TNG & DS9 Cameos In Star Trek: The Original Series’ Final Movie Explained

The final Star Trek: The Original Series movie featured cameos from a number of actors from both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Depicting the last mission of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the USS Enterprise, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country depicted how the Klingon Empire became Federation allies during the TNG era. Conceiving TNG, Gene Roddenberry had always felt that a Klingon on the bridge of the USS Enterprise would be a strong indicator of how far the Federation had come in the intervening century.