23世紀。クリンゴン人のある資源衛星が事故により爆発し、同衛星では大気汚染が進み、あと何十年かで同惑星が壊滅する事実が判明する。惑星連邦は講和を申し入れてきたクリンゴン帝国の宰相ゴルコンに対し、カーク船長率いる宇宙船USSエンタープライズの護衛をつけるが、カークの部下スポックが講和を望む一方、かつて自分の息子をあるクリンゴン人に殺された過去があるカークは、講和という事態を受け入れるのに躊躇していた。
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監督: ニコラス・メイヤー
脚本: ニコラス・メイヤー / Denny Martin Flinn / ジーン・ロッデンベリー
音楽: Cliff Eidelman
制作: Steven-Charles Jaffe / Ralph Winter / レナード・ニモイ
撮影監督: Hiro Narita
制作会社: Paramount Pictures
Fresh from their flirtation with the Almighty, our crew of intrepid explorers are on the eve of hanging up their phasers when they are summoned to carry out one last mission. This time, it's just a courtesy job to escort the Klingon High Chancellor to a conference on Earth. They meet, have a nice state dinner and exchange some Shakespeare; next thing the Klingon has been assassinated and "Kirk" and "McCoy" have been fitted up for the crime and imprisoned on a cold penal colony that makes "Hoth" look like Barbados. Now we have a race to free them and get to the new venue of the peace meeting before the warmongering "General Chang" (Christopher Plummer, complete with a bolt-on eyepatch) and his Federation co-conspirators put the kibosh on the proceedings and they all die fighting. This is the last ensemble outing for the whole crew and it's a great bit of action adventure in the spirit of "Wrath of Khan" (1982). A fitting finale for their last voyage together.
I mean, there are better Star Trek movies, but this was 1991 and the Berlin Wall fell and the Klingons were the metaphor for the USSR (despite what the current everything is political writers of Picard say, despite their attempts to invert it) and spray cans destroyed to O-Zone layer... ... and so do moons. So.... this fit PERFECTLY into 1991. PERFECTLY, and good science fiction is always a commentary on politics, culture, religion, something contemporary that needs to be poked at and examined. And that is EXACTLY what VI does, and it does it to the letter. It examines the old cold warriors in a new time of peace.
