Who co-wrote Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country with Nicholas Meyer?

Denny Martin Flinn co-wrote Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country with Nicholas Meyer. Meyer directed the film and shared screenplay credit with Flinn for the 1991 farewell to the original Star Trek cast.

Flinn was a writer, choreographer, stage director, and actor whose career included Broadway and Off-Broadway work. His connection with Meyer was longstanding: He was Meyer’s friend and assistant, and the two developed the film’s screenplay together after Leonard Nimoy proposed a story inspired by the end of the Cold War.

Their writing process was unusually practical. Meyer lived in Europe while Flinn was based in Los Angeles, so Flinn drafted material and sent it electronically to Meyer, who revised it. The script connected Klingon-Federation tensions with contemporary fears about nuclear catastrophe and political reconciliation.

Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga are associated with later Star Trek television writing, while Harold Livingston wrote Star Trek: The Motion Picture. They were not the credited co-writer sought here. The film’s separate story credits went to Leonard Nimoy, Lawrence Konner, and Mark Rosenthal.