STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE

STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE. Robert Wise, dir. USA: Paramount, 1979. Harold Livingston and Alan Dean Foster, script.

For most of the film the characters are inside the starship Enterprise, which is itself inside a gigantic machine. See for a positive view of human/machine merger. Discussed by V. Sobchack in Screening Space[1], Chapter 4. Discussed in TMG[2] by D. Palumbo (cited under Drama Criticism).

For detailed discussion of V'ger, the machine/"mystic" entity see entry in the Memory Alpha site.[3]

Note mention in Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century of Ronald Reach and "his design of the mouth of the alien spaceship that swallows the starship Enterprise" in this film; images at link in note.[4]

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