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...freestyle--1. Countryman (H) 4:40.4, 2. Martin (M) 4:42.2, 3. Merrill (M) 4:49.2 200 breaststroke--1. Lundberg (H) 2:07.00 (pool and Harvard University record. Old mark 2:07.45 by Lundberg 12/1/79), 2. Wells (M) 2:09.0, 3. Traub (M) 2:17.03 Three-meter Diving--1. Schramm (H) 294.35, 2. Mule (H) 272.25, 3. Strachan (M) 209.90 400 Freestyle Relay--1. HARVARD (Seelen, Carbone Gauthier, Hackett) 3:09.93 (pool record...
...COULD have been glorious. But after ten years of waiting, five years of planning, three years of production and over $40 million of spending, the motion picture interpretation of the Star Trek television series is worse than an anti-climax: in essence, they blew...
There are three groups of people who will definitely want to see Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Star Trek fans (of which I am one), Star Wars fans, and those moviegoers who consider themselves genre connoisseurs, because they made it to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. All three groups will be sorely disappointed--most of all the millions of Trek fans who desperately hoped the film would be the apotheosis of the qualities that made the late '60s television series stand out during its three-year run on NBC and ten years in syndication. The film simply fails...
Those with Trek credentials will recognize that the plot is primarily a mish-mash of three of the original television episodes--"The Changeling," "The Immunity Syndrome," and "The Doomsday Machine"--each of which had something interesting to say, and said it in less than one hour...
Fortunately, if The Motion Picture succeeds in making a profit (which preliminary indications like the grossing of $12 million in three days would indicate), then we can expect a sequel. With luck, next time the flaws will be corrected, and Star Trek II will indeed be glorious...