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Ep275 - Nicholas Meyer | Star Trek and The Science of Optimism
Talks at Google
Startreck Six - The Beginning, Not the End
It may seem strange how long it took me to understand that while horn blower might be a way into startreck, it wasn't all there was. Adding submarines or battleships might have enabled me to create startreck movies, but it was only after the fact that i finally began to grasp how essential the idea of the show was and what made it precious to so many people. And in startreck six, spak says that logic is the beginning of wisdom, but not the end. Hornblower might be the beginning of a way to think about startreck, but it certainly was not theend.
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