bridge on the River Kwai. The Translation Convention device listed below that demonstrates the Klingons at Kirk and McCoy's trial are speaking their own language through interpreters. A very similar device was used several decades earlier in the 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg (which incidentally featured a young William Shatner in a supporting role). Rura Penthe shares its name with the penal colony from the 1954 film adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. | |
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Cool Starship | |
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Cool Starship: Excelsior finally gets to strut her stuff after her Epic Fail three movies ago. | |
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FromACertainPointOfView | |
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From a Certain Point of View: Spock says that his lies are "An error" and "An omission." Valeris then says that her lie is "A choice." | |
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Description Cut | |
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Description Cut: After Kirk and Bones are sentenced to life imprisonment. | |
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Don't Answer That | |
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Don't Answer That: Colonel Worf tells Kirk this during the trial. The judge insists otherwise. | |
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Only One Finds It Fun | |
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Only One Finds It Fun: When McCoy is on the witness stand during the trial, he is asked about his medical status. He answers, "Aside from a touch of arthritis, I'd say pretty good." One Klingon laughs, but everyone else is silent. | |
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My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels | |
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My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Uhura, "expert linguist", attempting to communicate with the Klingon ship. The film gives us a throwaway line explaining that they couldn't use the Universal Translator because the Klingons could not only detect it but tell what language was really being spoken. The novelization, at least, provides a slightly more rational explanation for why they were scrambling to look up Klingon phrases in old paper books, instead of using the Universal Translator — namely, that the same saboteur(s) who had altered the ship's logs to make it look like the Enterprise had fired on the Chancellor's ship also wiped the Klingon language data from the memory banks to keep the Enterprise from crossing Klingon space without giving themselves away as soon as someone tried to establish communications with them. The books were part of Uhura's personal collection, not part of the ship's library, so the saboteur presumably didn't know about them, or didn't have any opportunity to destroy them. Star Trek canon indicates that Klingon was one of the first languages decoded and added to the Universal Translator. By Kirk's era, it's rendered perfectly by the universal translator in almost every circumstance. This means that there's no real need to have an expert aboard for Klingon along. Since Enterprise is on a five-year mission to explore strange new worlds and new civilizations, Uhura's job would be to deal with obscure and new languages, so it would make sense if her studies had focused on really bizarre languages, not ones that are commonly studied. To put it in real world terms, if someone was exploring tribal nations in the middle east, we would expect them to learn languages from that area. It wouldn't make sense to expect them to know Spanish even though it is a common language in many parts of the world. Nichelle Nichols has previously pointed out the obvious logical flaw about the scene: Given that Uhura was the ship's communications officer, and that the Klingon Empire was a hostile foreign power, she would have learned the Klingon language as part of her training. It simply makes no sense that Starfleet would send the Enterprise on such a delicate diplomatic mission without proper preparation. | |
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Incoming Ham | |
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When Kirk and Chang first meet, Chang says "I've always wanted to meet you, Captain. One warrior to another?" Later, during Chang's Incoming Ham moment he says, "Now be honest Captain, warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way, don't you? No peace in our time, as it was meant to be." His last sentence is also a Call-Back to Kirk calling him out on demanding "breathing room" earlier via Godwin's Law. | |
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Fantastically Challenging Patient | |
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Fantastically Challenging Patient: When Bones tries to save the wounded Klingon Gorkon, he doesn't actually cut Gorkon open, but he does insert some sort of medical device into the open chest wound. As Bones points out while trying to treat Gorkon, Klingon anatomy is not the same as Human anatomy, and Bones has no medical training in helping Klingons. Gorkon ends up dying of his wounds. | |
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We Need to Get Proof | |
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We Need to Get Proof: Spock logically figures out that the only ship that could have torpedoed Kronos One is a cloaked bird-of-prey, but as they're not supposed to be able to fire while cloaked, it will take more than their word to convince Starfleet. | |
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Prevent the War | |
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Prevent the War: The Enterprise's crew has to figure out the plot to assassinate Gorkon and jail Kirk in order to save the peace conference and stop war from breaking out. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Kirk and McCoy would have never escaped if Chang hadn’t ordered the Gulag warden to help them escape. Instead, Kirk and McCoy would have simply languished in prison, the Enterprise would have been waiting around in Klingon space for nothing, the Federation President’s assassination would have gone on as planned, and Chang and his crew would have lived... at least until the Federation–Klingon War. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Spock's disturbed reaction to Kirk's desire to see the Klingons die off.note In commentaries, Shatner expressed dismay that they cut out a subsequent self-dismissive gesture from Kirk suggesting it was impulsively said. This was prompted by Spock "volunteering" the Enterprise and crew for the peacekeeping mission. Considering just two films ago, Kirk was accused by the Klingons of developing the Genesis device as a superweapon, he seems like a poor choice — but the implication is that the Klingons respect Kirk's legendary fighting abilities and will deal better with a tough guy than a nice guy. The conspirators have no problem leveraging this reputation to frame Kirk for Gorkon's murder. The dinner scene spreads a lot of the blame around to all of the main characters — with the exception of Spock, who really is trying — who drink too much Romulan ale and come off as bigoted against Klingons. That most of Enterprise's senior staff returned to duty still drunk from dinner is used as evidence of gross negligence against Dr. McCoy in their trial. Spock seems to be giving himself one after he publicly Mind Rapes Valeris for information on the conspiracy. | |
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale | |
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Praxis must be really close to the neutral zone in order for the Excelsior to have been caught in the Planar Shockwave. (It is said to be a subspace shockwave rather than a plain old STL shockwave.) The Excelsior is said to be returning home on impulse power, which is unlikely unless they were already near their destination (or taking some time to perform maintenance on their warp drive). It would take years to travel between stars at sublight speedsnote The distances are so great, in fact, that any sublight travel is, effectively, not traveling at all compared to warp speed. This is likely out of necessity to the plot as it would be the ship being hit by the Planar Shockwave.note During production of Star Trek: The Next Generation, there were a lot of shots of the Enterprise-D on impulse power, and a behind-the-scenes Technical Manual explained that warp speeds can only be sustained for periods of time before they need to drop out of warp and recalibrate. The producers indicated that warp effects were actually expensive to produce which is why these stock impulse shots were used. Presumably the Excelsior needs to do this as well, given that it is an earlier vessel than the Enterprise-D. Also the Excelsior being able to image the destroyed moon as well, as even in the time of Star Trek: The Next Generation only something as big as the Argus Array can see a planet across interstellar distances. The image is obvious CG. It’s not an actual photo of Praxis, but a computer representation of what remains of Praxis given various data available from the sensors. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: Valeris argues that the Klingons are untrustworthy because they've conspired with the Federation to assassinate their own chancellor, when that very same conspiracy plans to assassinate the Federation president. Not to mention the fact that she herself is in on the conspiracy... Azetbur accuses the Federation of this in her Inhumanable Alien Rights rant, saying they profess a dedication to equality but are really a "Homo sapiens only" club. Another Klingon immediately acknowledges the presence of Spock, who is half-Vulcan (and identifies as Vulcan rather than human). But then again, getting into the reasons why Spock serves with a human crew and not a Vulcan crew wouldn't help the Federation's case either. | |
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No-Paper Future | |
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No-Paper Future: Subverted when Uhura is trying to pass for a Klingon ship at Morskika Post. Since she can’t use the Universal Translator, she and the crew flip through Klingon books to formulate a proper Klingon response. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Admiral Cartwright tries to high-tail it as The Plan to assassinate President Ra-ghoratreii falls apart — only to run into Captain Sulu and his team, phasers at the ready. | |
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: | |
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Ship Tease | |
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Ship Tease: Very subtly between Spock and Valeris, reflected in their UST-filled nightcap and his emotional response to her betrayal. This is likely a remnant of the original script, which was to have the established character of Saavik instead of Valeris (reflecting the fact Spock and Saavik were strongly implied to have mated in Star Trek III and a deleted scene in Star Trek IV had established that Saavik was pregnant with Spock's child; in the Expanded Universe novels, Spock and Saavik eventually marry.) | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: Burke and Samno, seen in the transporter room when Gorkon and his party beam aboard, are later revealed to be the two assassins responsible for his death. The extended cut takes this further: they make disparaging remarks about the Klingons after the party has left the room, only to be stopped by Valeris. Colonel West, seen only in the extended cut. He is the architect of the plan to rescue Kirk and McCoy from Rura Penthe, and is later the sniper shot dead by Scotty. Admiral Cartwright is another, albeit minor, example: his unease of peace with Klingons makes him a party of the plot to shoot the Federation President. | |
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Bluffing the Murderer | |
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Bluffing the Murderer: "Code Blue Urgent: Court reporter to Sickbay. Statements to be taken..." | |
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Translation Convention | |
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Translation Convention: During the trial, the Klingons begin in their own language, then the camera cuts to a box where translators are giving a running translation in English, which is being piped through radio-like devices that Kirk and McCoy are listening to. When the camera cuts back to General Chang, all spoken dialogue for the rest of the scene is in English, but it's still clear the Klingons are speaking their own language, particularly when Chang yells at Kirk not to wait for the translation before answering a question. This trope is mostly avoided for all other scenes involving the Klingons on their own, however. Subtitles are used in all-Klingon scenes in almost all movies. For some reason, it almost always switches to English whenever Chang starts talking, sometimes right after some untranslated Klingon. Maybe Christopher Plummer had trouble chewing scenery in Klingon. | |
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Incoming! | |
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Incoming!: Chekov when the Bird-of-Prey is blasting away at them. Rather than shouting it, he mutters it with resignation. | |
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Standard Female Grab Area | |
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Standard Female Grab Area: Spock to Valeris when they mind-meld and after she's revealed as the traitor. | |
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Call-Forward | |
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Call-Forward: Camp Khitomer is chosen as the site for the renewed peace talks. The Khitomer Outpost would be the site of a Romulan-perpetrated massacre of a Klingon colony there during the next generation. Worf's parents died there. In TNG's "Unification: Part II", which was made to promote this film, Spock tells Picard that because of how badly negotiating peace with Klingons almost went during this film, he opted to take matters into his own hands trying to negotiate unification between the Vulcans and Romulans. With Gorkon's assassination and Kirk and McCoy almost getting executed, Spock was unwilling to risk anybody's life but his own. | |
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Godwin's Law | |
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Godwin's Law: Kirk makes a comparison between the Klingon's request for "living space" with Hitler's demands for Lebensraum at the diplomatic dinner (whilst not being very diplomatic). Needlessly to say, this comparison goes down really really badly. Becomes worse when the two Klingons most likely to get it are the traitorous conspiratorial one obsessed with Earth culture and the one who had probably done his research on their planet and history for the forthcoming peace talks. I.e. the two worst of the group to offend with the comparison. However, the latter understood Kirk's old prejudice perfectly and didn't hold it against him, and the former probably goaded Kirk to say that. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Valeris, for Saavik. In relation to Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Spock is Holmes and Chekov is his Watson. | |
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Homeworld Evacuation | |
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Homeworld Evacuation: As part of the peace treaty, the Federation agrees to help evacuate the Klingon homeworld before the planet runs out of breathable oxygen in fifty years. However, as The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine show Qo'noS to still be the Klingon capital and seemingly no worse for wear eighty years after the events of this movie. Either the Federation and Klingons apparently found some way of fixing the problem, or Qo'noS was actually relocated to a different planet and just referred to as that. Spock's briefing indicates that saving Qo'noS is economically impossible for the Klingon Empire, which spends far too much on the military, not that it's technologically impossible, echoing a common understanding of reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union. With the peace treaty and eventual integration into the Federation, saving Qo'noS presumably became a more realistic prospect. | |
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Artistic License – Space | |
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Artistic License – Space: Rura Penthe is referred to as an asteroid, yet somehow possesses a breathable atmosphere. It's possible this may have been an error on the part of Kirk's translator or was just what Klingons called all non-planet-sized rocky bodies. It's also worth noting that this film precedes the discovery of dwarf planets by a number of years, which do possess some amounts of atmosphere despite being only somewhat bigger than the larger asteroids out there. | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: Valeris. | |
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We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future | |
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We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: Or at least the Klingons will on their prison planets. Then again, it's Rura Penthe, the Klingon equivalent of a gulag. The warden outright calls it "the gulag Rura Penthe" during his introductory resistance is futile speech. Hardly meant to be comfortable. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The Klingon miner on Praxis shouting for help just before the moon's explosion. In the novelization, Sulu reflects that he's never seen abject terror on a Klingon's face before and never thought he would. Spock angrily smacking Valeris's phaser out of her hand after she is caught as the mole. Nimoy even said he wanted Spock to do something very un-Vulcan at that moment. Later, when he's about to interrogate Valeris via a non-consensual mind-meld, he roughly yanks her around to face him, and pulls her close when she tries to get away. When Kronos One recovers from the attack it turns around ready to attack the Enterprise, with Chang vowing revenge. Kirk immediately surrenders rather than raise shields, as submitting to them is the only course of action to continue peace talks. The crew knows the reasons why, but are stunned because this is Captain James Tiberius Kirk surrendering to the enemy. | |
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Defensive Feint Trap | |
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Defensive Feint Trap: Kirk attempts one of these when Chang's Bird of Prey attacks the Enterprise upon arriving at Khitomer. He orders the Enterprise into a reverse, confusing Chang momentarily, but only enough to give the Enterprise some breathing room and a few extra seconds for the Excelsior to arrive. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Kirk gets in a fight with a big blue alien and ends it by kicking the alien in the knee. Or so he thinks. | |
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Ham-to-Ham Combat | |
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Ham-to-Ham Combat: William Shatner vs. Christopher Plummer. The survivors likely envy the dead. At one point it's Shatner vs. Shatner, which reaches hamageddon levels. | |
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The Kingslayer | |
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The Kingslayer: The assassination of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon threatens to derail the burgeoning peace process between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. While Kirk initially takes the fall for it, Spock launches an investigation aboard the Enterprise to find the two hitmen, which he does... though only after they've been killed to protect the rest of the conspirators. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Sulu and the USS Excelsior swooping in to even up the fight against General Chang and his Bird-of-Prey. While the original plan was to play this trope straight, the end result is a slight subversion; Excelsior doesn't do much but provides a second target at first, giving the Enterprise a much-needed breather. Once Chang's ship is revealed by the first hit on its hull, though, Sulu takes full advantage of the reveal to add his ship's weight to the fight. Sulu states quite explicitly that he knows all the Excelsior is on their arrival is another duck in Chang's shooting gallery. In the novelization, Enterprise is specifically described as trying to hold out until Excelsior can arrive with better sensors and stronger shields. Compare Wellington deciding to hold on at Waterloo until Blucher could arrive with the necessary reinforcements to beat Napoleon, but it being the British who, in shooting Napoleon's Old Guard to a standstill, triggered the French rout. | |
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Jerkass | |
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For all the Jerkass tendencies that Kirk has about "letting the Klingons die", he turns a complete 180 when Gorkon's ship is attacked, and not of his own doing either. While Shatner's recoil was cut, Spock's aghast reaction makes Kirk look down, still ashamed of himself. | |
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth | |
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Chancellor Gorkon. Dr. McCoy describes him as "the last, best hope for peace." | |
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Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like | |
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Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: If Spock had waited a few more seconds before his Teleportation Rescue, Kirk would have had the details of who wanted him killed. | |
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Evil Twin | |
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Evil Twin: Martia, the shapeshifter who takes on Kirk's shape during their fight. | |
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Got Volunteered | |
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Got Volunteered: Kirk and the Enterprise are volunteered to escort Chancellor Gorkon to the peace conference without his knowledge, with Spock "personally vouching" for him. He is not amused. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: Kirk punches Martia. Of course, she’s a shapeshifter, so he doesn’t know whether she’s really female or not. | |
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Why Isn't It Attacking? | |
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Why Isn't It Attacking?: The climactic Battle of Khitomer has the Enterprise under attack from General Chang's bird-of-prey, which can stay cloaked while attacking, causing Kirk to initially order his ship to pull back. Both commanders on either side ask this question about the other: Kirk wonders why Chang does not press his advantage; Chang wonders if the Enterprise is backing up because they detect him, and wants to make sure they cannot ascertain his exact location before attacking the larger ship. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Valeris in place of Saavik. | |
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Hard-Work Montage | |
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Hard-Work Montage: The crew of the Enterprise searching for uniforms with Klingon blood. | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: The first thing that throws a wrench into the conspirators' plan- they assumed that, with Kronos One bearing down on him preparing to fire with a snarling General Chang spitting vitriol at him, noted Military Maverick and Klingon-hater James T. Kirk would leap at the chance to fight the Klingons again. They underestimated Kirk's actual sense of duty and dedication to the ideals of the Federation, preferring to surrender if it was the only way to prevent a war. | |
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FacePalm | |
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Face Palm: Uhura's response to Chekov believing he has the culprit and missing the very obvious fact that their suspect can't fit in the incriminating boots. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Multiple people come charging into the galley wondering why a phaser discharge alarm sounded in there after Valeris demonstrates to Chekov how the assassins couldn't simply vaporize their incriminating footwear with a phaser; Uhura, Scotty, a security offer decked out in armor with his own phaser in hand... Chekov spends the rest of the scene having to tell everyone it's alright each time it happens. It does conveniently bring Uhura down with news about Starfleet Command's increasingly demanding order to return to port, as well as Scotty so Spock can solve the problem by order him to "have trouble with the warp drive". | |
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Silent Whisper | |
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Silent Whisper: Right after the bodies of Chancellor Gorkon's killers are found, Kirk takes Spock aside and they have an inaudible conversation. At the end Spock says, "Possible." It turns out to be an idea to lure the killers' killer out. | |
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Captain's Log | |
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Kirk's Captain's Log entry about how much he hates Klingons is used against him at his trial. Who heard him recording that log? Valeris. | |
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Inciting Incident: The Praxis explosion and resulting Planar Shockwave. | |
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