This Star Trek film is one of the more difficult ones to remember in my mind after I saw it. I thought it was okay, but that was really about it. Then I saw it again a few years later and I realized it was actually a good film but just feel it gets lost in the mind of many fans because it is the last in the series to star all the original cast and has a different tempo.
This film more than most focuses on "the big three"--Spock, McCoy and Shatner. The film begins with an appeal from the Klingons for help--it seems their planet is doomed and for the first time they want an alliance with the Federation. Kirk's solution is simple--they are Klingons so let them die!! But, despite this view, the meeting where they sign the accord is going to happen anyway. At the historic meeting, there is an assassination and Kirk and McCoy are convicted for the murder. Well you KNOW that they didn't do it, but the real culprets must be found. This mystery-suspense aspect of the film makes it pretty interesting and at least different.
Not a great film but a worthy addition to the series.
This film more than most focuses on "the big three"--Spock, McCoy and Shatner. The film begins with an appeal from the Klingons for help--it seems their planet is doomed and for the first time they want an alliance with the Federation. Kirk's solution is simple--they are Klingons so let them die!! But, despite this view, the meeting where they sign the accord is going to happen anyway. At the historic meeting, there is an assassination and Kirk and McCoy are convicted for the murder. Well you KNOW that they didn't do it, but the real culprets must be found. This mystery-suspense aspect of the film makes it pretty interesting and at least different.
Not a great film but a worthy addition to the series.