Meyer Rediscovers 'Undiscovered Country'

"I don't like the director's commentaries, and I don't think you should listen to mine!" Nicholas Meyer told a crowd at a Borders bookstore in Los Angeles on Tuesday, where he appeared to promote the special edition of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Before autographing DVD covers, Meyer spoke for nearly an hour, reported StarTrek.com.

Six months before filming began on The Undiscovered Country, said Meyer, "They said to me...'we'd really like to make another Star Trek movie, do you have any ideas?' I was like, Agh! I never have any ideas! And the ones I do have, mainly, stink!"

But the co-writer of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home had a conversation with Leonard Nimoy, who suggested a storyline setting the fall of the Berlin Wall in outer space.

"You know, the Klingons have always been our stand-ins for the Russians..." Meyer recalled Nimoy saying, and that gave him an idea for starting with "an intergalactic Chernobyl." Gorbachev became Gorkon, he said, recalling that nobody knew in 1992 whether Gorbachev was dead or alive.

Meyer claimed that he made few changes to The Undiscovered Country in re-editing for the special edition, saying he is generally opposed to the idea of "director's editions" of movies. But in Star Trek VI, "there were a couple of moments that I thought were not clear, and I suddenly saw how to make them clear."

Meyer will make another appearance in San Francisco this Saturday, January 31st, at 4:00 p.m. at the Borders in San Rafael.

The original article is here.

The extended edition of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country can be purchased at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca or Amazon.de.

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