022 - Movie Review and Season 3 Kickoff

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

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