Enterprising Individuals

We're taking a closer look this week at the life and work of Star Trek writer and director Nicholas Meyer with a review of his memoir "The View From the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood"!

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From Hell's heart, we take a stab this week at encompassing the excellence of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"!

New York Times and USA Today best-selling author David R. George III returns to the show to discuss the sequel to "The Motion Picture" and many fans' pick for the best Star Trek film. As he turns 50, Admiral Kirk has resigned himself to the fact that his days of space-faring danger are behind him. But when an old flame asks for his help recovering a dangerous experiment, he'll learn that danger isn't through with him and that some debts can never be repaid.

"Star Trek: The Motion Picture" wasn't exactly a failure, but Paramount had no interest in spending another $45 million dollars while dealing with Gene Roddenberry. So instead, they spent $12 million dollars and hired TV producer Harve Bennett to make the sequel to the first film. Eventually, Bennett hired novelist, screenwriter, and Trek virgin Nicholas Meyer to direct (and later write) the film. Meyer envisioned Star Trek II as a rollicking naval adventure in the style of Horatio Hornblower . . . apparently unaware that the British naval hero was one of the chief inspirations for the Original Series. Meyer changed a lot about what audiences knew about Trek, both on the big and small screen, but he did so in a way that only underlined the core of the characters we had come to know and love. On this episode, we talk about the human and relatable themes in WoK, Meyer's incredible achievement in writing the script in 12 days, the bold use of negative space in the film, the film's impressive editing, the controversies associated with the film, and its lasting legacy.

We also discuss getting old, literary antiheroes, injecting some fresh blood, bucking tradition by embracing a different one, fixing the air conditioner, and killing Spock the *right* way!

It's the most fun movie about, death, loss, and absentee parenting!

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This week, we're putting the utopia of the Federation to the test! Mildred aka ThoughtSlime joins the show to talk about a leftist vision of a better tomorrow and whether or not the world of Star Trek measures up.

I'm the main guy of this whole place!

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Enterprising Individuals is back with an all-new season as we begin the human adventure with "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"!

Pete the Retailer of Star Wars Minute and ABCD: TOS returns to the show to discuss the film that launched Star Trek on the big screen! A mysterious and deadly probe is rapidly approaching Earth and Admiral James T. Kirk and the refit starship Enterprise are the Federation's only hope. Can Kirk mend fences with his scattered crew and solve the riddle of V'Ger or will humanity be destroyed by the very thing it came to space to find?

"Star Trek" died in 1969, but like a lot of its dauntless characters, it refused to stay dead. The success of the Original Series in re-runs and the rising profile of sci-fi in '70s cinema made a Trek feature possibly inevitable but practically a herculean task. How best to translate the cerebral thrills of the show into a box-office success? And would a viewing public that had become accustomed to space opera accept a film that tasked its audience to question the raison d'etre of humanity itself? On this episode, we talk about the tortuous path of the film to the screen, the sci-fi legends who midwifed its birth, what the film owes to other sci-fi blockbusters and its place n the '70s sci-fi canon, giving the fans their moment, and what the world might look like without TMP.

We also discuss stopping at TOS, Bill Shatner and Helter Skelter, the Pevney Touch, The Book of Captain Pike, Star Trek Mad Men, "that" scene but the other scene too, shirt no pants, the David Gautreaux screw-job, 2001 DNA, Kirk Star Child, being a good Vulcan, "Thanks, Playboy!", the OTHER blaster beam, post-Apollo optimism, and a good thing to pull out of your ass!

Where Nomad has gone before!

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