Charting the Undiscovered Country: The Making of Trek VI is an unauthorized reference book published in 1992 that focuses on the making of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Summary
- From the book jacket
- "This may very well be the best book ever written about Star Trek."
- – Mitch Rubinstein, Galactic Journal Magazine
- "Highly recommended."
- – Advanced Comics Magazine
- The best selling authors of New Voyages: The Next Generation Guidebook take you behind the scenes of the final Star Trek film, The Undiscovered Country. Together, Mark A. Altman, Ron Magid and Edward Gross trace the history of the project from preproduction to the premiere, with exclusive and candid interviews with those who created it, including:
- William Shatner • Leonard Nimoy • DeForest Kelly [sic] • Michael Dorn • James Doohan • Walter Koenig • Nicholas Meyer • Ralph Winter • Next Generation's Rick Berman • Steven Charles Jaffe [sic] • Mark Rosenthal • Kim Cattrall • The ILM Special Effects Team • Greg Jein • Cliff Eidelman • Harve Bennett • Denny Martin Flinn • The Make-up Team • Hiro Narita • George Takei • And more!
- Discover how the best of Star Trek films was brought to life in less than a year, as well as the Trek voyages that never made it to the screen, including the controversial prequel, Starfleet Academy and the unfilmed Klingon adventure, "Kitumba".
- Re-live the making of The Undiscovered Country as told by those who brought the film to life, and examine the missing footage that would have re-introduced the cast and Carol Marcus, the astounding special effects which transformed Iman into William Shatner, Saavik's last stand, and learn what went wrong with Star Trek V as candidly recounted by its director, William Shatner.
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