The Lowdown on the Plus-up - A Theme Park Podcast

Star Trek: Roddenberry's Dream Escapes the Screen


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Star Trek is an enduring contradiction. It's strong progressive ideals are often at odds with the fiscal reality of the entertainment business, and its presence in theme parks are no exception.
But the morality of Star Trek, more often than not, wins out.
Pete and Kelly take a look at the franchise's complicated history - from Lucille Ball to Las Vegas to a remarkable Elvis impersonator in upstate New York - and finds profound meaning in the times that America's most resilient science fiction franchise burst into the real world and let us become a living part of it.

IDIC is real. 

Live long and prosper.

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