The 14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
6. Gravity Boobs
One of the film’s most striking sequences in the zero gravity assassination of Chancellor Gorkon. As good as this sequence is, it’s got some stupid stuff in it...and we're not talking the pink blood.
Kronos One’s artificial gravity is knocked out by the second photon torpedo hit and in Chancellor Gorkon’s stateroom he and two aides immediately but slowly drift out of their chairs, and one’s weapon conveniently pops out of its holster and spins off.
What’s dumb with this picture?
First of all, absence of gravity is not negative gravity. Unless these men pushed off against their bolted-down chairs, the table, or the floor, they’d pretty much stay put. Same with the holstered weapon; friction would have held it in place.
Second, if they were concerned about free floating helplessly around the room, they ought to have just grabbed hold of the seemingly fixed table. And, if they sensed betrayal, deliberately pushed off and tried to get to the nearest door and escape. That these boobs just flailed around helplessly shows no smarts at all.
Interestingly, one of the two aides in the stateroom with Gorkon somehow manages to get outside that room by the time the assassins arrive, and they phaser his arm off on their way in. If he could do that, why did Gorkon and the other aide just “hang around”?
Near the end of the sequence, some unidentified Klingon pushes a random button on a wall and the gravity snaps back on. Was it that easy? Did he have a role in the conspiracy to delayed switching the gravity back on until the assassins beamed away? Because if there no no inside man, what would have happened to the assassination had the Klingons managed to turn the gravity back on sooner?
Finally, who beamed Burke and Samno to and from the Klingon ship? Valeris was on the bridge. Can the transporter be programmed to beam people out and back on remote signal?
Great sequence, though, despite the dumb.