Word: starship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead there is a lot of talk. Much of it in impenetrable spaceflight jargon. Scanners, deflectors, warp speed, linguacode-words like that are always being barked into the intercom. But it is never to the point: it is hard to decipher where the starship Enterprise stands vis-a-vis the mysterious intruder from outer space. When the crew are not jabbering in technocratese, they are into metaphysics, one of the characteristics of the old Star Trek television show and a major reason for its cult vogue among the half-educated...
...what have they got? Let's start at the beginning of Western civilization. First came Sumeria. Then Star Trek. On September 8, 1966, after four million years of cranial evolution, man (and Desilu Studios) produced a television series about "Space, The Final Frontier," an NBC show featuring a starship called the USS Enterprise that could on a good night travel quite a few times faster than the speed of light, and a crew of 430 human and other beings ("carbon-based units" as they came to be called) determined to "explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life...
...film's expansive plot reflects the expense of the production. The Universe as it is known at the time of Star Trek is threatened by an alien force of huge and unprecedented proportions. The entire crew of television's Starship Enterprise is reassembled to beat back the menace. All of your old favorites will appear on the silver screen. A slightly grayer and heavier William Shatner portrays the ever-courageous and feisty Captain James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy puts on his ears for the Mr. Spock act and DeForest Kelly dons the stethoscope as Dr. McCoy. This has real potential...
...elevator opens into deep space. A familiar trio steps onto a starship wing. One actor has pointed ears. Another, raised to admiral's rank since his last mission, walks with familiar jut-jawed rectitude. A third shuffles toward the wing's edge with the rumpled calm of a country doctor. A beautiful woman, all the more striking because she has no hair, and a young flight officer stare straight ahead. When the cameras stop rolling, a makeup aide moves in to slap some goo on the woman's head-she shaves twice a day to avoid...
...Close Encounters of the Third Kind, science-fiction movies are often a fragile film commodity whose only sure audiences are cult enthusiasts. To make a profit, Star Trek must reach out far beyond them. Monsters aside, that may be the most difficult enterprise confronting the creators of the starship Enterprise...