Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country features Captain Spock (Leonard Nimoy) performing an unwanted mind meld on Lt. Valeris (Kim Cattrall), a controversial scene that has not aged well. The final film to feature the entire cast of Star Trek: The Original Series, The Undiscovered Country centers on a conspiracy to thwart peace talks between the United Federation Of Planets and the Klingon Empire, the latter of which has become hobbled by a catastrophic mining accident. Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan director Nicholas Meyer returned to helm the TOS crew's final cinematic voyage.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is not without controversy. Some took offense to the raw, angry racism Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) expresses toward the Klingons early on, as he still blames the entire species for the death of his son in Star Trek III: The Search For Spock. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who by that point was gravely ill and near the end of his life, reportedly hated the movie, even engaging in a heated meeting with Meyer to express his reservations about the film's dark tone and certain character motivations. And yet the movie's most enduring controversy remains Spock's shocking actions near the end of the film.
