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Star Trek: The Next Generation episode review: 'Unification - Part II'

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In 1991, the  Star Trek  franchise celebrated its 25th Anniversary.  Although the feature films which starred the cast from  The Original Series (TOS)  had lost some momentum due to the lackluster performance of  Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,  Paramount Pictures greenlit writer-director Nicholas Meyer’s  Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country  and scheduled its release date for early December of 1991.  Although  Star Trek VI  had a few plot points and one crossover appearance by actor Michael Dorn, the  TNG  producers came up with a clever concept: why not have an episode set in the  TNG era  that obliquely referred to the events of  The Undiscovered Country  which would star Leonard Nimoy as Spock?  For  TNG’s  executive producer Rick Berman, Gene Roddenberry’s chosen “heir” to produce  TNG  and any possible spinoffs, this idea had a lot of appeal.  An episode which featured Spock in a major way would excite the fans and give the show great ratings, while at the same time