Lauren Weinstein on Nostr: I've told many stories about my time working on the first "Star Trek" film ("Star ...
I've told many stories about my time working on the first "Star Trek" film ("Star Trek: The Motion Picture" aka ST:TMP) - 1979. One of the more amusing ones was when I was chatting with a fairly high-level co-worker (far higher than me!) and I argued that in the time-frame of the film, star ships wouldn't be piloted like WWII battleships. Everything would be fully computerized. He stood thinking about this for a bit, and then replied, "Lauren, you're absolutely right. But if we did it your way, we wouldn't have a movie." And he was correct, of course.
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