The Bridge Between The First Film and This Sequel:The narration re-introduced Mad Max, and the environment was described (with mostly black-and-white 20th century documentary footage from the previous original film - including the murder of Max""s wife and child by a biker gang) - making oblique references o a Cold War between "two mighty warrior tribes" (the US and USSR ?) that led to a grim world of nuclear holocaust survivors:"My life fades, the vision dims."Great Scene(s):The formal state dinner party between Klingons andEnterprisecrew members (with Romulan ale served) and Gorkon boasting: "You haven""t heard Shakespeare until you""ve heard it in the original Klingon!", he scene of Spock""s traumatizing mind-meld technique intimately used on Vulcan Lieutenant Valeris, and the destruction of General Chang""s invisible Klingon ship Bird of Prey as he spoke: "To Be or Not to Be.[Note: Incidentally, Orson Welles was director Coppola""s first choice for the Kurtz role ultimately played by Marlon Brando.When the film was released, it was banned in the Soviet Union and its satellites.Lubitsch would go on to make an even more biting wartime comedy a few years later,To Be or Not to Be (1942), with Carole Lombard and Jack Benny.At the bank the next morning to "get a reward or a job or something" from the bank president, Egbert finds that there is only one teller on duty.