Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a weekly journey through the list of the 250 best movies of all-time, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. And sometimes, because we can, a movie not on the list.
This week, to mark the passing Christopher Plummer, a special midweek bonus episode covering Nicholas Meyer’s Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
An explosion on the Klingon moon of Praxis sends the Klingon Empire into disarray, and forces the warrior race to consider an unlikely alliance with their old enemies in the Federation. The Enterprise is sent to meet the Klingon Chancellor, under the command of Captain James Tiberius Kirk. However, things do not go to plan.
At time of recording, it was not ranked the list of best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Notes:
- Recorded 10th February 2021.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country at The Internet Movie Database.
- Matt Zoller Seitz writes about the passing of Christopher Plummer at Vulture, February 2021.
- The writing staff at The Ringer pick their favourites of Christopher Plummer’s roles, February 2021.
- Alex Towers and Luke Dunne discuss Knives Out on The 250, February 2020.
- Christopher Plummer wins the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, February 2012.
- Christopher Plummer talks to The Hollywood Reporter about shooting All the Money in the World, December 2017.
- William Shatner writes at Variety about working with Christopher Plummer, February 2021.
- Jack Beresford at Den of Geek writes about the casting of Christopher Plummer in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, February 2021.
- Ed Power at The Independent looks back on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, December 2019.
- Walter Koenig talks to The Las Vegas Sun about playing Chekov, July 2014.
- Spockanalia, Issue #1, September 1967.
- Kyrie O’Connor at The Houston Chronicle on Spock as a counter-cultural icon, February 2015.
- Virginia Postrel at Bloomberg looks at how Spock became a sex symbol, February 2015.
- Aljean Harmetz at The New York Times writes about the development of Star Trek: The Next Generation, building off Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, November 1986.
- Brian Cronin writes about the “nuclear wessels” scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home at The Huffington Post, December 2017.
- William Shatner talks to USA Today about how he believes Leonard Nimoy hijacked the film franchise, September 2017.
- Aaron Couch at The Hollywood Reporter discusses how Leonard Nimoy came to direct Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, September 2016.
- Ryan Britt at StarTrek.com writes about how Nimoy’s direction of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock changed the franchise as a whole, June 2020.
- Phil Pirrello at The Hollywood Reporter looks back at how Star Trek V: The Final Frontier almost killed the Star Trek film franchise, June 2019.
- Nicolaus Mills at The Christian Science Monitor on the nineties culture war backlash against the liberalism of the sixties, June 1997.
- Whoopi Goldberg talks to The Chicago Tribune about her relationship with the Star Trek franchise, July 1993.
- Peter Hartlaub at The San Francisco Chronicle writes about the relationship between astronaut Mae Jemison and actor Nichelle Nichols, April 2018.
- Rebecca Keegan at The Los Angeles Times looks at the mutually beneficial relationship between Hollywood and the armed forces, August 2011.
- Reubin Baron looks at the relationship between the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the real United States military at Comic Book Resources, March 2019.
- A.C. Crispin at Tor.com writes about the overlap between Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and the end of the Cold War, May 2011.
- Mark Joseph Stern at Slate discusses the impact of the Chernobyl disaster on the collapse of the Soviet Union, January 2013.
- Darren Mooney reviews J.M. Dillard’s novelisation of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country at the m0vie blog, June 2014.
- Jake Black at StarTrek.com writes about the portrayal of racism in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, December 2020.
- Chaim Gartenberg reports at The Verge on the addition of Klingon to Duolingo, March 2018.
- Ethan Phillips talks to UPN News about cooking with Neelix, May 1999.
- CNN hosts a live chat with Ethan Phillips to promote The Star Trek Cookbook, January 1999.
- Francis Fukuyama writes at The National Interest about “the end of history”, Summer 1989.
- Darren Mooney writes about The Undiscovered Country and the end of history at the m0vie blog, April 2019.
- NPR discusses the legacy of Brock Peters, August 2005.
- The Washington Post offers an obituary for Brock Peters, August 2005.
- Jeffrey Fleischman at The Los Angeles Times discusses the legacy of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, January 2017.
- Chris Jones at The Chicago Tribune on the legacy of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, March 2018.
- Roger Ebert reviews Guess Who for The Chicago Sun Times, March 2005.
- Darren Mooney at Escapist Magazine looks at the current nostalgic states of the Star Trek, Star Wars and Doctor Who franchises, January 2020.
- Darren Mooney at Escapist Magazine looks at how The Rise of Skywalker is terrified of the future, December 2019.
- William Shatner talks to ABC News about his distinctive performance style, September 2011.
- Nicholas Meyers talks to Publishers’ Weekly about his work with Sherlock Holmes, August 2019.
- Mike Hale at The New York Times looks at how The Seven-Per-Cent Solution reinvented Sherlock Holmes, January 2013.
- Victoria McNally at The Revelist looks back at Star Trek‘s engaged female fandom, September 2016.
- Molly McArdle at GQ discusses how Star Trek created the modern idea of fandom, September 2016.
- Phil Pirrello at The Hollywood Reporter on how Star Trek: The Next Generation emerged from under the shadow of the original Star Trek with The Best of Both Worlds, June 2020.
- Darren Mooney at Escapist Magazine on how Star Trek: The Next Generation came into its own with The Best of Both Worlds, September 2020.
- Janis D. Froelich at The Tampa Bay Times reports on Spock’s appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation in Unification, November 1991.
- Tyler Rogoway at Jalopnik reports on Ronald Reagan’s visit to the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation during the production of Redemption, December 2015.
- Darren Mooney at Escapist Magazine discusses how Star Trek: Discovery is a throwback to the chaos and turbulence of the original Star Trek, October 2020.
- Jonathan Kay at Slate writes about the lack of LGBTQ representation in 1990s Star Trek, June 2001.
- David Gerrold talks to Trek Movie about the lack of LGTBQ representation in Star Trek, September 2014.
- Daniel Reynolds at The Advocate writes about the appearance of Star Trek‘s first gay couple in Star Trek: Discovery, October 2017.
- Adam B. Vary at Variety writes about the casting of the franchise’s first non-binary and transgender characters in Star Trek: Discovery, September 2020.
- Marc Okrand talks to The Washington Post about developing Klingon as a language, July 2018.
- Marc Okrand talks to StarTrek.com about the secrets of the Klingon language, November 2011.
- Olivia Popp at StarTrek.com discusses the importance of the Klingon language in building empathy, July 2019.
- Marc Okrand talks to Air & Space Magazine about inventing Vulcan, August 2016.
- Darren Mooney reviews Errand of Mercy at the m0vie blog, May 2013.
- Darren Mooney reviews Judgment at the m0vie blog, April 2015.
- George Takei talks to ABC News about his feud with William Shatner, June 2015.
- Christian Slater talks to Digital Spy about his cameo in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, September 2017.
- David Warner talks about his work on the Star Trek franchise with StarTrek.com, August 2011.
- William Morgan Shepherd talks to Den of Geek about his work in genre film and television, March 2008.
- Darren Mooney at the m0vie blog writes about the weirdly regressive politics of Star Trek: Voyager, September 2017.
- Tom McTague at The Atlantic on the end of the American world, June 2020.
- Hannah Beech at The New York Times reports on how the pandemic has shifted the world’s perception of the United States, September 2020.
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