I mean the klingon falls down , smashes his head on the floor , you see human blood under his skull and you ask why?????????????????
shareName me one other movie or episode where we see pink Klingon blood?
"Oh no...they sent the wrong Spock!"
The first time I saw The Undiscovered Country, when it was new, on reaching the body of the fallen Klingon sniper, someone (can't remember if it was McCoy or not) remarks, "This isn't Klingon blood!" Then the mask is pulled away revealing Col. West as the attempted assassin. Why this was cut can only have something to do with cutting his "clean their chronometers" scene as well. This is another movie I'll have to watch someday in the director's cut. The version shown on cable is missing these scenes. But still, does anyone in the know, know why?
shareFrom what I heard his scenes were cut because the studio guys felt that his character was just something that slowed the plot down and didn't help advance it. When Auberjonois was cast on DS9 (a few months later) they added his scenes back into the video as a promo for the new series.
shareI disagree. Colonel West proposes an incursion deep into Klingon space to pull off a black-ops rescue. And in direct parallel, Chang proposes to Azetbour that the Klingons attack the Federation. Removing those scenes leaves us with an incomplete, therefore faulty, parallelism.
Besides, Colonel West is just the kind of minor villain you need for this kind of conspiracy.
By the way: oddly enough it was Colonel Worf, the counsel for the defense at the trial of Kirk and McCoy, who realized the fallen would-be assassin was bleeding red, not pink.
From what I heard his scenes were cut because the studio guys felt that his character was just something that slowed the plot down and didn't help advance it. When Auberjonois was cast on DS9 (a few months later) they added his scenes back into the video as a promo for the new series.
And Colonel West would've gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for those meddling kids!
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