Star Trek: The Motion Picture Searches for the Original Series and Finds It
I was so into Star Trek as a kid – and the tragedy of lasting only 79 episodes – that I used to dream my own original episodes in REM sleep. Always awakened to the disappointment that the nocturnal adventure didn't really exist, it’s still unfathomable to me that when Star Trek : The Motion Picture came out, I didn’t go see it. I can only imagine how the space time continuum of my consciousness would have erupted had I actually been present for what I consider the 80th and final episode of Star Trek. Instead, I saw it four years later and not completely engaged among all the goings on in my college dorm. Bored by the pace, I kept walking away – even while my Star Trek compatriot of a roommate implored me to stick with it. Stunned by the ending, I realized that I lost the chance to actually see one of those dreams become real, and my awe would always have to be retroactive and after the fact. Today, I reaffirmed those feelings and ...
