Star Trek VI manager has great regret about the moment of Spok

Nicholas Maeer “Star Trek VIly: Unconscious Country” – It was released on December 6, 1991 – as a very clear metaphor for the policy of that time. At the beginning of the movie, the Klingon Moon was completely obliterated, Praxis, with a horrific mining disaster. The Klingon Empire was already in such desperate straits, so that this disaster risks the overthrow of the entire government. The only way to save the Klingon Empire is to end the long cold war with the union, and communicate as a potential ally. This, of course, was a somewhat direct symbol of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It was also, in a blow from the lucky time, a symbol of the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, which only occurred last August. It was certain for the “Star Trek Vi” screenwriter to predict mainly the fall of the Soviet Union, as the scenario was written shortly before it happened.

When the Soviet Union fell, the Cold War that lasted with the United States ended, and it seemed at least for a short and optimistic period-Russia will become one of America’s allies. There was a lot of hope in the late months of 1991, and this optimism was reflected in “Star Trek Vi”, a film that assumed that the union and the Klingon Empire would actually become allies after the signing of the peace agreement. The warmth in the ancient world was only-the soldiers who could not think about stopping the battle efforts-who tried to stop peace talks and perpetuate the Cold War. The film’s conclusion witnessed a warm defeat.

also, Once again in 2016, Mayer spoke with IGNAnd he admitted that “Star Trek VI” was not only naive in this regard, but that Spok (Leonard Nimoy) is a moment of explicit cruelty he hoped to recover. Minding the mind On Valeris (Kim Catrat)Mayer said, it was harder than something that Spok should have done.

As we mentioned, “Star Trek Vi” ends with a new brave world of union. Klingons was classic “bad guys” throughout the “Star Trek”, so they were seen as allies as a dramatic step forward for the privilege. Of course, the most amazing relationships with Klingons had already been drama in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, which is nearly a century away from “Star Trek Vi”, so Trekkies knew that it would come.

Mayer just got a story of how this relationship started. However, he also admitted that his optimistic outlook of the Klings – definitely parallel to the Soviet Union – ended up being more charged in real life. As it put it:

“The naivety does not make me exactly, but there are things that make me outperform it. The naive thing that I assume is simply our thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we have reached the end of history, and we entered into a new world more than just more than just beauty. naive. We were severe in terms of we expected the Soviet coup before it happened. “

It should be noted that Mayer made these statements in late November 2016, immediately after the election of Donald Trump as president (the first time), and the scandals on Russian intervention in the American elections were abundant. Mayer, like anyone else, could see that his views of the Russian allies in 1991 were not complicated as it could have been.

However, regret the biggest Mayer of “Star Trek VI”, includes a moment that involves Spuk. Near the end of the movie, this was revealed Protégé Young’s SPOCK, Vulkan called ValerisHe had to assassinate, cover up and conspire to preserve the Cold War. The details are very complicated, and I will not spoil them here. However, Spock discovers Valeris’s involvement, and presses it for information. When she disturbs her, Spook forcibly makes her mind, in order to go into her brain and read her thoughts. Valeris is very preventive, just as he does not know all the details that Spok wants, so the scene of the mind becomes very intense. By the end, Valeris appears to suffer from tremendous pain.

Watching the scene in 2016, Mayer felt that it seemed that Spock was mainly torturing Valeris to get information from it. The exit poetry was incorrect.

“I also think that the scene in which Spok makes Volcan’s mind mixes in Valeris to get information that appears to be anxious in the water, and do not make me very happy to see it. (…) It does not look like it is the case.”

When asked if any of the film makers feel that the mind scene was a scene of torture in 1991, Mayer admitted that no one thought of it. Spock, a logical and peaceful figure, did not resort to torture. Perhaps if Kim Katraral was directed to look like it was not too late, the curse would have been removed from the scene, but it pants and arrogance as if her brain was burning. It is very harsh in the past. No wonder Mayer regrets.