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Undiscovered Country was the original title for Star Trek
II. |
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The China in the movie was made by the same company that
made China for the White House. |
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Originally, the story had the crew coming out of
retirement. The idea of incorporating retirement into
the movie came as a result of a David Letterman joke in
which he said the next movie would be called the Search
for Geritol. In the original story for Star Trek VI,
Kirk got the assignment and went out to find his crew
(who were scattered about in 6 different exotic
locations). Ohura was working for a radio call in show.
Scotty was teaching Engineering. Spock was playing
Polonius in a Vulcan production of Hamlet. Sulu was a
taxi driver on an overcrowded planet. This all had to be
dropped because of budget concerns. |
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The conference briefing at the beginning of the movie was
shot in a church with a black background draped around. |
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Originally they wanted Saavik to be the Vulcan traitor.
However, Kirstie Alley chose not to reprise her role, so
they changed it to Valeris. |
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Gorkon's facial features were designed to resemble Abraham
Lincoln. The name Gorkon is a blending of Gorbachev and
Lincoln. |
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Nichelle
Nichols refused to say the
line "Guess who's coming to dinner" because she felt it
was racist. So they gave the line to Chekov. |
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The color of Klingon blood was originally going to be
green. |
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Two writers were hired prior to Nick Meyer and D.M.
Flinn. Nick was asked to give them notes, which he did.
He was then waiting for a script when Paramount decided
to restart the project without those writers. |
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When Klingon General Chang demands
that Kirk answer a question without waiting for the
translation, it is a
reference to the real-life
exchange at the United Nations between U.S. Ambassador
Adlai Stevenson and Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin
during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. |
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The Klingon Judge was played by Bob Easton, the foremost
dialect coach in Hollywood. The box the Klingon Warden
stands on at the entrance to Rura Pente was the same box
that colonel Saito stands on in the movie the Bridge on
the River Qwai. The speech the warden gives is also
based on the speech given in the Bridge on the River
Qwai. |
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The cave scenes were shot on location at Bronson Canyon
(in Hollywood) and in Alaska. |
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The first scene filmed for the movie was the Klingon
Listening Post scene. |
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The stunt where Kirk falls into the fire during the fight
in the mines was actually performed by William Shatner. |
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Christian Slater's cameo was due to his mother being the
casting director; he was also a huge fan. |
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Originally,
the scene where Valeris enters sickbay to "kill" the
framed crewmembers,
was not in the script. |
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The movie's opening party was at
Leonard Nimoy's
house. |
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At the movie's wrap party, Nick Meyer was presented with
the steering wheel from the Bird of Prey at the wrap
party. |
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Harve Bennett's first idea for Star Trek VI was a prequel
featuring Kirk and Spock at Starfleet Academy. |
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Nicholas Meyer and D.M. Martin wrote the script
separately; they would email each other the script as
they made changes. |
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Gene Roddenberry originally hated the script for Star Trek
VI. He saw the movie for the first time 2 or 3 days
before he died, and said he liked the final product. |
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The blue food served in the banquet scene was actually
squid dyed blue. |
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The Zero-G scenes were primarily done
by building sets sideways.
Then wiring was used to pull
the actors up or down, but it looked left to right due
to the orientation of the background and the camera
angles. |
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Some sets were built on gimbles so that they moved with
the actors. |
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In the court room, the Klingon audience is chanting "To be
or not to be" in Klingon. |
