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Description	A screenshot from the special director's edition (2004 rerelease) of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (released winter 1991 domestically in the United States of America). The USS Excelsior braves a "subspace shock wave" created by the decimation of a Klingon moon in the opening scene from the film.
Source	Screenshot (from the DVD) hosted at TrekCore
Article	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Portion used	Full movie frame, one of approximately hundreds of thousands in the feature film.
Low resolution?	Low; scaled down from original of 800+px pixels wide; copies of this image would be of smaller resolution than the original and thus inadequate for pirate uses of the frame.
Purpose of use	To illustrate the special lighting effects applied to it for bluescreen shots; to illustrate the Praxis effect, a computer-generated special effect used for the first time in Star Trek VI, subsequently a common feature of science fiction films;^[1] the Excelsior, a fictional ~467-meter long starship is shown to illustrate the sense of scale of the effect.
Replaceable?	This images' publisher has not released any free images which could replace this one. There are no known shots that could convey the film's cinematography or the special effects and are free for use. Any other screenshots from this film would have the same copyright status.
Other information	© 1991 Viacom (owner of Paramount Pictures); Use of the screenshot in the article complies with Wikipedia non-free content policy and fair use under United States copyright law as described above.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St6-excelsior_and_shock_wave.pngtrue

Notes

^ Plait, Philip (2002). Bad Astronomy: misconceptions and misuses revealed, from astrology to the moon landing 'hoax' (Google Books). New York: Wiley. p. 254. ISBN 0471409766. OCLC 48885221.

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[1] Plait, Philip (2002). Bad Astronomy: misconceptions and misuses revealed, from astrology to the moon landing 'hoax' (Google Books). New York: Wiley. p. 254. ISBN 0471409766. OCLC 48885221.

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