Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (feat. Sam Adler-Bell)
Unclear and Present Danger
Jamelle Bouie
4.7 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Is a Star Trek movie a political and military thriller? We think so! Which is why, for this thirteenth episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John (and their guest, Sam Adler-Bell of the “Know Your Enemy” podcast) discussed Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. They talked about the nature of Star Trek’s utopianism, questioned whether the Federation is actually a good thing, and gave a close reading of the film’s Cold War allegory.
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| 0:00.0 | Warrior to Warrior. |
| 0:07.0 | She cannot take much more of this. |
| 0:09.0 | Cry havoc! |
| 0:12.0 | Kiel! |
| 0:14.0 | And let's slip the dogs of war. |
| 0:17.0 | Fire! |
| 0:25.6 | Star Trek 6, the undiscovered country. The Uniscovered Country. Welcome to Episode 13 of Unclear and Present Danger, a podcast about the political and military thrillers |
| 0:56.2 | for the 1990s and what they say about the politics of that decade. I'm Jamel Bowie. I'm a columnist |
| 1:02.3 | for the New York Times opinion section. My name is John Gans. I'm a freelance writer. I write |
| 1:07.4 | a column for Gawker and I'm working on a book about American politics in the early 1990s. |
| 1:14.7 | And today we have a guest. |
| 1:16.9 | We have Sam Adler Bell of the Know Your Enemy podcast and also a freelance writer who has done a lot of phenomenal work. |
| 1:23.9 | Welcome, Sam. |
| 1:25.1 | Hi, guys. |
| 1:27.2 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:29.7 | I'm so happy to be here. |
| 1:32.4 | We will talk about your familiarity with this very broad subject of this movie that we're |
| 1:42.6 | going to discuss. |
| 1:43.2 | But first I want to mention the movie. Today we are |
| 1:45.7 | talking about Star Trek 6, The Undiscovered Country, a 1991 science fiction film directed by |
| 1:53.3 | Nicholas Meyer, who directed last episode's movie as well, and starring pretty much everyone you |
| 2:00.6 | would expect, William Shatner |
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