I killed Captain Kirk
Sonequa Martin-Green as First Officer Michael Burnham.
We take a look back at the half-century-long legacy of Star Trek, including six television series and 13 feature films. First, Slate cultural critic Marissa Martinelli tells Kurt about the new TV show, “Star Trek: Discovery.” Writer and producer Ronald D. Moore reveals his childhood fascination with Star Trek and his later experiences as a writer for the show. Linguist Arika Okrent explains the fictional Klingon language. Finally, we hear about how the make-believe products on the show inspired inventors to make them real and how the Enterprise starship prop from the original series came to be displayed so prominently in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
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