SPOILER ALERT! (Although, really, this movie came out nearly eighteen years ago, so I don't feel too bad spoilin' some of it.)
Tonight I watched Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and I must say it is my favorite to date.
Maybe it's because I've seen it fragment by fragment instead of all in one sitting, but I do enjoy the political discussions, the philosophical debates, and the odd bit of humor.
Quoting Shakespeare seems a smidgen outdated in the 23rd century, but the script is well-written and logical.
It is with a heavy heart that I must accept that both the quoting of Ahab's revenge in the climactic moments of The Wrath of Khan and the last words of Sydney Carton as a eulogy to the greatest Vulcan who ever lived [scroll to next-to-last quotation] (the combination of the latter two I still maintain is completely unfair, especially since either would be enough to make me bawl my eyes out) have been bested by this opus, which, although lacking such a magnificent villain as Khan, is a masterfully executed celebration of the bit of humanity in all of us (Although some would "find this rather insulting, Captain.")
And also because Kirk holds the following dialogue with his (evil) double:
Kirk: "Can't believe I kissed you!" (note: Kirk n°2 used to be an attractive humanoid female in the relatively recent past.)
Kirk n°2: "Must've been your lifelong ambition."
And that, ladies and gents, is James T. Kirk in a nutshell. The galaxy's greatest philanderer, and with an ego to boot.
Kirk, you fancy bastard. I love you and your slightly misguided ways. And Spock, of course. Nothing but logic and, if you know where to look, all too human emotions. And McCoy, too. Everyone needs a grouchy but lovable Southern doctor.
Tonight I watched Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and I must say it is my favorite to date.
Maybe it's because I've seen it fragment by fragment instead of all in one sitting, but I do enjoy the political discussions, the philosophical debates, and the odd bit of humor.
Quoting Shakespeare seems a smidgen outdated in the 23rd century, but the script is well-written and logical.
It is with a heavy heart that I must accept that both the quoting of Ahab's revenge in the climactic moments of The Wrath of Khan and the last words of Sydney Carton as a eulogy to the greatest Vulcan who ever lived [scroll to next-to-last quotation] (the combination of the latter two I still maintain is completely unfair, especially since either would be enough to make me bawl my eyes out) have been bested by this opus, which, although lacking such a magnificent villain as Khan, is a masterfully executed celebration of the bit of humanity in all of us (Although some would "find this rather insulting, Captain.")
And also because Kirk holds the following dialogue with his (evil) double:
Kirk: "Can't believe I kissed you!" (note: Kirk n°2 used to be an attractive humanoid female in the relatively recent past.)
Kirk n°2: "Must've been your lifelong ambition."
And that, ladies and gents, is James T. Kirk in a nutshell. The galaxy's greatest philanderer, and with an ego to boot.
Kirk, you fancy bastard. I love you and your slightly misguided ways. And Spock, of course. Nothing but logic and, if you know where to look, all too human emotions. And McCoy, too. Everyone needs a grouchy but lovable Southern doctor.
3 comments:
'Spock.........if you know where to long........' A Freudian slip perhaps?
Freudian slip: When you say one thing but mean your mother.
You caught me! Although it was probably more muscle memory than Freudian slip, I get so used to writing certain words that I write them in the middle of completely unrelated sentences. What's terrible is that I am starting to make typos when I write by hand too! I misspell my own name and write "teh" everywhere I mean "the". This does not bode well at all!
Hmmm. I'm not sure that I've ever misspelt my own name. I have forgotten it (and I wasn't old at the time!) and, even worse, that of my (then) wife. I suspect that your brain just works too fast for your hands. With me my hands just work too slow for my brain. Subtle difference.
Love the Freudian slip definition.
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