Passes the Bechdel test
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991. Directed by Nicholas Meyer, written by Gene Roddenberry and Leonard Nimoy and Lawrence Konner.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
9 women characters. 4 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 2 scenes out of 129. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.
The film
After an explosion on their moon, the Klingons have an estimated 50 years before their ozone layer is completely depleted, and they all die. They have only one choice - to make peace with the Federation, which will mean an end to 70 years of conflict. Captain James T. Kirk and crew are called upon to help in the negotiations because of their experience with the Klingons. Peace talks don't quite proceed, and Kirk and McCoy are convicted of assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor, and imprisoned on Rura Penthe, a snowy hard-labor prison camp. Will they manage to escape? And will there ever be peace with the Klingons?
- Released
- 06 Dec 1991
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- PG
- IMDb
- 7.3 / 10
- Metascore
- 65 / 100
- Awards
- Nominated for 2 Oscars. 2 wins & 10 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Kirk 150 lines, man
- Spock 79 lines, man
- Bones 66 lines, man
- Chang 48 lines, man
- Lt. Saavik 42 lines, woman
- Scotty 34 lines, man
- Chekov 31 lines, man
- Uhura 30 lines, woman
- Sulu 26 lines, man
- Martia 24 lines, woman
Full cast, 45 people
- William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk
- Leonard Nimoy as Captain Spock
- DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
- James Doohan as Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott
- Walter Koenig as Cmdr. Pavel Chekov
- Nichelle Nichols as Cmdr. Uhuru
- George Takei as Captain Hikaru Sulu
- Mark Lenard as Sarek
- David Warner as Chancellor Gorkon
- Kim Cattrall as Lt. Valeris
- Rosanna DeSoto as Azetbur
- Christopher Plummer as Chang
- Kurtwood Smith as Federation President
- Brock Peters as Admiral Cartwright
- Paul Rossilli as Kerla
- John Schuck as Klingon Ambassador
- Iman as Martia
- Leon Russom as Chief In Command
- Michael Dorn as Klingon Defense Attorney
- Grace Lee Whitney as Excelsior Communications Officer
- Robert Easton as Klingon Judge
- Clifford Shegog as Klingon Officer
- William Morgan Sheppard as Klingon Commander
- Brett Porter as General Stex
- Jeremy Roberts as Excelsior Officer
- Michael Bofshever as Excelsior Engineer
- Angelo Tiffe as Excelsior Navigator
- Boris Lee Krutonog as Helmsman Lojur
- Christian Slater as Excelsior Communications Officer
- Tom Morga as The Brute
- Todd Bryant as Klingon Translator
- John Bloom as Behemoth Alien
- Jim Boeke as First Klingon General
- Carlos Augusto Cestero as Munitions Man
- Edward Clements as Young Crewman
- Katie Johnston as Martia as a Child
- Doug Engalla as Prisoner at Rura Penthe
- Matthias Hues as Second Klingon General
- Darryl Henriques as Nanclus
- David Orange as Sleepy Klingon
- Judy Levitt as Military Aide
- Shakti Chen as ADC
- Michael Snyder as Crewman Dax
- René Auberjonois as Colonel West (uncredited)
- Denise Lynne Roberts as Enterprise-A Crewmember (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 14% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 129
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 13 |
| 7 to 9 | 13 | 32 |
| 10 to 12 | 6 | 5 |
| 13 to 15 | 8 | 12 |
| 16 to 18 | 7 | 36 |
| 19 to 21 | 1 | 11 |
| 22 to 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 to 27 | 3 | 4 |
| 28 to 30 | 1 | 9 |
| 31 to 33 | 1 | 23 |
| 34 to 36 | 9 | 19 |
| 37 to 39 | 7 | 5 |
| 40 to 42 | 4 | 28 |
| 43 to 45 | 0 | 16 |
| 46 to 48 | 1 | 9 |
| 49 to 51 | 0 | 11 |
| 52 to 54 | 12 | 38 |
| 55 to 57 | 16 | 37 |
| 58 to 60 | 0 | 4 |
| 61 to 63 | 0 | 3 |
| 64 to 66 | 1 | 2 |
| 67 to 69 | 1 | 3 |
| 70 to 72 | 6 | 16 |
| 73 to 75 | 2 | 5 |
| 76 to 78 | 8 | 41 |
| 79 to 81 | 1 | 8 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 14 |
| 85 to 87 | 0 | 2 |
| 88 to 90 | 1 | 7 |
| 91 to 93 | 0 | 2 |
| 94 to 96 | 1 | 8 |
| 97 to 99 | 0 | 4 |
| 100 to 102 | 2 | 14 |
| 103 to 105 | 0 | 7 |
| 106 to 108 | 0 | 6 |
| 109 to 111 | 0 | 1 |
| 112 to 114 | 0 | 5 |
| 115 to 117 | 0 | 1 |
| 118 to 120 | 0 | 1 |
| 121 to 123 | 0 | 2 |
| 124 to 126 | 1 | 14 |
| 127 to 129 | 1 | 8 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
T. SAAVIK: all mqdprings... LT. SAAVIK: Aft thrusters -
LT. SAAVIK: Four hundred years ago, on the planet earth, workers whose lives were threatened by automation flung their wooden shoes - called SABOTS - in… UHURA: Sabo-TAGE. We are experiencing a technical malfunction. All backup systems inoperative.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 19 are women's.
114 lines from women, 491 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
9 women and 36 men in the cast. 4 women and 31 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 29 of 707.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 49 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 19% of the words (1,329), men 81% (5,706).
Exhibit E: the test the other way
Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
9
Two men
84
Exhibit F: behind the camera
1 of the 15 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 12% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Nicholas Meyer (man)
- Written by
- Nicholas Meyer (man), Denny Martin Flinn (man)
- Story by
- Leonard Nimoy (man), Lawrence Konner (man), Mark Rosenthal (man)
- Produced by
- Ralph Winter (man), Steven-Charles Jaffe (man)
- Shot by
- Hiro Narita (man)
- Edited by
- Ronald Roose (man), William Hoy (man)
- Music by
- Cliff Eidelman (man)
- Production design by
- Herman F. Zimmerman (man)
- Costumes by
- Dodie Shepard (gender not listed)
- Cast by
- Mary Jo Slater (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
2 women, 24 men, 5 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 18 men, 9 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
3 women, 14 men, 9 not listed
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Art
0 women, 9 men, 9 not listed
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Production
2 women, 4 men, 3 not listed
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Directing
3 women, 5 men
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Camera
0 women, 4 men, 3 not listed
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Editing
1 women, 2 men, 3 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 47 on average. Men: 61 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Kim Cattrall 35, Nichelle Nichols 58
Men
David Warner 50, George Takei 54, Walter Koenig 55, William Shatner 60, Leonard Nimoy 60, Mark Lenard 67, DeForest Kelley 71, James Doohan 71
Exhibit H: the money
It made 3.6 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $27 million
- Box office
- $96.9 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 129 scenes and 707 lines of dialogue. How the test works
