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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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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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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