Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Director’s Cut

Colonel West: Starfleet officer, officially working in Fleet Operations’ Specials Ops division. Part of the scret cabal of Starfleet Officers, Romulans and Klingons working to keep tensions high between the major powers. Briefed the Federation President on Operation Retrieve, a rescue mission aimed at taking the captured Captain Kirk and McCoy off Rura Penthe. The President declined to pursue this operation for fear of risking a full scale war with the Klingons. At Camp Kithomer, West had disguised himself as a Klingon and was ready to assassinate the Federation President hoping to spark that war. He was thwarted when Captain Scott burst into his perch and shot him. He fell to his death and his human visage was revealed. Later accounts would redact West’s involvement in the assassination attempt.

Colonel West Appeared in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the Director’s Cut only. The director’s cut has only been released on VHS and DVD. Operation Retrieve is omitted from the standard as is the reveal that the Klingon Assassin is West. West was played by DS9 regular Rene Auberjonois.

Captain Hikaru Sulu: Captain, U.S.S. Excelsior. Took command around 2290, his first captaincy. On the return trip from cataloguing gaseous anomalies they were caught in the energy wave that came from the explosion of Praxis. Klingon High Command declined their offer of assistance and forwarded the information to Starfleet Command. During the Klingon trial of Captain Kirk, Sulu sent to the Enterprise that they were on standby to assist. Sulu and Excelsior attempted a rescue mission on their own by going thru the Azure Nebula but were warned off by Koloth, who was waiting there. They were able to surprise and disable his ship but three other Klingon ships attacked them, forcing them to retreat.  Repairs were made and the raced towards Kithomer when the Enterprise (which had recovered Kirk and McCoy) was engaged with a prototype Bird-of-Prey, their combined firepower destroying it. Sulu personally beamed down to arrest Admiral Cartwright who was part of a Federation-Klingon-Romulan cabal to keep a war footing on between the two first powers. 

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Lt. Sulu first appeared in Where No Man Has Gone Before, as head of the astrosciences department, before switching to senior helmsman  in The Corbomite Maneuver. By The Motion Picture he was a Lt. Cmdr, and full Commander by The Wrath of Khan. He was helmsman for both the Enterprise and Enterprise-A. He’d been Captain of the Excelsior for 3 years by the time The Undiscovered Country rolled around. 

The novels have Pavel Chekov as his Executive Officer in 2298. Excelsior was reported missing in 2308 and the surviving crew - including Sulu were rescued in 2319 by Captain Demora Sulu and the Enterprise-B. He officially retired afterwards.

Sulu Rescue Party.

Fleet Admiral Cartwright: Senior Admiral based out of Sol Sector. Headed the Starfleet response in San Francisco during the Probe Crisis of 2286. In 2293 was involved in a conspiracy with members of Starfleet, the Klingon Defence Force and Romulus to precipitate a war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire following the destruction of Praxis. His role in the conspiracy was uncovered during the Kithomer Conference, where he was arrested. He is presently awaiting trial.

Admiral Cartwright appeared in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

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