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022 - Movie Review and Season 3 Kickoff

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In this week’s episode, we discuss:

  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Spock’s Brain, and The Enterprise Incident
  • The movie worked a lot better on a big TV than The Original Series
  • Strong opening to the movie
  • Klingons look and seem very different
  • Enterprise porn
  • Remastered version of the movie – probably looked better on my TV at home than it would have in the theater
  • Characters felt different
  • What somebody who doesn’t know anything about Star Trek might think Star Trek is like
  • William Shatner doing a Captain Kirk impersonation
  • Differences between the series and the movie
  • For all the criticism of the movie, it was stunning
  • Is human consciousness just a physics and chemistry question?
  • Some timely Oscars talk – debating Avatar vs. The Hurt Locker
  • Absurd moments for a Star Trek episode
  • Future technological understanding
  • Was Gene Roddenberry holding up a mirror to society?
  • Star Trek and Black Mirror
  • Star Trek as a Trojan horse
  • Mutual respect with the Romulans?
  • Lies of omission
  • Space pirates
  • The Vulcan Death Grip
  • Genetic similarities between Vulcans and Romulans
  • Self-destructing Enterprise
  • A pleasant surprise for early season 3
    • ...more
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    To Baldly GoBy Aaron Emery