The Human Adventure is Just Beginning
The Human Adventure is Just Beginning: Alien and Star Trek:
The Motion Picture at 40
From Larry Klaes
Wow one very detailed and epic review again here Larry. I have
to admire your work and dedication in writing it all up. You have covered a lot
of ground and idea’s.
I really enjoyed reading through, it gave me lots to think
about. I also need to re watch the movies too it’s amazing how even in one’s
own life how your own throught’s and ideas change.
Below are some of my thoughts and comments as I was reading
through.
Many naturally thought
– spurred on in no small part by years of announcements from America’s space
agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – that the
Apollo missions would lead to permanently manned lunar bases.
Yes I thought so too, but were entering a new lunar phase at
the moment.
The film turned
science fiction into big business. However this came at a price: The derailing
of decades of intelligent and literate science fiction cinema that made
important social commentary, replaced by flashy (and increasingly expensive)
special effects and easy-to-digest plots. Less than one decade earlier, the era
of smart and artistic science fiction had reached a pinnacle with 2001: A Space
Odyssey. Now Hollywood saw a new source of revenue and stuck to that winning
formula.
Yes I totally agree with you here
I have had a life-long
interest in extraterrestrial beings, including and especially the intelligent
kinds that may exist somewhere out there in the Cosmos. As we have yet to
discover any real aliens, smart or otherwise, our society has had to make due
with creating our own in various fictional media
Same here I share your enthusiasm too.
There are those who
have said, and I happen to agree with, that science fiction (and fantasy) are
our modern replacements for the ancient mythological stories about gods and
their supernatural subordinates in a strongly Judeo-Christian (one God) modern
culture.
I agree with you here
Sadly, as of 2019,
Uranus and Neptune remain explored by only one space probe, and that was
Voyager 2 back in 1986 and 1989, respectively.
I’m hopeful I’ll see s return mission in my lifetime.
As I delved into this
aspect of V’Ger’s nature and actions, becoming increasingly surprised and
uncomfortable as to the levels of destruction and death it cut across the
galaxy
Yes I was thinking you were getting into a dark place with
your thinking here.
I know I have
personally seen major changes in our society in the mere half a century or so I
have existed on this planet
Yes I know what you mean when I was at college no one had a
cellphone or the internet, I used to read books on science and astronomy at the
library, now have times changed!
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