189. STAR TREK 9: LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

About this episode

The episode explores Star Trek: the Motion Picture and its place in the history of movie robots.

Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we complete our mission to explore Star Trek: the Motion picture. It's a film that we've spoken a lot about in other episodes so we thought we'd go where no/lots of podcasters have been before. Today, we meet V'GER! WARNING! The S**t-bomb is said but nothing more.   TikTok: @FiftyYOSR Insta: @FiftyYOSR NOTES WHEN DID PINK BECOME ASSOCIATED WITH GIRLS? https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2023/07/11/heres-how-pink-became-a-girly-color/ NORMAN WILKINSON’S DAZZLE SHIPS https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/articles/zmkx8xs   THE VOYAGER PROGRAM https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/   NIXON’S RESHAPING OF NASA https://www.planetary.org/articles/20141003-how-richard-nixon-changed-nasa   APPREHENSION ENGINE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzk-l8Gm0MY   THE BLASTER BEAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj4f5z6nRhs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Matt Brown

Topics covered

• Star Trek
• movie robots
• science fiction
• film history
• V'GER
• NASA

Keywords

• Star Trek
• V'GER
• movie robots
• NASA
• science fiction
• film history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NASA, Forbes, BBC, Planetary Society

Products: Apprehension Engine, Blaster Beam

Books & works: Star Trek: the Motion picture

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