On this day in the Star Trek universe - The Motion Picture, Inside Art and Visual Effects, The Undiscovered Country:

Star Trek
Season 3. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: The Empath.

Released December 6, 1968.

Directed by John Erman.

Written by Joyce Muskat, Arthur H. Singer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast:

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Kathryn Hays, Alan Bergmann, Davis Roberts, Jason Wingreen, Willard Sage, Bill Blackburn, Dick Geary, Roger Holloway.

 

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Directed by Robert Wise.

Written by Harold Livingston.

Based on a story by Alan Dean Foster.

Released December 6, 1979.

Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Persis Khambatta, Stephen Collins, Majel Barrett, Grace Lee Whitney, David Gautreaux, Mark Lenard.

 

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

by Gene Roddenberry.

Published by Pocket Books/Star Trek.
Published 2019.

ISBN-10: 1982139196
ISBN-13: 9781982139193

Description:

The original five-year mission of the Starship Enterprise to explore strange new worlds and to seek out new life and new civilizations has ended. Now James T. Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy, and the rest of the crew of the Enterprise have separated to follow their own career paths and different lives. But now, an overwhelming alien threat—one that is ignoring all attempts at communication and annihilating all opposition in its path—is on a collision course with Earth, the very heart of the United Federation of Planets. And the only vessel that Starfleet can send in time to intercept this menace is a refitted Enterprise, with her old crew heeding the call to once again boldly go where no one has gone before….

 

Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Inside the Art and Visual Effects

by Jeff Bond & Gene Kozicki.

Published by Titan Books.
Published 2020.

ISBN-10: 1789091993
ISBN-13: 9781789091991

Description:

Forty years ago, Star Trek: The Motion Picture brought Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise crew to the big screen and changed the course of the Star Trek franchise. Now, celebrate this landmark anniversary by discovering the visual artistry that made this an enduring science fiction classic. For the first time ever, explore archival material created by legendary Star Trek collaborators, including Robert Abel, Syd Mead, Ralph McQuarrie, Andrew Probert, and Ken Adams.

 

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Directed by Nicholas Meyer.

Written by Nicholas Meyer and Denny Martin Flinn.

Based on a story by Leonard Nimoy, Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal.

Released December 6, 1991.

Music by Cliff Eidelman.

Cast:

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Kim Cattrall, Christopher Plummer, David Warner, Rosanna DeSoto, Iman, Christian Slater, Brock Peters, René Auberjonois, Michael Dorn.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

by J.M. Dillard.
Contributions from: Nicholas Meyer, Denny Martin Flinn and Leonard Nimoy.
Published by Pocket.
Published 1992.

ISBN-10: 0671758837
ISBN-13: 978-0671758837

Description:

The Klingons are proposing peace.

Does this mean the end of war or the end of history?

The Undiscovered Country.

Stardate 8679.25: Internal pressure, enormous military expenditures, and the destruction of their primary energy source have brought the Klingon Empire to the verge of catastrophic collapse …

To avert disaster, Gorkon, Chancellor of the Klingon High Council, proposes negotiations between the Federation and Klingon Empire – negotiations that will put an end to the years of hostility between the two powers, and herald a new era of peace and cooperation. Captain James T. Kirk and the U.S.S. Enterprise are dispatched to escort the Chancellor safely into Federation space.

But a treacherous assassination brings negotiations to a sudden halt – and places Kirk and Dr. McCoy in the hands of the Federation’s greatest enemy. With time running out, Spock and the Enterprise crew must work to uncover the deadly secret that threatens to propel the galaxy into the most destructive conflict it has ever known!

 

Charting the Undiscovered Country: The making of Trek VI

by Mark A. Altman, Ron Magid, Edward Gross.

Published 1992.
Published by Cinemaker Press.

ISBN 13: 9789994522897
ISBN 10: 9994522892
ASIN: 9994522892

Description:

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 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, Michael Dorn, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nicholas Meyer, Ralph Winter, Next Generation's Rick Berman, Steven Charles Jaffe, 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 reintroduced 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 creator, William Shatner.