We were talking before about one of The Shat’s typically strange choices in this flim, but I’d like to think about TMP a bit more generally now. What a weird film TMP is! Even in 1979, who used the phrase “motion picture” anymore? – The grandeur! Sometimes I wonder if this is even Star Trek,Continue reading “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”
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Star Trek and Family
The idea of a starship crew being a kind of family seems absolutely essential to Star Trek, locked in – you can’t think about Star Trek without it. In Voyager, Janeway makes it explicit – on more than one occasion, she tells us that “this family” is not going to be broken up by whateverContinue reading “Star Trek and Family”
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