{"id":103834,"date":"2022-10-21T14:31:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/doomed-revival-star-trek-captain-kirk-and-the-resurrection-that-never-was-movies\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T14:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:31:58","slug":"doomed-revival-star-trek-captain-kirk-and-the-resurrection-that-never-was-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/doomed-revival-star-trek-captain-kirk-and-the-resurrection-that-never-was-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomed revival: Star Trek, Captain Kirk and the resurrection that never was | movies"},"content":{"rendered":"
T<\/span><\/span>he transportation of matter has always been a curate’s egg for the sci-fi writer. Kurt Neumann’s 1958 movie The Fly conjured up terrible images of horror when its protagonist found his sub-atomic particles sliced \u200b\u200band diced with those of an insect after meddling with the untried technology. But it also featured an awful plot hole: why did the machine split our scientist into a tiny man-fly and a huge fly-man, with both parts of the hybrid suitably scaled to match, if it was just swapping over a few atoms?<\/span><\/p>\n David Cronenberg partially solved that conundrum with his excruciatingly icky 1986 remake, in which Jeff Goldblum’s eccentric scientist finds himself fused at a genetic level with a passing housefly and slowly begins to morph into a giant insect. Yet this version also had its issues: given the huge number of tiny non-human organisms living on every person’s body, the poor bloke would have probably ended up as something far more complex than just a hybrid of a man and a fly.<\/p>\n Star Trek has always trodden carefully around the details of its transporter technology. We assume that each time the machine moves a human being from one place to another, it saves a copy of that person before downloading them in a new location. Occasionally, as in the Original Series episode The Enemy Within (and Second Chances from Star Trek: The Next Generation), the quirks of matter transportation have been used to suggest that it is possible for multiple versions of the same human to be pumped out by the same machine. But if this is the case, why didn’t Kirk simply download a healthy new version of Spock after the latter succumbed to radiation exposure in 1982’s The Wrath of Khan? Instead they had to go through all that resurrection nonsense on the Genesis planet in sequel The Search for Spock to bring back the esteemed Vulcan, and none of us will ever get those two hours of our lives back.<\/p>\n