Energize your 'Star Trek' wisdom with 'Phasers on Stun!' by Ryan Britt (exclusive)

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Jeff Spry is an award-winning screenwriter and veteran freelance journalist covering TV, movies, video games, books, and comics. His work has appeared at SYFY Wire, Inverse, Collider, Bleeding Cool and elsewhere. Jeff lives in beautiful Bend, Oregon amid the ponderosa pines, classic muscle cars, a crypt of collector horror comics, and two loyal English Setters.

Space.com:"Star Trek: The Motion Picture" is featured in a chapter of"Phasers on Stun!" Do you think the film has aged well over the years, or is it still"Star Trek: TheI think it has risen in estimation. Every couple years, there does seem to be the take that it was actually the most true to the original series, and I do think there are some truths to that argument.

And that's the larger point of the book: that"Star Trek" radically changes constantly, perhaps more than any other media entity or narrative sci-fi franchise. Its radical changes are what define it."Star Trek" changes primary characters and the aesthetics in this gonzo way. For me, the difference between"The Motion Picture" and"The Wrath of Khan" is one of those biggest examples.

We wouldn't have the rest of"Star Trek" without"The Motion Picture," and [director] Robert Wise did an amazing job. But I don't think its influence demonstrates that"Star Trek" was willing to change. For as risky as the movie seems,"The Wrath of Khan" was actually much riskier.

" — all three of those shows. To a lesser degree,"Star Trek: Enterprise." The fact that"The Next Generation" even worked is shocking. That series was mine for sure. I wrote reviews of it in my diary when I was a kid and would think about it a lot. I told Patrick Stewart recently when I was interviewing him for"Picard" Season 2 that I got the audio of his one-man show of Charles Dickens'"A Christmas Carol" and listened to it as a 10-year-old.

"The Next Generation" was a mood and a feeling that the original series didn't have — the camaraderie and the togetherness of those core characters, though the other casts have had it to varying degree. But"The Next Generation" had it first, and that was really revolutionary.

 

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