Back to the even numbers with The Undiscovered Country, and this is a film that benefits both from more adept production on every level, and from comparison to the cursed abomination that was the fifth movie. This is not an awesome movie, but following The Final Frontier it looks so very good.
Short synopsis: An industrial accident forces the Klingons to the table, with their alternative being a desperate gambit to seize territory. When the Chancellor chooses to talk, a conspiracy frames Kirk for his assassination to use his hatred of Klingons as a cassus bellum.
In many ways, it's one of the cleverest and certainly most complex of the movies, playing with the idea of a war hero in the age of peace; Kirk the warrior, faced with finding common ground with a people he has demonised in his own mind, both as 'the enemy' and as his son's killers. It's great achievement is in making Kirk wrong, but still sympathetic.
It is also the last of the classic series movies, and as such a triumphal send off, with a moving coda as the crew head off for one last jaunt.
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