Star Trek
In the daunting arena of space exploration, there is a tendency to wonder where the path that humankind is taking will lead us. Does the future hold the promise of fantastic new technologies...
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Star Trek
A worldwide science-fiction pop culture triumph, Star Trek has become a veritable empire of movies, television shows, novels, comic books, fanzines, clubs, conventions, board games, video ga...
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Critical Essay by Robert Lewis Shayon
Star Trek is a space version of Wagon Train. There's the crew, there's the encountered. The problems arise now from the in-group, now from the out....
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Critical Essay by Kenneth Turan
[In Star Trek-The Motion Picture the] Enterprise once more flies off into the Unknown, adding a few new crew members, including a bald woman name Ilia whose entrance l...
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Critical Essay by Steve Simels
If you've seen Star Trek—The Motion Picture …, then you already know that whatever else it may be (or may have aspired to be), what it is basically...
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Critical Essay by Linda Ward Callaghan
The novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture does not have the depth of [Arthur C.] Clarke's 2001: a Space Odyssey … or Robert Heinlein...
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Critical Essay by David Gerrold
Star Trek neatly fulfils all of the requirements for a good TV series: a broad-based format allowing a wide variety of stories, an interesting hero, an unusual set of ...
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Critical Essay by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Sondra Marshak, and Joan Winston
Star Trek gives us a glimpse of [the] future hurtling toward us at dizzying speed, and shows us the kind of men who will bui...
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Critical Essay by Wm. Blake Tyrrell
Star Trek is consistent but often childish science fiction, engaging but often belabored drama. (p. 711)
Star Trek never had high ratings; it did have in scienc...
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Critical Essay by Karin Blair
In Star Trek, Roddenberry made a universe where known must be brought into contact with the unknown, where drama is played out on the borderline between self-definition ...
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Critical Essay by Betsy Caprio
Star Trek appeals to us so much because Captain Kirk's story and Mr. Spock's story and the Enterprise's story is our story too….
The tale...
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Critical Essay by Karin Blair
The problem of the alien is essential to every civilization, which inescapably defines itself in terms of what it is not. In American history the alien par excellence wa...
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Critical Essay by Ellen M. Kozak
[Star Trek: The Motion Picture] generally merits praise rather than knocks, and although prose fiction is not Roddenberry's medium, he does a very creditable job wit...
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Critical Essay by Roger Angell
"Star Trek—The Motion Picture" isn't as funny and inventive and energetic as "Star Wars." It isn't as beautiful and ima...
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In the following essay, Selley focuses on the relationship between Captain Kirk and Dr. Spock in the television, film, and literary series Star Trek, identifying it in the tradition of mythic male fri...
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A piece of outer space named for George Takei is in kind of a rough neighborhood for somebody who steers a starship: an asteroid belt.An asteroid between Mars and Jupiter has been renamed 7307 Take...
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The cremated remains of actor James Doohan, who portrayed engineer "Scotty" on "Star Trek," and of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper soared into suborbital space Saturday aboard a rocket.It was the f...
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"Star Trek: Legacy" boldly goes where no video game has gone before by including the actual voices of all five Star Fleet captains over the years _ James T. Kirk to Jonathan Archer.Too bad all that...
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"Star Trek: Legacy" boldly goes where no video game has gone before by including the actual voices of all five Star Fleet captains over the years _ James T. Kirk to Jonathan Archer.Too bad all that...
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Bangkok (dpa) - American actor Walter Koenig, who played Pavel
Chekov on the original Star Trek TV series, said Tuesday he spent the
last week visiting Karen refugees along ...
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The original Capt. Kirk is disheartened he won't get to boldly go anywhere with his old pal Spock in the new "Star Trek" movie.While Leonard Nimoy is reprising his role as the pointy-eared Vulcan i...
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The original Capt. Kirk is disheartened he won't get to boldly go anywhere with his old pal Spock in the new "Star Trek" movie. While Leonard Nimoy is reprising his role as the pointy-eared Vulcan ...
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A rocket payload that flew briefly into space with ashes of astronaut Gordon Cooper and "Star Trek" actor James Doohan was recovered Friday in the New Mexico mountains.The payload was found in its ...
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