560: Gaseous Anomaly Platform

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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In space, all warriors are cold warriors! An ecological disaster leads to the breakup of an enemy empire, but in “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” it’s the Klingon moon Praxis subbing in for the Soviet power station Chernobyl. Kirk and company struggle with their animosity toward the Klingons, but we are more concerned with what graduate school Gorkon’s daughter went to, the Klingon guard who carries a box, the one Klingon who laughed at McCoy’s joke, the importance of gaseous anomalies to Federation politics, and the lack of respect given to the Enterprise court reporter. Discussing this movie must’ve...

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 560, April 2021.
0:11.8	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:13.6	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.7	This is an episode where we're going to talk about a Star Trek movie,
0:17.2	probably the last Star Trek movie that we'll talk about unless they make more Star Trek movies.
0:22.1	It is Star Trek 6, the Undiscovered Country from 1991, co-written and directed by Nicholas Meyer, who of course directed Star Trek 2.
0:31.2	And this is the movie that they made because everybody felt really bad after Star Trek 5 and didn't want it to end.
0:39.0	Don't let it end this way, Captain.
0:42.9	Do another movie so it isn't as embarrassing as the one you directed.
0:47.0	Anyway, they made Star Trek 6 and it was a good movie and we're going to talk about it.
0:51.6	Joining me to talk about it are a bunch of wonderful people, including David J. Lorr.
0:56.2	Hello.
0:56.7	Once more unto the breach, Jason.
0:58.6	Oh, boy.
0:59.4	I hope not everybody quotes Shakespeare.
1:01.0	Dan Warren is also here.
1:02.1	Hello.
1:02.6	The good news is they're not going to prosecute.
1:04.9	I don't think that's Shakespeare.
1:06.7	No, I don't think it is.
1:07.8	John Moltz joins us.
1:09.2	Hello, John. True story. The alternate title for this
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