Mansfield Fox

Law student. Yankees fan. Massive fraggle. Just living the American dream.

Sunday, September 05, 2004

Speaking of "Star Trek"

They're showing the apocryphal "Star Trek V" on AMC right now. You know, the one where Spock's brother Sybok hijacks the Enterprise and takes it to the center of the galaxy where Kirk beats God. Yep. I thought the Roddenberry people had forbidden it to be shown on TV. Apparently I was wrong.

UPDATE: What the heck is that thing on the planet at the center of the galaxy? It's clearly not God. (Spock: "Sybok, this is not the God of Shaka-Ri, or any other God.") Is it supposed to be Satan? ("For an eternity I've been imprisoned here...") This post seems to suggest that in the original drafts of the script the being was explicitly identified with Satan, but that the brass at Paramount nixed that. Of course, it's not clear why Satan, any more than God, would a) need a starship and b) be vulnerable to Klingon disruptors. I suppose this kind of stuff is why Roddenberry subsequently declared the movie apocryphal.