May 28, 2021
How Nicholas Meyer’s other time-travel caper inspired The Voyage Home
When Nicholas Meyer was called in to write a new script for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, just weeks before pre-production was due to begin, he must have been struck with a bad case of déjà vu. Leonard Nimoy explained that the story outline he...
May 30, 2020
Cold War Détente and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
When Nicholas Meyer returned to the Star Trek cinematic universe
with Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, he produced one of the
franchise’s most flagrant—and successful—examples of “ripped from
the headlines” storytelling, reimagining the...
Dec 10, 2019
Star Trek: The Motion Picture on the big screen.
Forty years ago, Star Trek boldly went where it had never gone
before: the cinema. A commercial hit—thanks in large part to
feverish anticipation by fans whose dedication to The Original
Series that had grown steadily since the show left the airwaves 10
years...
Sep 26, 2019
Star Trek: Generations.
When the cast of the original Star Trek series returned to the screen in 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture, it marked the culmination of 10 years of fan-ticipation that started with the untimely cancellation of the series. This was not the case when it came time for the cast of The Next...
Aug 28, 2019
The Rashomon Effect in Star Trek and Beyond.
Two podcasters meet on the internet. They watch a classic film that one has seen and the other hasn’t. They compare it to an episode of Star Trek—or maybe two, or even three or four. They consider the broader cultural implications of the film’s central themes of...