Star Trek Magazine – July 2019

CANON FODDER

PUTTING CONTINUITY IN THE FIRING LINE

Welcometoourcornerof“nextlevelTre k,” wherewe

takea littlemoretimeandspacetodiveevenmoredeeply

intoa canonquandaryora backgrounddebatefromthe

StarTrekuniverse,in a veryspecific way.Thistime,I want

tothankAlanAndresofBrookline,Mass.,whoaskedme

overTwitter:

“C

anyoudeterminefrom

differentdraftsof‘Return

toTomorrow’whoauthored

Kirk’s‘Riskis ourbusiness’

speech,andwhenit wasadded

tothescreenplay?Thecontext

is importantasit waswritten

aroundthesametimetheNew

YorkTimeswascallingProject

Apolloa ‘needlessgamble.’”

That“risk...is ourbusiness!”

momentmightindeedbethe

iconicspeechoftheoriginalseries

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RISK ASSESSMENT

AA FISTFUL OF DATAF I S T F U L O F D A T A

With a back-

ground in news

and theater, Larry

Nemecek hosts The

Trek Files weekly on

the Roddenberry

Podcast Network, offers Trekland

Tuesdays Live on Facebook,

and elsewhere blogs, vidchats,

and leads his Portal 47 boutique

monthly fan experience from

larrynemecek.com. All based

on his longtime career as Star

Tre k author, editor, consultant,

interviewer, host, and archivist.

He is also producer of The Con

of Wrath documentary, and his

Star Trek: Stellar Cartography

map/book set is now updated for

Discovery and much more!

DATACORE

LARRY NEMECEK

saved,andcanbeseenarchivedon

theRoddenberryVaultDVDsetfrom

CBS.Andyouaretotallyonpoint,

Alan,toknowthatasidefromthe

creditednameofJohnKingsmith,

severalwriters– fromtheshowrunner

ondown– mighthavelaidhands

onspecific lines.Solet’sdoa little

forensicscriptsleuthing,shallwe?

Theepisodeitselfwasfilmed

overNovember20–28, 1967 – only

10 monthsafterthepotentially

project-stoppingtragedyofthe

fatalApollo1 fireduringground

tests,andonemonthaftertheinitial

Earth-orbittestoftheimproved

ApollocapsulewithcrewedApollo

7.Thankstogoodcoveragein Gene

01

01 Kirk in the

midst of his

“Risk is our

business”

speech, in

“Return to

Tomorrow.”