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These days it’s called “Star Wars IV: A New Hope.” In 1977, it was just “Star Wars.” Whatever you call it, that film launched the most profitable movie franchise in history and changed all kinds of things: Fashion, product design, merchandising, movies and perhaps even science fiction itself.
As the franchise got bigger and the action figures kept selling, its influence deepened. Now, with the seventh movie in the series, “The Force Awakens,” opening on Friday, the noise has become almost deafening. The extended “Star Wars” universe seems poised to completely invade our consciousness. But what has its enduring influence been?
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It’s hard to think of another minute-and-a half that could set the Internet on fire like this. But in what looks like a naked attempt to keep the hype around “Star Wars” from blasting everything else out of the heavens, Paramount has released the first trailer from “Star Trek Beyond.” And while it’s always hard to get a full sense of a movie from these brief, chopped-up excerpts, it seems likely that – even by the standards of summer sci-fi blockbusters — this one is aimed squarely at amped-up teenage boys.
This is the third film since J.J. Abrams rebooted what seemed like a tired franchise, bringing in Chris Pine as James T. Kirk, Zachary Quinto as Spock, and Zoe Saldana as Nyota Uhura. Abrams directed the first two – “Star Trek,” from 2009, and “Star Trek Into Darkness,” from 2013. This time, his hands full with “Star Wars,” he’s back as producer; Justin Lin directs.
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One of the most charming and irritating things about the “Star Trek” franchise, ever since its inception in 1966, is that it has always been oddly aware of itself. Unlike “Star Wars,” that other big space franchise, which purposefully places its narrative “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” to make it the stuff of myth and romance from the get-go, “Star Trek” takes place in our own future.
It is once again taking place in our future. Yesterday, CBS and Paramount announced a new “Star Trek” series to air sometime in 2017. Though there is a market for riveting appointment television, as “The Big Bang Theory,” “Scandal,” “The Walking Dead” and “Empire” regularly prove, CBS isn’t going for that. Instead it wants to build its All-Access streaming app audience with the lure of an all-new “Star Trek.” (What is the All-Access streaming app? It’s a thing that you pay $6 a month for to watch “The Good Wife,” because CBS won’t put its just-aired shows on Hulu.) This strategy, of putting a prime property on a minor platform, is also how the corporation built UPN many years ago.
But that was then, and this is peak TV.
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As we pay our respects to Nimoy’s life and legacy, his status as an American Jewish icon is important in two ways. The first, and by far most pressing, is socio-political: As anti-Semitism continues to rise in American colleges and throughout the world at large, it is important to acknowledge beloved cultural figures who not only came from a Jewish background, but who allowed their heritage to influence their work and continued to participate in Jewish causes throughout their lives. When you consider the frequency with which American Jews will either downplay their Jewishness (e.g., Andy Samberg) or primarily use it as grounds for cracking jokes at the expense of Jews (e.g., Matt Stone of “South Park”), Nimoy’s legacy as an outspokenly pro-Jewish Jew is particularly meaningful right now.
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