Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) on Netflix

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

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  After Gene Roddenberry objected to making the fan-favorite Saavik the traitor, the character was replaced with a new Vulcan, Valeris; Kim Cattrall accepted the part only once it was no longer Saavik, a role she had originally auditioned for.
• Nichelle Nichols refused to say the line "Guess who's coming to dinner" when the Klingons arrive, so it went to Walter Koenig's Chekov, and she also refused a line about marrying a Klingon, which was cut from the film.
• Cinefantastique reported that Kim Cattrall posed on the empty Enterprise bridge wearing nothing but her Vulcan ears; Leonard Nimoy ripped up the photographs when he learned of the unauthorized shoot, fearing damage to the franchise.
• While filming Gorkon's death scene, a large lamp exploded and rained down on David Warner and DeForest Kelley; one piece barely missed Warner's head, which Kelley was sure would have killed him.
• The Klingon courtroom's endless rows of angry Klingons were faked with two hundred Worf dolls sent by Ralph Winter, rocked back and forth by motors and lit by red-dyed twelve-volt bulbs, in a miniature 10 feet long.
• Because the actors refused to eat the unappetizing blue-dyed alien food under hot studio lights, Nicholas Meyer offered $20 per shot of a character eating; William Shatner became the only cast member to eat the purple-dyed squid.
• The Rura Penthe glacier exteriors were shot in Alaska, where temperatures dropped to −50 °F, the stuntmen in wool costumes risked pneumonia, and batteries drained after minutes of filming.
• The zero-gravity assassination of Gorkon was achieved by building sets on their sides on gimbals and pulling actors up and down on wires, with the camera at the bottom of a corridor set placed on its end in Paramount's tallest soundstage.