Cold War Archive

Re-Watching Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

– November 10, 2011 8:00 amPosted in: Movies

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Screenplay by: Nicholas Meyer & Denny Martin Flinn
Story by: Leonard Nimoy and Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal
Produced by: Steven-Charles Jaffe & Ralph Winter
Directed by: Nicholas Meyer

Release date: December 6, 1991
Stardate: 9521.6

Mission Summary

A mining accident destroys Praxis, a Klingon moon where energy for the entire Klingon Empire is produced. With only 50 years of life left to the Empire as a result, the Klingons open a dialog with Vulcan ambassador Sarek about ending hostilities with the Federation and dismantling all bases around the Neutral Zone. Spock has recommended Kirk for the diplomatic honor of escorting the Klingon High Chancellor Gorkon to a peace summit. This enrages Kirk, who has come to despise the Klingons for killing his son David.

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Tags: angry klingons, assassins, Cold War, getting old, kangaroo court, klingons, loyalty, mind meld, mysteries, politics, prejudice, racism, shakespeare, swan song, the end of an era

Re-Watching Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Torie Atkinson & Eugene Myers

– October 27, 2011 8:00 amPosted in: Movies

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Screenplay by: Steve Meerson & Peter Krikes and
Harve Bennett & Nicholas Meyer
Story by: Leonard Nimoy & Harve Bennett
Produced by: Harve Bennett
Directed by: Leonard Nimoy

Release date: November 26, 1986
Stardate: 8390.0 (aka 1986)

Mission Summary

The crew of the Enterprise has been court-martialed by Klingon request for the ship stolen and the lives lost in Star Trek III. Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, a mysterious probe that disables just about everything is headed straight for Earth. The probe sends a signal no one can understand, and when it doesn’t get a response it begins to vaporize the Earth’s oceans and ionize its atmosphere: a recipe for disaster. Spock, newly born again, discovers that the signal is the song of the humpback whale: extinct since the 21st century. In classic Star Trek fashion, the crew go back in time to 1986 San Francisco to nab themselves some humpback whales.

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Tags: admirals, also probably nuclear vessels, angry klingons, Cold War, computers, court-martial, curious lack of moby dick references, double dumbasses, emotional Spock, giant fish tanks, i don't know you well enough to get into that, mind melds, movies, nuclear wessels, russians, time travel, transparent aluminum, whale biologist, whales

Star Trek Re-Watch: “Assignment: Earth”

Eugene Myers & Torie Atkinson

– July 15, 2010 5:16 pmPosted in: TOS Re-Watch

“Assignment: Earth”
Written by Art Wallace (story by Gene Roddenberry and Art Wallace)
Directed by Marc Daniels

Season 2, Episode 26
Production episode: 2×26
Original air date: March 29, 1968
Star date: 1968

Mission summary

While on a frivolous time travel mission to research Earth’s history, circa 1968, Enterprise accidentally intercepts a transporter signal from an unknown source over a thousand light years away. A well-dressed man holding a black cat beams onto their transporter pad and looks at them dramatically.

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Tags: black cats, Cold War, computers, mysterious strangers, nasa, nosy secretaries, perfect bodies, stock footage, time travel