Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is the sixth feature film in the
Star Trek science fiction franchise. It was released in 1991 by
Paramount Pictures, and is the last of the Star Trek films to include
the entire core cast of the 1960s Star Trek television series. After an
ecological disaster leads to two longstanding enemies—the Federation
and the Klingon Empire—brokering a tenuous truce, the crew of the USS
Enterprise-A must prevent war from breaking out on the eve of universal
peace. Faced with producing a new film in time for Star Trek's 25th
anniversary, Denny Martin Flinn and Nicholas Meyer, the director of
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, wrote a script based on a suggestion
from Leonard Nimoy about what would happen if "the wall came down in
space", touching on the contemporary topic of the Cold War. Principal
photography took place between April 1991 and September 1991. The
production budget was smaller than anticipated due to the critical and
commercial failure of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Due to a lack of
sound stage space on the Paramount Pictures lots, many scenes were
filmed around Hollywood. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry died
shortly before the movie's premiere. The Undiscovered Country garnered
positive reviews, with publications praising the lighthearted acting
and tongue-in-cheek references. The film performed strongly at the box
office, and earned two Academy Award nominations, for Best Makeup and
Best Sound Effects.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
105 BC:
The Cimbri and the Teutons inflicted a major defeat on the Roman
Republic in the Battle of Arausio.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arausio>
1849:
In Arad, present-day Romania, 13 Hungarian rebel honvéd generals who
became known as the 13 Martyrs of Arad were executed by Austrian
authorities for their part in the Hungarian Revolution.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13_Martyrs_of_Arad>
1973:
Egypt, under the leadership of President Anwar Sadat , launched
Operation Badr in co-ordination with Syria, crossing the Suez Canal and
attacking the fortified Israeli Bar Lev Line, starting the Yom Kippur
War.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War>
1995:
In an article published by the scientific journal Nature, astronomers
Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz reported the discovery of a planet
orbiting 51 Pegasi as the first known extrasolar planet around a
main-sequence star.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51_Pegasi>
1998:
University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was fatally attacked for
being gay near Laramie, Wyoming, USA.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
balmy (adj):
1. Soothing or fragrant.
2. Mild and pleasant.
3. (US, informal) Foolish; slightly crazy or
mad; eccentric
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/balmy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power
attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other
things than power.
--David Brin
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