Word: trek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Star Trek" episode, we would visit the world of Adolenscia. Beaming onto the planet in a fog of cannabis, we would stumble over mountains of discarded jeans, Beatles records and love beads. After five minutes of soaking in the atmosphere, one of our number, probably a faceless engineer of one sort or another, would be seized by a group of crazed teenagers while we looked at our feet. Later, while rescuing the poor engineer, we would learn that teenagers have no regard for justice, other people's feelings or the right way of greeting strangers. Beaming back to the ship...
...good enough for globetrotting execs like Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy, it should be good enough for you. Weighing slightly more than 3 oz., this sleek Motorola cell phone is the year's crown prince of miniaturization, using a flip-open cover to approximate the Star Trek "communicators" that are the industry's role model. New extra: long-life batteries. It's a phone Captain Kirk would be proud of. ($1,000 to $1,500; Motorola...
...will make them pay for what they've done." As Patrick Stewart delivers this line with a majestic ferocity worthy of a Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus, the audience gapes in awe at a special effect more imposing than any ILM digital doodle. Here is real acting! In a Star Trek film! From the successor to William Shatner...
This is just one of the small wonders in Star Trek: First Contact, eighth in the big-screen series and second with the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Here, for a change, is an action movie that takes its subject but not itself seriously. It has a theme: the temptation to become something other and powerful, instead of cozy, ordinary you. It borrows not only from the Trek canon, but from other science fiction (eek!--there's a killer alien on board!). Yet First Contact is no grab bag of camp gewgaws; it stands proud and apart, accessible...
...plot, Space Jam is akin to the new Star Trek picture: evil aliens (here the Nerdlucks) try to steal the souls (the talent) of the galaxy's most complex life forms (NBA stars Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Muggsy Bogues, Larry Johnson and token white geek Shawn Bradley). If Jordan doesn't renounce his infatuation with baseball and agree to play a basketball game against the aliens' Monstar team, civilization will be imperiled. Not to mention some very fat Nike contracts...