Battle of Khitomer - Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country (4K)
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2022
- This cut together the battle between General Chang's Bird of Prey, Kirk's Enterprise and of course Sulu's Excelsior from Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country. I then upscaled it from 1080p to 4K using the AI-powered Video Enhance AI software by Topaz Labs. Let me know what you think.
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I saw this opening night at midnight. There were people dressed in Star Trek uniforms, people in full Klingon armor. You have to understand, we'd lived through about 4 years of Captain Picard's diplomacy-first command style...and the crowd in that theater was bloodthirsty. When Sulu ordered, "Target that explosion and fire!" everyone in the theater went absolutely berserk! The packed house was on their feet cheering! To this day, the best movie experience I've ever had!
I think Kirk, and also Sulu, learned in Star Trek II to finish off the enemy in battle. Otherwise, they'd be dealing with some trick like Genesis.
when Sulo said "then fly her apart" was better. We got a heartbeat
This movie was a Cold War epic, thinly disguised as a Shakespeare play, even more thinly disguised as a a Star Trek movie.
as was most of Trek. Did you not watch TOS?
@@jv-lk7bc I just about every episode multiple times. This movie, many times.
LOL!
Great summary. There’s a bit of Sherlock Holmes country house murder mystery in there too!
Probably my Favorit
“I’d give real money if he’d shut up.”
I quote this way more often than I should. 😂
"Key please doctor, time is short." - The green blooded way of saying hurry up.
When I was 7 right after seeing this in the movies we were at a religious convention that was about 5 hours long. It was supposed to end at like 4pm and it was like 4:30pm and I whispered that to my parents who then began to laugh and drew looks. To this day my parents laugh at what I said. I don't think to this day they know I was quoting the good doctor! lol.
It’s a great comment, Bones is very Old School, you know he sees the value in hard currency. Even ST itself was like, “we can’t have an economy with no money.” Hence, Gold-Pressed Latinum.
I don't quote it nearly enough.
I doubt that.
This intensity of which Sulu says, “then fly her apart” confirms what I’ve always felt-Sulu is a bad ass.
This is because Sulu owes various favors to Kirk, Spock, Mccoy, Chekhov and Uhura. He probably made such a extreme remark because he wanted to help Kirk and his team even if it meant sacrificing himself and Excelsior.
Best line in the sequence.
I badly wanted that Trek show, Sulu and Excelsior... which would have included a much younger Tuvok, by the way.
SO true! 'Don't call me tiny!' 'Klingon bird of Prey sir she's arming torpedos!' 'ALRIGHT, now we've given them something else to shoot at!' Sulu has had my favorite lines in Star Trek!
I saw this in the theaters when it came out, practically everyone cheered at the end of this scene. One of the very best in the entire series, rivaling only that of Star Trek II.
Please Bro, share with us
I also saw this when it came out, and the ending brought tears to my eyes!
That's enviable. I was still a toddler when this movie was released...I would like to see the 7 Captain Kirk movies in IMAX or Dolby Cinema.
I love to rewatch this type of clip just for the torpedo scene
Same thing happened when I went to see this in the theater.
I love the consistency of how Klingon ships are built. They always blow up exactly the same way.
Just like russian tanks today.
Talk about being cheapskates. Using it in the following movie was unforgivable.
@@danielt.8573 Klingons are modeled on the Russians after all.
@@jv-lk7bc Indeed. They can't govern themselves so they need to expand to feel united under a cause - always war.
@@NoMoneyG exactly! Generations used the exact same explosion same angle same colors same everything it was as lazy as the reverse waterfall in Anaconda...
This scene always made me tear up. Something about the build-up. The Enterprise, old but battle-hardened enduring a massive pounding. And then suddenly everyone's reaction aboard when Excelsior gets hit with that first torpedo. It hits me right in the feels.
Christopher Plummer was absolutely spectacular as general Chang. I always liked him in any movie he was cast in.
And the fact that he came back and reprised the role in a video game shows that he enjoyed the character too. Klingon Academy was an OK game, but Plummer and Warner coming back to do full motion video made it EPIC.
Plummer And Shatner where friends from the late 50's in Canada.
@@pwc7475 in Canada, all warriors are cold warriors.
The only actor in a Star Trek movie who out hamed Shatner.
@@eeduranti yep! (Stratford) but you gotta love it
"Target that explosion and fire"
Sulu was such a badass as captain.
Gotta love that Ent-A. A torpedo goes right through her saucer and she keeps on fighting.
One thing I really like about this scene, is how the bird of prey fires on the Enterprise from so many different positions. It gives the sense the ship is flying all around the Enterprise so they couldn't figure out its position. Then when Kirk fires the torpedo, it moves around in swerves, retracing the path of the Bird of Prey, just like the firing positions of the ship. It really gives the scene a sense of playing out in 3 dimensions.
My assumption on why Kirk can’t fire wide beam (assuming they still have it) or Willy nilly, is because he risks hitting Khitomer and causing unintentional damage diplomatically or, if really unlucky, physically
I don't get your thoughts here. The Enterprise didn't swerve or mimick any path, it basically was stationary or moving in a straight line
@@Mustang-bk4ns he means the torpedo was retracing the path.
It’s also why Chang was shooting torpedoes one at time. Fire too many from one location and you risk getting discovered.
I always thought the torpedo was just taking its time turning to its target. I never considered it might be tracing the BoP’s plasma wake like a fuse.
The little smile on Sulu's face after the Klingon ship was hit says everything he's thinking.
:::That man never ceases to amaze me.:::: "Target that explosion and fire."
he knew what Kirk was capable while working under him he knew he had figured out the problem ..and the solution to it
You even see how the Excelsior is superior to the good ol´ Connie. Even with full shields the first Torpedo from the klingons left burning marks on the hull of the Enterprise. Meanwhile the shields of the Excelsior absorb the whole energy of the torpedo impact.
Yeah, Always Loved that detail
The look Chang's sudden realization that the plan just got flushed down the toilet the second the Enterprise fires a single torpedo is priceless and very telling of the character. He knew right then that if they're just firing a single torpedo in a random direction that the Enterprise had nullified the advantage of the cloak and he was likely doomed, even before the torpedo started corkscrewing around seeking his ship.
The Enterprise going full reverse made him suspicious too. This guy was very cautious and astute for a Klingon.
Also I guess there was no budget for phasers in this movie. Had I been Kirk I would have ordering phaser fire in the general direction of where the torpedoes appeared from like Riker did against the Scimitar.
Firing phasers in all directions is a maneuver Kirk did himself in Balance of Force, if I remember correctly. Besides, warping directly next to the planet and beam down a few seconds later could also have been an option, I think.
Thing is, Chang had plenty time to target the torpedo and destroy it with a disruptor burst.
Can they do that, canonically? I don't recall ever seeing it done on screen, and that torpedo was looping all over the shop. I suppose they had time to try, even if it was odds against.
@@studentjohn Randomly shooting into an area? Yeah, I know it was done in TNG era several times. As for in TOS, the fight vs Khan in Wrath was dead reckoning firing. And in the episode where there's a romulan ship that's cloaked, the Enterprise is just firing torpedoes into areas and trying to hit the cloaked ship within the area effect of the explosion. Now granted, the chances of hitting are astronomically low but its better than nothing.
@@LyzeOh, no - I've not been clear: I meant the Bird of Prey shooting down the Enterprise's modified torpedo with its disruptors.
Each key character at their best:
Scotty in the engine room, Bones and Spock modifying the torpedo, Chekhov at weapons, Uhura at Comms trying to locate the bird of prey, Sulu arriving in the nick of time on board Excelsior, and of course Kirk at his best in the captain’s chair.
This whole film is glorious. My favorite Trek movie.
@@StinkyGreenBud Yep, mine too. It's better than Wrath of Khan. A glorious murder-mystery political thriller in space.
@@AdmiralKarelia Whoa there pardner. Lets not go overboard.
@@marc80s Oh I'm not. And make no mistake, Wrath of Khan is phenomenal. But Undiscovered Country beats it in my book. There's nothing about that movie I don't like.
@@AdmiralKarelia2 different movie archetypes. As you said, Undiscovered Country was a spy political thriller, Wrath of Kahn was a western in Space.
The pause after the Enterprise reverses, and questioning if they detected the bird of prey, was such a wonderful detail
The excelsior’s shields completely absorb that photon. What a tank 😮
I think one of my favorite little details is that only the one Klingon officer in the back of the bridge braces for impact right before the torpedo hits, while everyone else on the bridge just stares dumbfounded at the incoming torpedo.
This was absolutely exhilarating on the big screen. Wish it would get a big screen re-release like The Motion Picture and The Wrath of Khan occasionally get.
You Saw ???
I also saw this in the theater in 1991. Amazing on the big screen.
@@TheCorpsehatch i envy you Bro😭😭
First Star Trek Movie I ever saw in theatres: December 23rd 1991.
Yes, saw it at the now closed Lake Forest Mall in Gaithersburg, MD, back when they had a theater in 1991.
The Klingon sniper was played by Rene Auberjonois, aka Odo of DS9.
They didn’t show this in the theatrical release, only in an extended cut released later.
Wrath of Khan gets all the love and praise, and it deserves it for being a great movie, but The Undiscovered Country is the best Trek film in my opinion.
hear hear
Especially the dinner scene.. Love it!!!
Everyone is free to choose their favorite... which is best may be up to more discussion.
Interchangeable for me but definitely the best two, followed by the voyage home for a bit of fun! The only one I can’t watch is 5, it’s soooo bad 😂
When I said that VI was one of my favorites, the reaction from a diehard Wrath of Khan fanboy was a bitter early lesson in why I don't share opinions with friends of friends, let alone strangers.
I'm sure he's hating on "Nutrek". Everyone's a critic.
2:51.....always liked this scene. Excelsior being pushed to her absolute limit speed wise, perhaps a bit beyond! The shaking on the bridge, Sulu running out of patience all creates a picture of pure stress and tension in seconds - although if they flew the ship apart, they'd never arrive to help Kirk 🤣🤣
Maybe if they pointed the ship right the pieces of the flown apart ship could ram Chang's bird of prey - mission accomplished, albeid morbidly. They'd probably take out both ships - everyone dead! 😂
one of my favorite scenes of all time
Absolutely this.
Target that explosion, and fire!
The coolest order that I have ever seen in Star Trek.
I counted 8 on screen hits by the Bird of Prey. Probably more off screen. The Enterprise was barley holding on.
Looks gorgeous in 4K!
This is the peak of model work; it looks gorgeous in all resolutions!
The Enterprise A was my favourite ship, but the Excelsior class starships were gorgeous in their own right.
they both had there own charms to them I always wanted my own real world Galaxy Class Enterprise D to be honest even if that ship was pure fantasy like the rest
The Enterprise A interior reminds somewhat of the Enterprise D
'Fly her apart then!' is my favourite line in the whole film.
I never noticed that Enterprise's lights flicker when the torpedo hits at 4:14.
Trek Fans Everywhere: "A Klingon antagonist who uses manipulation and Machiavellian schemes instead of brute force, and who cackles and spouts Shakespeare like some Victorian fop? That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard!"
Christopher Plummer: "Hold my bloodwine."
I love that Uhura has a hand in a combat decision!
And later Scotty kills the assassin.
Everyone got real stuff to do in this movie!
I do believe that is one of the most satisfying explosions ever.
So much so that they reused it for Generations.
@@danielk5780 That always bothered me
@@danielk5780 a time-honored Trek tradition. Do you know how much re-used footage got broadcast in TOS? lol.
"CRY HAVOC AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR!" You can't tell me Christopher Plummer didn't enjoy shouting that! Spinning around in that seat like a giddy kid at recess!
Watching both ships hit that Klingon Bird of Prey is so awesome!!
06:11 The best “Fire!” ever.
Also,
Chang: To be or not to be.
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Hamlet: Not to be.
Probably the best filmed battle of TOS era. Small things, like the tense faces of the engineering crew, build it up well.
Incoming!!!
Oooohh I don't know... Reliant vs Enterprise both engagements remain the Gold Standard. Masterful editing. And the last thing Bones would do would be work on a torpedo - this is a bit of the "crew plot servicing" the later movies struggled with...
@@VengerDFW Same director for both films. Tells you something about his talent.
This is the one scene in Star Trek I could literally watch a thousand times and never get bored of it.
That scene with the torpedo 'skipping' off the hull is still one of my favorite effects shots in all of Star Trek. Gives you an idea of how the shields work back in the 23rd century; they can deflect away the mass of the torpedo and absorb some of its radiant energy, but the hull is still getting scorched by the heat and getting battered by the kinetic energy.
"FLY HER APART THEN!" Sulu is one badass captain. :)
I would like to see more battle scenes between spaceships like this. In that respect, Nemesis' battle against Scimitar was very good.
Couldn't agree more
Such a great Chekov’s Gun: We learn of the rather high school-level gaseous phenomena study equipment on board in the first act. In the final act Spock knows plasma, gas, can be used to track the Bird of Prey. The rest is set in motion by Uhura remembering they have the scientific gear on board. Spock comes up with an amazing idea of a plasma-path tracking torpedo…the rest…the rest you know.
Isn't that equipment on Excelsior, though?
Love this film. A klingon spitting out Shakespeare was a great move.
In one of the numerous "non-canon" ST novels the Enterprise is tasked with conveying a sort of variety show troupe. One of them is a sewer-tier actor whose rendition of Hamlet is (pretty much verbatim) "Should I kill myself or not? Life is so bad right now I might as well get it over with."
Kirk and co. are disgusted, but eventually foist him off on some Klingons who heard the act and went bonkers.
That is another origin/version of the "Shake Spear (sic) sounds better in the original Klingon" gag that is also credited to "The Undiscovered Country." I do not recall the novel's name and so cannot confirm which came first, but I'm inclined to think the novel did.
I would have gotten on coms and taunted the Klingons for this stuff. " I do not see you Chang. I do not see Klingon warriors. I see assassins that strike from the shadows and stab in the back. Poking at their enemy but not fighting. This is not a fight. This is a coward stabbing a blind man. Decloak and fight as warriors perhaps to die, or live as cowards pretending you win anything but dishonor stabbing from the shadows like the coward dogs you are. "
Two destroyers versus a submarine. One of my favorite scenes. Not because of the “‘splosions,” either. The Enterprise crew wins because they’re working together as a team to solve a problem.
Chang is a great character, but he’s essentially by himself. The other guy fires on what Chang targets. Fun fact: in Klingon Academy, Christopher Plummer reprises Chang (prequel) and admits that he thinks Kirk is at least part Klingon! 🤣
And the origin story of his eye patch.
It's fantastic. I have seen it a zillion times and know what's going to happen but it's still exciting. And I love Plummer rattling off Shakespeare quotes. Sulu racing to help. McCoy's line...what a wonderful moment when we lived through it in the theaters the first time.
Its funny how they both stand up when they see the torpedo fired.
Playing Star Trek RPG we used this explosion audio at least 2 times. And one of them I gave the order. It was so satisfying.
Should have included the scene of the failed assassination attempt too!
“Doctor, would you care to assist me in performing surgery on a torpedo?”
I have always love 06:14
Chang realizes the gig is up!
Superb scene, easily one of treks best. The unknown of where the klingons are and where they'll strike, coupled with Sulu racing to get there and help his friends. This movie nails it, which sounds almost impossible for the 6th movie in a franchise.
This and the hospital scene from The Voyage Home are my two favorite sequences in any of the original character movies.
Captain Hikaru Sulu, ladies and gentlemen
Well, the officer's mess is a mess.
I seen it at 00:05:30.
Plus that set is also the Enterprise-D’s observation lounge.
"What's a mess hell with no mess [to eat]?" - Jankom Pogg
Wow, what a thrill! One of the best seven minutes in sci fi history!
God i swear this movie is a masterclass in direction, scriptwriting and acting.
Then fly it apart... chills, I know this feeling internally sometimes you have to go brutal push beyond everything you believe in, defy, defy, defy because reality is limitations are internal...
I love this scene when Kirk says reverse engines and he pulls the enterprise away ,what a incredible scene❤and to see her back away what a incredible scene and to see enterprise stand her ground
THEN FLY HER APART!
gives me goosebumps every single damn time.
Sulu's Best Line Ever!
Enterprise - A and uss Excelsior fight side by side awesome moment 😊👍
I know the Bird of Prey blowing up scene originated from Undiscovered Country, but no matter what movie or show I see that scene I can not help but go "YES!... UM!"
Time index 1:36, Chekov immediately noticing the "on screen" chime. The best 👌 🖖
IMHO - THE GREATEST STAR TREK SPACE BATTLE EVER !
The actor who played Kirk's son passed away in 1989...His photo is in a picture frame in Kirk's cabin early in the film... 🖖
Terrific direction and editing, increasing the tension and urgency with each new torpedo hit the Enterprise is forced to absorb, and intercutting it with the events at the summit.
She still gives me shivers even today!
One of the greatest and most popular scenes ever, not just in the entire Star Trek Universe, but in any SCI-FI! You never tire of watching it! Simply brilliant! 😎
Until now, I never really noticed that torpedo that flies through the saucer destroys the very dining room that the Klingon and Federation Officers had their "dinner party" at the beginning of the movie. Nice detail. Shows just how treacherous Chang was.
Chang knows, the instant the torpedo is fired. Not exactly what Enterprise's gambit is, but that they have come up with one, and he doesn't have time to figure it out and counter it. He knows that Kirk wouldn't have launched unless he'd seen a gap in Chang's defences. Really well acted.
Gonna have a minor nitpick: If Khitomer gets similar strength sunlight to Earth, the stars shouldn't be visible: If a viewing camera were set up to be sensitive enough to see stars then the planet and the ships, bathed in sunlight, would be hugely overexposed. Same for an eye dark afapted enough to see stars - the planet and ships would look blinding. If the camera was set up ( or eyeball day-adapted enough) to get a decent view of the sunlit ships and planet it wouldn't pick up stars.Ok, pedanting over - thank you very much for posting this!
but ... advanced digital filtering space viewer technology ... I mean if they can scrambleyour molecules and beam you across miles od space.. surely they can make their space TVs work.
@@jv-lk7bc :D The crews could have told their space TV's to show the stars in the background, but the external shots would still be wrong if they're supposed to be representing what a human eye would see. Hey, I'm a pedant, it's my idea of fun to think this stuff too far through. Though I kind of like the idea that all the view screens default to inserting background stars just because it's prettier.
I wonder if Kirk thinks for a moment, “Hmm, the last time Spock left the bridge during a battle it didn’t turn out so well!”
“Bones! Where’s my torpedo…”
shakespeare, set against a space battle! great idea!
Sulu got to kick arse here. Good on him.
I always hated how they played out the scene with talking about making the torpedo to track the gas. They are in middle of an attack and just have this calm casual conversation 😂
4:54 I dont know why, but the way they instantly hurdle through the air so quickly cracks me up.
I was second in line with my younger brother and a friend the day it came out at the Runnymede theatre. We would have been first however two guys wearing Star Trek TNG badges had camped out since the morning. Great film. I went back to see it five more times!
Remarkable work.
Goosebumps every time
Best Star Trek movie EVER!
Chang: "I am constant as the Northern Star"
McCoy: "I give real money if he'd shut up!"
I really wish there were more scens in Star Trek of 2 Federation ships double teaming on enemies. 😁
I love seeing Enterprise and Excelsior fighting side by side
"I'd give real money..." 😂
This one had a fantastic musical score as well…
The federation really needs to review their contract with their instrument panel makers. I mean the damn things explode when someone sneezes...
I saw it as well in the theater. It was excellent!
One side-bar, with the time on the bridge main screen. I'd be like... "Can we put this off until afternoon..."
Great quality! I’ve left this comment in other videos but technically that BoP was mostly likely unshielded while cloaked. That first torpedo would have taken it out. Those ships are tiny. No way it took 5 torpedo hits or whatever. I know it was for dramatic effect.
oh it was doomed fromt the first. but wouldn't you get in your licks anyway?
besides Klingons are known to strike as they die so its best to make it a quick death.
Amazing finale!! The bird of prey barely last 2 seconds with two starships laying into it!
Remember in order for the cloak to work its shields needed to be down, lest the sensor echo off the shield bubble nullifed the point of the cloak.
Later Warbirds sokved this, this was a prototype vessel.
love that you could fly that bird of prey in klingon acedemy and do missions for Chang.
Oh wow, I played the hell out of that game! Forgot all about it.
Love it and miss it for sure
Thank you for the amazing clarity....we all realize...it's not my card...it's not my monitor (well sometimes) it's the sheet feed! Many thanks!
The ultimate 90s Trek movie in my opinion.
Seriously, though, they should've took an extra minute on that torpedo to write, in big silver Sharpie, Eat Shit Chang 😂
I appreciate the humor of OST fans. That was excellent.
Yep, Bones is definitely the most qualified person to assist spock with a torpedo
one of the best sequences in a movie ever.
Interesting how, even when the Excelsior shows up, Chang continues to train most of his fire on the Enterprise. Probably a wise decision. Neither of them can see him, and if they're both intact they can coordinate their fire in a grid pattern to sound him out, like depth charges when hunting submarines. Wiser for him to take one ship out entirely, then move on to the second.
Fantastic scene. The only thing that has always taken me out of TUC though was the very obvious and only slight redressing of the TNG Enterprise-D sets - particularly engineering.
It's not quite as blatant as some of the shots in 5, where they didn't even redress the corridor from some shots. At least in TUC they tried a bit harder, made the corridor set narrower, changed out the LCARS panels. However, most of TNGs sets were themselves redresses or modifications of sets built for TMP. Well, some of them, like engineering, were technically originally built for Phase II.
Love it!❤ Sooooo satisfying!👍 Everyone is so fantastic 👍 old friends
"Excelsiors been hit, but unlike our shields, hers actually blocked the attack. We got shafted by the supply officer, sir!"
The original actors. My favorite.
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