Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
The battle for peace has begun.
After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Enterprise. Both worlds brace for what may be their deadliest encounter.
In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “galactic peace summit”. The story fights on E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, politics, militarism.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Invaders from Mars (1986)E13 · rare rung · militarism
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)E13 · rare rung · prejudice
Starship Troopers (1997)E13 · rare rung · militarism
Underworld: Awakening (2012)E13 · rare rung · prejudice
Mortal Engines (2018)E13 · rare rung · prejudice
Planet of the Apes (1968)E13 · rare rung · prejudiceSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Blade II (2002)E4/E10 · rare rung · politics, prejudice
Iron Sky (2012)E12/E14 · rare rung · militarism, politics
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014)E6/E9 · rare rung · militarism, prejudice
The Dictator (2012)E8/E12 · rare rung · politics, prejudice
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)E8/E12 · rare rung · militarism, politics
Team America: World Police (2004)E11/E12 · rare rung · militarism, politicsAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Avatar (2009)consciousness in aliens · alien moon colonization
Men in Black (1997)consciousness in aliens · secret alien integration
The 5th Wave (2016)consciousness in aliens · alien invasion
Cosmic Sin (2021)consciousness in aliens · interstellar war
The War of the Worlds (1953)consciousness in aliens · alien invasion
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008)consciousness in aliens · interstellar lovescapeSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)consciousness in monsters · prejudice
Warcraft (2016)consciousness in monsters · prejudice
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)consciousness in animals · prejudice
Planet of the Apes (2001)consciousness in animals · prejudice
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)consciousness carried elsewhere · prejudice
No Game No Life: Zero (2017)consciousness in machines · prejudiceSame people
Shared director or cast.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)dir. Nicholas Meyer
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)David Warner
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)DeForest Kelley
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)DeForest Kelley
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)DeForest Kelley
Time After Time (1979)dir. Nicholas Meyer