One thing Greater Than The Cosmos

After the cancelation of “Star Trek,” the present was put into everlasting syndication, and it was solely then that it discovered its large viewers in reruns. “Star Trek” gatherings, then conventions, grew to become widespread, and Gene Roddenberry, in addition to the forged, would attend to kibitz. Evidently throughout this era, Roddenberry lastly got here to understand the extra expansive themes of “Star Trek.” Audiences reacted to the present’s multiculturalism and optimism in regards to the future. The Prime Directive assured us that “Star Trek” was an anti-colonialist present, and the expertise depicted was our good friend. The Enterprise was not a battleship, however an exploration vessel. The present, Roddenberry figured after the actual fact, was meant to be utopian. 

As such, when it got here time to make “Star Trek: The Movement Image,” it stood to cause that it will attain far. Roddenberry, ever the free-love hippie, needed to inform a narrative the place all aspects of the universe might come collectively, scraping the outer edges of the cosmos, after which extending past. V’Ger had been touring for an unspecified time (a time-warp is implied) and knew all of the details it might know. What it lacked, naturally, was coronary heart. Human beings, and their capability for love, was the lacking factor of the universe. Our existence, Roddenberry argued, was an important factor holding the whole lot collectively. 

V’Ger lastly discovered to like and skilled the glories of intercourse. Its explosion was, basically, a galactic orgasm, as if V’Ger was going via puberty. It was the tip of its childhood and a passage to the next aircraft. V’Ger is, after all, a logo of humanity as it’s seen in “Star Trek.” Like in “2001: A House Odyssey,” the cosmos is our subsequent step of progress. We move into the celebrities, and we’re now not kids.