re: #314 TedStriker

Undiscovered Country laid the end-of-the-Cold-War allegory on thick and deep, but the cast’s performances (even Shatner’s) was pretty damn good. For me, Sulu as captain of the Excelsior, as well as Plummer, Cattrall, Iman, David Warner, and Kurtwood Smith’s performances (as well as Michael Dorn’s cameo as a lawyer ancestor of his TNG/DS9 character Worf, tasked with Kirk and McCoy’s defense in Klingon court) were made the movie.

Takei, Plummer, and David Warner made the movie for me. There was a lot of great stuff in it, and up ‘til pretty recently, I thought of it as fairly flawless. The Tor sci-fi publisher’s website had a rewatch/review of the movie (it’s a very long article, btw) that pointed out some of the more dunderheaded decisions made by the writers, though I think they note that the acting is pretty damn great across the board.