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"the undiscovered country"
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"The Future is an undiscovered country" was a corruption of the lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet where he reflects on Death and beyond. This form of the quote was used in the Star Trek Movie An Undiscovered Country. The lines are taken from the soliloquy spoken by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "nunnery scene" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Act III, Scene I..... "To be, or not to be" is the opening phrase. ...But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than...