Re: New STAR TREK 3
I was struck recently by this passage from Philip K Dick's 'Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said':
No wonder, he thought, some people, many people, longed for death.
"You want to go watch a captain kirk*?"
"Whatever," he said, briefly.
"There's a good one on at Cinema Twelve. It's set on a planet in the Betelgeuse System - a lot like Tarberg's Planet - you know, in the Proxima System. Only in the captain kirk it's inhabited by minions of an invisible -"
"I saw it," he said. As a matter of fact, a year ago he had had Jeff Pomeroy, who played the captain kirk in the picture, on his show; they had even run a short scene: the usual flick-plugging, you-visit-us-deal with Pomeroy's studio. He had not liked it then, and he doubted he would like it now. And he detested Jeff Pomeroy, both on and off the screen. And that, as far as he was concerned, was that.
"It really wasn't any good?" inquired Kathy, trustingly.
Dick's fatigue with an infinitely-drawn out Trek franchise is palpable and hilarious. And he was writing in 1974 - with the original show long-cancelled, and before the first movie. But, as ever, the guy could predict the grim future!
*Dick's deliberate lack of capitals.