Happy 18th TUC!!

[Nardpuncher]

Well... I remember seeing it on a chilly Winnipeg Friday.

I was 18 myself at the time!

Happy Birthday Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country!!

 

[Nardpuncher]

What? No love? No memories?

 

[Daneel]

TUC was the first Trek movie I saw in theatres. I was 8 years old, and on a trip with my family... I think we were in Pittsburgh, or someplace. Anyway, we split up: my sister, mother, and grandmother all went to see some other movie, while my dad, grandfather, and I went to see TUC.

Good times, good memories. I enjoyed the film then, and I still do today. It's one of my favourite Trek movies.

 

[Lord Garth]

It was the first Star Trek movie I saw in the theater. I was 12 at the time. It was agony that day, sitting in class, waiting for the school day to end so I could see the movie.

I had the TUC novel already. Later on, I picked the Starlog Magazine for TUC, the comic adaptation, and for Christmas I got a Star Trek VI T-shirt. I even hung up TUC posters in my room.

Yeah, yeah. Go easy on me. There's a huge difference between 12 and 30.

After the movie was finished, my mother said she thought the title should've been "A Farewell to Arms" instead of "The Undiscovered Country".

 

[sbk1234]

I went with a group from college. Among those in attendence was a now-ex-girlfriend on our first date. It was opening night. I found out many years later that my now-wife of 13 + years was also in the same theater at the same showing.

 

[Botany Bay]

No way...this movie cannot be 18 years old!

I remember it very well, I was about 14 years old, and saw it in San Francisco while on holidays with my parents.

I couldn't believe the passion of the American fans - wild applause, cheering and clapping - and that was just for the actors' names in the openining credits! When the Klingon ship blew up I thought they were gonna tear the roof off the place. It was so much fun - more like a rock concert, and nothing like any of the screenings I'd been to before or since here in Australia.

Still in my top handful of Trek films, and particularly noteworthy for its quality considering the time and budget pressure Nimoy and Meyer were under. We were lucky to get such a good sendoff for the TOS crew, all things considered.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

The Undiscovered Country. One of my favorite films, never mind favorite Trek films. So many great lines including, "Please let me know if there's some other way we can screw up tonight" which i've used in real life too many times!

NARDPUNCHER: i DO love your dawggies!

 

[Nardpuncher]

^^ Thank you!!!

I wonder, from our younger fans, did anyone think that the title meant they were going to find a new country here on Earth? I had read Hamlet already in grade 12, but in when the movie came out I thought it would be a tad obscure and not a very good title for a Trek movie.

 

[Data Holmes]

This was the first trek movie I saw in a theater, as I saw trek V in a drive in. I ended up seeing it three or four times in theater (first time I ever went to a film in theater multiple times).

First time, when the whole family went, almost didn't happen as I was sick as a dog that day. I refused and insisted that we went because it was opening night.

 

[Lord Garth]

I wonder, from our younger fans, did anyone think that the title meant they were going to find a new country here on Earth?

No. I didn't.

I made another mistake. When Kirk said "We'll arrange to have you beamed aboard at 1900 hours," I thought he meant in 1,900 hours for a moment there. Then I thought to myself, "That can't be right..." Within six months, I got a digital watch that I accidentally set to military time and then I finally understood what Kirk meant.

Still, I didn't know what "The Undiscovered Country" meant until high school. And I have to say it's a much better subtitle for Star Trek II. For Star Trek VI it doesn't mean anything. Maybe the death of the times they were living in but that's stretching the meaning of the title to an extreme. It doesn't work at all.

 

[Nardpuncher]

I wonder, from our younger fans, did anyone think that the title meant they were going to find a new country here on Earth?

No. I didn't.

I made another mistake. When Kirk said "We'll arrange to have you beamed aboard at 1900 hours," I thought he meant in 1,900 hours for a moment there. Then I thought to myself, "That can't be right..." Within six months, I got a digital watch that I accidentally set to military time and then I finally understood what Kirk meant.

Still, I didn't know what "The Undiscovered Country" meant until high school. And I have to say it's a much better subtitle for Star Trek II. For Star Trek VI it doesn't mean anything. Maybe the death of the times they were living in but that's stretching the meaning of the title to an extreme. It doesn't work at all.

Well Meyer, the director, tried to make it refer to 'the future' (Chancellor Gorkon toasts "To the undiscovered country, the future.") but you're right...it's a stretch.

 

[BriGuy]

Ah, the movie that saved the reputation of the original cast before they were put out to pasture.

Good solid Trek movie.

What I remember the most was finding the music awesome and wanting (and getting) the soundtrack.

 

[ClayinCA]

EEEK! No movie that I saw after graduating college should be eighteen years old...God, I feel so ancient....

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I saw it on VHS for the first time. I'd only recently become a Trek fan and so I saw it, and I actually cried at the end.

 

[Chrisisall]

I actually cried at the end.

I do- every time.
Every time.

 

[Data Holmes]

I saw it on VHS for the first time. I'd only recently become a Trek fan and so I saw it, and I actually cried at the end.

Did you see it before or after treks II and III?

 

[Corran Horn]

Wow, that went fast. This is actually the first Trek film I remember seeing in the theaters.

I remember trailers played up the fact that someone was going to betray Kirk...speculation was that it might be one of the original crew. I remember being kinda scared it'd be Scotty when he hears the uniforms rattling in the vent and kinda stalks away in a weird way. (turned out to be nothing)

I remember the VHS tapes of the original films I had played a promo for TUC with Plummer's narration..."now we invite you to join them on one last adventure...", which was pretty good.

I also thought that with Kirk and McCoy being imprisoned (shown in trailers) and his log entry being used as evidence (either trailers or the TNG "Journey's End" special) that the Enterprise might've been captured/destroyed by the klingons.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I saw it on VHS for the first time. I'd only recently become a Trek fan and so I saw it, and I actually cried at the end.

Did you see it before or after treks II and III?

After. And TWoK does make me cry.

 

[Jonesy]

When I was 18 years younger than I am today, I guess I enjoyed this film.....when I was 18 years younger and my taste and sensibilities were nowhere near as honed as they are today.

Now, I look upon TUC as a rather pedestrian "adrenaline" action film. I think it succeeded (way back then) in making people believe that they were seeing something deeper and with more substance. But, then again, I think that statement could be said about almost all of the Trek films.

 

[Penhall99]

This was the first Trek I saw on the big screen. I was 10 years old and my Dad took me to see it. Still one of my favorite Star Trek movies...