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