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 li...
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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 s...
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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 buil...
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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 science fi...
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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 a...
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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 tales an...
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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 was...
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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 with...
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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 imag...
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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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Star Trek
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