Agreed. This was an excellent movie, not just an excellent Star Trek movie. Its plot was particularly timely, envisioned as a parallel to thawing US/Soviet relations at the time. And its messages and quotations remain equally applicable to the present day. Many of them voiced by Chancellor Gorkon; the seemingly simple "Well... I see we have a long way to go", recognizing that formally making peace is easy, while actually changing people's attitudes sufficiently to maintain that peace and enable it to flourish over the long term is the tricky part. A few other favourites:
"On Vulcan we have a saying: 'Only Nixon can go to China.'"
"To be, or not to be. That is the question that preoccupies our people, Captain Kirk. We need breathing room!"
"Earth. Hitler. 1938."
"You don't trust me, do you? I don't blame you. If there is to be a brave new world, our generation will have the hardest time living in it."
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
-- Klingon proverb
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bjlevine
9 years ago
To be fair, TUC is an episode worthy story. Just not sure it was TOS finale film worthy. The Enterprise (and another Federation ship) in a life or death struggle with...a Bird of Prey? Eh.
For that matter, why weren't there lots of Federation, Klingon and Romulan ships orbiting Khitomer?
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Bob the Builder and Hadji walk into a bar...
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kerryedavis
9 years ago
Maybe they were kept away both to preserve secrecy, and to avoid temptation. On EITHER side.
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