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Released
1991 · FILM

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

When a sabotaged Klingon ship threatens to reignite hostilities, Captain Kirk and the Enterprise must expose a hidden conspiracy before the fragile peace summit collapses into all‑out war.

“The battle for peace has begun.”

Directed by
Nicholas Meyer, Christopher T Gerrity
Written by
Leonard Nimoy, Lawrence Konner
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
110 min
ActionAdventureSci-Fi

Synopsis

After years of conflict, the Federation and the Klingon Empire are on the verge of a peace summit when a Klingon vessel is nearly destroyed by what appears to be an attack from the Enterprise. Both sides prepare for what could become their most deadly confrontation.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 253+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by William HoyShot by Hiro NaritaScored by Cliff EidelmanDesigned by Herman F ZimmermanCostumes by Dodie ShepardStunts by Bj DavisVFX by Craig Barron

Box Office

1991 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$96.9M

Budget$27.0M
Worldwide gross$96.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $74.9M — 77% of worldwide · International: $22.0M (23%)

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Versions & cuts

  • Director's cut· 113 min

Also known as

  • Star Trek VI - Das unentdeckte Landde
  • Star Trek: Das unentdeckte Landde
  • Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Countryen
  • Star Trek VI: aquel país desconocidoes
  • Star Trek 6 : Terre inconnuefr
  • Rotta verso l'ignotoit
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • United StatesDec 3, 1991
  • ColombiaDec 15, 1991
  • AustraliaJan 1, 1992
  • ArgentinaFeb 6, 1992

Production & Distribution

Production
Paramount Pictures
Distributors
Paramount DistributionUnited International Pictures (UIP)
Special effectsHansard, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Matte World Digital, Pacific Data Images (PDI), Richard Snell Make-Up Designs
Other companies20th Century Fox Scoring Stage, Central Casting, Cinema Research, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), MCA Records

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